HISTORY 


OF 


WALLINGFORD, 


CONN., 

FROM    ITS    SETTLEMENT    IN    1670    TO    THE  PRESENT 
TIME,  INCLUDING 

MERIDEN, 

WHICH    WAS    ONE    OF    ITS    PARISHES    UNTIL    1806, 
AND 

CHESHIRE, 

WHICH       WAS       INCORPORATED       IN        1780. 
BY 

CHARLES  HENRY  STANLEY  DAVIS,  M.  D, 

MKMHKR   OF   THE  N.   E.    HIST.  AND  GEN.    SOC.  ;   COR.    MKMIIER  OK  THK  WIS- 
CONSIN,    MINNESOTA     AND   CHICAGO    HIST.    SOCIETIES;      MK.MHER 
OF  THK    NEW    HAVEN   COL.    HIST.    SOC. ;   ONE  OF  THE   VICE 
PRESIDENTS  OF  THK  AMERICAN  PHIL.  SOC.,  ETC. 


'•  II:l|'ly  thine  eye  Its  ardent  srhm.'e  li:ul  e;ist 

Throogb  tin-  dun  shades,  the  portals  of  the  past; 

By  the  bright  laiii[i  of  thontrht  thy  care  had  fed 

From  the  far  beacon  lights  <if  a^i-s  "'  ''• 

Tin-  depths  of  time  explorillL'  to  retrace 

The  t'lorioiis  march' of  many  a  vanquished  nice." 

IIKMANH. 


MERIDEN,     CONN.: 

PUBLISHED    BY    THE    AUTHOR. 

iS/O. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1870,  by 

J.    WILCOX, 

In  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the 
District  of  Connecticut. 


MOUNT  TOM   PRINTING    HOUSE, 
WALLINGFORD,   CONN. 


CONTENTS. 


CiiAi'TEK  PAGE 

INTRODUCTION            .                 .  i 

I.  PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS      .  7 

II.  PHYSICAL    HISTORY,    &c.         .  36 

III.  WALLINGFORD    SETTLED                  .  70 

IV.  EARLIEST    TOWN    ACTS           .  87 
V.  FORMATION    OF    CHURCH                 .  95 

VI.  HARRIMAN,    STREET   AND^WHITTELSEY  108 

VII.  MERIDEN,  DOG'S  MISERY,  FALLS  PLAIN  123 

VIII.  NOMENCLATURE       .                 .  153 

IX.  THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY           .  164 

X.  CHURCH    AT    MERIDEN          .  210 

XI.  EPISCOPAL    CHURCH       .                 .  238 

XII.  BAPTIST    CHURCH                   .  267 

XIII.  SETTLEMENT  OF  NOYES  AND  GILBERT  291 

XIV.  REVIVALS         .                 .                 .298 
XV.  SCHOOLS                   .                .  308 

XVI.  WYOMING        .                .  319 

XVII.  FIRST    CORN    MILL  328 

XVIII.  SLAVERY,    SMALL    Pox                  .  339 

XIX.  WALLINGFORD    IN    THE    WARS  347 

XX.  FUNERAL  CUSTOMS,  GRAVEYARDS,  &c.  379 

XXI.  METHODIST    CHURCH      .                .  389 

XXII.  UNIVKKSALIST    CHURCH          .  394 

XXIII.  MANNERS    AND    CUSTOMS              .  402 


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rilAI'TER 


XXIV.  STATISTICS               .  .                  422 

XXV.  MERIDEN    DEED             .  .           432 

XXVI.  CELEBRATION    OF     1858  435 

XXVII.  CHESHIRE         .                 .  .           440 

XXVIII.  STATE    REFORM    SCHOOL  .                  452 

XXIX.  PHYSICIANS     .                 .  .           455 

XXX.  MANUFACTURES       .  .                   472 

XXXI.  WALLINGFORD    COMMUNITY  .           496 

XXXII.  MERIDEN    RIOT      .  .                   502 

XXXIII.  BIOGRAPHIES                   .  .           508 

XXXIV.  MISCELLANEOUS  .                   606 
GENEALOGIES  611 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


WOOD  ENGRAVINGS. 


PAGE 


MR.    CHESTER'S    MONUMENT               .                 .  38 
CAT    HOLE    PASS          .                 .                 .                 .94 

FIRST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD    .                .  99 

SECOND    CHURCH          ....  101 

THIRD    CHURCH                     .                 .                .  120 

MERIDEN    IN    1830       ....  152 

WELLS    MEETING    HOUSE                      .                .  193 

REV.    JAMES    DANA,    D.    D.       .                 .                 .  204 

MAP    OF    MERIDEN    IN    1830              .                 .  230 

UNION    CHURCH,    POND    HILL                   .                .  244 

SECOND    EPISCOPAL    CHURCH              .                .  247 

REV.    REUBEN    IVES                      .                 .                 .  256 

FIRST    EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    MERIDEN         .  262 

WALLINGFORD    IN    1830              .                .                .  295 

CHESHIRE    IN    1830              .                .                 .  443 

EPISCOPAL    ACADEMY,    CHESHIRE                .                 .  446 

STATE    REFORM    SCHOOL    AT    MERIDEN            .  452 

B.    F.    HARRISON,    M.    D.                           .                .  462 

NKHKMIAH    BANKS,    M.    D.                   .                 .  464 

H.    A.    ARCHER,    M.    D.              .                .                 .  468 

UNION    WORKS    OF    CHARLES    PARKER              .  472 

CHARLES  PARKER'S  GERMAN  SILVER  SPOON  FACTORIES  476 

WORKS    OF    SIMPSON,    HALL,    MILLER   &   Co.  479 

ROKERT    WALLACE        ....  480 

WORKS    OF    MERIDEN    BRITANNIA    Co.              .  482 


VI 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


CHARLES    PARKER'S    MACHINE    AND    GUN    WORKS 

CHARLES    PARKER'S    IRON    SPOON    WORKS 

CHARLES    PARKER'S    HINGE   AND    SCALE    FACTOR  IKS 

HENRY    ALLEN 

JOHN    HUMPHREY    NOYES 

RESIDENCE    OF    MOSES    Y.    BEACH 

FENNER    BUSH  . 

JOHN    BUTLER        .... 

LEMUEL    BUTLER  . 

HENRY    C.    BUTLER 

JOEL    I.    BUTLER          .  *\ 

TIMOTHY    FISHER    DAVIS,    M.    D.       . 

JULIUS    HALL 

EDWARD    WALKER    HATCH,    M.    D. 

ISAAC    I.    HOUGH,    M.    D. 

WILLIAM    HUBBARD    YALE 

ASHABEL    GRISWOLD 

ELI    IVES  .... 

LAUREN    MERRIMAN 

SAMUEL    PADDOCK 

EDMUND    PARKER         . 

REV.    JOSEPH    J.    WOOLLEY 


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STEEL     PLATES. 


CHARLES    H.    S.    DAVIS 

ALMER    HALL 

JARED    P.    WHITTELSEY 

MOSES    Y.    BEACH 

NOAH    POMEROY 

JULIUS    PRATT 

REV.    GEO.    W.    PERKINS 

CHARLES    PARKER 

REV.    E.    R.    GILBERT 


FRONTISPIECE. 

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ILLUSTRATIONS.  Vll 

PAGE 

JOHX    PARKER       ....  318 

HORACE    WILCOX  ....  346 

JEDEDIAH    WILCOX                .                 .                 .  378 

ISAAC    C.    LEWIS  .  .  .  .401 

DEXTER    R.    WRIGHT           .                 .                 .  434 

AMBROSE    IVES  ....  454 

SAMUEL    SIMPSON                   .                .                 .  474 

J.    WILCOX    &    Co.'s  MANUFACTORY  .        .                .  484 

OFFICERS  610 


LITHOGRAPHS. 

WALTER    BOOTH                   .                 .  .                 547 

DR.     BENJ.     H.    CATLIN             .  .                 .         556 

WILLIAM    YALE                    .                 .  .                 587 


"  It  is  the  privilege  of  History  to  impart  the  experience  of  age,  without 
its  infirmities  ;  to  bring  back  things  long  obscured  by  time,  or  sinking  into 
oblivion  ;  and  enable  us  to  form  some  reasonable  conjecture  of  what  may 
happen  to  posterity." 

POULSON'S  Hist,  of  Holderness. 

"  Our  Ancestors  wrought  in  a  magnanimous  spirit  of  rivalry  with  Na- 
ture, or  in  kindly  fellowship  with  her When  they  planted, 

they  chose  out  her  trees  of  longest  life, — the  Oak,  the  Chestnut,  the  Yew, 
the  Elm, — trees  which  it  does  us  good  to  behold,  while  we  muse  on  the 
many  generations  of  our  Forefathers  whose  eyes  have  reposed  within  the 
same  leafy  bays." 

HARE'S  Guesses  at  Truth. 

"  Go  little  booke,  God  send  thee  good  passage, 
And  especially  let  this  be  thy  prayere, 
Unto  them  all  that  thee  will  read  or  hear, 
Where  thou  art  wrong,  after  their  help  to  call, 
Thee  to  correct  in  any  part  or  all." 

CHAUCER'S  Belle  Dame  sans  Mercie. 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


INTRODUCTION. 

I  HAVE  written  a  History  of  the  town  of  Wallingford, 
covering  a  period  of  two  hundred  years.  I  have  offered 
no  brilliant  word  painting.  I  have  described  no  battle 
scenes  or  heroes  ;  no  political  intrigues  or  crimes  of 
kings.  But  I  have  endeavored  faithfully  to  portray  the 
lives  and  actions  of  our  Puritan  ancestors.  They  came 
to  find  an  asylum  for  religious  liberty,  the  very  religious 
liberty  for  which  they  had  been  contending  at  home,  and 
for  which  they  had  become  accustomed  to  suffer  priva- 
tions across  the  channel.  They  found  few  helps  and 
many  hindrances  to  their  growth  and  prosperity  in  a 
foreign  land  and  under  foreign  rule,  and  they  therefore 
undertook  to  rear  a  church  and  found  a  colony  at  the 
same  time  in  the  wilderness,  whose  vital  principle  should 
be  the  religious  ideas  for  whose  sake  they  had  resigned 
the  honors  and  braved  the  power  of  the  English  crown. 
Their  notions  of  civil  government  were  not  clearly  de- 
fined, and  of  the  civil  institution  which  their  effort  was 

to  build,  they  took  little    thought  and    indulged  little 
B 


2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

anxiety.  They  only  aimed  at  a  pure  religion  and  an 
independent  church.  This  was  their  hope  by  day,  their 
dream  by  night,  and  the  goal  of  their  continual  prayer 
and  effort. 

Dr.  Johnson  said  that  "  he  who  describes  what  he 
never  saw,  draws  from  fancy."  History  should  rather 
be  truth  in  its  simplicity.  As  Horace  says,  "  He  hath 
gained  every  point,  who  hath  mixed  the  useful  with  the 
agreeable,  by  delighting  and  equally  improving  the 
reader."1 

The  design  of  Local  History  is  to  preserve  the 
memory  of  local  events  and  enterprise ;  to  record  the 
manners  and  customs,  the  character  and  services,  the 
sacrifices,  the  toils  and  the  sufferings  of  our  fathers  ;  to 
glean  from  old  records  and  family  traditions,  material 
which  has  been  passed  over  by  the  historians  of  the 
State  and  country.  Until  within  a  comparatively  brief 
period,  but  little  attention  has  been  given  to  the  prepa- 
ration of  local  histories,  or  to  the  preservation  of  the 
materials  of  which  they  must  be  composed.  Probably 
not  more  than  one-half  of  the  towns  of  New  England 
have  any  well-authenticated  history  of  their  early 
settlement.  A  few  scattering  documents,  brief  and 
unsatisfactory  letters,  and  family  traditions  colored  and 
enlarged  as  such  statements  are  apt  to  be,  embrace  all 
that  can  be  obtained.  A  writer  has  said,  that  an  octavo 
pamphlet  of  ten  pages,  containing  well-authenticated 
facts  concerning  the  year,  month,  and  day  in  which  the 
first  man  pitched  his  tent  on  the  ground  where  the  city 
of  London  now  stands,  his  name,  his  origin,  whence  he 


I   Omne  tulit  puncum  qui  miscuit  utile  dulci, 

Lectorem  delectando  pariterque  monendo.   De  Art.  Poet., 


343- 


INTRODUCTION.  3 

came,  the  circumstances  in  which  he  came,  the  object  of 
his  coming,  and,  withal,  a  minute  description  of  the 
place  as  it  then  was  —  such  a  pamphlet  would  be  worth 
millions  sterling  to  the  author  or  proprietor.  How 
unhappy  is  the  reflection  that  the  early  settlements  of 
our  towns  should  be  permitted  to  be  forever  lost  through 
the  apathy  or  indifference  of  their  inhabitants. 

Upwards  of  two  hundred  years  ago,  Thomas  Fuller, 
D.  D.,  of  whom  Coleridge  said  that  he  was  "  incompar- 
ably the  most  sensible  and  least  prejudiced  great  man  of 
an  age  that  boasted  of  a  galaxy  of  great  men,"  wrote  as 
follows : 

"  History  is  a  velvet  study,  and  recreation  work.  What  a 
pitie  it  is  to  see  a  proper  gentleman  to  have  such  a  crick  in 
his  neck  that  he  cannot  look  backward  !  Yet  no  better  is  he 
who  cannot  see  behind  him  the  actions  which  long  since  were 
performed.  History  maketh  a  young  man  to  be  old,  without 
either  wrinkles  or  grey  hairs;  priviledging  him  with  the 
experience  of  age,  without  either  the  infirmities  or  incon- 
veniences thereof.  Yea,  it  not  only  maketh  things  past,  pres- 
ent; but  enableth  one  to  make  a  rationall  conjecture  of  things 
to  come." 

No  one  of  the  present  nations  of  Europe  can  tell  us  a 
word  of  their  earliest  ancestors ;  the  oldest  annals  of 
Rome  were  compiled  more  than  a  century  and  a  half 
after  the  records  were  destroyed  by  the  Gauls,  and  more 
than  three  hundred  and  sixty  years  after  the  date  ordi- 
narily assigned  for  the  foundation  of  the  city.  It  is 
sufficient  to  read  Thucydides'  introduction  to  his  history 
of  the  Peloponnesian  war  to  perceive  how  little  correct 
information  could  be  obtained  by  that  diligent  inquirer 
into  the  antiquities  of  his  country.  But  it  is  far  differ- 
ent with  our  early  history  as  a  nation.  We  owe  a 


4  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

lasting  debt  of  gratitude  to  our  ancestors  for  their 
fidelity  in  recording  the  incipient  steps  taken  by  them 
in  settling  this  new  world  ;  but  their  descendants  soon 
began  to  relax  their  fidelity  in  this  respect.  Men  were 
so  much  occupied  with  the  business  of  the  present  hour, 
that  they  were  forgetful  of  the  past  and  careless  of  the 
future.  They  possessed  neither  the  ability  nor  incli- 
nation to  contemplate  their  public  transactions  in  the 
impartial  light  of  history,  far  less  to  treasure  and  to 
record  them  ;  they  were  a  people  humble  in  their  begin- 
nings, unambitious  in  their  aims  ;  "content  with  the 
moral  grandeur  that  alone  attends  the  discharge  of  their 
duty,  and  in  silent  unconsciousness  building  up  a  politi- 
cal structure  more  sublime  in  its  beauty  than  the  towered 
palaces  of  kings." 

I  know  how  difficult  it  will  be  to  make  a  local  history 
interesting  if  I  confine  myself  merely  to  transcripts  from 
old  records  and  dry  details.  The  historian  is  not  obliged 
to  look  abroad  like  the  poet  for  illustrations  ;  his  images 
are  ready ;  his  field  of  combat  is  inclosed.  He  wants 
only  so  much  vivacity  as  will  supply  color  and  life  to  the 
description.  Tacitus  informs  us  that  songs  were  the 
only  memorials  of  the  past  which  the  ancient  Germans 
possessed.  We  know  that  the  early  history  of  England 
is  a  mass  of  fiction  and  fable ;  but  owing  to  the  modern 
severity  of  historical  research,  legends  of  beauty  contin- 
ually disappear,  and  the  rents  in  history  become  plainer 
as  the  ivy  is  torn  away.  In  the  exquisite  image  of  Lan- 
dor,  it  is  like  breaking  off  a  crystal  from  the  vault  of  a 
twilight  cavern,  out  of  mere  curiosity  to  see  where  the  ac- 
cretion ends  and  where  the  rock  begins.  If,  in  writing 
this  work,  I  can  turn  the  attention  of  the  descendants  of 
the  Connecticut  emigrants  from  the  present  to  the  glo- 


INTRODUCTION.  5 

rious  past  —  if  I  can  instil  into  their  minds  a  love  for  the 
noble  men  who  left  the  luxuries  of  the  old  world  for  a  life 
of  privation  and  dangers  in  a  wild  and  unknown  country, 
I  shall  consider  myself  well  repaid. 

In  1858  I  commenced  gathering  materials  for  this 
work,  by  looking  over  old  files  of  deeds  and  papers, 
searching  family,  church,  town  and  probate  records,  the 
State  archives,  and  interviewing  the  oldest  inhabitants, 
until  I  had  accumulated  a  large  quantity  of  interesting 
information  of  a  local  nature.  In  1867  I  returned  to 
Meriden  after  an  absence  of  seven  years  ;  and  the  time 
that  could  be  devoted  from  my  other  duties  was  given 
to  the  collecting  of  genealogical  records,  and  the  com- 
pletion of  the  history.  While  thus  engaged  in  1869,  I 
received  a  letter  from  Mr.  ELIHU  YALE  of  New  Haven, 
in  which  he  informed  me  that  he  had  been  engaged 
for  nearly  fifteen  years  in  compiling  genealogies  of  the 
Wallingford  families.  We  met  and  compared  notes, 
and  the  result  was,  that  I  placed  my  genealogical 
records  in  his  hands  for  completion.  To  these  records  I 
have  made  a  few  alterations  and  additions,  bringing  a 
few  families  down  to  the  present  generation,  and  add- 
ing notes,  principally  from  Durrie,  showing  where  fur- 
ther information  can  be  obtained  of  each  family. 

It  is  not  possible  that  a  work  of  this  description,  con- 
taining such  a  mass  of  facts  and  abounding  in  names 
and  dates,  should  be  free  from  error.  A  writer  has  said 
that  when  the  mind  is  attentively  employed  in  such 
researches  as  tend  to  illustrate  any  obscure  passages  in 
history  or  antiquity,  every  hint,  every  ray  of  light  that 
illustrates  the  subject,  gives  high  satisfaction  to  the  stu- 
dent, and  tends  to  the  great  entertainment  of  the 


6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

readers  of  his  work.1  I  am  also  indebted  to  Mr. 
YALE,  for  much  valuable  information,  especially  in  the 
biographical  notices. 

I  would  here  return  thanks  to  all  who  have  assisted 
me  in  my  researches,  and  who  have  taken  an  interest  in 
the  work.  I  am  under  great  obligations  to  the  libra- 
rians of  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Society,  New  York  Historical  Society,  Yale  College,  and 
Massachusetts  and  Connecticut  State  libraries,  for  favors 
shown. 

"  I  have  together  gathered  and  commanded  to  be 
written  many  of  those  things  that  our  forefathers  held."2 
But  "  I  know  that  the  Argument ....  required  the  pen  of 
some  excellent  Artizan  ;  but  fearing  that  none  would 
attempt  and  finish  it ....  I  chose  rather  (among  other  my 
labors),  to  handle  it  after  my  plain  fashion,  than  to 
leave  it  unperformed."  John  Stowe,  1598. 

CHARLES  H.  S.  DAVIS. 

MERIDEN,  CONN.,  SEPTEMBER,  1870. 


1  Remains  of    Japhet,  p.  184,  London,  1767. 

2  Ic  thaes  togasderee  gegoderrd  and  awritan  het  manega  thaera  the  ura 
foregengan    heoldon.     Pref.  Leg. 


CHAPTER   1. 

PURCHASE  OF   INDIAN  LANDS. 

THE  present  ownership  or  title  to  the  lands  in  Walling- 
ford  and  Meriden  is  derived,  I.  From  purchase  of  the 
Indians.  2.  From  the  patent  of  Connecticut  under  the 
great  seal  of  England.  3.  From  the  grants  made  by 
the  Colonial  Legislature  to  individuals,  which  those 
individuals  had  power  to  convey  by  deed.  4.  From  the 
patent  of  Wallingford  under  the  seal  of  the  Colony, 
which  gave  power  to  the  proprietors  of  Wallingford  to 
make  allotments  of  land  to  individuals,  who  had  power 
to  convey  these  lands  thus  allotted  by  deed. 

When  Davenport  and  his  company  arrived  at  New  Ha- 
ven, they  found  the  territory  in  possession  of  the  Indians, 
the  original  owners  of  the  soil.  Within  the  limits  of  Con- 
necticut, as  its  boundaries  are  now  fixed,  were  probably 
from  twelve  to  fifteen  thousand  Indians,1  broken  into 
many  clans  or  tribes,  speaking  different  dialects,  that 
had  a  common  basis,  so  that  the  individuals  belong- 
ing to  one  tribe  could  understand  the  words  spoken  by 
another.  In  no  part  of  New  England  were  the  Indians 
so  numerous  as  in  Connecticut.  The  great  quantities 


I  Deforest,  in  his  "  History  of  the  Connecticut  Indians,"  estimates  the 
number  at  from  six  to  seven  thousand  only,  while  other  historians  place 
the  number  as  high  as  twenty  thousand. 


5  HISTORY    OF.WALL1NGFORD. 

of  fish  and  fowl  which  the  country  and  its  waters  af- 
forded, were  well  adapted  to  their  convenience  and  mode 
of  living.  Neither  wars  nor  diseases  had  so  depopu- 
lated this,  as  they  had  some  other  parts  of  New  England. 
Those  who  lived  on  either  bank  of  the  Connecticut,  and 
were  hence  called  river  Indians,  were  nearly  all  within 
the  old  limits  of  Windsor,  Hartford,  Wethersfield,  and 
Middletown.  There  were  ten  sovereignties  of  them  in 
Windsor  alone,  who  could  muster,  it  was  said,  an  aggre- 
gate of  two  thousand  bowman.  Hartford  swarmed  with 
them.  The  Mattabesitt  tribe,  then  living  in  and  about 
the  present  city  of  Middletown,  claimed  the  land  which 
they  afterwards  sold  to  Davenport  and  his  company.  At 
the  time  of  the  settlement  of  New  Haven,  Sowheag  was 
the  great  sachem  of  the  Mattabesitt  tribe.  He  had  a 
fort  at  Middletown,  on  the  high  ground  near  the  "  nar- 
rows," by  the  river,  and  his  power  extended  over  Middle- 
town,  Wallingford  and  Meriden,  and  small  portions  of 
towns  adjoining  thereto. 

That  part  of  the  State  now  occupied  by  the  counties 
of  New  London  and  Windham,  with  a  large  part  of 
Tolland  county,  was  occupied  by  the  Pequots  and  Mohe- 
gans,  an  exceedingly  fierce,  warlike  and  crafty  race.1 
But  the  power  of  the  Pequots  was  felt  beyond  these 


i  On  the  west  of  the  Connecticut  river  and  extending  towards  the  Hud- 
son, resided  the  Mohegans.  (Bancroft,  III.  239).  Mohegan  is  a  word,  the 
meaning  of  which  is  not  explained  by  the  early  writers ;  but  if  we  may 
trust  the  deductions  of  philology,  it  needs  create  little  uncertainty.  The 
tribe  called  themselves  Muhhekanien ;  and  signified  a  wolf  of  super- 
natural power.  This  was  the  badge  or  arms  of  the  tribe,  rather  than  the 
name  of  the  tribe  itself.  The  affinities  of  the  Mohegans  with  the  Minci, 
or  Moncees,  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Hudson,  and  through  them  with  the 
Delawares,  are  apparent  in  the  language,  and  were  well  recognized  at  the 
era  of  the  settlement. 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  9 

bounds.  Other  tribes  had  been  overrun  by  their  wai 
parties,  a  tribute  imposed,  and  a  paramount  dominion 
established.  Prince,  in  his  introduction  to  Mason's 
Pequot  War,  says  that  this  tribe  extended  westward  to 
Connecticut  River,  and  over  it  as  far  as  Brandford,  if 
not  to  Quinnipiack  (New  Haven).  Gookin1  states  that 
the  sachem  of  the  Pequots  held  dominion  over  a  part  of 
Long  Island  ;  over  the  Mohegans  and  the  Quinnipiacks  ; 
"  yea,  over  all  the  people  that  dwelt  upon  Connecticut 
River,  and  over  some  of  the  most  southerly  inhabitants 
of  the  Nipmuck  country." 

Sassacus,  the  head  sachem  of  the  Pequots,  was  the  most 
intractable  and  proud  of  all  the  New  England  Indians. 
He  is  described  as  having  excelled  all  the  other  men  of 
his  tribe  in  courage  and  address  as  a  warrior,  as  much  as 
that  tribe  surpassed  all  the  neighboring  ones  in  its  haugh- 
ty claims  to  dominion.  Sassacus  had  twenty-six  sachems 
under  him,  when  the  English  settlers  first  came  to  the 
Connecticut  river.  Far  and  wide  extended  the  hunting- 
fields,  the  deer-tracks,  and  the  war-paths  of  this  tribe  ; 
and  all  other  tribes  lived  in  constant  terror  of  them. 
If  they  neglected  to  pay  their  tribute,  the  Pequots 
would  descend  upon  them,  plunder,  destroy  and  carry 
them  captive  at  pleasure.  When  they  were  not  molested 
by  the  Pequots,  the  Mohawks,  who  had  extended  their 
conquests  as  far  east  as  the  Connecticut  river,,  would 
issue  their  orders,  and  collect  their  tribute.  When  they 
made  their  appearance  in  the  country,  the  Connecticut 
Indians  would  instantly  raise  a  cry  from  hill  to  hill,  "A 
Mohawk  !  A  Mohawk  !"  and  fly  like  sheep  before  wolves, 
without  attempting  the  least  resistance.  It  is  indeed 


I   Historical  Collections  of  the  Indians.     1674. 


IO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

difficult  to  describe  the  fear  of  these  terrible  nations, 
which  had  fallen  on  all  the  Indians  in  the  western  parts 
of  Connecticut.  On  this  account  they  welcomed  the 
arrival  of  the  English  among  them,  little  dreaming  that 
a  few  farmers  who  busied  themselves  with  tasks  fit,  in 
their  estimation,  only  for  women,  would  soon  get  pos- 
session of  the  choicest  lands  that  had  been  transmitted 
through  a  long  line  of  Indian  kings,  and,  finally,  rising 
up  as  one  man,  would  sweep  whole  tribes  from  the  earth, 
and  blot  out  their  proudest  names  from  remembrance. 
And  yet,  so  desirous  were  they  of  English  settlements 
on  their  territory,  that  before  the  first  settlement  was 
made  in  the  State,  a  deputation  of  Indians  appeared  in 
Massachusetts  requesting  the  people  of  that  State  to 
send  a  colony  and  form  a  plantation  among  them  in 
Connecticut. 

In  the  first  deed  between  Davenport,  Eaton  and 
others,  and  the  Indians,  in  1638,  it  is  expressly  stated 
as  a  reason  why  they  gave  the  deed  and  wished  pur- 
chasers to  settle  among  them, 

"Remembering  the  heavy  taxes  and  imminent  dangers  lately 
felt  and  feared  from  the  Pequots,  Mohawks  and  other  Indians, 
in  regard  of  which  they  durst  not  stay  in  their  country,  but 
were  forced  to  flee  and  seek  shelter  among  the  English ;  and 
observing  the  safety  and  ease  that  the  other  Indians  enjoy, 
near  the  English,  of  which  benefits  they  have  a  comfortable 
taste  already,  which  with  all  thankfulness  they  now  acknowl- 
edge, they  grant,"  &c.,  &c. 

In  this  part  of  the  country  then,  the  original  settlers 
were  not  intruders.  It  is  true  that  the  price  or  consider- 
ation paid  for  these  lands  was  inconsiderable,  when 
viewed  from  our  stand-point.  The  policy  adopted  by 
our  fathers  in  respect  to  the  Indians  was  characterized 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  I  I 

by  justice  and  by  kindness.  The  right  of  the  Indians 
to  the  soil  was  admitted  and  respected.  Patents  and 
charters  from  the  King  were  never  considered  good 
against  the  rights  of  the  natives.  It  appears  from  the 
documents  which  I  have  examined,  that  the  lands  in 
many  instances  were  bought  and  paid  for  several  times 
over.  If,  after  any  particular  tract  had  been  purchased, 
some  sachem  or  tribe  appeared  with  a  claim  to  the  same 
land,  that  title  also  was  bought  out,  and  if  again  other 
claimants  appeared,  the  purchase  was  still  made  again. 
Part  of  Meriden  was  thus  bought  again  and  again.  And 
in  1670,  thirty-four  years  after  Hartford  had  been  bought 
of  the  Indians,  and  had  become  populous,  there  arising 
some  dispute  about  the  title,  the  lands  in  Hartford  were 
bought  over  again.  Let  any  man  demonstrate  if  he  can, 
that  in  Connecticut  a  single  rood  of  land  was  ever  ac- 
quired of  the  Indians  otherwise  than  by  fair  purchase, 
except  what  was  conquered  from  the  Pequots,  in  a  war 
as  righteous  as  ever  was  waged. 

The  most  ancient  record  in  existence  at  New  Haven 
is  the  record  of  two  treaties  with  the  aboriginal  proprie- 
tors, by  which  the  soil  was  purchased,  and  the  relations 
thenceforward  to  subsist  between  the  Indians  and  the 
English  were  distinctly  denned.  In  1638,  the  original 
settlers  of  New  Haven  bought  of  "Momauguin,  the  Indian 
Sachem  of  Quinopiocke,  and  Sugcogisin,  Quesaquauch, 
Caroughood,  Wesaucucke,  and  others  of  his  council," 
the  tract  of  land  on  which  New  Haven  now  stands,  ex- 
tending several  miles  to  the  northward,  and  embracing 
probably  North  Haven,  also.  The  articles  of  agreement 
are  to  this  effect :  That  Momauguin  is  the  sole  sachem  of 
Quinnipiack,  and  had  an  absolute  power  to  aliene  and 
dispose  of  the  same :  That  in  consequence  of  the  pro- 


12  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

tection  which  he  had  tasted,  by  the  English,  from  the 
Pequots  and  Mohawks,1  he  yielded  up  all -his  right,  title 
and  interest  to  all  the  land,  rivers,  ponds  and  trees,  with 
all  the  liberties  and  appurtenances  belonging  to  the 
same,  unto  Theophilus  Eaton,  John  Davenport  and 
others,  their  heirs  and  assigns  forever.  He  covenanted 
that  neither  he  nor  his  Indians  would  teirify  nor  disturb 
the  English,  nor  injure  them  in  any  of  their  interests  ; 
but  that,  in  every  respect,  they  would  keep  true  faith 
with  them.  The  English  covenanted  to  protect  Momau- 
guin  and  his  Indians  when  unreasonably  assaulted 
and  terrified  by  other  Indians  ;  and  that  they  should  al- 
ways have  a  sufficient  quantity  of  land  to  plant  on, 
upon  the  east  side  of  the  harbor,  between  that  and  Say- 
brook  fort.  They  also  covenanted,  that  by  way  of  free 
and  thankful  retribution,  they  gave  unto  the  said  sachem 
and  his  council  and  company  twelve  coats  of  English 
cloth,  twelve  alchymy  spoons,  twelve  hatchets,  twelve 
hoes,  two  dozen  of  knives,  twelve  porringers,  and  four 
cases  of  French  knives  and  scissors.  What  the  Indians 
retained  after  the  treaty,  was  worth  more  to  them  than 
what  they  had  before  the  treaty.  The  consideration 
which  chiefly  moved  them  to  the  cession  was  not  the 
coats,  the  knives,  and  the  hatchets,  the  pewter  spoons 
and  porringers,  but  the  safety  and  manifold  advantages 
of  having  the  English  for  their  neighbors  and  protectors. 
In  December  following,  the  settlers  made  another 
purchase  of  a  large  tract,  which  lay  principally  north  of 


I  The  Indians  of  Quinnipiack,  in  this  treaty,  declared,  "That  they  still 
remembered  the  heavy  taxes  of  the  Pequots  and  Mohawks ;  as  that,  by 
reason  of  their  fear  of  them,  they  could  not  stay  in  their  own  country  ;  but 
had  been  obliged  to  flee.  By  these  powerful  enemies  they  had  been 
reduced  to  about  forty  men." 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  13 

the  former.  This  was  bought  of  Mantowese,  son  of  the 
great  sachem  at  Mattabesitt.1  This  tract  was  ten  miles 
in  length,  north  and  south,  and  thirteen  miles  in  breadth. 
It  extended  eight  miles  east  of  the  river  Quinnipiac, 
and  five  miles  west  of  it  towards  Hudson  river.  It  in- 
cluded all  the  lands  within  the  ancient  limits  of  the  old 
towns  of  New  Haven,  Branford  and  Wallingford,  and 
almost  the  whole  contained 'in  the  present  limits  of  these 
towns,  and  of  the  towns  of  East  Haven,  Woodbridge, 
Cheshire,  Hamden  and  North  Haven.  These  have  since 
been  made  out  of  the  three  old  towns. 

"  Articles  of  agreement  betwixt  Theophilus  Eaton,  John 
Davenport,  and  sundry  other  English  planters  at  Quinnypiock 
on  the  one  part,  and  Mantowese,  son  of  an  Indian  sachem 
living  at  Mattabezeck,  and  nephew  to  Sequin,  on  the  other 
part,  made  and  concluded  the  nth  day  of  December,  1638. 

"  First,  the  said  Mantowese,  in  presence  and  with  allowance 
of  Sawseunck,  and  Indians  which  came  in  company  with  him, 
doth  profess,  affirm  and  covenant  to  and  with  the  said  Theo- 
philus Eaton,  John  Davenport,  and  others,  above,  that  the 
land  on  both  sides  the  river  Quinnypiock,  from  the  northerly 
bounds  of  the  land  lately  purchased  by  the  said  English  of  the 
Quinnypiock  Indians,  namely,  from  the  pond  in  the  great 
meadow,  about  two  miles  above  the  great  hill,  to  the  head  of 
the  river  at  the  great  plain  toward  the  plantations  settled  by 
the  English  upon  the  river  of  Quinticutt,  southerly,  which  is 
about  ten  miles  .in  length  from  north  to  south  ;  the  bounds  of 
which  land  run  also  eight  miles  easterly  from  the  river  of 
Quinnypiock  towards  the  river  of  Quinticutt,  and  five  miles 
westerly  towards  Hudson's  river, — doth  truly  and  solely 
belong  to  him  the  said  Mantowese,  in  right  of  his  deceased 
mother,  to  whom  the  said  land  did  appertain,  and  from  whom 


i  The  mother  of  Mantowese  must  have  been  the  daughter  and  heiress 
of  some  deceased  sachem,  for  it  was  through  her  that  the  land  was  obtained. 


14  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

it  justly  descends  upon  him  as  his  inheritance,  so  that  he  hath 
an  absolute  and  independent  power  to  give,  alien,  dispose,  or 
sell  all,  or  any  part  of  the  said  land  as  he  shall  think  good  ; 
and  that  neither  his  said  father,  nor  any  other  person  what- 
soever, have  any  right,  title,  or  interest  in  any  part  of  the 
land  described  and  limited  as  above,  whereby  he  or  any  other 
may  hereafter  justly  question  what  the  said  Mantowese  now 
doth,  or  lay  any  claim  to  any  part  of  the  said  land  now 
disposed  of  by  him. 

"  Secondly,  the  said  Mantowese  being  fully  acquainted  with 
the  agreements  lately  passed  betwixt  the  said  English  planters 
and  the  Sachem  of  Quinnypiock,  his  council  and  company, 
did  freely  of  his  own  accord,  upon  full  and  serious  deliber- 
ation, give,  grant,  and  yield  up,  all  his  right,  title,  and  interest 
to  all  the  land  mentioned  and  bounded  as  above,  with  all  the 
rivers,  ponds,  trees,  and  all  liberties  and  appurtenances  what- 
soever, belonging  to  the  same,  to  the  said  Theophilus  Eaton, 
John  Davenport,  and  other  English  planters,  at  Quinnypiock, 
and  to  their  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  desiring  from  them,  the 
said  English  planters,  to  receive  such  a  small  portion  of  land 
by  the  river's  side,  about  two  miles  beyond  the  tree  over  the 
river  in  the  passage  from  hence  towards  the  towns  at  Quin- 
ticutt,  as  may  be  sufficient  for  his  small  company,  being 
but  ten  men  in  number,  besides  women  and  children,  which 
portion  of  land  they  desire  may,  hereafter,  upon  a  view,  be 
assigned,  appointed  and  limited  unto  them  by  the  said 
English  planters,  reserving  also  to  himself  and  his  forenamed 
company,  liberty,  in  fit  seasons  and  due  manner,  without 
prejudice  to  the  English,  to  hunt  and  fish  and  kill  beaver, 
yet  therein  also  to  be  regulated  by  the  said  English,  upon 
discovery  of  any  annoyance,  as  the  Quinnypiock  Indians  are 
in  that  case. 

"  Lastly,  the  said  Theophilus  Eaton,  John  Davenport,  &c., 
accepting  from  Mantowese  this  free  gift  of  his  land  as  above, 
do  by  way  of  thankful  retribution  give  unto  him  eleven  coats 
made  of  trucking  cloth,  and  one  coat  for  himself  of  English 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  15 

cloth,  made  up  after  the  English  manner,  which  being 
thankfully  accepted  by  the  said  Mantowese,  and  the  agree- 
ment in  all  points  perfected ;  for  satisfaction  and  full  con- 
firmation of  the  same,  Mantowese  and  Sawseunck  have 
set  their  hands  or  marks,  this  day  and  year  before  written. 

"  MANTOWESE,     X     n's  mark- 
SAWSEUNCK,     X     ms  mark." 

"  I,  John  Clarke,  being  interpreter  in  this  treaty,  do  hereby 
profess  in  the  presence  of  God,  that  I  have  fully  acquainted 
the  Indians  with  the  substance  of  every  article,  to  the  which 
they  have  freely  agreed  ;  that  is  to  say,  that  Mantowese  have 
given  to  Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Eaton  all  his  land  which  he 
had  by  his  deceased  mother,  which  he  saith  is  from  the  head 
of  the  great  plain  to  the  pond,  which  he  profess  to  be  his,  and 
promise  to  make  it  good  to  our  English  ;  and  for  this  he  is 
satisfied  with  twelve  coats  ;  only  reserve  a  piece  of  land  by 
the  river  for  his  men,  which  are  ten,  and  many  squaws,  to 
plant  in  ;  and  when  our  cows  come  there,  what  harm  their 
dogs  do  our  cattle,  they  will  satisfy  for,  and  we  for  what  harm 
our  hogs  do  to  them  in  corn ;  and  as  for  hunting  and  fishing, 
they  are  acquainted  and  do  freely  consent  to  them,  as  their 
mark  witness.  The  truth  of  which,  if  lawfully  called,  I  shall 
readily  confirm  by  my  oath  at  any  time. 

"  Per  me,  JOHN  CLARKE.' 

"  We,  Robert  Coggswell,  Roger  Knapp,  and  James  Love, 
do  hereby  renounce  all  right  to  any  and  every  part  of  the 
forementioned  land.  Witness  our  hands  hereunto. 

"  ROBERT  COGGSWELL, 

JAMES  LOVE, 

ROGER  KNAPP,     X     ms  mark." 


i  This  interpreter  seems  to  have  been  one  of  the  first  inhabitants 
of  the  colony.  The  interpreter  of  the  first  treaty,  was  Thomas  Stanton, 
who  was  for  many  years  a  sort  of  chief  dragoman  in  all  important  nego- 
tiations with  the  Indians. 


l6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

That  these  treaties  were  ever  violated  by  either  party 
does  not  appear  in  history,  although  Governor  Andros 
had  said  that  the  "  signature  of  an  Indian  was  no  better 
than  the  scratch  of  a  bear's  paw."  Upon  the  tract 
ceded  by  these  treaties,  where  in  1638  there  were  sub- 
sisting in  savage  wretchedness  not  quite  sixty  men,  and 
the  largest  estimate  of  women  and  children  would  not 
make  the  entire  native  population  more  than  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty,  there  are  now  about  30,00x3  people,  the 
poorest  of  which  have  more  physical  comforts,  not  to 
speak  of  intellectual  and  moral  differences,  than  the 
richest  of  the  Indians  enjoyed  in  1638.  To  one  who 
now  stands  upon  the  summit  of  West  Peak  and  looks  off 
upon  the  immense  plain,  like  a  green  carpet  stretching 
far  off  to  the  Sound,  dotted  here  and  there  with  villages, 
and  the  quiet  farm  houses, 

"  So  rich  and  picturesque  and  free, 
The  common  unrhymed  poetry 
Of  simple  life  and  country  ways," 

it  seems  scarcely  credible  that  the  consideration  of  this 
deed  was  "eleven  coats  made  of  trucking  cloth,  and  one 
coat  of  English  cloth,  made  up  after  the  English  man- 
ner," with  the  reservation  of  the  right  to  plant  and  hunt 
upon  the  granted  premises.  But  the  price  was  an 
adequate  one.  What  could  the  grantors  do  with  money  ? 

* 

and  the  liberty  to  occupy  the  land  for  the  two  purposes 
named  in  the  deed,  comprised  in  the  mind  of  an  Indian, 
nearly  all  that  lawyers  mean  by  the  term  fee  simple. 
The  north  half  of  Meriden,  was  claimed  by  portions  of 
the  Mattabesitt  tribe  ;  and  when  Farmington  was  settled 
by  the  English,  there  was  a  band  of  that  tribe,  in  the 
southeast  part  of  that  town,  probably  near  Kensington. 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  \J 

The  north  part  of  our  town  remained  in  possession  of 
the  Indians,  long  after  they  had  sold  all  the  adjacent 
territory.  Near  the  northern  limit  lay  the  Belcher  farm. 
Rev.  Mr.  Perkins,  in  his  "  Historical  Sketches,"  says,  that 

"One  Mr.  Belcher,  very  early,  but  how  early  we  cannot  pre- 
cisely ascertain,  had  a  grant  of  a  large  tract  of  land  lying  on 
our  present  northern  border.  Whether  this  was  a  colonial 
grant  or  a  royal  grant,  we  do  not  know,  for  no  trace  of  deed 
or  grant  can  be  found  in  the  state  records  or  town  records." 

Hoping  to  find  such  a  record, 

"  Through  difficulties 

And  with  much  pains,  expence  of  time  and  cost, 
Many  heapes  of  worne  Records  have  I  turn'd  and  tos't," 

and  success  crowned  my  efforts.     Here  is  the  deed  : 

"  Att  a  Gena"  Assembly  holden  at  Newhaven  October  the 
i4th,  1703  ;  Whereas,  the  Govern'"  and  Company  of  this  her 
Majesties  Colonie  of  Connecticut  in  Gena"  Court  assem- 
bled at  Hartford,  Aug.  the  28th  1661,  did  give  and  grant 
unto  Jonathan  Gilbert  of  the  said  town  of  Hartford,  innholder, 
dec'1,  three  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  countrey  land  fora 
farm,  and  whereas,  the  said  Gena"  Assembly  holden  at 
Hartford  March  the  r3th,  i66j,  and  Octob'r  the  i2th,  1665, 
did  give  and  grant  to  Capt.  Daniel  Clerke  of  the  town  of 
Wind/or  three  hundred  acres  of  land  for  the  same  use,  to  In- 
taken  up  partly  upon  the  branches  of  Mattabesitt  River,  and 
partly  upon  the  road  from  Wethersfield  to  Newhaven,  at  or 
near  a  place  called  Cold  Spring  on  the  west  side  of  a  ridge, 
of  mountainous  land  comonly  called  or  known  by  the  name  of 
the  Lamentation  Hills,  all  which  appeares  on  record;  and  the 
said  Jonathan  Gilbert  did  purchase  of  the  said  Daniel  Clerke 
his  said  grant,  by  which  grant  and  purchase  the  said  Jonath. 
Gilbert  obteined  to  himself  and  his  heirs  a  good  and  lawfull 
right  and  title  to  sixe  hundred  and  tiftie  acres  of  the  said 
countrey  land,  four  hundred  and  seventie  acres  whereof  was 
C 


1 8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

laid  out  to  the  said  Jonathan  Gilbert  by  persons  appointed  by 
the  said  Gena"  Assembly  at  and  nere  the  said  place  called 
the  Cold  Spring  on  the  west  side  of  the  said  Lamentation 
Hill ;  the  said  four  hundred  and  seventie  acres  of  land  com- 
prehending within  it  three  pieces  of  meadowe,  one  called  the 
south  meadow,  another  the  north  meadow,  and  the  third 
beaver  meadow  ;  and  the  said  Jonathan  Gilbert  having  pur- 
chased the  native  right  of  the  said  land,  and  of  the  land 
thereunto  adjoining,  amounting  in  the  whole  to  the  sume  of 
one  thousand  acres  and  upwards  of  meadow  and  upland  ; 
and  whereas  Capt.  Andrew  Belcher  of  the  town  of  Boston  in 
the  province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  Newengland,  mer- 
chant, hath  by  purchase  gained  to  himselfe  and  his  heirs 
forever  all  the  estate,  right  and  title  that  the  heirs  or  assignes 
of  the  said  Jonathan  Gilbert  had  or  might  have  in  or  to  the 
said  four  hundred  and  seventie  acres  of  land,  meadow  and 
upland,  and  whatever  right  might  accrue  to  them  by  the  said 
purchase  of  the  native  right,  and  hath  petitioned  this  Assem- 
bly for  a  pattent  to  be  granted  out  to  him  for  a  full  confirma- 
tion of  the  same  to  him,  his  heirs  and  assignes  forever.  This 
Assembly  considering  that  the  said  Andrew  Belcher  hath 
expended  a  considerable  estate  upon  the  said  land  in  building 
tennantable  houses  and  settling  tennants  therein,  and  other 
improvements  which  are  like  to  be  a  publick  as  well  as 
private  benefitt,  the  said  tennements  being  conveniently 
situate  for  the  relief  of  travailers  in  their  journying  from 
place  to  place,  for  his  incouragement  to  goe  forward  with  his 
improvements  doe  see  cause  to  grant  his  petition,  and  doe 
now  give  and  grant  unto  the  said  Andrew  Belcher  all  the  said 
four  hundred  and  seventie  acres  of  meadow  and  upland  (as 
it  is  laid  out  and  bounded,  or  described  to  be  bounded,  in  a 
plott  or  survey  thereof  exhibited  in  this  Assembly  under  the 
hand  of  Mr.  Caleb  Stanley,  surveyor),  to  be  to  him  the  said 
Andrew  Belcher,  his  heirs  and  assignes  forever  ;  and  doe 
order  that  the  said  Andrew  Belcher  shall  have  a  pattent  for 
the  said  four  hundred  and  seventie  acres  of  land  so  butted 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS  19 

and  bounded  as  in  the  said  plott  is  described,  the  patient  to 
be  signed  by  the  Governour  and  Secretarie  in  the  name  and 
behalfe  of  the  Govern1"  and  Companie  of  this  her  Majesties 
Colonie,  which  pattent  shall  be  of  full  force  and  virtue  to  all 
intents  and  purposes  in  the  lawe  for  the  ensureing  and  sure 
making  of  all  the  said  purchased  and  granted  lands  so  butted 
and  bounded  as  aforesaid,  and  every  part  and  parcell  thereof, 
with  all  the  profitts,  priviledges  and  appurtenances  thereunto 
belonging,  and  from  time  to  time  thence  arising,  unto  him  the 
said  Andrew  Belcher,  his  heirs  and  assignes  forever,  accord- 
ing to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  thereof  Provided  always, 
nevertheless,  that  there  shall  be  a  country  road  or  highway 
through  the  said  farme  or  part  thereof,  as  there  shall  be  occa- 
sion.1 Capt.  John  Hamlin  moving  to  this  Court  for  a  grant 
of  a  tract  of  land  to  Capt.  Andrew  Belcher,  which  land  lieth 
between  said  Mr  Belcher's  farme  at  Merriden  and  the  moun- 
tain called  Lamentation,  this  Court  doe  order  Capt.  Thomas 
Hart  and  Mr  Caleb  Stanley  junr  to  survey  said  tract  of  land 
and  make  return  thereof  to  this  Court  in  May  next,  both  as  to 
the  quantitie  and  qualitie  of  said  land." 

In  May  1704,  the  committee  handed  in  the  following 
report  : 

"To  the  Hon1'1  the  Genr"  Assembly  of  the  Colonie 
of  Conecticutt  sitting  in  Hartford,  May  the  n"'  1704. 
Whereas,  the  Generall  Assembly  of  the  said  Colonie  held  at 
Newhaven  October  the  14"',  1703,  did  order  and  appoint  us 
the  subscribers  hereunto  to  measure  and  survey  a  certain  tract 
of  land  adjoining  to  Capt.  Andrew  Belcher's  farme  called 
Merriden,  and  lying  between  the  said  farme  and  the  top  or 
ridge  of  the  mountain  usually  called  Lamentation  Mountain 
(which  said  tract  of  land  the  said  Belcher  did  petition  for  to 
the  said  Court),  and  to  make  our  return  thereof  to  this  Honnl 
Court  now  sitting,  both  as  to  the  quantitie  and  qualitie  thereof. 


I  The  survey  of  Capt.  Belcher's  farm  is  recorded  in  Book  I),  folio  318, 
319.  320. 


2O  HISTORY    OF    \YALLINGFORD. 

In  pursuance  whereof,  \ve,  the  said  subscribers,  did  survey 
and  measure  the  said  tract  of  land  in  maner  as  follows,  viz., 
from  the  southeast  corner  of  the  said  farme  we  run  and 
measured  east  (by  the  needle  of  the  surveying  instrument) 
eighty  rods,  and  then  east  seventeen  degrees,  northerly  sixtie- 
eight  rods  to  the  top  of  the  said  mountain,  and  from  the 
northeast  corner  of  the  said  farme,  we  run  and  measured 
east  29  degrees,  southerly  one  hundred  and  twentie  rods  to 
the  top  of  the  same  mountain.  We  also  found  the  said 
mountain  to  lye  and  bear  near  north  thirtie  degrees  easterly, 
south  thirtie  degrees  westerly,  and  considering  the  same  with 
the  lines  that  are  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  said  farme 
(having  a  plott  thereof  before  us),  we  found  that  the  said  land 
petitioned  for  as  aforesaid,  doth  contain  about  two  hundred 
and  eightie  acres.  And  as  to  the  qualitie  thereof,  by  reason 
that  the  same  is  almost  wholly  consisting  of  steep,  rocky,  hills 
and  very  stony  land,  we  judge  it  to  be  very  mean,  and  of 
little  vallue  All  which  we  humbly  present  to  this  Hon1'1 
Assembly. 

CALEB  STANLEY,  Survey'. 

THOMAS  HART. 

"This  Assembly  grants  to  Capt.  Andrew  Belcher  of  Boston, 
merch1,  and  to  his  heirs  forever,  the  tract  of  land  mentioned 
in  the  above  survey,  containing  about  two  hundred  and  eightie 
acres  with  the  bounds  and  abutmentts  as  above  exprest,  and 
that  he  shall  have  a  pattent  for  the  confirmation  of  it  accord- 
ingly, to  be  signed  according  to  lawe  in  the  name  of  this 
Assembly.  Always  provided  it  shall  not  intrench  upon  the 
properties  of  any  other  person,  or  upon  any  plantation.'" 


I  Andrew  Belcher  was  son  of  Andrew  Belcher,  who  was  in  Sudbury, 
Mass.,  in  1639.  He  was  born  Jan.  i,  1647.  He  married  July  I,  1670,. 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Gilbert,  and  had  Andrew,  born  March  12, 
1672;  Deborah;  Mary,  born  March  7,  1680;  Ann,  born  March  30,  1684; 
Martha,  born  March  29,1686;  Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  12,  1678;  Jonathan, 
born  Jan.  8,  1682;  which  last  was  the  royal  Governor  of  Mass.  173010 
1741. 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  21 

In  a  deed  dated  October  15,  1664,  the  northern  part 
of  this  tract  is  called  Merideen,  and  in  another  deed  of 
1672  it  is  called  Moridan,  and  "bounded  partly  on  the 
Mattabesick  River  where  it  may  be  allowed  of  the  town 
of  Farmington."  This  valley  was  a  rich  alluvial  soil, 
and  might  be  termed  bottom  land.  But  owing  to  its  low 
situation,  the  name  of  Meriden  was  abandoned  for  that 
of"  Great  Swamp."  It  was  a  part  of  the  hunting  grounds 
of  the  Mattabesett  tribe  of  Indians,  and  tradition  says 
their  lodge  or  settlement  was  at  the  place  called  now, 
and  has  been  for  many  years,  "  Beckley  Quarter.'" 

In  the  upper  part  of  this  purchase,  at  a  place  now 
called  "  Christian  Lane,"  Richard  Seymour  and  others 
began  a  settlement  as  early  as  1686.  Here  stood  the 
Seymour  Fort,  or  Palisades,  within  which  the  cabins 
were  constructed,  and  to  which  all  the  settlers  repaired 
at  nightfall,  for  safety  against  the  Indians,  and  for  quiet 
rest.3  The  well  at  which  they  quenched  their  thirst, 
still  furnishes  the  best  water.  It  was  dug  in  the  center 
of  the  fort.  In  1705,  twenty-nine  persons  residing  in 
the  "  Great  Swamp,"  petitioned  the  General  Assembly 
to  annex  unto  their  bounds 

'•  All  those  lands  that  are  between   our  bounds  southward, 


1  The   first    Knglish    settler    of    this   locality  was    sergeant    Richard 
Keckley,  a  planter  in  New  Haven  Colony,   1639,  but  moved  to  this  part 
of  the  State,  which  from  his  day  has  been  called  "  Beckley  quarter."     The 
following  shows  his  title  to  the  land,  and  is  from  the  records  of  lands  for 
Wethersfield :  "25  Feb.  1680.  Lands  belonging  to  Sergt.  Richard  Beckley 
and  to  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  lying  in   Wethersfield,  upon  Conccti- 
cutt  river,  which  he  purchased  of  Terranmogus  (  Indian),  with  the  consent 
of  the  court,  and  town  of  \Vcther>tii  Id." 

2  This  fort  was  made  of  palisades  sixteen   feet    long,   .sharp  at  the  top, 
and  firmly  set  in  the  ground  near  together. 


22  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

and  Wallingford  bounds  northward,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
taxes  of  said  lands," 

for  the  support  of  a  minister.  The  territorial  limits  of 
Wallingford,  extended  northward,  only  to  Pilgrim's  Har- 
bor, or  what  is  now  West  Meriden.  Between  Wallingford 
on  the  south,  Middletovvn  on  the  east,  and  Belcher's  farm 
on  the  north,  and  part  of  the  west,  there  lay  a  tract  of 
land,  of  somewhat  undefined  boundaries.  The  "  old  road" 
passed  through  it.  The  following  appears  to  have  been 
the  earliest  deed  of  this  part  of  Meriden  : 

"Oct.  15,  1664. 

"  Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I  Seaukeet, 
Indian,  (  abiding  in  or  about  Hartford,  on  Conec't. )  Sachem, 
owner  and  true  propriertor  of  a  large  tract  of  Land  in  the 
woods  towards  New  Haven  att  and  about  the  land  now  in 
possession  of  Mr.  Jonathan  Gilbert,1  intitled  and  known  by 
the  name  Merideen,  doe  sell  unto  Edward  Higbey,  one  parcell 
of  land  adjoining  to  the  lands  of  Jonathan  Gilbert,  aforesaid, 
Hills,  Rocks,  brooks,  swamps  and  all  other  appurtenances, 
bounded  and  formerly  delivered,  by  marked  trees,  and  by  the 
land  of  sayd  Jonathan  Gilbert  and  Pilgrim's  Harbor  Brook 
or  River — all  which  sayd  parcell  of  land  with  all  prerogatives, 
privileges  and  any  kind  of  appurtenances  thereon,  and  there- 
unto belonging,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  sayd  Edward  Higbey, 
his  heirs  and  assigns,  to  improve,  possess,  enjoy,  and  that  for- 
ever, as  fully  and  as  freely  as  the  said  Seaukeet  ever  did  or 
might  have  clone.  In  witness  thereof,  by  these  presents,  I 
bind  myself,  my  heirs  and  assigns,  quietly  and  peaceably  to 


I  Extract  from  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Jonathan  Gilbert,  Feb. 
12,  1682-3.  "Item,  I  give  to  my  son  Nathaniel  Gilbert,  my  farm  at 
Meriden,  with  all  the  house  and  land  thereunto  belonging,  and  all  priv- 
iledges  thereunto  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever,  and  also  I  give  to  him 
thirty  pounds  more  out  of  my  estate  or  in  cattle  to  stock  the  said  farm." 
Hartford  Probate  Records;  Vol.  IV. 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  23 

leave  in  the  full  possession  of  all  the  premises,  the  sayd 
Edward  Higbey,  never  to  be  molested  by  me  the  sayd  Seau- 
keet,  my  heirs,  or  any  other  Indian  or  Indians  whatsoever 
and  so  subscribe  my  name, 

the  mark       )  of  SEAUKEET. 


"  In  presence  and  witness  of  Bryan  Rossetter  and 
Mary  Gilbert." 

It  seems  that  there  were  other  claimants  to  the  same 
land,  for  in  1682  another  Indian,  by  the  name  of  Adam 
Puit,  sold  to  John  Talcott,  a  tract  which,  from  the  de- 
scription, must  have  been  identical  with  the  one  de- 
scribed in  the  deed  of  Seaukeet. 

Hartford,  August  10,  1684.  [date  of  record.] 
"  Know  all  men  whom  this  may  concern,  that  I,  Adam  Puit, 
Indian,  belonging  and  now  residing  at  Podunk,1  have  and  doe 
hereby  morgage  all  my  land  lyeing  upon  the  Road  towards 
Newhaven,  beyond  and  next  adjoining  to  Jonathan  Gilbert's 
farme,  which  tract  of  land  being  in  length  East  and  West  Six 
Miles,  and  in  breadth  North  and  South  five  miles,  with  all  the 
swamps,  Rivers  and  meadow  Land  lyeing  within  the  said 
Bounds  and  limits  thereof,  to  John  Talcott  of  Hartford  in 
Conecticut  Colony  and  his  heirs  forever.  And  in  case  the 
said  Adam  Puit  do  pay  for  and  make  full  satisfaction  for  one 
parcell  of  Trucking  cloaths  in  hand  received  of  the  said  John 
Talcut  within  one  full  year  after  the  sale  hereof,  and  in  case 
we  the  said  partyes  agree  about  the  said  land  before  the  end 
and  term  of  one  year  (to  say),  for  the  purchase  or  sale  thereof, 
the  said  Adam  is  to  receive  foure  coats  more,  as  full  satisfac- 
tion for  the  purchase  thereof,  the  premises  not  being  performed 
as  above  said,  I  the  said  Adam  Puit  doe  fully  and  freely 

I   Podunk,  was  the  original  name  of  ;i  river  in  Windsor,  and  was  also 
the  name  of  an  Indian  tribe,  residing  near  tliat  river. 


24  HISTORY    OK    \VALL1NCJFORO. 

resign  and  deliver  up  the  said  land  to  John  Talcott  and  his 
heires  forever,  to  be  theirs  to  possess,  to  enjoy,  and  to  hold  as 
their  own,  forever,  as  witnesseth  my  mark  on  the  day  and 
vear  above  said. 


The  mark  of  ADAM    n    T^S  PUIT. 


"Witnessed  buy   us:   Sammuel  Talcott,  Dorothy  Talcott." 

"  Hartford,  October  18,  1682. 

"  Nesahegan  indian,  Cherry  indian,  and  \\onummiss  Indian, 
belonging  to  Tunksis  and  Hartford,  all  appeared  at  Hartford 
on  this  1 8th  day  of  October,  and  certify  and  witness  that 
Adam  Puit  above  written  in  the  deed  of  gift  aforesaid  hath 
soald  right  and  tittle  in  the  land  above  said,  being  about  six 
miles  East  and  West  and  five  miles  North  and  South  ;  beyond 
and  next  adjoyning  to  Jonathan  Gilberts  farms  in  the  way  to 
Newhaven,  which  we  understand  is  now  sold  to  Major  John 
Talcott.  This  we  certify  and  know  to  be  true  unto  the  year 
and  day  above  written. 

"Before  me,  Robert  Treat,  Deputy  Governor." 

The  next  year,  1683,  Mr.  Talcott  wrote  the  following 
letter  to  Wallingtbrd.  assigning  over  to  the  town  all  his 
right  and  title  to  this  land : 

"WORTHY  GENTLEMEN: 

"  "  After  Sallutation  presented,  these  may  enforme  you  that  I 
have  sent  you  your  long  waited  for  indian  Deed  and  purchase, 
by  my  cousan  Sammuell  Wakeman  :  it  was  finished  on  the 
second  day  of  the  present  week.  Gentillmen,  I  confess  my 

many  errors  by  reason  of  the  after  Blots,  also  at  the of 

it  mistake  a  name  or  two  in  the  first  part,  but  recovered  in 
the  latter  part,  for  that  I  hope  nothing  therein  will  prove, 
above  the  nature  of  circumstantial!  error.  As  for  the  sub- 
stance it  will  hold  firme  and  good  in  law,  for  your  security. 
The  truth  is  I  was  shortenened  for  time,  and  having  but  one 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  25 

day  after  the  court  to  write  in  and  draw  the  modell  of  the 
deed  before  the  indians  were  appointed  to  be  at  my  house, 
and  then  there  came  a  considerable  company  of  them,  that  I 
could  not  doe  anything  in  reference  to  drawing  it  over  more 
faire,  being  willing  to  gaine  as  many  hands  and  seals  as  I 
could  then,  otherwise  it  would  have  been  more  decently  pre- 
pared and  presented  to  your  view :  and  that  time  of  drawing 
many  people  crowding  in  upon  me  put  me  beyond  my  ordi- 
nary pace,  and  the  indian  names  being  many  and  odd,  were 
hard,  difficult  to  retaine  and  distinctly  and  precisely  to  enter, 
and  hath  often  been  in  my  thoughts  to  have  reviewed  it,  but 
have  feered  that  I  should  not  geet  the  indians  together  to 
signe,  they  lived  in  such  a  scattered  way,  and  a  great  distance 
one  from  another,  that  in  another  year  in  reason  would  have 
been  little  enough  to  have  brought  this  matter  to  pass,  and 
thought  perhaps  some  might  die  whose  names  were  in  as  — 
a>  was  almost  the  case  of  the  young  sunk  squa,  so  that  I 
thought  it  to  be  a  tedious  a  business,  to  adventure  upon  that 
which  had  proved  soe  troublesome  already.  Some  of  these 
your  Gintlement  may  rememember  what  court  it  was  that  the 
indians  agreed  in  Mr.  Adams  orchard,  they  would  meet  at 
my  house  ;  at  that  time  I  had  a  day  as  I  sayd,  before  me  to 
write  and  draw  ;  now  hopeing  worthy  Gentile  men  and  friends 
you  will  excuse  me  wherein  I  have  fallen  short  of  your  expec- 
tation, granting  your  favorable  acceptance  of  what  I  have 
herewith  presented  to  your  view,  who  am,  honoured  Gentile- 
ment  and  friends,  your  reall 

friend  and  faithful   Servant, 

JOHN  TALCOTT." 

November,  nth,  1681. 

The  following  is  the  deed  of  assignment,  to  the  town 
of  Wallingford : 

"  Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I  John  Tulcott  of 
Hartford,  in  Conecticut  colony,  do  fully,  freely,  clearly  and 
absolutely,  Alienate,  assign  and  set  over,  resign  and  deliver 


26  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

up  all  my  right,  title,  and  interest,  in  the  within  deed  of  sale,' 
to  Mr.  Sammuel  Street,  Mr.  John  Moss,  Lieut.  Nathaniell 
Meriman,  Mr.  John  Brockett,  Sergt.  Abraham  Dowlittle  of 
Wallingford,  within  the  said  colony  of  Conecticut,  to  them- 
selves for  their  proper  use  only  benefit  and  behoof,  of  them- 
selves and  the  inhabitants  of  the  sayd  towne  of  Wallingford 
within  the  said  colony ;  to  them,  their  heires  and  assigns 
forever,  to  hold,  use,  occupy  and  improve  the  same,  withall 
the  emoluments,  rents,  emunitys,  priviledges,  franchises,  com- 
oditys  and  appurtenances,  whatsoever  and  herein  consigned, 
granting  him  and  every  one  of  them,  full  power  and  authority 
to  Record  the  same  to  themselves,  their  heires  and  assigns 
forever,  for  the  confirmation  of  the  premises,  for  myself, 
heires,  executors  and  Administrators  doe  fully  ratifie  and 
confirm  this  assignment  unto  Mr.  Sammuel  Street,  Mr.  John 
Moss,  and  to  their  heires  and  assigns  forever,  as  witnesseth 
my  hand  and  seal  this  fifteenth  of  May  in  the  year  of  our 
lord,  one  thousand  six  hundred  eighty  and  three. 

"JOHN  TALCOTT,  seal.  (^ 
"Witnessed  by  John  Church,  Daniel  Butler." 

The  first  deed  to  the  New  Haven  planters  is  dated 
December,  1638,  and  was  renewed  in  1645.  But  on 
pretense  of  the  Indians,  that  they  had  made  a  reserve 
of  some  appurtenances  in  former  grants,  another  pur- 
chase was  made,  and  a  valuable  consideration  given  for 
an  unreserved  deed  of  "12  large  miles  long,  and  8 
broad  ;"  the  breadth  extending  from  "  Wharton's  brook 
to  Pilgrim's  Harbor."  The  addition  of  three  miles  to 
the  breadth,  from  the  last  mentioned  place,  was  made  by 


i  The  land  is  not  described  and  bounded  in  this  assignment ;  but  in  the 
original  records  this  assignment  is  accompanied  by  a  copy  of  the  Adam 
Puit  deed,  and  in  his  letter  he  speaks  of  this  "deed  of  sale,"  as  the  one 
received  by  him  from  Puit. 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  2/ 

the  government.     This  Indian  deed  is  dated  at  Hartford, 
May,  24,  1 68 1 ,  and  is  as  follows  : 

"  Whereas  our  predecessors  Mantowese,  Sachem,  in  the 
yeare  one  Thousand  Six  hundred  Thirty  and  eight,  in  Decem- 
ber the  eleventh,  by  a  Generall  deed  off  grant,  Alienated,  en- 
seosed  and  sold  a  tract  of  land,  to  Theophilus  Eaton,  Esqir, 
Mr.  John  Davenport,  Minister,  and  to  other  English  Planters 
of  Quinnipiage,  Alias  Newhaven,  as  by  an  instrument  at  large 
doth  appeare,  and  soe  by  a  second  grant  as  by  an  Instrument 
dated  in  the  year  one  Thousand  Six  hundred  forty  and  five. 
In  the  month  May  of  that  said  year,  Renewed  the  former 
grant,  and  tract  of  land,  to  run  from  a  great  pond  in  New- 
haven  East  meadow  Twenty  Miles  North,  and  to  be  thirteen 
miles  in  breadth  East  and  west,  which  said  tract  of  land  was 
made  over  unto  Theophilus  Eaton  Esquire,  Mr.  Stephen 
Goodyear,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Grigson  gentillmen  of  the  foresaid 
Newhaven  Now  know  ye,  that  I,  Mantowese  his  sister  sunk 
squa,  and  now  wife  to  Nesumbocum,  and  munnappask,  Mim- 
iaque  and  munnappask,  sunk  squa,  matoes  son,  Matant  son, 
had  come  right  in  those  the  aforesaid  lands  so  sold  by  our 
predecessors,  and  whereas  I  Mimiaque,  Accacant,  his  son,  Ma- 
pashunt,  Puttugquatum,  and  Wyashun,  have  good  right  and 
title  to  land  on  the  west  side  of  Wallingford  Bounds,  and 
being  desired  grants  two  miles  in  breadth  East  and  West  and 
the  whole  length  of  the  said  Wallingford  bounds,  as  granted 
to  them  by  the  general  court  of  conecticutt  colony,  shall  be 
added  according  as  shall  be  hereafter  inclusively  and  abso- 
lutely taken  within,  and  unto  their  bounds  granted  to  the 
plantation  of  Wallingford  by  the  foresaid  gen'!  court,  for 
avoiding  of  all  differences,  that  may  hereafter  arise  or  happen 
to  be  between  us  Sunk  Squa,  now  wife  to  Nessumboccum  mun- 
napsk  sunk  squa,  Matoes  son,  Matant  son,  mamiaque,  Acca- 
cant, his  son  Wagashunt,  Puttugquatton  and  Wayshun,  and 
the  Inhabitants  of  Wallingford,  and  proprieters  of  the  same 
plantation,  and  their  haires  or  assignes,  have  granted  and  made 


28  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

this  Indenture,  this  twenty  and  fourth  of  may,  in  the  year  one 
thousand  six  hundred  eighty  and  one,  Between  us  Sunk  Squa 
wife  of  Nesumbockum,  munapask  sunk  squa,  Matoes  son,  ma- 
tant  son,  mimiaque,  Accanant,  his  son  wyashunt,  and  May- 
shon,  and  Mr.  Sammuell  Street  minister,  Mr.  John  Moss,  leu- 
tenant  Nathanell  Meriman,  Mr.  John  Brocket,  and  Sergant 
Abraham  Dowlittle,  all  proprietors  within  the  towneship  and 
plantation  of  Wallingford  in  the  colony  of  conecticut  in  New 
England,  witnesseth  that  we  sunk  squa  wife  to  Nebocacum 
mannappook  sunk  squa,  Matoes  son,  Matant  son  mimiaque 
Accanant  his  son,  Wayashunt  and  wayshon,  being  the  Right- 
full  owners  successors  and  rightfull  and  surviveing  heirs,  that 
can  make  any  —  —  claime  or  demand  upon,  or  of  propriety 
in  that  tract  of  land,  which  is  circumscribed  by  Bounclearise 
hereafter  mentioned,  as  being  and  belonging  to  the  Township 
of  Wallingford,  for  many  good  causes  and  considerations, 
hereunto  us  moveing,  and  for  a  valuable  consideration, 
sum  and  sums  of  currant  pay  of  this  country,  to  us  in  hand 
payd  in  full  satisfaction  for  all  our  rights,  in  the  foremen- 
tioned,  tract  and  parcel!  of  land  lyeing  and  being  within  the 
towneship  of  Wallingford,  the  receipts  whereof  we  doe  ac- 
knowledge, and  by  these  presents  do  freely,  fully,  clearly,  and 
absolutely,  give  bargains  and  sell  enseose  and  confirme,  unto 
Mr.  Sammuell  Street,  Mr.  John  Moss,  Lent.  Nathaniel  Merri- 
man,  Mr.  John  Brocket,  Seriant  Abraham  Dowlittle,  in  the 
behalf  of  the  inhabitants  and  proprietors,  of  the  lands  be- 
longing to  the  township  of  Wallingford  to  them,  their  heirs, 
and  their  assigns  for  ever,  all  that  tract  of  land  from  a  place 
called  whortons  Brook  south  and  from  thence  to  runn  to  a 
place  comonly  called  pilgrims  Harbor,  North,  being  about 
eight  miles  distance  which  is  the  breadth  of  the  said  bounds, 
and  in  Length,  from  East  to  the  west  end  to  be  twelve  miles, 
five  miles  to  run  east,  from  the  east  side  quinipiage  River 
and  seven  miles  thereof  to  run  west  from  the  west  side  of 
quinipiage  River,  the  whole  bounds  to  be  being  about  eight 
miles  broad  and  twelve  large  miles  in  length  to  have  and  to 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  2Q 

hold  possess  and  enjoy,  all  the  aforesaid  Tract  or  parcell  of 
land,  as  it  is  now  bounded  with  all  the  immunities,  privilidges, 
rights,  pastures,  comonage,  Timber,  wood,  Trees,  under-wood, 
Stones,  Quaryes,  minnerals,  Brooks,  ponds,  Rivers,  tithings, 
profits,  comodities,  Imoluments,  and  appurtinances,  whatso- 
ever is  belonging  thereunto,  to  Mr.  Samuel  Street,  Mr  John 
Moss,  Leutt.  Nathaniel  Merriman,  Mr.  John  Brocket,  Seriant 
Abraham  Dowlittle,  in  behalf  of  themselves  and  in  the  behalfe 
of  the  inhabitants  and  proprietors  of  the  lands  belonging  to 
the  towneship  of  Wallingford,  to  them  their  heirs  and  as- 
signes,  for  there  owne  and  only  proper  benefite  use  and  be- 
hoolfe  forever.  And  we  the  aforesaid  [here  follows  the 
Indian  names]  do  warrant,  and  approve  the  aforesaid  Mr. 
Samuell  Street,  Mr.  John  Moss,  Mr.  Nathaniell  meriman,  Mr. 
John  Brocket,  Ser.  Abraham  Dowlittle,  that  we  have  full 
power,  good  right,  and  lawful  authority  to  bargaine  and  sell 
the  before  mentioned  Tracts  withal  1  the  appurtenances  and 
singular,  the  privilidges  thereunto  belonging,  and  we  the  said 
[here  follows  the  Indian  names]  give  the  said  Samuel  Street 
[and  others]  and  the  rest  of  the  inhabitants  and  proprietors 
of  the  lands  within  the  towneship  of  Wallingford,  full  power 
and  authority,  to  record  the  premises  to  themselves,  to  their 
heirs  and  assignes  for  ever,  and  we  [here  follow  the  Indian 
names]  do  promise,  covenant,  to  and  with  the  said  Sammuell 
Street,  John  Moss,  (and  others)  and  the  rest  of  the  inhabi- 
tants and  proprietors  of  the  towneship  of  Wallingford,  them, 
their  heires  and  Asignes  shall  and  may  by  force  and  vertue 
hereof,  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter,  and  for 
ever  lawfully,  peaceably  and  quietly  hold,  use  and  occupie, 
possesse  and  enjoy  the  aforesaid  Tract  and  parcell  of  land  as 
it  is  circumscribed  and  bounded,  withall  its  rights,  members, 
emunityes,  privilidges  and  appertinances,  and  have  receive 
and  take  the  rents,  issues,  emoluments  and  profits  thereof  to 
theire  own  and  only  use,  and  proper  behoofe  for  ever,  without 
any  lawful  test  suite,  trouble,  molestation,  or  disturbance 
whatsoever,  from  us  or  any  of  us,  the  said  sunk  squa  [here 


3<D  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

follow  the  Indian  names]  our  heires,  successors  or  assignes, 
or  any  person,  or  persons,  whatsoever,  from  by  or  under  us 
our  successors,  or  assignes,  or  from  by  or  under  us  oure  or 
there  act,  meanes,  consent,  previty,  or  procurement.  And  we 
sunk  squa  [here  follow  the  Indian  names]  both  for  them- 
selves, heires,  and  executors,  administrators  and  assignes, 
shall  and  do,  cleer,  and  clerely  acquitt,  exonerate  and  dis- 
charge, or  otherwise  sufficiently  save  harmless  the  sayd 
Samuel  Street  [and  others]  and  the  rest  of  the  inhabitants 
and  proprietors  of  the  towne  of  Wallingford,  themselves  their 
Associates,  their  heires,  Executors,  Administrators  and  As- 
signes, forever,  from  all  former  and  other  grants,  gifts,  Bar- 
gaines,  titles,  troubles,  demands,  and  Incumbrances,  whatso- 
ever, had  made,  committed,  suffered,  or  done  by  us  or  any  of 
us,  the  aforesaid  sunk  squa  [here  follow  the  Indian  names] 
upon  the  promises  and  in  witness  whereof,  we  have  hereunto, 
signed  sealed  and  made  delivery  of  the  premises  aforesaid,  in 
the  year  one  Thousand  six  hundred,  eighty  and  one,  May  the 
Twenty  and  foure.  In  the  presence  wittnesse  us. 

"JOSEPH  EMMERSON, 

MICAH  MUDGE, 

PHILIP  LEWIS, 

COGRINOSETT    (^/?    his  mark,  Interpreter. 
NESAUTAG,  M.  his  mark,  Interpreter. 

USCOA      ~3V         his  mark. 


SIMON    <vV!Q_   his  mark,  Interpreter. 

NECONUMP      v3     his  mark. 

NODANTE     Q)    his  mark. 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  31 

JOHN  PAGAN,  Interpreter,     J_          his  mark 
TUNSTACUM     (7     his  mark. 

AWAWOSE     Q'k-'     his  mark. 
WAYASHUNT    ?     his  mark  and  seal.    (H) 


WETANT  son,  his     ^ri     mark  and  seal.    © 
MIMIAQUE  his    ^L  .mark  and  seal.    (Tp 

ACCANANT   his     l/i^      mark  and  seal.    (Cj) 
the  SUNK  SQUA  her     (^     mark  and  seal.     © 

MATTUGQUATUN,  his     (J7     mark  and  seal.    © 

» 
MANAPUSH,  her     X      mark  and  seal,    (^p 

The  Indians  who  sold  the  land  to  Davenport,  Eaton 
etc.,  stipulated  that  they  might  hunt  over  the  district  as 
before,  and  that  a  tract  might  be  reserved  for  them  on 
the  east  side  of  the  harbor  sufficient  for  their  small  pop- 
ulation to  plant  on.  Even  on  this  tract  the  English 
might  use  the  meadows  and  cut  down  the  trees  at  pleas- 
ure. Many  other  conditions  were  annexed,  each  party 
promising  not  to  molest  the  other,  and  to  make  all 
suitable  reparation,  if  any  injury  should  ever  be  done. 
The  Quinnipiacs  stated  the  number  of  their  men  and 


32  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

youths  at  forty-seven  ;  and  covenanted  that  they  would 
admit  no  other  Indians  among  them  without  first  having 
leave  from  the  English.  Little  did  they  think,  that  in 
the  course  of  years  the  white  population  would  increase 
from  scores  to  hundreds,  and  from  hundreds  to  thou- 
sands ;  and  .the  deep  forests  would  be  cut  down ;  that  the 
wild  animals  would  disappear ;  that  the  fish  would  grow 
few  in  the  rivers  ;  and  the  poor  remnant  of  the  Quinni- 
piacs  would  eventually  leave  the  graves  of  their  fore- 
fathers, and  wander  away  to  another  land.  Could  they 
have  anticipated  that  a  change  so  wonderful,  and,  in 
their  history,  so  unprecedented,  would  of  necessity  follow 
the  coming  of  the  white  man,  they  would  have  preferred 
the  wampum  tributes  of  the  Pequots  and  the  scalping 
parties  of  the  Five  Nations,  to  the  vicinity  of  a  people 
so  kind,  so  peaceful  and  yet  so  destructive. 

A  reservation  of  thirty  acres,  laid  out  in  three  lots, 
often  acres  each,  was  early  made  in  East  Haven  for  the 
Quinnipiacs.  They  cultivated  these  lots  by  rotation, 
each  one  being  planted  in  its  turn  while  the  other  two 
lay  unused.  The  last  sachem  of  the  tribe  died  in  1740. 
About  1768,  some  of  the  Quinnipiacs  removed  to  Far- 
mington,  where  land  was  bought  for  them  among  the 
Tunxis,  with  the  proceeds  of  what  they  had  sold  in  East 
Haven.  In  1773,  there  were  1363  Indians  in  the  col- 
ony; a  few  families  and  single  individuals  are  still  to 
be  found  in  different  parts  of  the  State,  but  are  chiefly 
of  mixed  blood.  In  1774,  there  were  but  four  Indians 
in  Wallingford.  When  the  town  was  first  settled  the 
Indians  were  very  much  disliked,  and  in  more  than  one 
instance,  when  the  hat  or  contribution  box  was  carried 
round  in  the  meeting  house  for  money  to  christianize  In- 
dians, instead  of  a  coin,  a  bullet  was  dropped  in,  as  if  it 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  33 

were    the    fittest     missionary.       Children    were    often 
quieted  by  the  cry,  "The  Indians  are  coming "! 

The  male  Indians  did  little  manual  labor.  They  spent 
their  time  in  hunting,  fishing,  contriving  wars  and  exe- 
cuting them,  or,  when  leisure  was  allowed  for  indulgence, 
in  a  dull  round  of  animal  enjoyments.  They  had  no 
regular  division  of  time,  ate  no  regular  meals,  and  had 
no  hours  set  apart  for  social  enjoyment.  While  her 
lord  lay  under  the  shade  of  a  tree  within  sight  of  the 
cornfield,  and  snored  away  the  hours  of  a  summer  after- 
noon, the  squaw  turned  up  the  sods,  and  drew  the  dark 
rich  loam  around  the  maize ;  or,  not  far  off,  in  the  mortar 
that  had  been  worn  ages  before  in  some  earthfast  rock, 
her  stone  pestle  fell  in  regular  strokes  upon  the  shining 
kernels  that  she  had  raised  the  year  before,  and  laid  care- 
fully aside,  to  furnish  the  requisite  supply  of  "  samp," 
that  constituted  the  staple  of  the  Indian's  food.  As 
might  be  inferred  from  their  habits,  the  squaws  were 
strong  and  hardy,  and  more  capable  of  enduring  fatigue 
than  the  men,  though  their  figures  were  not  so  slender 
and  graceful.  Of  household  furniture  they  had  little. 
A  few  cooking  vessels  of  wood  and  stone,  a  knife  made 
of  shell  or  a  species  of  reed,  made  up  nearly  the  whole 
inventory.' 

"  Poor,  crouching  children  of  the  brave ! 
Lo!  where  the  broad  and  sparkling  wave 
Anointed  once  the  freeman's  shore, 
Your  father's  tents  arise  no  more."" 

They  are  gone !     No  monuments  preserve  their  mem- 

1  Hollister,  i.  38.       Trumbull,   i.  47—48.        Deforest's  Hist,    of  the 
Indians  of  Conn.,  6. 

2  Sands'  Yamoyden,  i.  21. 

D 


34  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ory,  no  graven  tablets  bear  the  record  of  their  greatness. 
Beautifully  wrote  the  poet  Sprague  : 

"  O  doubly  lost !  oblivion's  shadows  close 

Around  their  triumphs  and  their  woes. 

On  other  realms,  whose  oft  set, 

Reflected  radiance  lingers  yet ; 

Their  sage  and  bard  have  shed  a  light 

That  never  shall  go  down  in  night ; 

Their  time-crowned  columns  stand  on  high, 

To  tell  of  them  who  cannot  die ; 

Even  we,  who  then  were  nothing,  kneel 
In  homage  there,  and  join  earth's  general  peal. 
But  the  doomed  Indian  leaves  behind  no  trace, 
To  save  his  own,  or  serve  another's  race ; 
With  his  frail  breath  his  power  has  passed  away, 
His  deeds,  his  thoughts  are  buried  with  his  clay  ; 

Nor  lofty  pile,  nor  glowing  page 

Shall  link  him  to  a  future  age, 

Or  give  him  with  the  past  a  rank  ; 
His  heraldry  is  but  a  broken  bow, 
His  history  but  a  tale  of  wrong  and  woe, 

His  very  name  must  be  a  blank.-'" 

Storey  has  portrayed  with  an  eloquent  pen  the  fate  ot 
the  unfortunate  Indians  ;  words  that  awaken  our  sympa- 
thy, and  disturb  the  sobriety  of  our  judgment.  "  Two 
centuries  ago,  the  smoke  of  their  wigwams  and  the  fires 
of  their  councils  rose  in  every  valley,  from  Hudson's 


i  It  has  often  been  wondered  how  the  aborigines  of  America  came  to 
be  called  Indians  ;  some  have  supposed  it  to  be  a  popular  appellation 
arising  from  their  dark  color.  In  a  copy  of  Theatrum  Orbis  Term  rum, 
Antwerp,  1583,  by  Abraham  Ortelius,  geographer  to  the  king,  there  is  a 
map  entitled  Typus  Orbis  Terrarum,  in  which  I  find  America  called 
America  sive  India  Nova,  How  it  came  to  get  the  name  of  India.  Nova  is 
another  question. 


PURCHASE    OF    INDIAN    LANDS.  35 

Bay  to  the  furthest  Florida,  from  the  ocean  to  the  Mis- 
sissippi and  the  lakes.  The  shouts  of  victory  and  the 
war-dance  rang  through  the  mountains  and  glades.  The 
thick  arrows  and  the  deadly  tomahawk  whistled  through 
the  forest,  and  the  hunter's  trace  from  the  dark  encamp- 
ment startled  the  wild  beasts  in  their  lairs.  But  where 
are  they  ?  The  ashes  are  cold 

on  their  native  hearths.  The  smoke  no  longer  curls 
round  their  lowly  cabins.  They  move  on,  with  a  slow, 
unsteady  step.  The  white  man  is  upon  their  heels,  for 
terror  or  dispatch  ;  but  they  heed  him  not.  They  turn 
to  take  a  last  look  of  their  deserted  villages.  They  cast 
a  last  glance  upon  the  graves  of  their  fathers.  They 
shed  no  tears ;  they  utter  no  cries  ;  they  heave  no  groans. 
There  is  something  in  their  hearts  which  passes  speech. 
There  is  something  in  their  looks,  not  of  vengeance  or 
submission,  but  of  hard  necessity,  which  stifles  both, 
which  chokes  all  utterance,  which  has  no  aim  or  method. 
It  is  courage  absorbed  in  despair.  They  linger  but  for 
a  moment.  Their  look  is  onward.  They  have  passed 
the  fatal  stream.  It  shall  never  be  repassed  by  them  ;  no, 
never !  Yet  there  lies  not  between  us  and  them  an  im- 
passable gulf.  They  know  and  feel  that  there  is  for 
them  still  one  remove  further,  not  distant  nor  unseen. 
It  is  to  the  general  burial-ground  of  the  race !  " 


36  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER    II. 


PHYSICAL    HISTORY,  ,  GEOLOGY,     MINERALOGY 
AND     MINES. 


THE  ancient  town  of  Wallingford  included  within  its 
bounds  all  the  lands  within  the  towns  of  Meriden, 
Cheshire,  and  all  the  eastern  part  of  Prospect ;  and  for 
many  years  after  its  settlement  was  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  important  towns  in  the  colony.  It  was  ten 
miles  in  length  from  north  to  south,  and  the  same  from 
east  to  west.  It  was  bounded  north  by  the  wilderness 
of  Farmington  (now  Southington),  and  Wolcott ;  west 
by  the  town  of  Waterbury  ;  south  by  New  Haven,  and 
east  by  Branford  and  the  Totoket  mountains.  It  was 
watered  on  the  east  by  the  Black  Pond,  Pistapaug  Pond 
and  Muddy  river.  The  Quinnipiac  river  takes  its  rise 
in  the  town  of  Farmington,  and  passes  through  the 
whole  central  portion  of  the  town,  affording  numerous 
and  valuable  mill  privileges.  Several  other  streams 
afford  water  power  to  a  number  of  manufactories. 

The  village  is  situated  41  cleg.  33  min.  north,  and 
73  deg.  14  min.  west ;  is  twelve  miles  from  New  Haven, 
and  about  twenty-three  miles  from  Hartford,  and  is  beau- 
tifully situated  on  a  hill  extending  nearly  a  mile  and  a 
half  from  north  to  south,  the  whole  length  of  which  runs 
the  principal  or  main  street,  which  is  adorned  on  either 


GEOLOGY.  37 

side  with  elms  and  maple  trees.  Parallel  to  this  is  the 
lower  street,  also  adorned  with  large  and  lofty  elms  ;  in 
addition  to  these,  the  several  cross  streets  render  the 
walks  and  drives  about  the  village  extremely  pleasant 
and  attractive.  Beautiful  views  may  be  had  of  the  Blue, 
and  also  of  the  Hanging  Hills,  from  the  windows  of 
almost  every  house  in  the  town.  The  face  of  the  coun- 
try is  somewhat  rolling,  and  is  generally  well  adapted  to 
grazing,  but  when  properly  cultivated  will  produce 
abundant  crops. 

The  ridge  on  which  Wallingford  is  situated,  consists 
of  a  series  of  more  or  less  detached  dikes,  succeeding 
each  other  in  the  same  order  as  the  different  elevations 
of  the  trap  ridges,  and  forming  on  the  whole,  a  well 
marked  curvilinear  range.  At  the  commencement  it 
forms  a  short,  very  strongly  marked  curve,  consisting  of 
a  series  of  small  dikes,  composed  partly  of  a  very  fine- 
grained, small,  fragmentary  trap,  and  partly  of  a  trap 
conglomerate,  traversed  by  threads  of  a  similar  fine- 
grained trap.1  These  dikes  are  bordered  by  an  indurated 
sandstone,  partly  colored  light  green,  with  fragments  of 
red  feldspar  disseminated.  In  passing  through  the  vil- 
lage of  Wallingford,  the  range  is  concealed  by  diluvium, 
but  has  been  exposed  by  excavation.  It  re-appears  near 
the  northeast  part  of  the  village,  and  further  north  in  a 
sandstone  ridge,  east  of  the  road  from  Wallingford  to  the 
pass  at  Black  Pond,  where  it  bends  abruptly  east,  and 
crosses  a  stream  (Wharton's  Brook),  in  a  remarkable 
dike,  bordered  by  green  indurated  sandstone. 

Large  beds  of  sandstone  are  found  in  Wallingford  and 

I  Several  unstratified  rocks,  whose  principal  ingredients  are  feldspar  and 
hornblende  or  augite,  are  called  trap  rocks,  from  the  Swedish  word  Imppa 
a  stair;  because  they  are  often  arranged  in  the  form  of  stairs  or  steps. 


38  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Meriden.  They  form  large  elevations  or  high  rounded 
ridges,  opposite  the  south  point  of  Lamentation  moun- 
tain,1 and  of  the  Hanging  Hills,  exhibiting  an  advance  in 
that  direction  corresponding  to  that  of  the  main  trap 
ranges.  Most  of  the  sandstone  is  of  a  coarse,  decompos- 
able and  variegated  variety.  Less  decomposable  varieties 
occasionally  occur,  usually  in  immediate  connection  with 


i  The  tradition  is,  that  "  a  Mr.  Chester,  who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  Wethersfield,  having  some  business  to  perform  in  the  south  part  of  the 
town,  which  was  then  a  wilderness,  became  lost  in  the  woods.  Being 
missed,  his  neighbors  went  in  search  of  him,  making  noises  in  the  woods, 
and  uttering  lamentations.  After  a  lapse  of  several  days,  his  neighbors 
had  the  good  fortune  to  meet  with  him  on  the  mountain,  which  has  ever 
since  been  called  Mount  Lamentation."  The  monument  of  Mr.  Chester, 


which  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  State,  is  in  the  yard  of  the  first  Congre- 
gational church  in  Wethersfield.  The  device  over  the  inscription  on  the 
monument  has  been  the  subject  of  much  speculation.  By  some  it  has  been 
believed  to  be  a  representation  of  some  demon  in  the  form  of  a  fiery  ser- 
pent, which,  according  to  the  legends  of  the  times,  appeared  to  Mr.  Ches- 
ter while  in  the  wilderness. 


GEOLOGY.  39 

the  trap  ranges,  some  of  which  are  well  fitted  for  quarry- 
ing. The  more  common  variety  usually  decomposes 
speedily  when  exposed  to  the  atmosphere,  forming  a 
coarse  gravel,  and  in  some  instances,  as  at  the  the  exca- 
vation of  the  Hartford  and  New  Haven  Railroad  at 
Holt's  Hill,  caused  during  its  decomposition  an  increased 
vegetation  adjoining  its  fragments  ;  probably  from  the 
lime  it  contains.  In  the  coarse,  decomposable  sandstone, 
traversed  by  a  ravine  on  the  middle  turnpike,  west  of 
Wallingford,  long  cylindrical  nodules  or  concretions  of  a 
light  ash-colored  compact  limestone,  are  to  be  observed, 
usually  somewhat  contorted,  and  breaking  in  fragments, 
by  joints  somewhat  resembling  those  of  basalt.  A  thin 
bed  of  a  fine-grained  red  sandstone  was  observed  in  ^he 
excavations  at  Holt's  Hill,  apparently  entirely  composed 
of  similar  but  smaller  cylindric  concretions,  breaking  in 
the  same  basaltiform  fragments. 

The  trap  rocks  in  the  State  are  chiefly  connected  with 
the  secondary  rocks,  which  consist  of  two  formations  or 
basins  of  red  sandstone  and  shale,  closely  resembling 
each  other  in  character  as  well  as  arrangement,  although 
entirely  separated  by  a  wide  interposition  of  the  western 
primary.  The  trap  rocks  present  a  series  of  dikes  and 
ridges  (the  last  a  modification  of  the  dike).  There  are 
four  extensive  trap  dikes  traversing  the  primary  rocks, 
two  in  the  western  and  two  in  the  eastern  primary ;  one 
of  the  latter  entirely  crossing  the  State,  from  the 
Sound  into  Massachusetts.  The  different  ridges  and 
dikes  present  in  each  secondary  formation,  a  system  of 
curvilinear  ranges,  in  a  general  N.  N.  K.  direction  (cor- 
responding to  the  direction  of  the  stratification  in  the 
sandstone,  as  well  as  to  the  general  direction  of  the  pri- 
mary), and  with  their  convexity  toward  the  west.  The 


4O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

trap  in  the  southern  subordinate  formation  presents  two 
distinct  lines  of  elevation,  an  eastern  and  a  western. 
The  first -of  these  is  the  most  extensive,  and  traverses 
more  nearly  the  center  of  the  formation.  It  presents  a 
series  of  four  main  curves,  gradually  increasing  in  ele- 
vation and  extent  from  south  to  north.  The.  third  main 
curve  commences  in  advance  of  the  second  main  curve, 
at  the  mountain  rising  between  Paug  Pond  and  the  val- 
ley of  the  Middletown  turnpike,  north-east  of  Northford. 
It  •  extends  at  first  nearly  north,  in  continuous  order, 
forming  the  high  mountain  ridge  east  of  Wallingford 
and  Meriden,  then  advances  abruptly  to  the  ridge  of 
Lamentation  mountain,  and  again  extends  N.  N.  E.  in  a 
line  east  of  Berlin,  to  the  Mattabesick,  where  it  bends 
rather  abruptly  east,  in  receding  order,  and  continues  in 
the  same  general  direction,  to  near  the  west  bank  of  the 
Connecticut,  not  far  north  of  the  south  line  of  Wethers- 
field.  The  fourth,  and  most  northern  of  these  curves,  is 
also  the  most  elevated  and  most  extensive.  It  commen- 
ces on  the  south  at  the  Hanging  Hills,  in  strong  advan- 
cing order,  in  a  line  nearly  west  of  the  south  point  of 
Lamentation  mountain,  from  which  last  ridge  the  main 
line  of  elevation  is  continued.  It  forms  at  its  southern 
extremity,  a  short  but  very  strongly  marked  curve,  front- 
ing the  south,  and  bending  quite,  abruptly  north,  extends 
at  first  nearly  north  in  slightly  advancing  order,  to  Far- 
mington  ( Rattlesnake)  mountain,  where  it  bears  more 
N.  N.  Easterly,  in  continued  order,  to  the  Connecticut, 
at  the  north  point  of  Mount  Tom.  It  there  recedes  ab- 
ruptly to  the  east  in  the  same  manner  as  the  preceding 
curve  at  the  passage  of  the  Mattabesick,  and  is  then 
continued  nearly  east,  in  the  ridge  of  Mount  Holyoke,.  to 
within  a  short  distance  of  the  western  border  of  the 


GEOLOGY.  41 

eastern  primary.  This  range  presents  at  the  S.  W.  and 
N.  W.  points,  the  two  most  elevated  summits  connected 
with  the  larger  secondary  formation  ;  namely,  the  Hang- 
ing Hills  and  Mount  Tom. 

The  high  range  east  of  Wallingford  and  Meriden  pre- 
sents a  series  of  ridges  with  a  curvature  more  strongly 
marked  toward  the  south,  a'nd  slightly  so  toward  the 
north,  separated  from  each  other  by  transverse  depress- 
ions or  valleys,  more  deeply  intersecting  the  range  to- 
ward the  south.  The  range  near  the  middle  point  is 
crossed  by  a  valley,  cleft  quite  to  its  base,  at  the  road 
from  Wallingford  to  Middletown.  The  rock  of  the  sum- 
mit near  the  Wallingford  and  Middletown  road,  is  very 
coarse-grained  decomposable  trap,  in  large  square  blocks, 
not  a  little  resembling  syenite.  In  front  of  the  more 
northern  ridge,  a  large  column  of  trap  stands  quite  de- 
tached, in  advance  of  the  mural  front  of  the  ridge,  visible 
as  such  however,  only  from  a  point  nearly  in  the  line  of 
the  front  of  the  mountain.  The  section  near  the  Meri- 
den and  Middletown  turnpike,  consists  of  a  long  ridge 
of  nearly  uniform  elevation,  and  of  greater  length  than 
any  other  section  of  the  range,  with  a  distinctly  marked 
curvature,  thus  forming  a  basin  occupied  by  Black  Pond. 
It  is  bordered  on  the  east  by  an  uninterrupted  valley, 
distinctly  exhibiting  its  curvature.  The  section  extend- 
ing from  the  pass  at  Black  Pond  north,  forms  the  highest 
point,  next  to  Mount  Tom  and  the  Hanging  Hills,  in  the 
trap  system  of  the  larger  secondary  formation. 

The  range  commencing  at  a  low  point  west  of  the 
south  point  of  Lamentation  mountain,  and  rising  sud- 
denly into  the  high  abrupt  range  of  the  Hanging  Hills, 
advances  west  a  short  distance,  to  the  south-west  and 
highest  point  of  that  range,  and  then  bends  abruptly 


42  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

north,  in  which  direction  it  proceeds,  in  advancing  order, 
to  Cook's  Gap,  south  of  Farmington.  It  then  bears 
more  N.  N.  Easterly,  in  a  long  continuous  range,  of  vari- 
able outline,  to  the  Connecticut,  at  the  north  point  of 
Mount  Tom,  when  it  bends  rather  abruptly  east,  in  the 
range  of  Mount  Holyoke,  and  continues  in  that  direc- 
tion to  within  a  short  distance  of  Belchertown,  Mass. 

The  southern  section  of  this  range  presents  at  its 
south-east  point,  a  long,  low  range  closely  connected  with 
the  higher  part  of  the  main  range,  being  separated  from 
it  only  by  the  narrow  pass  (or  ravine)  of  Cat-Hole,  but 
extending  N.  N.  E.  to  a  point  farther  north  than  the 
north  point  of  Lamentation  mountain ;  not,  however,  in 
a  direction  exactly  parallel  to  the  latter  range,  but  more 
inclined  to  the  west.  It  is  separated  from  the  third  main 
range,  by  the  long  valley,  through  which  the  line  of  the 
Hartford  and  New  Haven  railroad  is  extended,  the  sum- 
mit of  which  is  at  a  lower  level  than  that  of  any  similar 
pass  through  the  eastern  line  of  elevation. 

This  valley  is  occupied  by  the  basin  of  Beaver  Pond, 
extending  south  to  a  point  W.  N.  W.  of  the  south  point 
of  Lamentation  mountain,  and  opening  north  into  the 
basin  of  the  Mattabesick  in  Berlin.  On  the  east  side  of 
the  basin,  the  sandstone  of  Meriden  extends  north  along 
the  base  of  the  anterior  range  of  Lamentation  mountain, 
nearly  to  the  old  toll-gate  south  of  Berlin.  The  present 
range  consists  of  two  lines  of  elevation,  separated  by  a 
narrow,  continuous  valley  ;  namely,  a  higher  anterior  line, 
extending  along  the  east  side  of  Cat-Hole,  commencing 
further  south,  but  terminating  sooner  toward  the  north  ; 
and  a  lower  posterior  line,  commencing  in  a  group  of 
detached  elevations  of  fragmentary  trap  and  amygda- 
loid, south-west  of  Beaver  Pond,  and  continued  north  in 


GEOLOGY.  43 

a  long,  nearly  uniform  ridge,  to  a  point  nearly  west  of 
the  north  point  of  Lamentation  mountain,  where  it  is 
succeeded,  in  advancing  order,  by  a  wide,  short  range, 
consisting  of  several  parallel  ridges  of  trap. 

West  of  the  pass  at  Cat-Hole,  the  higher  part  of  the 
fourth  main  range  commences,  in  a  short,  detached 
elevation,  separated  from  the  range  further  west  by  a 
deep  cross  valley  (the  Notch),  opening  nearly  north. 
This  ridge  presents  a  high  mural  front  to  the  south-east 
and  south,  and  also  to  the  west,  toward  the  Notch,  and 
on  the  north,  sends  off  two  lower  spurs  from  its  eastern 
and  western  extremities,  indicating  a  strong,  marked 
curvature.  These  spurs  terminate  in  low  points,  about 
half  a  mile  north  of  the  main  range.  The  trap  of  this 
southern  section  of  the  main  range  generally  consists  of 
the  compact  crystalline  variety ;  amygdaloid  rarely 
occurring,  except  in  low  points  or  hummocks,  near  the 
termination  of  the  different  ridges. 

By  the  terms  Diluvium  and  Alluvium,  are  considered 
all  the  unconsolidated  materials  accumulated  on  the  sur- 
face. These  are  either  accumulated  loosely  and  irregu- 
larly, or  arranged  in  distinct  beds  or  strata.  The  former 
were  apparently  deposited  by  currents,  sweeping  over 
the  general  surface,  or  more  confined  in  their  operation  ; 
or  have  been  derived  from  the  decomposition  of  the  rocks 
on  which  they  immediately  rest.  The  stratified  ma- 
terials were  apparently  deposited  from  water,  in  a  state  of 
comparative  repose,  as  in  lakes  and  estuaries,  and  are 
generally  found  in  valleys  or  basins.  The  greater  part 
of  the  diluvium  was  apparently  deposited  by  a  general 
current,  traversing  from  N.  N.  W.  to  S.  S.  E.  This  is 
satisfactorily  indicated,  both  by  the  bowlders,  scattered 
over  the  surface,  or  imbedded  in  the  diluvial  earth,  and 


44  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

by  smaller  fragments  included  in  the  latter,  as  well  as 
by  its  general  character. 

Blocks  are  found  scattered  through  Meriden  and 
Wallingford,  which  originally  came  from  the  northern 
parts  of  the  State  and  perhaps  within  the  limits  of  Mas- 
sachusetts, N.  N.  W.  from  the  points  where  they  are  now 
met  with.  They  consist  chiefly  of  the  coarse  white 
granite,  accompanying  the  mica  slate,  the  granitic  gneiss 
of  the  included  basins,  and  a  light  bluish  compact  mica 
slate  with  transverse  scales  of  mica,  such  as  abound  in  the 
vicinity  of  Conway,  Mass.  Where  the  current  has  been 
rapid,  and  the  country  rocky  or  stony,  the  alluvions 
are  gravelly  or  cobbly,  and  of  little  agricultural  value. 
Where  the  current  was  slow,  and  the  country  of  a  differ- 
ent character  from  the  preceding,  the  alluvions  consist 
of  a  clayey  or  sandy  loam,  of  greater  or  less  fertility. 
In  the  north  part  of  Meriden,  there  are  extensive  beds 
of  peat,  which  may,  perhaps,  at  some  future  period 
prove  to  be  a  resource  of  no  little  importance.1 

The  mineral  that  is  found  in  the  largest  quantities  in 
Meriden  is  the  datholite.  This  is  found  in  large  quanti- 
ties in  the  ancient  volcanic  rock,  the  trap.  The  very 
rare  and  costly  salt,  borax,  has  not  yet  been  detected 
in  the  United  States ;  nor  has  been  discovered  the 
elementary  acid  of  this  salt  in  an  insulated  state,  with 
which  as  it  exists  in  Europe,  borax  is  so  easily  made. 
Yet  in  the  datholite,  boracic  acid  is  present  in  the 
proportion  of  from  twenty-one  to  thirty-five  per  cent. 
Its  other  ingredients  are  silica  and  lime.  This  is 
decomposed  by  means  of  sulphuric  acid  ;  and  the  borax 

i  A  vertebra  of  a  mammoth  was  found,  several  years  since,  in  excavat- 
ing a  peat  swamp,  at  New  Britain;  the  only  instance  of  the  kind  that  has 
yet  occurred  in  the  State. 


MINERALOGY.  45 

may  be  formed  by  adding  carbonate  of  soda,  and  with- 
drawn from  the  silica  and  sulphate  of  lime,  by  crys- 
tallization. 

Adjoining  the  Meriden  and  Waterbury  turnpike,  a 
large  red  porphyritic  rock  occurs,  with  dark  sub-por- 
phyritic,  and  dark  micaceous  hornblendic  alternations. 
Farther  north,  at  the  termination  of  the  formation,  the 
prevalent  rock  is  lighter  grey,  more  granitic,  sub-porphy- 
ritic,  and  more  rarely  small  porphyritic,  with  large  beds 
of  a  nearly  white  very  feldspathic  granitic  gneiss.  A 
similar  white  granitic  gneiss,  with  ferruginous  micaceous 
alternations  occupies  a  narrow  band  between  the  red 
porphyritic  rock  just  noticed,  and  the  formation  on  the 
west.  Native  copper  has  frequently  been  met  with  in 
the  secondary  region  of  the  State,  both  in  diluvium  and 
attached  to  greenstone  trap.  A  mass  was  found  in 
Wallingford,  half  a  mile  west  of  the  Hartford  turnpike, 
weighing  six  pounds.1 

It  has  been  said  that  all  the  minerals  and  metals 
known  to  man  could  be  found  in  Connecticut  in  just 
sufficient  quantities  not  to  pay  the  cost  of  getting  them. 
It  is  not  perhaps  a  matter  of  wise  regret  that  gold  and 
silver  do  not  find  a  place  among  the  metallic  produc- 
tions of  the  State.  Should  these  metals  be  detected 
within  our  territory,  their  pursuit  would  neither  operate 
favorably  upon  our  agricultural  interests,  nor  tend  to  the 
more  successful  working  of  the  more  useful  metals  that 
are  to  be  found  in  the  State.  That  gold  is  not  likely  to 

I  We  are  indebted  for  many  important  facts  concerning  the  Geology  of 
this  part  of  the  State,  to  Dr.  J.  G.  Percival's  valuable  "  Report  on  the 
Geology  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,"  New  Haven,  1842  ;  and  Dr.  Charles 
U.  Shepherd's  "  Report  on  the  Geological  Survey  of  Connecticut," 
New  Haven,  1837. 


46  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

occur  to  any  extent,  may  be  inferred  from  the  limited 
developments  of  the  gold-formation. 

In  the  Secretary  of  State's  office  there  is  a  document 
dated  May,  1712,  saying  that 

"Whereas,  the  opening  and  the  manufacturing  of  the  Ore, 
will  probably  be  of  great  Public  benefit  and  advantage  both 
to  such  towns  wherein  the  mines  are  found,  and  to  this  Her 
Majesty's  Colony  in  General.  And  whereas,  Wm.  Partridge 
of  Newbury  and  Jonathan  Belcher  of  Boston,  Merchant,  both 
of  the  Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  have  entered  into 
Articles  of  Agreem1  with  the  Town  of  Wallingford  for  the 
opening  of  Mines  in  the  Sd  Town." 

This  document  goes  on  to  state  that  all  the  miners, 
artificers  and  laborers  connected  with  the  mines  should 
be  exempted  from  all  civil  and  military  duties  and  from 
all  taxes.  Messrs.  Belcher  and  Partridge  were  to  have 
the  exclusive  right  of  working  all  mines  in  Wallingford 
with  the  exception  of  iron  mines,  and  they  petitioned 
the  Governor  to  have  recorded  the  articles  of  agreement. 
They  were, 

"  To  hold,  use  and  improve  the  mines  for,  by  and  during 
the  space  of  eight  years  certain  from  the  date  of  said  Lease, 
and  for  such  further  and  longer  time  and  term  of  years  from 
and  after  the  expiration  of  the  said  eight  years  as  the  said 
Grantees  their  Executrs,  adminrs,  or  assignes,  shall  think  fit 
and  be  pleased  to  use  and  Improve  the  same,  not  exceeding 
Five  hundred  years  in  the  whole,  for  and  under  the  Consider- 
ations, Payments  and  Reservations  therein  mentioned  and 
expressed."1 

i  In  October,  1722,  Matthew  Bellamy  petitioned  the  General  Assembly, 
"  that  as  your  petitioner  is  living  within  the  township  of  Wallingford  and 
living  very  near  the  place  where  the  miners  are  at  work  where  there  is 
many  of  them  and  especyally  will  be  many  now  and  there  being  no  other 
person  within  six  or  seven  miles  that  can  well  find  them  entertainment  ex- 


MINES.  47 

Very  soon  after  the  settlement  of  Wallingford,  it  was 
thought  by  many  that  in  some  of  the  hills,  mineral 
wealth  was  abundant.  They  conceived  that  the  moun- 
tains and  hills  abounded  with  precious  metals  and 
minerals ;  and  however  rich  the  soil  might  be,  yet  that 
the  bowels  of  the  earth  would  afford  them  much  greater 
wealth.  About  the  year  1712,  two  mines  were  found  in 
Connecticut.  One  in  the  town  of  Simsbury,  and  the 
other  in  Wallingford.  They  were  called  copper  mines, 
but  it  was  thought  that  the  copper  contained  a  mixture 
of  a  more  precious  kind.  The  mine  at  Wallingford  was 
supposed  to  be  the  richest,  but  the  miners  were  pre- 
vented from  digging  there  on  account  of  the  great 
quantity  of  water  which,  after  they  had  proceeded  some 
depth,  constantly  flowed  in  upon  them.' 

As  early  as  1712  the  legislature  enacted  laws  for  the 
encouragement  of  the  proprietors  of  the  mines  at  Wall- 
ingford and  Simsbury,  and  from  the  phraseology  of  the 
acts,  it  is  quite  evident  that  the  mining  business  was 
then  not  a  new  thing,  but  had  been  carried  on  for  some- 
time previous  to  that  date.  On  the  petition  of  the 
original  proprietors  of  the  lands  in  Wallingford,  in  May, 
1712,  it  was  enacted  that  the  heirs  of  the  original  pro- 


cept  your  petitioner  whereupon  your  petitioner  with  the  next  owners  of 
the  mines  prayeth  your  petitioner  may  have  a  license  by  an  act  of  this 
assembly  to  keep  a  hous  of  entertainment  that  so  your  petitioner  may 
without  danger  provide  for  and  entertain  the  miners  and  others  as  need 
shall  require  and  your  petitioner  to  be  under  the  same  penalty  as  other 
persons  that  are  licensed  by  the  assembly  court." 

i  The  mine  at  Simsbury  was  dug  until  the  veins  of  copper  ceased.  A 
prodigious  cavity  was  made,  which  in  after  years  became  the  famous 
prison,  called  Newgate.  This  has  l>een  of  much  greater  advantage  to  the 
State  than  all  the  copper  dug  out  of  it. 


48  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

prietors  should  have  an  equal  share  in  the  mine  already 
discovered,  and  in  all  other  mines  which  should  here- 
after be  discovered  in  said  lands. 

In  October,  1718,  John  Hamblin,  James  Wallsworth, 
Esquire,  and  Captain  John  Hall,  were  appointed  com- 
missioners for  the  mining  company  at  Wallingford  for 
the  term  of  two  years  ;  at  the  expiration  of  the  two 
years,  May  n,  1721,  Matthew  Allyn,  Col.  William 
Whiting,  Aaron  Cooke  and  Captain  Samuel  Mather 
were  appointed  commissioners,  with  power  to  close  up 
the  concern,  if  found  necessary.  The  legislature  and 
the  public  expected  great  benefit  from  the  profits  that 
would  accrue  from  these  mines,  but  it  is  believed  that 
neither  the  undertakers,  proprietors,  nor  the  colony  were 
ever  very  greatly  benefited  by  them.  Within  a  few 
years  Mr.  A.  Bellamy,  a  descendant  of  the  old  Bellamy 
family,  went  to  Cheshire  and  re-opened. the  old  shaft  near 
the  residence  of  the  late  Mr.  Elias  Gaylord,  expecting 
to  find  copper  ;  but  was  unsuccessful,  as  had  been  all  of 
his  predecessors  who  had  made  attempts  to  work  the 
mines. 

In  1737,  a  company  was  formed  for  the  purpose  of 
working  the  abandoned  mines  ;  and  of  this  attempt  we 
have  an  authentic  account,  as  some  of  the  papers  relative 
to  it  have  been  preserved  by  the  descendants  of  Ben- 
jamin Royce,  one  of  the  partners  of  the  company. 
These  mines  were  on  "  Milking-yard  hill,"  and  the  shafts 
may  still  be  seen  there.  Although  it  is  now  generally 
supposed  that  these  excavations  were  made  solely  for 
copper  mines,  yet  these  papers  indicate  an  expectation 
of  finding  gold.  Indeed  it  is  probable  that  the  hope  of 
obtaining  this  more  precious  metal  was  the  main  induce- 
ment for  re-opening  the  abandoned  works.  A  very 


MINES.  49 

considerable  quantity  of  the  ore  was  once  shipped  to 
England,  as  the  means  of  smelting  it  were  not  to  be 
found  in  America ;  but  the  ship  was  lost  at  sea.  Tra- 
dition asserts  that  the  foreigners  who  worked  in  the 
mines,  concealed,  and  appropriated  to  themselves,  what- 
ever gold  they  found.  For  these  .  reasons  or  for  other 
causes  of  failure,  the  works  were  once  more  abandoned, 
and  have  never  been  resumed. 

A  company  was  formed  called  the  "  Golden  Parlour 
Mining  Company,"  and  the  following  articles  of  co-part- 
nership were  drawn  up : 

"  Articles  of  Agreement  made  and  Concluded  upon  this 
twenty-seventh  day  of  April  Anno  Domini,  1737,  Between 
Edward  Higbee  of  Middletown,  and  Walter  Henderson  of 
Hartford,  both  of  y'  County  of  Hartford,  and  Thomas 
Thomas  of  New  York,  Arthur  Rexforcl,  Sam'll  Androus, 
Benj.  Royse,  all  of  Wallingforcl,  in  y''  County  of  Hartford, 
afores'd  and  Josiah  Griswold,  Thomas  Goodwin,  Benjamin 
Stillman,  John  Pierce,  all  of  Wethersfielcl  in  y"  County  afore- 
said, Proprietors  and  Joint  owners  of  a  certain  peice  of  land, 
or  Mines  in  said  Wallingforcl  as  lesed  out  to  them  by  Timothy 
Royce,  of  s'd  Wallingford,  as  will  appear  to  said  Lease, 
reference  thereunto  being  had  to  carry  on  the  work  in  said 
Mines,  witnesseth  that  we  the  s'cl  partys  do  covenant  and 
agree  to,  and  with  each  other,  and  do  hereby  obliclge  and 
bind  our  Selves  to  stand  to,  and  perform  the  following  articles, 
viz  :  i.  That  the  Name  of  S'cl  Mine,  Shall  be  the  Golden 
J\u-loiir.  2.  That  the  Work  to  be  clone  in  said  Mines,  shall 
be  ordered  by  a  vote  of  yv  Majority  of  y'  owners,  and  yc 
Costs  and  Charges  arising  on  y'  work  of  yu  said  Mines,  shall 
be  paid  according  to  y''  proportions  in  each  owners  part. 
3.  That  each  owner's  vote  shall  be  in  proportion  to  what  part 
he  owns.  4.  That  if  any  owner  or  owners  cannot  attend  y" 
meeting  or  meetings,  appointed  by  y'-'  Majority  of  ye  owners 
in  order  to  manage  y°  affairs  of  said  mine,  they  shall  have 

E 


5O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

liberty  to  appoint  any  of  ye  owners  to  vote  or  act  in  his  or 
their  behalf  and  said  owner  so  appointed  shall  vote  or  act 
there  an  shall  be  esteemed  as  good  and  valid  as  if  the 
owner  appointing  was  himself  present.  5.  That  Mr.  Beni. 
Royce  be  a  Clerk  to  Enter  and  keep  y  votes  that  may  from 
time  to  time  be  passed  by  the  owners  or  the  majority  of  said 
owners  until  ye  said  owners  shall  chuse  another  in  his  room 
in  which  case  ye  said  Royce  is  to  deliver  all  y"  votes  he  has 
Entered  and  kept  in  ye  Hands  of  said  owners.  6.  That  the 
last  Wednesday  of  July,  October,  January  and  April,  be  days, 
Stated  for  yf  Meeting  of  said  owners  at  Meriden,  to  make  up 
the  acc'tts  of  said  mine  and  also  to  pay  what  Charge  or  Cost 
may  arise  between  each  Meeting  to  ye  Satisfaction  of  y° 
undertaker,  and  if  ye  majority  of  yc  owners  shall  think  fitt  to 
order  a  meeting  on  any  other  time,  or  times  besides  those 
herein  Stated,  ye  meetings  so  ordered  and  ye  affairs  managed 
therein  shall  be  good  and  valid.  7.  That  these  articles  be 
committed  into  ye  Hands  of  y1'  Clark  for  ye  time  being,  and 
if  any  of  ye  owners  desire  a  Copy  hereof  ye  said  Clark  shall 
give  it  him  attested  under  his  Hand,  he  or  they  satisfying  him 
therefor.  In  conformation  of  ye  above  mentioned  articles, 
we  the  Subscribers,  have  hereunto  Sett  our  Hands  and  Seals 
in  Meriden,  the  Day  and  Date  above  mentioned. 

"  THOS.  THOMAS,  L.  S.  EDWARD  HIGBEE,  L.  S. 

JOSIAH  GRISWOLD,  L.  S.  THOS    GOODWIN,     L.  S. 

ARTHUR  REXFORD,  L.  S.          BENJAMIN  ROYS,     L.   S. 

SAMUEL  ANDRUS,  L.  S.  B.  STILMAN,  L.  S. 

JOHN  PIERCE,  L.  S. 

In  presence  of  Amos  Hall,  Moses  Parse,  Jr.,  Wm.  Hough." 

It  appears,  however,  that  previous  to  the  formal 
organization  of  the  company  on  paper,  a  partnership 
had  actually  existed,  for  a  few  months  at  least,  as  we 
find  a  pape,r  dated  the  previous  February.  It  is  as 
follows : 

"  A  record  kept  by  Benjamin  Roys,  Clark  of  proprietors  of 


MINES.  5 1 

the  mines  in  the  land  of  Timothy  Roys  in  Wallingford,  Feb- 
ruary ye  1 1,  1736-7.  Then  the  owners  of  the  mines  in  the  land 
of  Timothy  Roys  in  Wallingford,  being  Regularly  met 
together  at  the  hous  of  John  Way  in  Wallingford,  did  then 
make  up  their  Acounts  of  the  Charg  expended  in  the  mines, 
from  8  of  November  1736,  which  charg  did  amount  to  the 
Sum  of  86;£,  4$,  2d.  At  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  the 
mines  in  the  land  of  Timothy  Roys  in  Wallingford,  February 
y1'  n,  1736-7,  The  said  owners  did  make  A  fair  agreement 
with  Arthur  Rexford,  one  of  the  owners,  to  Dig  ten  foot  in 
the  north  Shaft  of  said  mines,  keeping  the  Smoth  wals  east 
and  west  and  about  five  foot  wide  finding  himself  Tools  and 
materials  for  the  Same,  to  be  done  in  five  months,  for  which 
work  the  said  proprietor  did  unanimously  agree  to  give  Said 
Rexfbrd  the  Sum  of  eighty-one  pounds,  8i£  -o  -o." 

We  have  also  the  record  of  two  other  meetings  of  the 
company,  as  here  annexed  : 

"  At  a  meeting  of  the  Proprietors  of  y''  Mine  in  Menden 
on  ye  27th  day  of  April,  1737,  Voted,  that  Mr.  Griswold 
Should  be  moderator  for  Said  meeting.  That  Thomas 
Thomas  be  an  undertaker  to  carry  on  the  work  in  Said  mine 
for  yc  Space  of  three  months  next  ensuing.  That  yc  s'd 
Thorn.  Thomas  be  allowed  at  the  rate  of  fifteen  pounds  per 
month,  for  so  much  time  as  he  spends  in  said  service,  the 
time  of  pay  to  begin  when  the  Hands  begin  to  work  in  said 
mine.  That  Arthur  Rexford  having  desired  to  be  released 
from  a  bargain  he  made  to  sink  a  Shaft  of  ten  feet  deep  in 
s'd  mine,  that  he  be  released.  At  a  meeting  of  yu  proprie- 
tors of  y1'  mine  in  Meriden,  on  y('  27th  day  of  July,  1737. 
Voted  that  Mr.  Griswold  be  Moderator  for  s'd  meeting. 
Also,  Voted,  by  a  full  Vote  of  the  majority  of  yc  owners, 
that  y '  owners  according  to  their  proportionable  parts,  pay  to 
Georg  Bell  the  Sum  of  fourty  pounds,  upon  his  finishing  a  job 
of  work  he  had  undertaken  to  do  in  the  Golden  Parler,  viz., 
to  sink  twelve  feet  in  the  deeper  shaft  nerest  to  docter  houghs 


52  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

and  to  leave  the  bottom  of  the  Shaft  nere  the  wedth  and 
length  that  it  now  is,  to  find  himself  with  all  materials,  &c., 
necisary  and  Sutable  to  cary  on  and  finish  Said  work.  And 
at  s'd  meeting,  July  yc  27,  1737,  the  s'd  owners  made  up  their 
accounts  which  did  amount  to  the  Sum  of  132^,  i$s  if/." 

These  documents  contain  all  the  information  we  now 
have  relative  to  the  mines  on  "  Milking-yard  hill." 
They  were  probably  again  abandoned  after  the  unprofit- 
able labor  of  two  or  three  years.  Mining  operations  on 
a  much  smaller  scale  were  commenced  in  another  part 
of  the  town.  The  excavations  are  about  fifty  rods  east 
of  the  turnpike  road  to  Hartford,  nearly  two  miles  from 
the  center  of  the  town.  Dr.  Percival,  in  his  "  Geological 
Survey,"  speaks  of  them  as  excavations  for  copper  ;  but 
tradition  says  that  small  quantities  of  gold,  were  found 
there.  But  there  is  no  other  information  whatever  as  to 
the  mine,  its  proprietors,  products,  or  the  time  when  it 
was  worked. 

About  1750,  Mr.  Dan.  Johnson  bought  of  Mr.  Yale, 
who  was  one  of  the  first  "  planters"  in  Wallingford,  a 
large  tract  of  land  lying  south  of  the  "  Hanging  Hills" 
and  within  the  "  Notch,"  so  called,  the  picturesque  pass 
or  glen  opening  northerly  from  the  old  gate-house  on 
the  Southington  road,  toward  Kensington-  This  land 
was  purchased  on  account  of  its  probable  value  for 
mining  purposes,  and  has  been  retained  in  the  family  of 
Mr.  Johnson  ever  since ;  though  the  necessary  expense 
of  searching  for  ores  has  hitherto  prevented  them  from 
undertaking  mining  operations.  Within  the  Notch  is 
an  elevation  called  "  Mining  Hill,"  which  is  said  by 
those  acquainted  with  Geology  to  abound  in  indications 
of  valuable  minerals. 

About  eighty  years  ago,  one  Mr.  Parsons  commenced 


DANA  S    DESCRIPTION.  53 

an  excavation  a  short  distance  west  of  the  Hanging 
Hills,  just  over  the  line  between  Southington  and  Meri- 
den,  and  found  gold  in  small  quantities.  It  was  taken 
to  Hartford,  assayed,  and  found  to  be  pure  gold.  The 
search  was  not  continued,  probably  on  account  of  the 
cost ;  for  mining  operations  are  usually  so  expensive 
that  individual  enterprise  and  wealth  can  rarely  afford 
the  cost  and  risk.1  Since  the  above  was  written,  we 
met  the  following  very  interesting  sketch  of  a  visit  to 
Mericlen,  by  Professor  James  Dana,  of  Yale  College : 

PROF.    JAMES    D.    DANA's    EXCURSION    TO    THE    HANGING 
HILLS    OF    MERIDEN. 

"The  city  of  Meriden  is  situated  eighteen  miles  to  the 
north  of  New  Haven  on  the  railroad  to  Hartford,  and  is  45 
to  52  minutes  distant  in  time.  The  villages  passed  on  the 
way  are  North  Haven,  7  miles;  Wallingford,  12  ;  Yalesville, 
15.  The  Hanging  Hills  are  trap  mountains  i  1-2  to  2  1-2 
miles  north  and  northwest  of  Meriden,  remarkable  for  their 
steep  declivities  and  high  precipitous  brows — so  bold  and 
lofty  in  fact  as  to  give  to  the  observer  beneath  them  an  im- 
pression of  overhanging,  and  hence  the  name.  Those  who 
visit  them  will  appreciate  the  propriety  of  the  name. 

"  A  mile  and  a  half  south  of  Meriden  and  three  quarters  of 
a  mile  west  of  the  railroad,  at  South  Mericlen,  the  Quinnipiac 
river  changes  from  its  north  and  south  to  an  east  and  west 
course,  on  its  way  from  the  more  western  and  parallel  Farm- 
ington  valley  in  which  it  rises.  Since  the  throwing  up  of 
these  trap  elevations,  the  old  hydrographic  basins  of  Con- 
necticut have  been  greatly  deranged.  Instead  of  the  simple 
north  and  south  Connecticut  estuary  of  Triassic  times,  ter- 
minating at  New  Haven,  there  is  now  a  Connecticut  river 
leaving  the  estuary  valley  in  the  latitude  of  llu-sr  trap  hills, 

I    Perkins's  Historical  Sketches. 


54  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

and  bending  southeastward  thro.ugh  a  region  of  metamorphic 
rocks.  Farmington  river,  which  flowed  into  the  estuary  from 
the  western  heights  of  Massachusetts  and  northern  Connecti- 
cut, still  enters  the  Farmington  region  ;  but  near  Farmington 
turns  abruptly  north,  flows  in  that  direction  sixteen  miles  at 
the  foot  of  Talcott  mountain  and  other  trap  hills  of  the  range, 
then  makes  a  cut  through  the  range  into  the  Connecticut 
river  valley  and  joins  that  river.  The  Quinnipiac,  which 
starts  in  the  Farmington  valley  just  below  the  northward 
bend  of  the  Farmington  river,  on  approaching  the  region  of 
the  trap  hills  of  Cheshire,  bends  eastward  out  of  the  valley 
in  front  of  the  Hanging  Hills,  into  the  valley  where  the  Con- 
necticut river  might  have  had  its  course  but  for  the  trap 
eruptions  and  disturbances ;  and  finally,  the  Farmington 
valley  being  thus  deserted  by  the  Quinnipiac,  Mill  river  at 
this  point  commences  its  flow,  taking  its  rise  in  the  adjoining 
hills,  and  becomes  the  principal  stream  for  the  rest  of  the 
valley  southward  to  New  Haven  bay.  The  bend  eastward  in 
the  Connecticut  was  probably  a  direct  consequence  of  the 
trap  eruptions  and  the  elevations  of  the  sandstone  accom- 
panying them,  and  originated  when  the  old  estuary  first 
dwindled  to  the  size  of  a  river  in  consequence  of  the  rise  of 
the  land.  But  there  is  less  evidence  that  the  other  changes 
mentioned  took  place  at  the  same  time ;  and  it  may  be  that 
one  or  more  date  from  the  last  elevation  in  the  Post-tertiary 
era. 

"  The  city  of  Meriden  is  situated  on  a  small  branch  of  the 
Quinnipiac,  which  is  called  Pilgrim's  Harbor  brook,  in 
allusion  to  the  fact  that  the  Regicides  stopped  here  for  a  while 
on  its  banks  and  named  the  spot  Pilgrim's  Harbor.  Old 
Meriden,  now  the  eastern  part  of  the  city,  occupies  the  sum- 
mit of  a  sandstone  hill,  a  little  to  the  eastward,  and  is  often 
distinguished  as  East  Meriden.  The  tall  white  spire  of  the 
Congregational  church  is  seen  against  the  sky  in  the  north- 
ward view  from  the  western  slopes  of  the  East  Rock  range. 
The  three  Meriden  "  Hills"  stand  together  on  a  common  line, 


DANA'S  DESCRIPTION.  55 

facing  with  defiant  front  the  south,  and  with  the  greatest  alti- 
tude on  the  right  or  west.  They  are  called  West  mountain, 
South  mountain,  and  Cat-Hole  Mountain  ;  the  latter,  or  the 
eastern,  taking  its  name  from  the  "Cat-Hole,"  a  narrow 
valley  adjoining  it  on  the  west.  West  mountain  has  three 
summits,  an  eastern,  a  middle,  and  a  western,  separated  from 
one  another  by  a  cut  down  to  the  lower  limit  of  the  mural 
rocks.  The  western  of  the  three  peaks  is  the  highest ;  the 
recent  barometric  measurements  of  Prof.  Guyot  make  it  995 
feet  above  the  sea.  It  is  therefore  one  of  the  most  elevated 
points  in  Connecticut,  and  excepting  Mount  Tom  and  Mount 
Holyoke,  the  highest  trap  mountain  in  the  Connecticut  valley. 

"  This  group  of  hills  is  the  broad  southern  termination  of 
several  lines  of  trap  dikes  and  ridges.  The  high  western 
line  continues  through  the  State  northward  into  Massachu- 
setts, and  has  a  total  length  of  about  55  miles  ;  it  includes  in 
its  course,  two  ridges  facing  Southington :  the  second,  called 
High  Rock,  nearly  as  high  as  West  mountain  ;  three  on  the 
eastern  borders  of  Farmington :  the  middle  one,  Rattlesnake 
mountain ;  the  long  Talcott  mountain  between  Hartford 
and  Avon ;  Newgate  mountain  in  Granby ;  Mount  Tom, 
1,211  feet  high,  in  Massachusetts;  and  Mount  Holyoke, 
1,126  feet  high. 

"  The  knotty  complexity  of  this  trap  region  was  first  un- 
ravelled by  Percival,  who  found  that  remarkable  system  and 
"order  prevailed  among  the  numerous  dikes.  We  refer  to  the 
map  in  his  Geological  Report  for  the  facts  concerning  them. 
It  will  be  found  wonderfully  impressive  by  any  one  who  can 
appreciate  its  revelations  with  regard  to  the  stupendous 
events  of  this  Fire-period  in  New  England  history.  It  shows 
that  the  area  of  Meriden  and  Berlin  was  a  great  center  in 
the  eruptions  of  the  era ;  that  the  deep  fractures  of  the  earth's 
crust  from  which  the  liquid  rock  gushed  forth  were  here  more 
numerous  and  extensive  than  in  any  other  part  of  the  Con- 
necticut valley,  or  of  all  New  England  ;  and  that  they  were 
opened  not  only  along  the  half-dozen  lines  headed  by  the 


56  HISTORY    OF    WALLTNGFORD. 

Hanging  Hills,  but  also  farther  to  the  eastward,  Mount 
Lamentation  and  other  heights  between  Mericlen  and  the 
Connecticut  river  being  parts  of  the  system.  The  country 
now  occupied  by  the  townships  of  Berlin  and  Wethersfield 
was  crossed  by  eight  of  the  great  rents,  averaging  one  for 
every  mile  of  breadth.  Why  these  fissures  stopped  so  ab- 
ruptly in  Meriden  on  a  common  transverse  line,  and  with  a 
long  eastward  bend  in  the  principal  one,  besides  also  an  east 
and  west  line  of  eruptions  in  front,  as  indicated  on  Percival's 
map,  is  a  question  not  easy  to  answer.  It  is  a  case  somewhat 
like  that  of  West  Rock  and  the  transverse  range  of  Pine  and 
Mill  Rocks  in  the  New  Haven  region,  but  on  a  far  grander 
scale. 

"  Of  the  several  interesting  excursions  which  may  be  made 
about  Meriden,  the  most  noted  is  that  to  the  western  peak  of 
West  mountain.  To  reach  the  mountain  from  Meriden,  go 
westward  along  Main  street,  and  its  continuation,  the  Water- 
bury  turnpike  (passing  Fenn's  mill-pond,  north  of  the  road, 
two-thirds  of  a  mile  on,  and,  immediately  afterward,  crossing 
a  road  that  leads  northward  to  Cat-Hole  gap  and  Kensing- 
ton) •  at  the  forking,  11-4  miles  out,  keep  to  the  right,  taking 
what  is  called  the  Southington  road,  and  continue  on  it  about 
i  1-2  miles  farther  (passing  half  way  a  road  going  north  to 
the  "Notch"  between  South  mountain  and  West  mountain) ; 
and  when  seemingly  a  little  beyond  the  sought-for  mountain 
and  just  after  a  descent  begins  in  the  road,  a  carriage-path 
will  be  seen  on  the  right  (north)  entering  the  woods,  showing 
by  its  stripes  of  green  that  it  is  not  much  used  ;  after  half  a 
mile  or  more  upon  this  path,  gradually  ascending  most  of  the 
way,  an  open  spot  is  reached  where  the  carriage  way  ends 
and  the  climb  begins. 

"  Along  the  road  thus  far,  numerous  fine  views  gladden  the 
way.  Here  and  there,  glimpses  are  had  of  Mericlen,  and  the 
eastern  hills,  of  Mt.  Carmel  to  the  south,  and  finally  of  the 
Cheshire  and  Southington  region  and  the  heights  to  the  west. 
A  prettily  wooded  bank  with  a  streamlet  at  its  foot  follows 


DANAS    DESCRIPTION.  57 

the  south  side  of  the  Southington  road  for  part  of  the  way ; 
and  in  other  parts  the  road  is  bordered  by  the  young  growth 
of  an  old  forest,  which  suggests  the  regret  that  some  of  the 
old  trees  were  not  left  for  shade.  After  passing  two  or  three 
mill-ponds  to  the  north  of  the  road,  another  large  enough  to 
be  called  a  lake,  and  none  the  less  beautiful  that  it  is 
artificial,  is  seen  lying  among  the  forests.  Nearly  all  the  way 
the  Meriden  mountains  are  in  full  sight,  grand  in  all  their 
varying  aspects :  first,  the  lofty  South  mountain,  having  its 
brow  twice  cleft  near  the  middle,  and  rising  on  the  west  to  a 
rounded  top  ;  then  the  still  higher  West  mountain,  presenting 
to  view,  in  succession,  its  long  eastern  line,  the  castellated 
middle  peak,  and,  at  last,  the  more  elevated  and  broken 
western  summit :  the  whole  in  appearance,  and  in  reality,  a 
mighty  ruin,  and  old  beyond  all  human  reckoning.  In  many 
places  along  the  mural  fronts  great  columnar  masses  stand 
out,  clinging  only  by  a  single  side,  owing  to  the  fall  of  the 
rocks  underneath,  and  appearing  as  if  just  ready  to  go  crash- 
ing down  the  mountain.  But  they  hold  on  firmly,  for  the 
work  of  destruction  in  these  trappean  structures  is  slow. 
The  long  slope  which  rises  at  a  large  angle  to  hundreds  of 
feet,  and  bears  far  aloft  the  grand  lines  of  battlements,  is,  to 
a  great  depth,  made  of  the  stones  that  have  fallen  from  the 
heights 

"The  ascending  path  commences  along  the  south  side  of 
the  middle  of  the  two  peaks,  gradually  bends  around  into  the 
gorge  that  separates  them,  finally  crosses  this  gorge  over 
some  of  the  immense  fallen  blocks  that  are  strewn  along  its 
course,  and  thence  turns  southward  toward  the  high  western 
summit.  The  first  part  of  the  summit  which  comes  in  view 
is  made  up,  at  its  lower  portion  in  front,  of  small  columns, 
hardly  longer  or  larger  than  a  man's  leg,  that  are  gradually 
falling  apart  and  adding  thus  to  the  debris.  This  small- 
columnar  structure  characterizes  many  parts  of  the  Meriden 
Hills,  and,  as  a  consequence,  the  long  slopes  of  fallen  frag- 
ments often  consist  of  such  pieces  of  rock — some  flat,  but 


58  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

generally  of  various  irregular,  polygonal  shapes.  At  the 
same  time,  there  are  no  where  about  the  Mericlen  heights  any 
large  regular  columns.  This  seems  very  remarkable,  con- 
sidering the  vast  extent  of  the  trap  eruptions.  But  while 
large  columns  do  not  occur,  much  of  the  rock  of  the  mount- 
ains is  free  from  any  distinct  columnar  structures,  and  breaks 
with  broad  vertical  surfaces. 

"Just  above  the  point  referred  to,  and  further  on  along 
the  gorge,  the  trap  stands  up  in  long  perpendicular  walls 
arising  from  vertical  courses  of  fracture.  The  immense 
blocks  of  trap  that  roughly  pave  the  bottom  of  the  gorge 
remind  one  who  is  familiar  with  the  New  Haven  region  of  the 
great  trap  boulders  on  its  eastern  hills.  They  have  the  same 
fine-grained  texture,  are  often  tabular  in  form,  and  laminated 
in  structure.  They  look  as  if  they  had  come  from  some  hori- 
zontally stratified  bed ;  but,  as  just  explained,  and  as  becomes 
apparent  before  reaching  the  top,  the  lamination  of  the  trap 
is  vertical  instead  of  horizontal,  and  precisely  similar  to  that 
so  distinct  in  Pine  Rock  and  at  the  eastern  of  the  West  Rock 
quarries.  It  is  hardly  possible  for  one  geologically  informed 
to  pass  along  the  gorge  without  querying  whether  some  of 
those  New  Haven  travelers  did  not  take  passage  aboard  the 
glacier  from  these  Meriden  heights.  But  the  same  structure 
and  texture  probably  characterize  the  trap  ridges  throughout 
their  extent  northward,  so  that  a  positive  answer  as  to  the 
precise  place  of  departure  cannot  be  given.  That  it  was 
somewhere  along  this  western  range  between  Meriden  and  Mount 
Tom  is  very  probable.  The  evidence  that  they  came  from  the 
more  western  of  the  ranges  lies  in  the  fact  that  they  are  asso- 
ciated in  the  western  part  of  the  New  Haven  region  (  and 
but  sparingly  in  the  eastern)  with  blocks  of  gneiss  and  quartz 
rock  that  must  have  come  from  the  adjoining  country  on  the 
west,  and  were  derived  from  the  northern  part  of  the  State,  or 
from  the  region  farther  north  in  Massachusetts  or  Vermont. 

"The  view  from  the  top  of  West  mountain  is  remarkable 
rather  for  its  wide  panoramic  range  than  for  grandeur  of 


DANAS    DESCRIPTION.  59 

detail.  The  same  may  be  said  generally  of  landscapes  seen 
from  the  highest  peak  of  any  region,  when  this  peak  is  much 
above  the  other  summits  in  altitude  :  for  the  other  mountains 
lose  in  elevation,  and  the  lower  hills  are  at  times  flattened 
out  in  seeming  plains  ;  moreover  the  loftiest  point  is  out  of 
view,  because  the  observer  is  upon  it.  Thus  it  is  here  ;  but 
there  is  compensation  as  usual  in  the  wider  range  of  view, 
and  the  grander  vistas  over  the  plains  and  the  receding  hills 

"  In  the  landscape  before  the  eye,  a  wide  undulated  surface, 
seemingly  almost  a  level  plain,  stretches  from  Berlin  and 
Meriden,  southward  over  Wallingford  and  North  Haven, 
westward  over  Cheshire,  and  thence  northward  over  Southing- 
ton  into  Bristol ;  and  the  villages  of  these  townships  lie 
among  great  patches  of  forests,  meadows  and  variously  cul- 
tivated fields.  On  the  east  stands  a  long  range  of  bold  trap 
mountains,  from  Mount  Lamentation  (which  is  seen  over  the 
more  eastern  Hanging  Hills)  through  Middletown  or  Higby's 
mountain,  (stated  to  be  899  feet  high),  Beseck  or  South 
Middletown  mountain,  the  Durham  range  with  its  Tremont 
peak  (that  with  the  three  pointed  top)  to  the  Totoket  moun- 
tain of  North  Branford  and  Saltonstall  ridge  in  East  Haven. 
The  eye,  glancing  still  southward,  finally  rests  on  the  Sound, 
a  strip  of  ocean  dotted  with  sails,  bounded  by  the  low  sea- 
barrier,  Long  Island.  Mount  Carmel,  the  "  sleeping  giant," 
lies  recumbent  just  across  the  borders  of  Wallingford  and 
Cheshire,  the  head  of  the  giant  bearing  S.  18  degrees 
W.  ;  but  it  presents  only  its  long  back  and  slopes,  looks 
heavy,  and  too  heavily  asleep  to  be  aroused  for  the  short 
move  to  the  right  that  would  open  a  view  of  New  Haven. 
Over  its  flank,  a  part  of  the  East  Rock  range  may  be  seen, 
and  more  to  the  east  and  south  a  spire  in  Fair  Haven,  and 
the  Light  House  on  New  Haven  bay. 

"To  the  southwestward,  as  a  counterpart  to  the  trap 
mountains  on  the  east  there  is  the  long  West  Rock  Range. 
But  a  line  of  hills  extending  toward  it  from  Mt.  Carmel  shuts 
out  of  view  its  more  southern  extension.  Northward,  as 


6O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

may  be  observed,  it  stretches  on  between  Cheshire  and  Pros- 
pect, then  bends  a  little  eastward,  and  soon  after  loses  itself 
in  the  open  country  west  of  the  Meriden  Heights ;  for  here 
the  range  terminates,  about  17  miles  from  its  commencement 
at  Westville.  Over  and  beyond  these  trap  hills  to  the  west 
and  also  to  the  northwest,  lies  the  elevated  Woodbridge 
plateau,  a  region  of  metamorphic  rocks,  attaining  its  greatest 
altitude  in  the  towns  of  Prospect  and  Wolcott,  and  thence, 
declining  toward  Bristol.  Still  farther  northwest,  over  Wol- 
cott and  Bristol,  there  are  the  heights  beyond  the  Naugatuck, 
and  the  yet  more  remote  and  but  faintly  discerned  Taconic 
mountains  of  the  Green  mountain  range.  Among  the  sum- 
mits on  the  western  horizon,  one  quite  prominent,  called 
Great  Mountain,  belongs  to  the  country  beyond  the  Housa- 
tonic  in  the  vicinity  of  New  Milford,  not  far  from  the  State 
boundary. 

"  Turning  now  to  the  northward,  other  trap  hills  come  into 
view  in  a  long  range,  terminating  in  Mt.  Tom  and  Mt.  Holy- 
oke.  The  nearer,  with  rampart  western  front,  are  the  hills 
overlooking  Southington  and  Farmington ;  farther  on  is 
Talcott  mountain,  on  the  western  border  of  the  town  of 
Hartford.  The  ridges  of  Simsbury  and  Granby  rise  beyond, 
but  they  are  not  separately  distinguishable,  as  they  are  seen 
only  in  profile.  Mt.  Tom  shows  itself,  over  what  appears  to 
be  a  low  western  extension  of  Talcott  mountain,  as  a  round- 
topped  peak,  steepest  on  its  western  side.  To  the  right  is 
Mt.  Holyoke  (on  the  other  side  of  the  Connecticut);  and 
still  farther  east  are  other  summits  of  the  Holyoke  ridge. 
It  is  of  interest  here  to  remember  what  has  already  been 
stated,  that  these  trap  hills  make  one  grand  curving  range, 
nearly  60  miles  long,  from  West  Mountain  in  Meriden  to 
Mount  Tom,  and  thence,  bending  easterly,  to  Mount  Holyoke. 
"Many  villages  give  life  to  the  landscape.  North  of  Meriden 
there  are  Berlin  bearing  northeast,  New  Britain,  north-north- 
east, Kensington,  Percival's  birth-place,  south  of  New  Britain, 
N.  30  cleg.  E.  ;  south  of  Meriden,  Hanover  or  South  Meri- 


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den,  near  a  large  pond  at  the  bend  in  the  Quinnipiac  bearing 
S.  15  deg.  E.,  Yalesville  more  distant  in  nearly  the  same 
direction,  and  beyond  Yalesville,  the  much  larger  village  of 
Wallingford ;  in  the  valley  to  the  west,  Bristol,  bearing  N. 
52  cleg.  W.,  Southington,  N.  30  deg.  W. ;  Cheshire,  S.  30  deg. 
W. ;  over  the  Woodbridge  plateau,  Wolcott,  W.  32  deg.  N., 
and  Prospect,  on  the  summit  against  the  horizon,  W.  30  deg. 
S.  Lamentation  mountain  bears  to  the  north  of  west ;  and 
the  riclge  just  south  is  properly  a  part  of  it ;  Middletown  or 
Higby's  mountain  lies  a  little  to  the  south  of  east ;  Tremont 
peak,  the  central  peak  of  the  Durham  range,  S.  30  cleg.  E.  ; 
and  just  below  begins  the  Totoket  mountain.  Pistapaug 
mountain  is  behind  the  southern  part  of  the  Durham  range. 
A  low  north-and-south  sand  ridge  connects  the  Meriden 
Hills  and  Mt.  Carmel  and  Whitney  Peak. 

"  The  rock  of  the  summit  is  fine-grained  trap,  or  crust  rock, 
as  we  have  called  it,  while  that  of  the  front  of  the  mountain, 
as  may  be  observed  on  the  way  up,  is  coarse  like  the  East 
Rock  stone.  (The  crust  rock  is  not  so  named  because  sepa- 
rable from  that  below,  but  from  its  being  the  original  exterior 
of  the  ejected  trap,  as  proved  by  its  fine  texture.)  The 
presence  of  the  crust  rock  at  the  top  shows  that  but  little  of 
the  height  of  the  ridge  was  worn  away  by  the  old  glacier 
as  it  moved  over  these  summits.  In  fact,  nothing  else  could 
be  expected  ;  for  along  this  meridian  there  was  probably  a 
few  stones  in  the  ice  at  a  level  high  enough  to  over-ride 
or  abrade  the  summit.  There  are  no  peaks  in  the  valley 
to  the  north  as  high  as  this  Meriden  mountain,  either  in 
Connecticut  or  Massachusetts,  except  Mount  Tom  and 
Mount  Holyoke  ;  and  stones  taken  from  lower  heights  would 
not  have,  risen  in  the  glacier,  against  gravity,  to  a  higher 
level  except  through  a  combination  of  circumstances  in  the 
slopes  that  should  favor  an  up-hill  push  of  the  ice  for  a 
limited  distance ;  and  the  circumstances  about  this  West 
mountain  do  not  appear  to  have  been  favorable  for  an  up- 
ward movement  of  this  kind.  The  Mount  Tom  boulders 


62  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

would  have  made  a  narrow  line,  and  would  have  had  but 
little  chance  of  leaving  their  mark  or  much  of  their  freight, 
on  this  high  Meriden  Station.  Whatever  stones  there  were 
must  have  come  from  the  higher  mountains  of  Vermont  or 
New  Hampshire.  The  movement  of  the  glacier  over  the 
central  parts  of  the  Connecticut  valley  was  to  the  south,  or 
a  little  west  of  south.  The  course  of  the  scratches  is  south, 
according  to  Prof.  Hitchcock,  on  Monadnoc,  N.  H.,  on 
Holyoke,  and  Tom,  and  at  Deerfield,  and  Greenfield,  and 
other  places  in  the  valley  in  Massachusetts.  According  to 
Percival,  it  is  S.  S.  W.,  just  east  of  the  Hanging  Hills, 
and  north  of  Meriden.  It  is  south,  in  a  gorge  on  Mount 
Carmel,  and  S.  10  cleg.  W.,  to  S.  14  deg.  W.,  over  the 
ledges  of  the  sandstone,  east  of  New  Haven. 

"  Over  the  bare  trap  surface  of  the  summit,  there  are 
slightly  raised  lines  dividing  it  into  polygonal  areas,  which 
indicate  that  the  rock  beneath  has  a  somewhat  columnar 
structure.  These  line  are  prominent  because  of  the  greater 
hardness  of  the  rock  along  them,  the  intervening  surface 
yielding  most  easily  to  the  elements.  This  hardness  is  due 
to  the  filling  .of  thin  fissures  with  silica  or  some  siliceous 
mineral ;  and  the  fissures  were  a  result  of  the  contraction 
of  the  rock  at  the  time  of  its  original  cooling. 

"The  long  lines  of  fracture  or  open  seams  which  inter- 
sect the  surface  are  the  courses  of  the  jointi,  on  which  the 
laminated  character  of  the  rock  (or  its  tendency  to  break 
into  slabs  and  tabular  masses)  depends. 

THE    NOTCH. 

"  On  the  return  to  Meriden,  an  interesting  excursion  may 
be  made  by  taking  the  road  to  "The  Notch,"  between 
West  mountain  and  South  Mountain.  For  the  purpose  of 
supplying  the  city  of  Meriden  with  water,  work  is  now 
going  forward  that  will  soon  place  a  lake,  a  mile  in  length 
in  this  gorge.  The  reservoir  will  have  an  area  of  77  1-2 
acres,  and  derives  its  waters  from  the  drainage  of  the  various 
declivities.  When  the  arrangements  are  completed,  the  quiet 


DANA'S  DESCRIPTION.  63 

lake,  lying  amid  forests  in  this  mountain  defile,  overlooked 
by  and  reflecting  the  grand  old  walls  that  crown  the  heights, 
will  make  a  scene  of  beauty  unsurpassed  in  this  Meriden 
region. 

"Another  excursion  of  great  attractions  may  be  taken  over 
the  Kensington  road  to  the  long,  narrow  Cat-Hole  gap  or 
pass,  between  South  mountain  and  the  Cat-Hole  mountain. 
On  the  way  toward  the  valley  the  high  battlemented  South 
mountain  comes  into  view,  almost  in  front,  and  makes  a  ma- 
jestic sweep  around  toward  the  entrance ;  it  thence  continues 
as  the  western  side  of  the  valley  with  gradually  decreased 
•boldness  and  height.  Soon  after,  there  appears  on  the  east 
a  time-worn  mural  summit  of  Cat-Hole  mountain,  and  just 
beyond,  a  second  still  bolder  front,  rising  erect  above  the 
steep  slopes  ;  fancy  finds  a  profile  of  Washington  in  the  out- 
line from  one  point  of  view.  Farther  on  in  the  valley  other 
vertical  rocks  are  described,  though  mostly  concealed  by 
foliage.  The  mountain  is  cut  obliquely  by  gorges,  and  hence 
its  succession  of  summits.  The  slopes  of  fallen  stones,  that 
descend  on  either  side  from  the  heights  far  above  through 
most  of  the  valley,  originally  met  at  the  bottom,  where  many 
of  the  large  masses  lay  piled  together ;  and  the  pass,  some- 
what difficult  under  nature's  rough  macadamizing,  then 
merited  its  name.  There  is  now  an  excellent  road  through  it. 
Many  crevices  or  breaks  occur  in  the  high  walls  of  Cat  Hole 
mountain,  along  some  of  which  the  heights  may  be  scaled. 
The  view  from  the  more  southern  summit,  over  the  Meriden 
region  and  the  far-away  plains  and  hills,  the  Sound,  and  Long 
Island,  is  exceedingly  fine. 

"  The  Kensington  road,  before  reaching  Cat-Hole  gap, 
passes  a  gateway  on  the  left,  which  is  the  entrance  to  the 
Poor  House  grounds,  and  through  these  to  the  "  Cold  Spring 
gorge,"  another  place  of  great  interest,  situated  just  under 
the  lofty  front  of  South  mountain.  The  path  along  the  gorge 
continues  northward,  and  finally  enters  Cat-Hole  pass.  The 
bottom  of  the  gorge  is  still  in  the  condition  which  charac- 


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DANA'S  DESCRIPTION.  65 

terized  Cat-Hole  gap  before  its  civilizing  improvements,  but 
is  probably  beyond  that  in  the  grandeur  of  its  mountain 
ruins.  Enormous  blocks  of  trap,  like  houses  in  magnitude? 
lie  in  confusion  together,  enclosing  narrow  passages,  and 
numerous  dark  recesses  which  may  well  have  been  the  dens 
of  catamounts  and  panthers  in  aboriginal  times.  There  are 
also  shady  ways  and  rock  retreats,  beautiful  with  their  moss- 
covered  walls,  shelves  of  ferns  or  flowers,  and  overshadowing 
trees,  which  may  give  much  enjoyment  in  the  exploration. 

"  The  grand  pile  of  rocks  at  the  bottom  derived  from  the 
heights  above,  the  long  steep  slope  of  fallen  fragments  down 
which  they  made  their  descent,  and  the  mural  heights  almost 
overhead  seemingly  ready  for  other  avalanches,  produce  an 
impression  of  power  and  sublimity  that  is  seldom  an  effect  of 
simply  motionless  rocks.  But  here  every  object  in  the 
scene  suggests  motion  and  violence,  terrific  in  kind  and 
degree.  Yet  the  blocks,  gray  and  green  with  the  vegetation 
over  them,  look  as  if  they  had  lain  quietly  in  their  places  for 
ages.  The  work  of  destruction  above  is,  however,  going 
slowly  forward,  and  though  a  long  period  may  intervene,  other 
descents  are  sure  to  occur.  A  long,  one  storied  stone  house 
stands  just  within  the  entrance  of  the  gorge,  which  is  made 
of  sticks,  or  more  properly,  small  columnar  pieces,  three  to 
four  feet  long,  of  trap,  and  so  laid  that  the  ends  project  very 
unequally.  The  queer  porcupine-structure,  now  a  dwelling- 
house,  was  erected  for  a  ten-pin  alley,  as  an  appendage  to  the 
"  Cold  Spring  House"  (a  Water  Cure  establishment  that 
formerly  occupied  what  is  now  the  Poor  House).  If  it  does 
not,  in  the  meantime,  go  to  pieces  by  "natural  decay,  it  may 
yet  feel  the  weight  of  one  of  the  descending  looo-ton  masses. 
Should  this  happen,  a  strike  would  be  made  beyond  any 
former  experience  of  the  ten-pin  alley. 

"  Cold   Spring  gorge  has  long  been  famous  for  its  cold 

waters,  as  its  name  implies.     In  one  of  the  dark  cavities 

among  the  fallen  masses  of  trap,  ice  usually  keeps  the  year 

around,  the  shade  and  shelter  making  the  spot  a  natural  ice- 

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66  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

house.  Professor  Silliman  gives  one  of  the  earliest  published 
accounts  of  it  in  vol.  iv,  p.  17,  of  the  American  Journal  of 
Science,  after  a  visit  on  July  23,  1821.  He  carried  with  him 
to  New  Haven,  a  mass  of  the  ice  weighing  several  pounds." 

The  following  is  Prof.  Silliman's  article  referred  to 
above : 

NATURAL  ICE  HOUSES. 

BY    BENJAMIN    SILLIMAN,    SR. 

[From   the  "American  Journal  of  Science,"     Oct.,   1821.] 

"  That  ice  is  perpetual  in  some  climates  is  notorious.  That 
it  is  so  even  in  those  of  the  torrid  zone,  upon  mountains  which 
rise  to  the  height  of  three  miles,  is  also  well  known.  It  is 
however  a  rare  occurrence,  even  in  cold  climates,  that  ice  is 
perennial  on  ground  which  possesses  no  more  than  the 
common  elevation. 

"  An  instance  of  this  kind  has  however  recently  come  to  our 
knowledge,  and  appears  worthy  of  a  brief  notice.  It  exists  in 
the  state  of  Connecticut,  in  the  township  of  Mericlen — mid- 
way between  Hartford  and  New  Haven.  This  natural  Ice- 
House1  is  situated  in  above  42  degrees  of  north  latitude, 
nearly  twenty  miles  from  the  sea  and  at  the  elevation  of 
probably  no  more  than  two  hundred  feet  above  its  level. 

"The  country  is  a  part  of  the  secondary  trap  region  of 
Connecticut,2  and  is  marked  by  numerous  distinct  ridges  of 
green  stone,  which  present  lofty  mural  precipices,  and  from 


"  i  A  convenient  point  of  departure  to  visit  this  natural  Ice  House  is 
from  the  Inn  of  Dr.  Isaac  Hough  in  Meriden.  This  Inn  is  the  usual 
dining  place  between  New  Haven  and  Hartford,  and  the  very  intelligent 
and  respectable  man  by  whom  it  is  kept,  will  cheerfully  direct  the  enquir- 
ing traveller,  or  furnish  him  with  a  guide.  The  distance  is  not  over  two 
miles  from  Meriden  Meeting-house.  There  is  also,  near  the  same  place  a 
wild,  romantic  pass  through  the  Gorge  of  the  mountain  which  is  well 
worth  seeing  ;  it  is  known  in  the  vicinity  by  the  ludicrous  name  of  the 
Cat  Hole." 

"2  A  sketch  of  which  is  given  in  the  Tour  between  Hartford  and 
Quebec,  page  27." 


SILLIMAN'S  DESCRIPTION.  67 

their  number,  contiguity,  and  parallelism,  they  often  form 
narrow  precipitous  defiles,  filled  more  or  less  with  fragments 
of  rocks  of  various  sizes,  from  that  of  a  hand-stone  to  that  of 
a  cottage.  The  fragments  are  the  detritus  or  debris  of  these 
mountains,  and  every  one  in  the  least  acquainted  with  such 
countries,  knows  how  much  they  always  abound  with  similar 
ruins. 

"  In  such  a  defile  the  natural  Ice  House  in  question  is 
situated.  On  the  south-western  side,  there  is  a  trap  ridge  of 
naked  perpendicular  rock,  which,  with  the  sloping  ruins  at  the 
base,  appears  to  be  four  hundred  feet  high  ;  the  parallel  ridge 
which  forms  the  other  side  of  the  defile,  is  probably  not  over 
forty  feet  high,  but  it  rises  abruptly  on  the  eastern  side,  and 
is  covered  by  other  wood,  which  occupies  the  narrow  valley 
also.  This  valley  is  moreover  choked,  in  an  astonishing 
degree,  with  the  ruins  of  the  contiguous  mountain  ridge,  and 
exhibits  many  fragments  of  rock  which  would  fill  a  large 
room.  As  the  defile  is  very  narrow,  these  fragments  have,  in 
their  fall,  been  arrested  here  by  the  low  parallel  ridge,  and 
are  piled  on  one  another  in  vast  confusion,  forming  a  series 
of  cavities  which  are  situated  among  and  under  the  rocks. 
Many  of  them  have  reposed  there  for  ages,  as  appears  from 
the  fact  that  small  trees  (the  largest  that  the  scanty  soil, 
accumulated  by  revolving  centuries  can  support),  are  now 
growing  on  some  of  the  fragments  of  rock.  Leaves  also  and 
other  vegetable  ruins  have  accumulated  among  the  rocks  and 
trees,  and  choked  the  mouths  of  many  of  the  cavities  among 
the  ruins.  This  defile,  thus  narrow,  and  thus  occupied  by 
forest,  and  by  rocky  ruins,  runs  nearly  N.  and  S.,  and  is 
completely  impervious  to  the  sun's  rays  except  when  he  is 
near  the  meridian.  Then  indeed  for  an  hour,  he  looks  into 
this  secluded  valley,  but  the  trees  and  the  rocks  and  the  thick 
beds  of  leaves  scarcely  permit  his  beams  to  make  the  slight- 
est impression. 

"  It  is  in  the  cavities  beneath  the  masses  of  rocks  already 
described,  that  the  ice  is  formed.  The  ground  descends  a 


68  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

little  to  the  south,  and  a  small  brook  appears  to  have  formed 
a  channel  among  the  rocks.  The  ice  is  thick  and  well  con- 
solidated, and  its  gradual  melting,  in  the  warm  season,  causes 
a  stream  of  ice-cold  water  to  issue  from  this  defile.  This 
fact  has  been  known  to  the  people  of  the  vicinity  for  several 
generations,  and  the  youth  have,  since  the  middle  of  the  last 
century,  been  accustomed  to  resort  to  this  place,  in  parties, 
for  recreation,  and  to  drink  the  waters  of  the  cold-flowing 
brook. 

"  It  was  on  the  23d  of  last  July,  in  the  afternoon  of  a  very 
hot  day,  when  the  thermometer  was  probably  as  high  as  85 
deg.  of  Farh.,  that  under  the  guidance  of  Dr.  Hough,  we 
entered  this  valley.  After  arriving  among  the  trees,  and  in 
the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  ice,  there  was  an  evident  chilli- 
ness in  the  air,  and  very  near  the  ice ;  it  was  (compared 
with  the  hot  atmosphere  which  we  had  just  left),  rather 
uncomfortably  cold.  The  ice  was  only  partially  visible,  being 
covered  by  leaves,  and  screened  from  view,  by  the  rocks ;  but 
a  boy,  descending  with  a  hatchet,  soon  brought  up  large  firm 
masses.  One  of  these,  weighing  several  pounds,  we  carried 
twenty  miles  to  New  Haven,  where  it  was  exhibited  to  vari- 
ous persons,  and  some  of  it  remained  unmelted  during  two 
succeeding  nights  ;  for  it  was  in  being  on  the  morning  of  the 
third  day. 

"  The  local  circmstances  which  have  been  detailed  will 
probably  account  for  this  remarkable  locality  of  ice,  and 
scarcely  need  any  illustration  or  comment. 

"  This  is  not  the  only  instance  of  the  kind  existing  among 
the  trap  rocks  of  Connecticut.  There  is  a  similar  place  seven 
miles  from  New  Haven,  near  the  Middletown  road,  in  the 
parish  of  Northford,  and  township  of  Branford.  The  ice 
here  also  (as  we  are  assured)  endures  the  year  round.  This 
place  we  have  not  visited,  but  we  are  informed  that  it  is  at 
the  bottom,  or  on  the  declivity  of  a  trap  ridge.  Several  years 
ago,  we  had  the  ice  of  this  place  brought  to  us,  into  New 
Haven,  in  the  hotter  weather  of  mid-summer.  Like  that  of 


fy  i 


SILLIMAN'S  DESCRIPTION.  69 

Meriden,  it  is  very  solid ;  but  like  that  also  it  is  soiled  with 
leaves  and  dirt,  and  although  it  is  unfit  to  be  put  into  liquids 
which  are  to  be  swallowed,  it  is  as  any  ice  for  mere  cooling. 

"  These  instances  naturally  induce  the  impression  that 
other  natural  ice  houses  may  exist  in  various  parts  of  the 
trap  region  of  Connecticut,  and  of  Massachusetts,  and  very 
possibly  in  other  districts,  abounding  with  precipitous,  rocky 
and  woody  defiles,  although  the  geological  formation  may  not 
be  the  same.  We  should  be  obliged  by  any  information 
respecting  similar  facts  existing  elsewhere. 

"  It  is  perhaps  worthy  of  being  mentioned  in  this  connection 
that  an  artificial  ice  house  within  the  knowledge  of  the  writer, 
is  situated  on  the  top  of  a  ridge  of  trap  in  Connecticut.  The 
excavation  was  made,  simply  by  removing  the  loose  pieces  of 
trap  rock  which  are  here  piled  in  enormous  quantities,  but 
composed  of  fragments  of  very  small  size.  These  loose 
pieces  of  stone  with  the  air  in  the  cavities  are  better  non- 
conductors of  heat  than  the  ground  which  usually  surrounds 
ice  houses,  for  the  ice  keeps  remarkably  well  in  this  elevated 
ice  house.  Perhaps  this  will  aid  us  in  ^-explaining  the  phe- 
nomena of  the  natural  ice  houses  that  have  been  mentioned." 


7O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD, 


CHAPTER     III. 

WALLINGFORD  SETTLED. 

IN  the  year  1669,  the  question  was  first  agitated  of 
making  a  settlement  at  Wallingford,1  and  measures  were 
adopted  towards  effecting  it ;  but  on  account  of  the 
Indians,  the  undertaking  was  of  great  peril,  and  was 
deferred  until  1670.  At  that  time  Hartford  and  New 
Haven  had  been  settled  about  thirty-five  years,  and  the 
whole  population  within  the  territory  now  called  Con- 
necticut was  about  ten  thousand.  Making  a  new 
settlement  was  quite  a  formidable  undertaking.  The 
Indians,  though  kind,  were  kind  only  from  motives  of 
interest  or  fear.  How  long  they  would  remain  so,  was  a 
question  asked  doubtingly,  and  answered  by  an  appre- 
hensive glance  of  the  eye.  Wolves,  in  thousands, 
infested  the  new  settlements.  They  killed  the  cattle, 


I  It  is  evident  that  as  early  as  1667,  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  New 
Haven  had  become  acquainted  with  the  country  in  and  about  Wallingford, 
and  no  doubt  settlements  by  some  adventurers  had  been  made  within  the 
bounds  of  the  town;  but  it  was  not  until  1669,  that  the  people  of  New 
Haven  took  hold  of  the  matter.  It  appears  that  Abraham  Doolittle  and 
John  Peck  were  on  the  ground  in  1668,  and  John  Moss  and  John  Brockett 
in  the  autumn  of  1669,  which  fact  was  undoubtedly  the  cause  of  their  being 
selected  as  a  committee  to  superintend  and  manage  the  affairs  of  the  new 
village  ;  but  it  was  not  until  the  month  of  April,  1670,  that  the  first  per- 
manent settlement  at  Wallingford  was  made. 


WALLINGFORD    SETTLED.  /I 

they  stole  and  carried  off  the  sheep,  and  did  what  they 
could  by  their  unearthly  howlings  at  night,  to  add  to  the 
horrors  that  thickened  on  the  skirts  of  the  wilderness. 
The  moose,  the  deer  and  the  bear,  roamed  at  will 
through  the  unbroken  wilderness. 

It  was  absolutely  necessary  that  the  settlers  should 
turn  the  wilderness  into  gardens  and  fields ;  that  they 
should  plant  and  cultivate  the  earth,  to  keep  them  from 
starvation.  It  was  necessary  to  erect  and  fortify  houses, 
and  to  make  preparations  for  the  feeding  and  covering 
of  their  cattle.  It  was  of  equal  importance  to  the 
planters,  not  only  to  make  roads  for  their  particular 
convenience,  but  from  town  to  town  ;  that,  in  any  emer- 
gency, they  might  fly  immediately  to  each  other's  relief. 
But  they  were  willing  to  work  ;  they  had  abandoned 
their  estates,  their  families,  and  their  country,  for  the 
obtainment  of  peace  and  freedom  ;  and  they  themselves 
were  ready  to  traverse  the  vast  wilderness  of  an  unex- 
plored continent,  rather  than  submit  to  that  moral 
degradation  which  can  alone  satisfy  the  capriciousness 
of  despotism.  When  once  they  had  put  their  shoulders 
to  the  wheel  they  never  looked  back.  The  grim  present 
was  lowering  upon  them  with  all  its  sharp  and  angular 
realities.  Indians,  wild  beasts,  famine,  cold,  the  diseases 
that  lurk  along  the  borders  of  new  settlements,  "  the 
French,  the  Dutch,  the  devil,"  and  all  other  calamities, 
actual  and  imaginary,  that  kept  their  faculties  constantly 
stretched  to  the  highest  tension,  gave  them  no  time  to 
look  backward.  Other  men  retreated  from  the  world  to 
avoid  its  cares  ;  they  fled  to  the  solitude  of  nature  to 
begin  life  anew. 

It  has  already  been  stated  that  the  original  settlers  of 
New  Haven  in  their  corporate  capacity,  owned  the  whole 


72  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

tract  of  land  from  the  Sound  up  to  West  Meriden,  which 
tract  was  about  twenty  miles  long  and  ten  broad.  But 
when  the  increase  of  population  seemed  to  render  it 
necessary  to  push  settlements  farther  into  the  interior 
upon  the  unoccupied  lands,  they  did  not  sell  out  farms 
to  such  individuals  as  chose  to  buy,  and  allow  matters  of 
this  kind  to  take  what  we  should  perhaps  call  the  natural 
course.  They  proceeded  in  a  much  more  orderly  man- 
ner. The  people  of  New  Haven,  in  their  corporate 
capacity  and  in  public  meeting,  voted  to  set  off  a  certain 
portion  of  their  territory  to  constitute  a  "  village "  or 
plantation.  And  the  General  Assembly  held  at  Hart- 
ford, October  10,  1667,  passed  the  following  resolution: 

"  Vpon  the  motion  of  the  deputies  of  New  Haven,  this 
Court  grants  the  towne  of  New  Haven  liberty  to  make  a  vil- 
lage on  the  east  River,  if  they  see  it  capable  for  such  a  thing, 
provided  they  setle  a  village  there  within  fower  yeares  from 
May  next." 

At  a  Court  of  Election  held  at  Hartford,  May  12,  1670, 
the  following  confirmation  or  grant  was  made  by  the 
State  to  the  town  of  Wallingford,  of  that  territory  pre- 
viously assigned  and  set  off  to  them  by  the  action  of 
the  town  of  New  Haven  : 

"  This  Court  haveing  been  moved  to  state  the  bownds  of 
the  New  Village  that  is  settled  upon  the  playne  as  you  goe  to 
New  Haven,  doe  grant  that  their  bownds  shall  com  from  the 
Brook  at  the  south  end  of  the  great  playne,  to  the  northward 
tenn  miles,  and  from  the  said  [Brook]  sowthward  to  Brand- 
ford  bownds,  and  on  each  side  the'  river  five  miles,  that  is  five 
miles  on  the  east  side  and  five  miles  on  the  west  side  the 
River,  provided  that  the  sayd  village  be  carryed  on  and  made 
a  plantation  wthout  any  relation  or  subordination  to  any 
other  towne,  and  provided  the  bownds  hereby  granted  to  the 
sayd  village  doe  not  prejudice  any  bownds  formerly  granted 


WALLINGFORD    SETTLED.  73 

to  any  plantation  or  perticuler  person,  or  doe  not  extend  to 
the  north  any  further  than  wh[ere]  the  old  road  to  New 
Haven  goeth  over  Pilgrimes  Harbour." 

At  the  same  meeting  the  "  Court  ordered  that  the 
plantation  on  the  playne  in  the  road  to  New  Haven, 
be  called  Wallingford."1  Permission  having  been  granted 
by  the  general  Court  to  lay  out  a  village  upon  the  plain, 
it  was  necessary  to  lay  out  the  boundary  lines,  which 
seemed  to  occasion  considerable  trouble.  On  the  28th 
of  the  ist  month,  1673,  it  was  agreed, 

"  i.  by  the  committee  for  NewHaven  underwritt  that  Wall- 
ingford Bownd*  on  the  east  side  of  the  east  River  shall  be 
from  Brandford  line  Northerlie  to  whortons  brooke  where  it 
crosseth  the  north  Branch,  of  the  S'd  Brooke  and  thence  at 
the  brooke  Runne  into  the  east  River.  2.  that  New  Haven 
shall  runn  two  miles  and  a  halfe  Northward  from  the  Foot  of 
the  blew  Hills  on  the  milk  River  upon  that  River,  and  the 
line  from  a  Stake  there  to  the  foote  of  the  blew  Hills  on  the 
east  River  and  from  the  Sayd  Two  mile  and  halfe  Stake 
along  our  reare  west  and  by  north  to  the  ends  of  their 
Bownds,  which  issue  they  the  committee  for  wallingford  con- 
sented too  and  accepted,  and  this  to  be  a  issue  in  love  and 
peace,  memorandum  that  the  committee  for  New  Haven  doe 
consent  that  the  Meadow  between  the  mill  River  and  east 
river  northward  above  the  blue  Hills  shall  be  Wallingford,  as 
to  the  Bulk  of  it  and  Liberty  of  draweing  it  as  they  shall  see 
cause  an  though  the  line  agreed  too  should  cutt  through  it. 

Subscribed  by  the  Sd  parties. 
JOHN  MORSE,        .  WM.  JOANES, 

JOHN  BROCKETT,  JAMES  BISHOP, 

ABRAHAM  DOWLITTLE,          SAM'LL  WHITEHEAD, 

I  The  town  was  incorporated  eight  years  after  the  State  received  its 
charter,  and  five  years  after  the  union  of  Connecticut  with  New  Haven 
Colony.  There  are  only  fifteen  towns  in  the  State  older  than  Wallingford. 


74  HISTORY  OF  WALLINGFORD. 

NATH'LL  MERRIAM,  MATTHEW  GILBERT, 

SAM'LL  ANDREWS,  JOHN  WINSTON, 

ABRAM  DICKERMAN,  MOSES  MANSFIELD. 

"The  mark  of  JOHN  |Q  COWPER  SEN.,  to  the  agreament 

excepting  the  memorandum   acled  about  yc  meadow  wherein 

he  objects." 

The  next  year  a  committee  of  two  were  appointed 
from  New  Haven  to  lay  out  the  bounds  of  the  new  vil- 
lage, as  we  learn  from  the  following  entry  on  the  Wall- 
ingford  town  records : 

"  We  whose  names  are  under  written  being  appointed  to 
lay  out  the  bounds  of  Wallingford  According  to  the  generall 
courts  grant  we  did  Runn  from  the  East  River  comonly  called 
new  Haven  River  upon  an  east  and  by  South  line  five  miles  ; 
very  nere  pishatipague  ponds,  and  from  there  upon  a  North 
and  by  east  line  untill  it  meets  with  Middletowne  South 
bownds ;  and  on  East  and  by  South  line  till  it  meets  with 
middletowne  west  bownds  ;  and  on  the  west  side  Newhaven 
river  upon  a  west  and  by  north  line  seven  miles,  as  witness 
our  hands  this  Sixth  day  of  November  1674. 

"JOHN  WILFORD, 
NATHANIEL  WHITF,."' 

The  town  of  New  Haven  next  appointed  a  committee, 
vested  with  power  to  manage  the  affairs  of  the  settle- 
ment. This  committee  held  the  land  in  trust,  and  acted 
as  trustees  in  all  the  affairs  of  the  town  ;  they  not  only 
attended  to  the  temporal,  but  the  spiritual  affairs  of  the 
people ;  and  the  undertakers  and  all  the  succeeding 
planters  were  obliged  to  subscribe  to  the  following  en- 
gagement : 

I  In  1701  the  boundary  line  was  run  between  the  town  of  Wallingford 
and  the  town  of  Durham,  or  Coginchaug.  The  Wallingford  committee 
were  Thomas  Holt  and  John  Merriman. 


WALLINGFORD    SETTLED.  75 

"  He  or  they  shall  not  by  any  means  disturb  the  church, 
when  settled  there,  in  the  choice  of  minister  or  ministers,  or 
other  church  officers,  or  in  any  of  their  other  church  rights, 
liberties  or  administrations,  nor  shall  withdraw  due  mainte- 
nance from  such  ministry." 

"  This  shows"  says  Trumbull,  "  how  strongly  the 
churches  in  this  part  of  the  colony  were,  at  that  time, 
opposed  to  towns  and  parishes  having  any  thing  to  do  in 
the  choice  of  a  minister,  or  in  church  affairs."  It  was 
voted  in  January,  1672, 

"  That  in  due  time  there  shall  bee  some  care  taken  to 
submitt  every  planter  what  quantity  of  land  he  shall  have 
propriety  in  and  pay  Rates  for,  and  that  the  limitation  be 
made  by  the  major  part  of  the  town  and  the  committee 
appoynted  for  the  receaving  of  Planters  and  that  the  planters 
that  shall  hereafter  be  receaved  shall  be  accommodated  as  the 
major  part  of  the  town  and  the  committee  shall  see  cause." 

In  May,  1782,  the  trustees  resigned  their  trust  to  the 
town. 

The  town  of  Wallingford  having  been  thus  inaugu- 
rated, several  families  removed  from  New  Haven  to  the 
new  plantation.  We  also  find  new  settlers  whose  names 
are  not  on  the  New  Haven  records  :  persons  who  came 
from  adjoining  settlements.  The  next  year  a  number  of 
families  came  from  Boston,  probably  new  emigrants 
from  England,  as  their  names  are  not  mentioned  as  free- 
men or  land  holders  in  the  early  Massachusetts  records. 
The  committee  received  applications  from  such  as  chose 
to  commence  a  new  settlement,  and  selected  those  who 
in  their  opinion  were  best  qualified  for  the  work.  The 
persons  thus  selected,  mutually  covenanted  with  each 
other  and  with  the  said  committee  to  observe  certain 


/6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

rules  and  conditions  in  the  following  written  agreement, 
to  which  their  signatures  were  affixed : 

jist  nth  month,   1669. 

"i.  The  Committee  do  consent  to  put  the  said  village  de- 
signe  into  ye  hands  of  a  competent  number  of  persons  fitly 
qualified  for  that  work,  provided,  they  reasonably  appear  and 
engage  to  undertake  ye  same  upon  theire  articles  and  further 
shall  appoint  some  fit  persons  of  y°  said  number  to  be  a  com- 
mittee with  full  power  to  manage  their  plantation  affairs,  until 
the  place  come  to  be  an  orderly  establishment  within  itself. 

"  2.  For  ye  safety  and  well  being  of  church  affairs,  for  y° 
Ministry  and  maintainance,  the  committee  do  order  yl  yc  s'd 
undertakers  and  successors,  before  (they  are)  admitted  shall 
subscribe  to  the  following  engagement,  Vide  He,  or  they,  as 
afs'd  shall  not  by  any  means  Disturb  ye  church  when  settled 
there,  in  their  choice  of  Minister  or  Ministers,  or  other  ch'h 
officers — or  in  any  of  their  Ch'h  Rights,  Liberties,  or  admin- 
istrations, nor  shall  refuse  nor  withdraw  due  maintainance  from 
such  Ministry  and  until  such  Ch'h  be  settled,  shall  submit  to 
such  order  as  ye  said  committee  shall  make,  for  a  Godly  Min- 
ister to  dispence  ye  word  of  God  among  them. 

"3.  That  the  said  Committee  to  be  appointed  and  their 
successors,  in  receiving  of  Planters,  shall  have  due  respect 
to  New  Haven  persons,  being  fit  and  offering  themselves,  so 
far  as  it  can  consist  with  the  good  of  the  place  and  capacity 
thereof. 

''  4.  Lastly.  These  articles  being  accepted,  the  s'd  com- 
pany and  all  others  admitted  planters  among  them,  shall 
enjoy  their  accommodations  and  Lands,  without  payment  of 
purchase  money  to  New  Haven :  to  themselves,  their  heirs, 
successors  and  assigns,  forever,  so  far  as  concerns  New  Haven 
town's  purchase  within  the  village  bounds,  the  said  town  of 
New  Haven  consenting  there  unto.  And  we  do  nominate, 
Mr.  Samuel  Street,  John  Moss,  John  Brockett  and  Abraham 
Doolittle  to  be  a  committee  whom  we  hereby  impower  to 


WALLINGFORD    SETTLED.  77 

manage  all  plantation  affairs  in  ye  said  village  according  to, 
and  in  pursuance  of  the  above  written  articles,  and  to  see  the 
same  attended  and  performed  by  the  planters,  either,  are  or 
shall  be  by  them  the  said  committe,  and  also  for  to  disposal 
and  distribution  of  allotments  in  some  such  equal  way  as 
shall  best  suit  the  condition  of  the  place  and  ye  inhabitants 
thereof,  and  to  use  their  best  means,  they  can  for  procure- 
ment of  some  able  and  fit  man  to  dispense  the  word  of  God 
among  them,  and  lastly,  we  do  impower  them,  the  above- 
named  committee  to  make  choice  of  such  other  fit  persons 
into  the  exercise  of  their  power  and  trust  with  themselves,  for 
their  assistance,  if  any  such  shall  appear  among  them,  and 
the  major  part  of  the  said  committee,  hereby  appointed  or 
intended,  have  full  power  to  act  in  all  the  premises,  as  they 
shall  see  cause,  in  pursuance  of  the  said  articles  and  under- 
takings. In  testimony  whereof,  and  to  all  the  said  articles 
and  premises,  we,  the  committee  appointed  by  New  Haven, 
thereunto,  have  set  to  our  hands. 

WILLIAM  JONES,  JOHN  HARRIMAN, 

MATTHEW  GILBERT,  JOHN  HUMISTON, 

WILLIAM  BROADLEY,         ABRAHAM  DICKERMAN, 
JEREMIAH  OSBORN. 

The  following  is  the  covenant  or  original  agreement 
of  the  first  planters  at  Wallingford : 

"  We  whose  names  are  underwritten,  being  accepted  by  the 
Committee  of  New  Haven,  for  ye  intended  Village  as  planters, 
and  desiring  that  the  worship  and  ordinances  of  God  may  in 
due  time,  be  set  up,  and  encouraged  among  us,  as  the  main 
concernment  of  a  Christian  people,  doe  sincerely  and  in  the 
fear  of  God,  promise  and  engage  ourselves  that  we  shall  not 
neither  directly  nor  indirectly,  do  anything  to  hinder  or 
obstruct  any  good  means  that  shall  be  used  by  the  said 
committee,  or  others  intrusted  by  them,  to  promote  the  prem- 
ises, by  securing  a  Godly  and  able  ministry  among  us  to 
dispense  to  us  the  word  of  God,  and  when  such  ministry,  or 


78  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

a  Church  of  Christ  shall  be  settled  among  us,  we  engage  by 
no  means  to  disturb  the  same  in  their  choice  of  a  minister  or 
ministers  or  other  ch'h  officers,  or  in,  any  other  of  their  ch'h 
rights,  liberties,  or  administrations,  nor  shall  refuse  or  with- 
draw due  maintenance  from  such  minister  or  ministry,  and 
farther  we  doe  engage  ourselves  peaceably  to  submit  to  such 
settlement,  and  Civil  order  as  the  said  committee  shall  direct 
among  us  either  by  themselves,  or  some  others  as  a  committee 
by  them  appointed,  upon  the  place,  untill  the  said  village 
come  to  be  an  orderly  establishment  within  itself,  and  lastly 
we  doe  engage  personally  to  settle  upon  the  place,  by  May 
next,  come  twelve  month,  if  God's  providence  inevitably  hin- 
der not,  and  to  observe  and  perform  all  and  every  the  other 
articles  agreed  upon. 

SAMUEL  STREET,  JOHN  MOSSE,     JOHN  BROCKETT, 

NATH'L.  MERRIMAN,  JERO  How,               ZAC'H.  How, 
ABRAHAM  DOWLITTLE,  DANIEL  HOGGE,    JOHN  MILLES, 

WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  THOMAS  HALL,       NATH'L  How, 

BENJAMIN  LEWIS,  THOMAS  CURTIS,   THOMAS  YALE, 

SAM'L  WHITEHEAD,  JOHN  BEECH,                JOHN  IVES, 

ELIASAPH  PRESTON,  JEHIEL  PRESTON,       JOHN  HALL, 

ELIAZER  HOLT,  SAMUEL  HALL,          JOSEPH  IVES, 

SAMUEL  ANDREWS,  ELEAZAR  PECK,  JOSEPH  BENHAM, 

DANIEL  SHERMAN,  SAMUEL  POTTER,  SIMON  TUTTELL, 

SAMUELL  MUNSON,  JOHN  PECK,        SAMUEL  BROWNE, 

JOHN  HARRIMAN,  FRANCES  HEATON,  SAM'LL  COOK, 

SAMUEL  MILLES,  NATHAN  ANDREWS. 

The  committee  then  proceeded  to  select  a  site  for  the 
proposed  village,  which  location  is  described  as  being 
"  upon  the  hill,  on  the  east  side  of  the  great  plain  com- 
monly called  New  Haven  plain,"  which  will  be  at  once 
recognized  as  the  spot  on  which  the  present  borough  of 
Wallingford  stands.  They  then  allotted  to  each  planter 
a  few  acres  of  land  for  a  building  spot  and  a  house  lot, 


WALLINGFORD    SETTLED.  79 

"  beginning  at  the  southeast  of  said  hill."      Having  laid 
out  the  south  part  of  the  village,  then 

"  Next  to  the  aforesaid  house  lots  it  is  ordered  that  there 
shall  be  a  highway  crosse  the  hill,  from  east  to  west  of  six 
rods  broade,1  and  from  thence  a  long  highway  of  six  rods 
broade  on  the  top  of  the  hill  to  run  northward'^  and  on  each 
side  of  itt  to  ranges  of  house  lotts  of  six  acres  to  a  lott ;  and 
these  lotts  to  be  distributed." 

The  settlement  was  commenced  at  the  south  end  of 
the  present  Main  street,  on  the  east  side  or  slope  of  the 
hill.  The  main  street  having  been  laid  out,  at  the  north 
end  a  cross  street  was  laid  out  from  the  old  colony  road 
over  to  Wharton's  brook  ;  being  the  road  now  running 
past  the  house  of  Mrs.  Harley  Morse,  and  south  of  the 
residence  of  Mr.  Peter  Whittelsey.  Afterwards  the 
main  street  was  continued  to  where  the  Congregational 
church  now  stands,  when  another  cross  street  was  laid 
out  ;  then  the  main  street  was  continued  north  to  the 
old  Peck  place,  and  a  cross  street  laid  out  to  Wharton's 
brook  ;  continuing  the  main  street  to  the  old  Rice  place, 
a  cross  street  was  laid  out,  and  the  main  street  was  con- 
tinued to  the  top  of  the  town  hill,  and  another  cross 
street  was  laid  out  to  Wharton's  brook.  Probably  about 
this  time  the  street  called  the  lower  street  was  laid  out. 
These  several  streets  or  highways  were  all  laid  out  six 
rods  wide,  and  on  each  side  of  the  highway  were  the 
house  lots  of  six  acres  each. 

After  the  planters  had  received  their  respective  allot- 
ments, built  their  houses,  and  had  assumed  the  form  of  a 
regular  and  settled  community,  then  the  committee  who 

1  Being  the  road  now  leading  from  the  railroad  by  the  Congregational 
Church,  to  the  main  street. 

2  Being  the  north  part  of  the  present  main  street  of  Wallingford. 


8O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

had  arranged  all  the  preliminaries  and  incipient  stages 
of  the  new  plantation,  surrendered  all  their  power,  and 
the  title  to  the  whole  territory,  into  the  hands  of  the 
planters,  who  thereby  became  a  corporate  body ;  in 
other  words,  a  town.  The  lands  within  the  town  limits 
became  thus  the  property  of  the  town  as  a  corporate 
body ;  to  be  by  them  disposed  of  in  such  ways  and  to 
such  persons  as  they  might  deem  fit.  It  was  voted  that 
those  who  held  house  lots  in  the  town,  and  were  not 
residents  upon  the  place,  and  did  not  pay  their  rates 
within  one  month  after  demand,  were  to  forfeit  the  lots. 
Also, 

"  That  not  any  man  shall  have  power  to  sell  by  accommo- 
dation to  another  man  and  leave  the  town  until  hee  have 
dwelt  upon  itt  3  years,  and  after  3  years  he  may  sell  or 
alienate  itt  to  any  such  as  the  town  shall  approve  of.  That 
every  man  shall  have  propriety  in  the  timber  or  trees  in  each 
highway  that  lieth  within  3  rodds  of  his  house  lott." 

One  of  their  first  acts  was  the  allotment  of  certain 
portions  of  meadow  and  woodland  to  each  planter  at 
convenient  distances  from  the  village  ;  which  appropria- 
tion constituted  the  farms  and  private  property  of  such 
individuals  respectively.  The  land  lying  on  the  river  as 
best  adapted  to  their  purposes  was  first  used,  and  de- 
scribed as 

"  lotts  on  the  river  called,  New  Haven  east  river,  that  are 
layed  out  to  severall  of  the  inhabitants  as  meddow  land. 
They  are  to  begin  at  the  end  of  the  hill  called  Blew  hill,  where 
it  comes  to  the  river,  and  so  to  run  upward  the  river." 

At  this  first  apportionment  of  land,  thirty-eight  lots 
were  given  out  to  as  many  individuals  or  families ;  some 
receiving  eight  and  some  twelve  acres.1 


i  "  The  said  lots  are  to  run  close  ye  river  and  taking  in  ye  land  on 


WALLINGFORD    SETTLED.  8  I 

In  these  various  transfers  of  the  land,  from  the  town 
of  New  Haven  to  the  Committee,  thence  to  the  associ- 
ted  planters,  and  ultimately  to  individual  proprietors,  no 
money  or  consideration  of  any  kind  was  paid.  The  land 
was  worth  literally,  nothing,  until  actually  settled  and 
cleared.  From  time  to  time  as  families  became  larger, 
and  individuals  became  able  to  bring  more  land  under 
cultivation,  additional  allotments  were  made  by  town 
vote,  to  each  planter.  At  various  times  there  were 
"divisions"  in  this  manner  made,  until  the  .whole  terri- 
tory was  occupied.  In  arranging  these  divisions,  the 
whole  population  was  classed  into  three  "  ranks,"  as 
indicated  in  the  following  vote,  according  to  their  ability 
to  pay  taxes.  In  all  assessments,  the  first  rank  paid 
double  the  amount  of  tax  charged  on  the  "loest  rank," 
and  one-third  more  than  the  middle  rank ;  and  in  the 

both  sides  and  bounded  according  to  the  judgment  of  the  surveyors,  and 
by  order  of  the  committee. 

JOHN  MILES,  12  acres,  BENJAMIN  LEWIS,  8  acres, 

JOHN  EIVES,  8  "  JOHN  BROCKETT,  8  " 

NATHL.  How,  8  "  JOHN  BROCKETT,  senr.,  12  " 

JEREMIAH  How,  12  "  NATHAN  ANDREWS,  8  " 

WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  12  "  ZACHARIAS  How,  8  " 

12  "  12  " 

SAMUEL  POTTER,  8  "  THOMAS  YALE,  8  " 

JOSEPH  EIVES,  8  "  THOS.  HALL,  8  " 

SIMON  TUITLE,  8  "  SAMUEL  MILES,  8  " 

JOSEPH  BENHAM,  8  "  SAMUEL  COOKE,  8  " 

SAM'L  HALL,  8  "  SAMUEL  MUNSON,  8  " 

MR.  JOHN  HARRIMAN,  12  "  JOHN  Moss,  12  " 

ELEAZER  PECK,  8  "  THOMAS  CURTICE,  8  " 

MR.  SAM'L  STREET,  12  "  DANIEL  HOPPER,  8  " 

JAMES  EATON,  12  "  SAML.  BROWN,  8  " 

JAMES  ANDREWS,  12  "  DANIEL  SHEARMAN,  12  " 

JOHN  PECK,  8  "  MR.  NATHL.  MERRIMAN,  12  " 

JOHN  HALL,  8  "  ABRAHAM  DOOLITTLE,  12  " 

DAVID  TUTTLE,  8  "  SAML.  THOKP,  8  " 
G 


82  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

divisions  of  land  the  allotments  were  made  out  in  the 
same  ratio,  as  appears  by  this  and  similar  votes.  In 
June,  1673,  voted, 

"That  there  shall  be  alowed  for  the  first  division  of  lands 
to  each  planter  taking  in  house  lotts,  river  lotts,  and  all  sorts 
of  land,  to  the  loest  ranke  40  acres ;  to  the  middle  ranke,  60 
acres,  and  to  the  hiest  ranke,  80  acres,  and  so  to  keep  for  the 
present." 

It  would  naturally  occur  that  after  the  settlement  was 
commenced,  other  individuals  in  addition  to  the  original 
planters  would  desire  to  become  residents  in  the  town. 
Such  an  one  was  not  expected,  nor  even  allowed  to  buy 
any  wild  land.  He  was  to  make  application  to  the 
town,  both  for  permission  to  live  in  the  town,  and  for  a 
gratuitous  allotment  of  land.  The  town  in  public  meet- 
ing considered  such  a  request  and  referred  it  to  a  com- 
mittee for  consideration.  That  committee  after  examin- 
ing the  testimonials  which  the  applicant  could  produce 
touching  his  character,  recommended  a  compliance  with 
his  request,  if  such  testimonials  were  satisfactory.  In 
the  New  Haven  Colony  Laws  for  1656,  we  find 

"That  none  shall  be  admitted  Freemen  or  free  Burgesses 
within  this  Jurisdiction,  or  any  part  of  it,  but  such  Planters 
as  are  Members  of  some  one,  or  other  of  the  approved 
Churches  of  New  England." 

Also, 

"  It  is  ordered,  That  no  single  person  of  either  Sex,  do 
henceforward  board,  diet,  or  Sojourn,  or  be  permitted  so  to 
do,  or  to  have  lodging,  or  house  room  within  any  of  the 
Plantations  of  this  Jurisdiction,  but  either  in  some  allowed 
Relation,  or  in  some  approved  Family  licensed  thereunto,  by 
the  court,  or  by  a  Magistrate,  or  some  Officer  or  Officers 
in  that  Plantation,  appointed  thereunto,  where  there  is  no 
Magistrate!" 


WALL1NGFORD    SETTLED.  83 

Also    that   the  head    of  the   family  should 

"  Duly  observe  the  course,  carriage,  and  behaviour,  of  every 
such  single  person,  whether  he,  or  she,  walk  dilligently  in  a 
constant  lawful  imployment. " 

We  find  in  the  records  many  votes  similar  to  the 
following : 

"  1 2th  Feb.  1671.  Agreed  by  yf  Comitee  for  y°  Towne  of 
Wallingford  that  I  sack  Rise,  and  Nehimiah  Rise,  shall  have 
lotts  granted  ym  provided  they  procure  sufficient  testamony  of 
theyr  good  conversation  in  the  place  whear  they  formerly 

lived None  shall  come  to  dwell  as  planters  in  this 

towne  with   out  there  concent  and  allowence,   whether  they 
come  in  by  purchase  or  otherwise." 

So  careful  were  they  in  guarding  the  character  of 
their  new  settlement,  that  even  the  land  which  was 
appropriated  to  individuals  as  their  private  property,  was 
held  under  this  condition,  that  no  sale  was  to  be  made 
to  any  stranger,  until  the  character  of  the  proposed  pur- 
chaser had  also  been  examined  and  approved  by  the 
town,  and  leave  granted  by  express  vote  of  the  town, 
for  such  transfer  of  land.  Thus  we  find  on  the  town 
records  frequent  entries  like  the  following : 

"236.  Feb.  1677.  The  towne  gave  liberty  to  Nath'l 
Hickock  to  sell  his  accommodation  to  any  such  men  as  ye 
towne  shall  approve  of."  "aoth  Oct.  1674,  voted  that  Good" 
Foote  shall  have  liberty  to  buy  the  lott,  yl  is  Joseph  Eives 
provided  he  procure  sufficient  testimony  of  his  good  conver- 
sation in  yc  plase  where  he  now  pretendeth  to  remove." 

Next  January,  we  find 

"  The  teastimony  for  Good"  foote  being  sevesente  and  axep- 
ted,  he  was  admitted  a  planter  upon  the  lott  IB^^as  Joseph 
eives."  "Dec.  20,  1679.  The  towne  Receaved  Jo  Brooks  a 


84  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

planter  ot  ye  loer  Ranks  provided  he  bring  suficient  testimony 
of  his  good  Conversation  in  ye  place  wheare  he  formerly 
lived  and  come  next  spring  to  live  heare  if  in  suitable  provi- 
dence hinder  not." 

Not  only  were  those  who  wished  to  become  perma- 
nent residents,  necessitated  to  make  application  to  the 
town,  before  they  could  receive  an  allotment  of  the 
public  land,  or  be  allowed  to  buy  out  a  previous  settler, 
but  even  temporary  residents  must  obtain  permission  to 
sojourn  for  a  time  within  the  town  limits.  For  we  find 
on  the  records  votes  similar  to  the  one  here  copied : 
"Sep.  1678.  The  towne  gave  liberty  to  Isack  Curtice 
to  abide  in  the  town  as  a  sojourner."  This  Isaac  Curtis 
was  from  Hartford,  and  was  visiting  his  son,  who  was 
among  the  first  planters  of  the  town.  In  1698,  the  con- 
stables of  Wallingford  were  ordered  to  take  and  convey 
Isaac  Johnson,  ( Fenson  ?)  and  his  wife  out  of  the  town. 
It  does  not  appear  for  what  crime  this  summary  act  was 
to  be  enforced,  nor  does  it  appear  that  the  order  was 
carried  into  effect.  In  the  month  of  December  follow- 
ing, he  was  accepted  by  the  town  as  an  inhabitant. 
Notwithstanding  their  strictness,  black  sheep  sometimes 
got  into  the  flock,  as  we  find  from  numerous  entries  in 
the  town  records.  It  is  amusing  at  the  present  day  to 
read  their  old  records,  and  to  see  to  what  extent  they 
carried  things  in  those  days.  They  not  only  interfered 
with  private  rights,  but  held  an  espionage  over  household 
matters,  entirely  different  from  the  actions  of  the  first 
emigrants  who  settled  at  New  Haven. 

In  fact,  the  planters  who  now  began  to  settle  in  differ- 
ent parts  of  the  State,  were  an  entirely  different  class 
from  the  ejAWlymouth  colony  :  no  code  of  "  blue  laws" 
were  ever  enacted  by  the  Pilgrims,  but  their  legislation 


WALLINGFORD    SETTLED.  85 

was  statesmanlike,  just  and  liberal.  Yet,  without  doubt 
many  of  the  laws  which  have  come  down  to  us,  and  are 
familiarly  known  as  "  blue  laws,"  are  forgeries  concocted 
by  some  person  who  wished  to  show  the  Puritans  in  as 
bad  a  light  as  possible.  We  can  never  forget  the  ex- 
ample and  benefits  they  have  conferred  upon  us.  We 
are  indebted  to  them  for  our  laws  and  our  liberties,  and 
during  all  their  trials  and  hardships,  they  never  forgot 
their  religion,  which  seemed  to  be  the  principal  object 
for  which  they  lived.  How  appropriately  can  we  apply 
the  language  of  Kingsley :  "  Standing  upon  the  accumu- 
lated labours  of  years,  we  are  apt  to  be  ungrateful  to 
those  who,  with  weary  labour,  and  often  working  through 
dark  and  weary  nights,  built  up  the  platform  which  now 
supports  us.  We  complain  impatiently  of  the  blindness 
of  many  a  man's  doctrine,  who  was  only  incomplete, 
because  he  was  still  engaged  in  searching  for  some  truth 
which,  when  found,  he  handed  on  as  a  precious  heir- 
loom to  us  who  know  him  not."1 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  original  proprie- 
tors of  Wallingford  : 

SAMUEL  STREET,  EDWARD  PECK, 

SAMUEL  WHITTLESEY,     JOHN  PARKER,  Sen., 
THOMAS  YALE,  JOSHUA  CULVER, 

JOHN  Moss,  JOHN  HITCHCOCK, 

JOHN  BROCKETT,  ROGER  TYLER, 

NATHANIEL  MERRIMAN,  SAMUEL  COOK, 
SAMUEL  THORP,  HENRY  COOK, 

JEREMIAH  How,  DANIEL  Mix, 

ISAAC  CURTIS,  SAMUEL  BROCKETT, 

JOHN  ATWATER,          •     MERCY  Moss, 

i   Preface  to  the  Sermons  of   Taulerus. 


86 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


JOHN  HALL, 
ELIASAPH  PRESTON, 
JEHIEL  PRESTON, 
JOHN  MERRIMAN, 
JOHN  BEACH, 
SAMUEL  MUNSON, 
JOSEPH  THOMPSON, 
BENJAMIN  HOLT, 
JOHN  PECK, 
JOHN  LATHROP, 
THOMAS  CURTIS, 
NATHANIEL  ROYCE, 
DOCTOR  HALL, 

ABRAHAM 


DAVID  HALL, 
JOHN  AUSTEN, 
ZACHARIAH  How, 
NATHANIEL  How, 
JOSEPH  BENHAM,  Sen., 
ROBERT  ROICE, 
WILLIAM  EBENATHA, 
EBENEZER  CLARK, 
SAMUEL  HOUGH, 
JOSEPH  BENHAM,  Jim., 
JOHN  DOOLITTLE, 
JOSEPH  ANDRUS, 
THOMAS  BEACH, 
DOOLITTLE.1 


i  Of  the  original  purchasers  of  Wallingford,  John  Brockett  died  March 
12,  1690,  ae.  80  years ;  Abraham  Doolittle  died  August  n,  1690,  ae.  70 
years  ;  Nathaniel  Merriman  died  February  13,  1694,  ae.  80  years ;  John 
Moss  died  1770,  x.  103  years.  These  with  Mr.  Street,  ae.  82  (the  five 
purchasers  of  the  town),  computing  their  ages  together,  make  415  years, 
or  83  years  for  each. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

EARLIEST  TOWN  ACTS. 

IN  the  spring  of  1670,  when  the  emigrants  commenced 
their  settlement  on  the  land  now  occupied  by  the  town 
of  Wallingford,  the  whole  population  of  the  State  was 
about  10,000,  and  settlements  had  been  commenced  in 
Hartford,  Wethersfield,  Windsor,  Farmington,  Saybrook, 
Middletown,  Lyme,  Milford,  Guilford,  Fair  field,  Nor- 
walk,  Stamford,  New  Haven,  New  London,  Norwich, 
Branford,  Greenwich,  and  Haddam.  The  rest  of  the 
State  was  a  wilderness  inhabited  by  Indians.  But  fifty 
years  had  elapsed  since  the  little  band  of  pilgrims  had 
landed  from  the  Mayflower  on  the  rock  at  Plymouth, 
which  has  since  been  so  celebrated  in  song  and  story. 

In  England  the  past  sixty  years  had  been  teeming 
with  events  of  the  most  momentous  consideration  in 
their  bearing  upon  the  future  destinies  of  mankind. 
The  first  quarter  of  the  century  had  been  occupied  by 
the  bigot  king,  James  Stuart.  On  the  day  of  his  acces- 
sion then  did  the  great  British  monarchy  descend  from 
the  rank  which  it  had  hitherto  held,  and  during  many 
years  under  four  successive  princes  of  the  house  of.  Stu- 
art, was  scarcely  a  more  important  member  of  the  Euro- 
pean system  than  the  little  kingdom  of  Scotland  had 
previously  been.  Cromwell  was  no  more  ;  and  those 
who  had  fled  before  him  were  forced  to  content  themselves 


88  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

with  the  miserable  satisfaction  of  digging  up,  hanging, 
quartering,  and  burning  the  remains  of  the  greatest 
prince  that  has  ever  ruled  England.  Then  after  the 
imbecile  protectorate  of  Richard,  came  the  long  desired 
restoration.  No  wonder,  that  amid  such  convulsions  at 
home,  the  English  government  should  have  lost  sight  of 
that  handful  of  men  who,  under  the  shade  of  the  mighty 
forest  trees,  stole  away  from  the  provincial  government 
at  Boston,  and  set  up  a  new  jurisdiction  for  themselves 
in  the  wilds  of  Connecticut.  But  the  restoration  of 
1660,  which  brought  tranquility  to  England,  enabled  the 
king  to  look  abroad,  and  reflect  upon  the  growing  impor- 
tance of  Connecticut. 

In  the  midst  of  dangers,  with  the  Dutch  on  one  side, 
the  Indians  on  the  other,  and  the  powerful  colony  of 
Massachusetts  not  far  off,  the  General  Court  of  Con- 
necticut determined  to  make  a  formal  avowal  of  their 
allegiance  to  the  crown,  and  apply  for  a  charter.  It  is 
not  likely  that  the  framers  of  the  constitution  of  1639 
ever  entertained  the  idea  of  maintaining  a  government 
independent  of  the  crown,  but  they  had  wisely  kept 
themselves  in  abeyance  for  the  time  when  England, 
bowed  down  by  her  calamities,  could  no  longer  stretch 
her  shortened  sceptre  across  three  thousand  miles  of 
ocean. 

On  the  23d  of  April,  1662,  letters  patent  under  the 
great  seal  received  the  royal  signature,  giving  to  the 
petitioners  the  most  ample  privileges.  By  this  patent, 
the  patentees,1  together  with  all  the  other  freemen  of 

i  The  names  of  the  patentees  in  the  charter  were  John  Winthrop, 
John  Mason,  Samuel  Wyllys,  Henry  Clarke,  Mathew  Allen,  John  Tap- 
ping, Nathan  Gold,  Richard  Treat,  Richard  Lord,  Henry  Wolcott,  John 
Talcott,  Daniel  Clarke,  John  Ogden,  Thomas  Wells,  Obadiah  Bruen, 
John  Clarke,  Anthony  Hawkins,  John  Deming  and  Matthew  Canfield. 


EARLIEST    TOWN    ACTS.  89 

Connecticut  then  existing,  or  who  might  afterwards  be 
admitted  electors  or  freemen  to  the  end  of  time,  were 
given  the  irrevocable  privileges  of  being  "  one  body  cor- 
porate and  politic  in  fact  and  name,  by  the  name  of  the 
governor  and  company  of  the  English  colony  of  Connec- 
ticut in  New  England  in  America,  and  that  by  the  same 
name  they  and  their  successors,  should  have  perpetual 
succession."  By  these  letters  patent  they  are  made 
persons  in  law,  may  plead  and  be  impleaded,  defend  and 
be  defended,  in  all  suits  whatsoever ;  may  purchase, 
possess,  lease,  grant,  demise  and  sell,  lands,  tenements 
and  goods  in  the  same  unrestricted  manner  as  any  of  the 
king's  subjects  or  corporations  in  England.  They  are 
annually  to  hold  two  general  assemblies — one  on  the 
second  Thursday  in  May,  and  the  other  on  the  sec- 
ond Thursday  in  October — to  consist  of  the  governor, 
deputy  governor  and  twelve  assistants,  with  the  more 
popular  element  of  two  deputies  from  every  town  or 
city. 

Of  course,  the  territory  embraced  in  the  charter,  in- 
cluded the  entire  colony  of  New  Haven.  Accordingly 
a  committee  were  appointed  who  repaired  to  New  Haven 
with  becoming  dispatch,  and  held  a  long  and  earnest 
conference  with  the  authorities  and  principal  gentlemen 
there.  But  the  freemen  of  the  colony  were  highly 
indignant,  and  looked  with  disfavor  upon  this  strange 
patent  that  had  thus  suddenly  disposed  of  their  govern- 
ment and  political  existence,  without  giving  them  a  pre- 
monition of  the  fate  that  awaited  them.  Meetings  were 
called  in  the  towns  of  the  colony,  protesting  against  the 
union  of  the  colonies,  and  delegates  were  appointed  to 
attend  the  session  of  the  General  Court  held  on  the  6th 
of  May,  1663,  and  a  remonstrance  against  the  doings  of 


Cp  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

the  encroaching  colony  was  drawn  up  and  sent  to  the 
General  Assembly  of  Connecticut.  Numerous  sessions 
of  the  General  Court  were  called.  Discussions  in- 
numerable, and  protests  without  number,  kept  the  colony 
in  a  constant  state  of  excitement,  confusion  and  enmity  ; 
but  the  doom  of  this  little  republic  was  impending. 
What  could  she  do  against  a  powerful  colony  clad  in  the 
impenetrable  panoply  of  the  royal  charter. 

On  the  1 3th  of  December,  1664,  the  freemen  of  New 
Haven  held  their  last  General  Court,  and  passed  a  series 
of  resolutions  declaring  themselves  "  now  put  under 
Connecticut  patent ;"  and  the  colony  "  having  drawn  the 
folds  of  her  mantle  about  her,  as  if  to  prepare  herself  to 
die  with  the  dignity  that  became  her,  found,  with  a 
pleased  surprise,  that  union  was  not  annihilation,  and 
in  the  arms  of  her  elder  sister,  whom  she  learned  at  last 
both  to  forgive  and  to  love,  '  lay  down  to  pleasant 
dreams.' " 

Six  years  after  the  union  of  the  colonies,  about  one 
hundred  persons,  men,  women  and  children,  commenced 
the  settlement  at  Wallingford.  Instead  of  scattering 
themselves  on  farms,  as  is  now  usual  in  new  settlements, 
they  erected  their  humble  dwellings  in  a  compact  village. 
This  arrangement,  though  inconvenient  for  an  agricultu- 
ral population,  was  necessary  for  defence  and  safety  in 
these  perilous  times,  when  savage  wars,  and  the  irregu- 
lar incursions  of  the  Indians  were  so  frequent.  On  the 
6th  of  April,  1671,  the  first  town  meeting  was  held  in 
Wallingford.  How  many  of  the  first  undertakers  had 
families  when  they  came  to  Wallingford  to  reside,  we 
cannot  now  ascertain.  In  the  spring  of  1671,  there  were 
probably  one  hundred  inhabitants. 

The  first  birth  in  the  town  was  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel 


EARLIEST    TOWN    ACTS.  9 1 

Potter,  born  September  19,  1671.  The  first  marriage 
was  on  the  5th  of  June,  1673,  when  one  of  the  first 
planters,  Thomas  Hall,  and  one  of  Wallingford's  fair 
daughters  were  joined  in  the  union  of  heart  and  hand  in 
bonds  indissoluble.  In  those  days  it  was  understood  by 
both  parties  that  the  wife  was  to  be  "  a  help-meet  for  her 
husband."  On  this  point  the  minister  who  joined  them 
was  wont  to  be  very  emphatic.1 

The  first  death  in  Wallingford,  was  Samuel,  son  of 
Eleazer  Peck,  who  died  March  12,  1673.  A  death  in 
that  small  community  was  a  great  event.  The  magis- 
trate, the  minister,  and  the  fathers  of  the  town,  came  to 
the  bed  of  the  dying  to  witness  his  testament  and  gather 
up  Jiis  last  words.  It  was  soon  known  to  every  indi- 
vidual of  the  plantation  that  one  of  their  number  had 
been  cut  down.  All  were  eager  once  more  to  gaze  upon 
the  face  they  had  known  so  well ;  they  flocked  to  the 
funeral ;  the  near  neighbors  and  coevals  of  the  dead  bore 
him  on  their  shoulders  to  the  grave  ;  the  whole  commu- 
nity with  solemn  step  and  downcast  eyes,  followed  him 
to  his  long  home.  Almost  from  the  beginning,  the 
town  had  the  following  civil  officers,  chosen  by  its  own 
freemen :  namely,  a  board  of  selectmen,  varying  in 
number  from  three  to  nine ;  a  clerk,  a  treasurer,  a  sealer 
of  weights  and  measures,  one  or  more  surveyors  of  high- 
ways, a  constable,  and  one  or  more  tithing  men.  In 
October,  1644,  the  admirable  system  of  recording  all 
conveyances  of  land  was  instituted,  and  the  following 
law  was  passed : 

"  The  towns  shall  each  of  them  provide  a  ledger  book  with 
an  index  or  alphabet  unto  the  same :  also  shall  choose  one 


I   Sec  Dr.  lUishnell's  Discourse. 


92  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

who  shall  be  a  town  clerk  or  register,  who  shall  before  the 
General  Court  in  April,  next,  record  every  man's  house  and 
land  already  granted." 

The  owners  of  land,  under  heavy  penalties,  were  re- 
quired to  present  to  the  town  clerk  a  description  of 
their  real  estate  for  record. 

"  The  like  to  be  done  for  all  lands  hereafter  granted  and 
measured  to  any ;  and  all  bargains  or  mortgages  of  lands 
whatsoever  shall  be  accounted  as  of  no  value  until  they  be  re- 
corded." 

There  is -nothing  in  which  our  nation  is  more  peculiar, 
than  that  it  records  its  own  origin.  There  is  no  other 
nation  that  does  this,  the  Jews  excepted.  No  one  of 
the  present  nations  of  Europe  can  tell  in  a  word  of  their 
earliest  ancestors,  or  even  specify  the  century  in  which 
their  territory  was  first  taken  possession  of  by  them  ; 
but  all  is  involved  in  obscurity,  as  are  the  years  before 
the  flood.  But  it  is  far  different  with  our  early  history 
as  a  nation.  We  know  the  men  who  said  they  would  be 
free,  and  who  laid  the  foundation  of  this  mighty  republic. 
We  know  whence  they  came,  the  object  for  which  they 
came,  the  spot  to  which  they  came,  and  the  year,  the 
month,  and  the  day  they  took  possession.  Our  nation 
owes  a  lasting  debt  of  gratitude  to  our  ancestors  for  their 
fidelity  in  recording  the  incipient  steps  taken  by  them 
in  settling  this  new  world. 

With  the  true  spirit  of  New  Englanders,  the  inhabit- 
ants of  Wallingford  at  once  secured  for  themselves 
religious  institutions  and  public  worship.  Though 
necessarily  pressed  with  the  excessive  labor  of  erecting 
their  own  houses,  and  clearing  away  a  heavy  forest,  to 
procure  some  land  for  cultivation,  and  the  great  expense 


EARLIEST    TOWN    ACTS.  93 

involved  therein,  yet  this  little  band  had  from  the  first, 
the  stated  preaching  of  the  gospel.  For  two  years,  one 
Mr.  Harriman  preached  on  the  Sabbath.  He  was  not 
a  regularly  ordained  pastor,  but  was  probably  an  "elder," 
or  church  officer  of  that  day,  who  was  appointed  to  dis- 
charge certain  duties  in  the  church,  and  was  authorized 
to  preach,  in  case  of  the  sickness  or  absence  of  the  pas- 
tor. But  they  designed  to  secure  the  services  of  an 
ordained  minister  as  soon  as  one  could  be  found,  and  the 
first  tax  ever  imposed  in  the  town  was  for  this  purpose. 
The  vote  stands  thus  : 

"April  21,  1671.  It  was  voated  for  the  incouragement 
of  any  fitt  person  whose  hart  god  may  stire  up  to  be 
helpfull  in  the  ministry,  that  what  some  soever  shall  be 
Reqisitt  to  the  attaining  such  a  man  shall  be  raysed  for 
this  present  yeare  according  to  every  man's  proportion  of 
land  allotted  to  him  on  the  river ;  the  twelve  acre  lotts  to 
pay  30  s,  and  the  eight  acre  lotts  to  pay  20  s." 

This  tax  was  not  only  a  heavy  one  in  itself  to  persons 
in  their  circumstances,  but  pressed  still  heavier  from  a 
fact,  the  nature  of  which  we  at  this  day  can  hardly 
appreciate  ;  the  almost  entire  destitution  of  money,  or 
circulating  medium.  So  scanty  was  the  amount  of  gold 
and  silver,  that  even  as  late  as  1 706,  the  whole  circulat- 
ing cash  in  the  Slate  was  not  more  than  ,£2,000.  In 
1670,  there  must  of  course  have  been  still  less  ;  and  all 
taxes  and  debts  must  have  pressed  therefore  with  almost 
intolerable  weight,  except  when  payable  in  something 
else  than  gold  and  silver.  Banks,  then,  had  no  existence. 
We  find  on  the  early  records  accordingly,  very  many 
votes,  authorizing  payments  to  be  made  in  various  kinds 
of  produce.  As  the  New  Haven  people  traded  some 
with  the  West  Indies,  one  common  mode  of  raising 


94  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

funds  was  from  hoops  and  staves,  materials  for  which 
abounded  in  our  woods  and  swamps,  and  for  which  there 
was  then  as  now,  a  great  demand  in  the  islands.  They 
were  taken  to  New  Haven  and  sold  to  the  merchants. 
Thus  we  find  in  relation  to  the  first  tax,  it  was  voted 
that  "  John  Mosse  and  three  others,  ingage  to  provide 
and  deliver  1500  good  Marchantable  pipe  staves  and 
deliver  them  at  the  place  called  logmine  wharfe,"  and 
"  others  to  pay  their  proportion  in  the  like  manner,  in 
some  other  good  pay." 


95 


CHAPTER   V. 

FORMATION    OF  CHURCH. 

FROM  the  first  formation  of  these  Puritan  colonies,  all 
were  compelled  to  support  the  Congregational  order, 
which  was  the  order  of  religion  established  by  the  civil 
government.  And  not  only  that  ;  none  had  any  liberty 
to  worship  publicly  in  any  other  way.  The  rigor  of  this 
rule  began  to  be  abated  in  1708,  when  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  State  passed  the  Act  of  Toleration,  as 
it  was  called,  by  which  all  persons  who  soberly  dis- 
sented from  the  worship  and  ministry  by  law  established 
(i.  e.,  the  Congregational),  were  permitted  to  enjoy  the 
same  liberty  of  conscience  with  the  Dissenters  in  Eng- 
land, under  the  act  of  William  and  Mary  ;  i.  e.,  they  were 
exempt  from  punishment  for  not  conforming  to  the 
established  religion,  but  not  exempt  from  taxation  for  its 
support.  There  could  be  no  ministry  or  church  admin- 
istration entertained,  or  attended  by  the  inhabitants  of 
any  town  or  plantation,  upon  penalty  of  the  forfeiture 
of  five  pounds  for  every  breach  of  this  act. 

Against  some  species  of  dissent,  the  laws  were  very 
stringent.  "  Quakers,  Ranters,  or  such  like  "  were  to  be 
committed  to  prison,  or  sent  out  of  the  colony.  No  in- 
dividual could  "unnecessarily  entertain  or  speak  more  or 
less  with  them,"  on  penalty  of  five  pounds  ;  and  the  town 


96  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

that  allowed  entertainment  to  be  given  them  must  also 
pay  five  pounds  per  week.  Quaker  books  were  ordered 
to  be  seized  by  the  constable,  and  the  persons  in  whose 
possession  they  were  found,  were  to  be  fined  ten  shil- 
lings each.  By  appearing  before  the  County  Court,  and 
there  in  legal  form  declaring  their  "  sober  dissent,"  they 
could  obtain  permission  to  have  public  worship  in  their 
own  way,  but  were  still  obliged  to  pay  for  the  support 
of  the  Congregational  churches  in  the  place  of  their  resi- 
dence. There  was  a  further  relaxation,  as  it  regards 
Episcopalians,  in  1727,  and  as  it  regards  Quakers  and 
Baptists,  in  1729.  They  were  then  exempt  from  taxation 
by  the  established  churches,  provided  they  attended  the 
worship  of  God  in  a  tolerated  society  of  their  own  de- 
nomination. But  Congregationalists  and  Presbyterians 
had  no  such  exemption.  If,  for  any  reason,  any  of  them 
wished  to  secede  from  churches  or  societies,  and  worship 
by  themselves,  they  were  still  obliged  to  pay  their  taxes 
for  the  support  of  the  churches  from  which  they  had 
seceded.  Every  person  absenting  himself  from  public 
worship  on  the  Sabbath  without  sufficient  excuse  was 
liable  to  five  shillings  fine.  In  October,  1696,  at  the 
General  Court  at  Hartford,  it  was  ordered  and  enacted, 

"That  in  every  town,  plantation  or  societye  within  this 
Colonie  where  the  majr  part  of  the  householders  of  the  said 
town,  plantation  or  societye,  who  in  or  by  lawe  are  an  allowed 
societye,  are  aggreing  in  the  calling  and  settling  of  a  min- 
ister, such  minister  so  called  and  settled,  shall  be  and 
accounted  the  lawfull  minister,  of  such  town,  plantation  or 
societye,  and  that  all  aggreements  respecting  the  maintenance 
and  settlm1  of  such  minister  made  by  the  majr  part  of  the 
householders  of  such  town,  plantation  or  society  as  afore- 
said shall  be  binding  and  obliging  to  the  whole,  and  all  of 


FORMATION    OF    CHURCH.  97 

such   town,    plantation   or  societye,  and  to  their  successors, 
according  to  all  the  true  intents  and  purposes  thereof." 

The  "  Capitall  Lawes"  of  1642,  ordered  that  "if  any 
man  after  legall  conviction,  shall  have,  or  worship  any 
other  God  but  the  Lord  God,  he  shall  bee  put  to  death." 

Although  from  the  first  week  of  their  settlement,  regu- 
lar worship  had  been  maintained  in  Wallingford,  and  a 
regular  pastor  had  been  supported  by  the  people,  yet 
no  church  was  organized.  In  this  transaction  they 
proceeded  with  all  the  deliberation  which  the  reader  of 
our  early  histories  will  remember  was  characteristic  of 
the  original  settlers  of  New  Haven  and  vicinity.  In  the 
year  1675,  February  3,  after  there  had  been  ample  time 
for  the  inhabitants  to  become  acquainted  with  each 
other's  religious  views  and  feelings,  a  day  of  fasting  and 
prayer  was  observed,  with  reference  to  the  organization 
of  a  church.  On  the  fifteenth  of  the  same  month,  the 
inhabitants  again  met ;  designating  thirteen  of  their 
number,  to  "  lay  the  foundation,"  that  is,  to  constitute  by 
the  due  mode  of  organization,  the  church.  These  thir- 
teen, thus  constituting  the  church,  were  then  to  admit 
others,  by  the  ordinary  course  of  examination  and 
profession. 

"  At  a  lawful  meeting  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Wallingford  and  upon  the  i5th  day  of  the  2nd  month,  1675, 
it  was  ordered  and  enacted  by  the  town,  that  as  there  had 
been  conference  about  establishing  a  Church  of  Christ,  in 
the  aforesaid  town,  and  also  a  solemn  fast  set  apart  and 
celebrated  by  the  town  unanimously  to  seek  God's  guidance 
in  so  great  a  work,  they  have  now  also  freely  and  unani- 
mously concluded  if  it  be  the  will  of  God,  that  there  shall 
be  a  Church  of  Christ  gathered  to  walk  according  to  the 
Congregational  way,  and  have  also  all  freely  and  unanimously 
H 


98  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

left  the  management  of  the  same  in  the  hands  of  the  per- 
sons whose  names  are  underwritten,  that  if  it  be  the  will 
of  God  to  incline  their  hearts,  so  many  of  them  as  may  be 
a  competent  number  for  that  work,  may  in  his  time  lay 
the  foundation. 

"THOMAS  YALE,  NEHEMIAH  ROYCE, 

ELIASAPH  PRESTON,  JOHN  HALL,  Sen'r., 

Mr.  Moss,  Lieut.  MERRIAM, 

Mr.  SAM'L  STREET,  Serj't.  DOOLITTLE, 

NATHAN  ANDREWS,  JOHN  HALL,  Jr., 

Mr.  BROCKETT,  JOHN  BEACH, 

BENJ.  LEWIS." 

At  the  Court  of  Election,  held  at  Hartford,  May 
13,  1675, 

"  Sundry  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Wallingford  Moveing  the 
court  that  they  might  have  Liberty  to  gather  themselves  into 
church  Fellowship  according  to  the  order  of  the  gospel  there 
request  being  considered.  This  court  grants  them  their  desire 
they  attending  the  same  with  the  approbation  of  the  Neigh- 
bour churches  and  desire  the  lords  gracious  presence  and 
blessing  may  crown  their  endeavoures  with  such  success  as 
may  advance  the  glory  of  God  &  their  Spirituall  Good  and 
edification." 

They  had  as  yet  no  house  of  worship.  They  hardly 
needed  one,  for  their  numbers  were  so  small  that  they 
could  without  much  inconvenience  assemble  in  a  private 
house.  For  ten  years  they  met  on  the  Sabbath  at  the 
house  of  Lieutenant  Nathaniel  Merriman  and  Ensign 
Munson,  for  religious  worship.  We  find  on  the  records, 
September  loth,  1677,  the  following  entry  :  "voted  that 
ensign  Munson  shall  have  fourty  shillings  allowed  him 
for  meeting  in  his  house  this  yeare."  One  reason  how- 
ever of  this  delay  in  erecting  a  "  meeting  house"  must 
probably  be  found  in  the  danger,  alarm,  and  the  impover- 


FORMATION    OF    CHURCH.  99 

ishing  effect  of  the  famous  Indian  war  of  that  period, 
usually  called  "  King  Phillip's  war."  The  derangement 
of  business,  and  the  heavy  taxation  consequent  on  the 
expenses  of  the  war,  impoverished  the  population,  and 
pressed  heavily  on  the  new  settlement  at  Wallingford. 
Having  recovered  somewhat  from  the  depression  and 
impoverishment  consequent  on  the  war,  we  find  them 
with  true  New  England  conscientiousness  and  public 
spirit,  at  work  upon  their  church  and  school.  At  the 
Town-meeting,  October  2,  1676, 

"  The  town  agreed  to  have  a  meeting  house  built  34  fee  t 
long,  and  30  feet  wide,  and  desired  the  townsmen  together 
with  Mr.  Moss,  St.  Doolittle  and  the  constable  to  consider 
itt,  treate  with  some  workmen  about  ye  price,  and  make  Re- 
port to  ye  towne  in  order  to  farther  proceeding  about  the 
matter." 


FIRST    CHURCH. 

After  considering  the  matter,  the  committee  appeared 
to  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  a  smaller  and  less 
expensive  house  would  answer  their  purpose  until  the 
colony  grew  larger ;  and  at  a  Town-meeting,  November 
27,  1678, 

"  The  town  notwithstanding  theyr  former  order  about  A 
meeting  house  :  upon  furdr  consideration  doe  now  for  ye  pres- 
ent conclude  to  build  a  house  to  meete  in  on  y°  saboth,  of  28 
foot  in  Length,  and  24  foot  in  breadth,  &  ten  foot  in  stud  be- 
tweene  y°  growndsill  and  wall  plate,  to  be  comfortably  and 
comleyly  fitted  up  with  doers  and  windowes  &  flower  or  florrs 
and  other  things  nedeful  in  order  to  the  end  propounded." 


IOO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  erection  of  the  meeting-house  seems  to  have  pro- 
gressed very  slowly,  either  from  the  want  of  means,  or 
owing  to  the  troubles  which  they  were  having  at  that 
time  with  the  Indians.  In  1681  a  further  rate  was  laid 
to  finish  the  house,  and  it  was  voted  to  "go  on  and  finish 
the  house."  Great  must  have  been  their  poverty,  when 
with  all  their  high  estimate  of  the  value  of  religious 
institutions,  and  when  we  know  that  nothing  but  abso- 
lute inability  could  have  prevented  the  most  ample 
accommodations  for  their  church,  we  find  their  whole 
united  means  inadequate  to  build  and  finish  a  house, 
which  now  almost  any  single  journeyman  could  build 
out  of  his  own  resources. 

But  as  their  population  and  wealth  increased,  we  find 
the  house  of  worship  grew  also.  In  1690,  an  addition 
of  sixteen  feet  was  made  to  the  breadth  of  it.  There 
were  now  seventy-three  families  in  the  town.  On  the 
22nd  of  June,  1691, 

"  The  Town  agreed  to  Scale  ye  meeting  house  all  round 
from  ye  Sill  up  to  y°  plate  and  to  Remove  ye  pulpit  to  ye  west 
end  of  ye  meeting  house,  and  to  make  a  comly  cover  and  set 
over  ye  pulpit."  The  town  also  "voted  y*  the  meeting  house 
shall  be  seated  in  A  comly  manner  and  yl  there  shall  be  an 
alley  from  ye  East  door  to  yc  pulpit,  and  an  alley  from  ye 
"  South  door,  to  ye  midle  alley,  and  y°  Short  seats  on  each  side 
of  ye  pulpit  shall  be  made  faceing  to  ye  pulpit  and  this  worke 
to  be  done  as  soon  as  may  be." 

This  same  year,  the  town  "voted  that  "  two  pews  should 
be  built ;"  an  indication  of  growth,  and  even  of  luxury  ;  for 
hitherto,  the  whole  area  of  the  house  had  been  occupied 
with  long  seats,  where  all  persons  sat  indiscriminately, 
except  that  the  men  and  boys  were  on  one  side  of  the 
house,  while  the  females  sat  on  the  other  side.  Feb.  15, 


FORMATION    OF    CHURCH.  IOI 


1 698,  it  was  voted  to  build  an  addition  to  the  east  side  of  the 
meeting  house,  fifty  by  twenty  feet,  making  the  form  of 
a  cross.  This  house  stood  until  1717,  when  it  was  taken 
down  to  make  room  for  the  three  story  meeting  house. 


r  1 


SECOND    CHURCH,    WITH    GROUND    PLAN. 

It  is  quite  likely  that  some  of  the  good  people  of  that 
day  were  shocked  at  the  extravagance,  pride  and  degen- 
eracy developed  by  the  innovation  of  pews.  But  growth 
and  change  kept  on  their  course  ;  for  under  date  of 
April  30,  1706,  we  find, 

"  The  town  chose  Deken  Hall,  Samuel  Roys,  and  goodman 
Culvert,  a  commettee  to  procure  workmen  to  come  and  build 
gallers  for  the  In  largment  of  the  meeting  house."1 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Davenport  was  present  and  assisted  in 
laying  the  foundation  of  this  church  ;  and  standing  at  the 
foot  of  the  eminence  where  the  village  looks  off  so  pleas- 
antly upon  the  then  fair  range  of  woods  and  streams, 
preached  a  characteristic  discourse  from  the  words  of 
Isaiah,  "  My  beloved  hath  a  vineyard  in  a  very  fruitful 
hill."2 

I  The  first  meeting  house  was  erected  on  the  open  space  north  of  the 
present  Congregational  church,  and  almost  in  front  of  the  open  space 
between  the  Carrington  house  and  the  residence  of  the  late  Aimer  Hall. 

z  So  says  Lambert,  83  ;  Barber's  Hist.  Coll.,  253  ;  and  Hollister,  I, 
256  ;  but  it  may  be  a  mistake,  as  Davenport  removed  to  Boston  in  1667. 


IO2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

At  a  town  meeting,  June  4,  1677, 

"  The  Towne  desired  Eliazur  Peck  to  looke  to  ye  boyes  on 
ye  sabbath  that  they  keep  good  order  at  meeting." 

At  a  town  meeting,  February  26,  1689, 

"  The  town  agreed  and  votted  to  build  a  fort  Round  ye 
meeting  house." 

July  19,  1693-4,  Joshua  Culver  was  hired  to  sweep 
and  take  care  of  the  meeting  house,  "and  18  s.  were 
allowed  him  for  his  pains."  By  another  vote, 

"  James  Westwood  was  chosen  to  look  after  the  boys  who 
sit  in  the  uper  end  of  the  meeting  house,  Sabath  days,  and 
Samuel  Munson  to  look  after  the  young  folks  who  sat  at  the 
lower  end  of  the  meeting  house.  April  25,  1710,  The 
Townsmen  were  directed  to  contract  with  some  person  to 
sweep  the  meeting  house  from  year  to  year."1 

Their  churches,  or,  more  properly  speaking,  meeting 
houses,2  were  devoid  of  all  beauty  ar.d  elegance,  and  con- 
sisted generally  of  rough,  unhewn  logs  put  together  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  be  hardly  sufficient  to  keep  out 
wind  and  rain.  The  interior  was  furnished  very  plainly. 
Immediately  before  the  pulpit,  and  facing  the  congrega- 
tion, was  an  elevated  seat  for  the  ruling  elder ;  and 
before  that,  somewhat  lower,  was  a  seat  for  the  deacons, 
behind  the  communion  table.  On  the  floor  of  the  house 
there  were  neither  pews  nor  slips,  but  plain  seats  ;  men 
and  women  were  seated  separately,  on  opposite  sides  of 

1  The  meeting  house  was  built  of  logs,  with  a  square  roof  running  up 
to  a  point  in  the  center,  with  a  turret.     The  windows  were  small,  with 
shutters,  and  without  glass. 

2  "  There  is  no  just  ground  from  Scripture  to  apply  such  a  trope  as 
church  to  a  house  for  a  public  assembly."  Mather's  Ratio  Disciplens. 


FORMATION    OF    CHURCH.  IO3 

the  house,  and  every  one  according  to  his  office,  age,  or 
rank  in  society,  had  his  place  assigned  by  a  committee 
appointed  for  that  purpose  ;  seats  were  placed  on  each 
side  of  the  front  door  for  soldiers,  and  generally  a  senti- 
nel was  stationed  in  the  turret.  Of  six  pieces  of 
artillery  belonging  to  the  town  of  New  Haven,  three 
were  always  stationed  by  the  water  side,  and  three  by 
the  meeting  house  :  no  fires  were  allowed,  even  in  the 
coldest  day  in  winter.  Mr.  Davenport  required  all  of 
his  congregation  to  stand  up  whilst  the  text  was  nam- 
ing ;  the  reason  which  was  given  for  it  being,  that  it  was 
the  word  of  God,  and  deserved  peculiar  honor.1 

The  ministers  of  religion  were  the  especial  favorites 
of  the  colonial  government.  Their  polls  and  estates 
were  exempted  from  taxation,  and  stringent  laws  were 
made  to  secure  them  the  advantages  of  their  position 
and  the  respect  of  their  flocks.  It  was  provided  that  if 
any  Christian  so  called,  should  contemptuously  behave 
himself  "  towards  the  word  preached  or  the  messenger 
thereof,"  he  should,  for  the  first  offence,  be  reproved 
openly,  in  some  public  assembly,  by  the  magistrate  ;  and 
for  the  second,  should  pay  a  fine  of  five  pounds, 

"  Or  else  stand  two  hours  openly  upon  a  block  or  stool 
four  feet  high,  on  a  public  meeting  day,  with  a  paper  fixed 
on  his  breast  written  with  capital  letters : — AN  OPEN  AND 

OBSTINATE     CONTEMNER     OF    GOD'S    HOLY    ORDINANCES  :     that 

others  may  fear  and  be  ashamed." 

On  Sundays  the  minister  was  treated  with  special 
reverence.  When  he  passed  from  the  threshold  to  the 


i  "  At  Quinniapyock  [  New  Haven],  Mr.  Davenport  preached  in  the 
forenoon  that  men  must  be  uncovered  and  stand  up  at  the  reading  the 
text,  and  in  the  afternoon  the  assembly  jointly  practised  it."  Mr.  Hooker 
to  Shepard,  March  20,  1640. 


IO4  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

pulpit,  the  people  rose ;  and  if  he  formally  addressed 
them  in  any  part  of  the  sermon,  those  in  the  galleries,  in 
obedience  to  parental  injunction  and  usage,  in  many 
places,  stood  and  continued  standing  till  the  address 
was  concluded. 

Every  church  had  its  pastor,  teacher,  ruling  elder, 
and  deacons.  The  pastor,  teacher  and  elder  were  all 
ordained  with  equal  solemnity.  It  devolved  on  the 
pastor  to  inculcate  the  duties  and  present  the  consola- 
tions of  religion.  The  teacher  was  the  private  expounder 
of  the  law  ;  the  counselor  whose  learning,  deep  piety, 
calm  judgment  and  refined  experience  could  be  depen- 
ded upon  in  doubtful  matters.  The  duty  of  the  ruling 
elder  was  to  assist  the  pastor  in  the  government  of  the 
church,  particularly  to  keep  strict  watch  over  all  the 
brethren  and  sisters,  and  see  that  they  demeaned  them- 
selves in  an  orderly  and  godly  manner ;  to  prepare  and 
bring  forward  all  cases  of  discipline,  to  visit  and  pray 
with  the  sick ;  to  warn  the  careless,  admonish  the  way- 
ward, and  to  present  the  incorrigible  before  the  proper 
tribunal  for  discipline,  and,  in  the  absence  of  the  pastor 
and  teacher,  to  pray  with  the  congregation  and  ex- 
pound the  Scriptures.  The  office  of  the  deacons  was  to 
provide  for  the  Lord's  table  and  care  for  the  sick,  and 
to  attend  to  the  secular  affairs  of  the  church.  The  early 
clergy 

"  Reasoned  high 

Of  providence,  foreknowledge,  will,  and  fate, 
Fixed  fate,  free-will,  foreknowledge  absolute, 
And  found  no  end  in  wondering  mazes  lost. 
Of  good  and  evil  much  they  argued  then, 
Of  happiness,  and  final  misery, 
Passion,  and  apathy, -glory,  and  shame." 


FORMATION    OF    CHURCH.  IC>5 

Their  life-long  effort  was  still  to  climb  higher,  ever 
exclaiming, 

" Paula  majora  canamus." 

The  planters  had  now  after  much  labor  and  trouble 
erected  a  house  for  public  worship  ;  but  it  was  one  of 
the  many  calamities  of  the  colonists,  that  the  meeting- 
house, through  the  unfaithfulness  or  incompetency  of 
some  of  the  workmen,  had  to  undergo  very  frequent 
repairs.  But  this  building,  and  those  who  worshiped 
there,  have  alike  mouldered  to  dust;  but  the  ground  is 
holy,  and  should  be  cherished, 

"Like  spots  of  earth  where  angel  feet  have  trod." 

The  record  of  eternity  doubtless  contains  the  names  of 
many  to  whom  the  portals  of  this  modest  church  were 
the  gateways  of  Heaven.  In  this  little  edifice — meaner 
and  more  rude  in  its  construction  than  any  building  now 
in  the  valley — the  fathers  of  the  town  held  their  solemn 
assemblies,  offered  up  their  united  prayers,  and  put 
forth  their  stern  views  of  doctrine.  At  the  appointed 
hour,  the  drum  having  been  beaten,  both  the  first  time 
and  the  second,  the  whole  population,  from  the  dwel- 
lings of  the  town  and  the  outlying  farms,  came  together 
in  the  place  of  prayer.  In  plain  and  carefully  kept 
clothes,  the  saintly  heads  of  families,  with  their  closely 
trained  and  solemn  faced  children,  came,  after  the  toils 
of  the  week,  to  observe  holy  day.  The  sentinel  is  placed 
in  the  turret ;  those  who  are  to  keep  ward,  go  forth, 
pacing,  two  by  two,  the  still  green  lanes. 

The  imagination  cannot  but  revert  to  those  occasions, 
with  an  admiration  toned  down  almost  to  holy  reverence. 
There,  in  the  midst  of  a  silent  wilderness,  the  hardy, 
toil-worn  settlers  and  their  wives  and  daughters  are 


IO6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

gathered,  gazing  with  moistened  eyes  at  their  venerable 
pastor  as  he  discourses  to  them  from  the  first  verse  of 
the  third  chapter  of  Matthew,  and  warns  them  "of  the 
temptations  of  the  wilderness  ; "  or  listening  with 
bowed  heads  to  the  fervent  prayer  that  the  God  of 
Israel  will  endue  his  servant,  as  heretofore,  with  courage 
and  counsel  to  lead  them  in  the  days  of  their  future 
peril.  The  curious  Indian  paused  at  the  door,  and  was 
filled  with  awe  as  the  white  man  addressed  the  Great 
Spirit.  In  this  rude,  unfinished  structure,  is  devotion 
true  and  pure, — worship,  more  solemn  for  the  lack  of 
outward  pomp.  Far  away  from  the  busy  haunts  of 
men,  they  seemed,  and  felt  nearer  God — more  alone  with 
God — than  ever  before.  With  reverent  joy  they  rejoiced 
in  that  blessed  intimacy  of  communion,  and  drew  from 
it  the  strength  they  needed  for  the  trials  and  duties 
that  formed  the  staple  of  their  daily  lives.  In  the 
eloquent  words  of  Dr.  Bacon,1  through  a  long  course  of 
exercises,  which  would  weary  out  the  men  of  our  degen- 
erate days,  these  hearers  sit -or  stand  with  the  most 
exemplary  attention.  They  love  the  word  that  comes 
from  the  lips  of  their  pastor.  They  love  the  order  of 
this  house.  For  the  privilege  of  uniting  in  these  forms 
of  worship,  of  hearing  the  gospel  thus  preached,  of 
living  under  this  religious  constitution,  and  of  thus 
extending  in  the  world  the  kingdom  which  is  righteous- 
ness and  peace  and  joy,  they  undertook  the  work  of 
planting  this  wilderness.  To  them  each  sermon,  every 
prayer,  every  tranquil  Sabbath  is  the  more  precious  for 
all  that  it  has  cost  them.  It  is  not  strange,  then,  that 
their  attention  is  awake  through  these  long  services,  till, 

i  Historical  Discourses,     51. 


FORMATION    OF    CHURCH.  IO/ 

as  the  day  declines,  they  retire  to  their  dwellings,  and 
close  the  Sabbath  with  family  worship  and  the  catechis- 
ing of  their  children.  We  seem  to  hear  the  utterance 
of  their  piety  in  that  old  stave  of  Sternhold  and 
Hopkins: 

"  Go  walke  about  all  Syon  hill,  yea  round  about  her  go  ; 
And  tell  the  towers  that  thereupon  are  builded  on  a  roe ; 
And  mark  you  well  her  bulwarks  all,  behold  her  towers  there, 
That  ye  may  tell  thereof  to  them  that  after  shall  be  here, 
For  this  God  is  our  God,  forevermore  is  hee ; 
Yea  and  unto  the  death  also,  our  guider  shall  hee  be." 


IO8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

MR.  HARRIMAN,  MR.  STREET,  MR.  WHITTELSEY. 

FOR  the  first  two  years  of  the  settlement  of  the  town, 
Mr.  John  Harriman,  although  not  at  that  time  an 
ordained  minister,  preached  to  them  on  the  Sabbath. 
Mr.  Harriman  was  a  native  of  New  Haven.  His  father 
was  for  many  years  a  respected  member  of  the  church, 
and  was  long  the  keeper  of  the  ordinary,  or  house  of 
public  entertainment  in  that  time.  The  son,  having 
been  fitted  for  college  in  the  grammar  school  at  New 
Haven,  under  the  eye  of  Mr.  Davenport,  was  educated 
at  Harvard  College,  where  he  graduated  in  1667.  For 
about  twenty  years  he  resided  at  New  Haven,  preaching 
as  a  candidate  there,  also  at  East  Haven  and  Walling- 
ford.  In  1682,  he  removed  to  Elizabeth  town,  New 
Jersey. 

In  the  year   1672,  Rev.    Samuel  Street,    son    of  Rev. 
Nicholas    Street,   pastor  of  the  church  at  New   Haven,1 

I  Nicholas  Street  was  born  in  England,  and  received  his  education  at 
one  of  the  universities  there  ;  and  about  the  year  1638  he  was  settled  at 
Taunton,  in  the  Plymouth  Colony,  as  colleague  with  Mr.  Hooker,  at  the 
first  organization  of  the  church  there.  He  removed  to  New  Haven  and 
was  ordained,  according  to  the  church  records,  "  the  26th  of  the  9th, 
1659."  Of  the  character  of  Mr.  Nicholas  Street,  as  of  his  life,  we  know 
but  little.  He  appears  to  have  been  a  pious,  judicious,  modest  man. 
His  "  Considerations  upon  the  Seven  Propositions  concluded  by  the 
Synod,"  published  as  an  appendix  to  Mr.  Davenport's  more  elaborate 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    STREET.  IOQ 

was  invited  to  settle  at  Wallingford  ;  and  in  April,  1673, 
he  removed  his  family  there,  and  in  1674  was  installed 
as  pastor  of  the  church.  After  Mr.  Street  had  con- 
sented to  become  their  minister,  two  committees  were 
appointed  :  one  was  to  see  that  Mr.  Street's  goods  were 
brought  from  New  Haven  and  landed  at  some  convenient 
place,  the  other  to  see  that  they  were  thence  carted  up 
to  Wallingford.  To  us  this  seems  to  indicate  a  curious 
mode  of  intercourse  between  the  two  towns.  But  then 
owing  to  the  state  of  the  roads,  it  was  no  doubt  easier 
to  send  the  goods  from  New  Haven  harbor,  up  the 
Quinnipiac  river,  as  far  perhaps  as  North  Haven,  and 
from  thence  by  land  to  Wallingford. 

Mr.  .Street  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1664, 
and  was  forty  years  old  when  he  came  to  Wallingford. 
He  received  an  annual  salary  before  any  church  was 
gathered  there.  It  may  serve  to  convey  some  idea  of  the 
character  of  the  people,  that  in  1673,  when  their  own 
poor  dwellings  were  hardly  erected,  and  they  were 
struggling  with  all  the  untold  difficulties  of  a  wilderness, 
and  when  their  whole  number,  men,  women  and  child- 
ren, hardly  exceeded  one  hundred,  they  voted  to  build  a 
house  for  their  minister,  and  to  pay  him  a  salary  of  ^£50. 
If  our  western  settlements  now  had  as  much  courage 
and  energy,  we  should  have  small  need  of  Home  Mis- 
sionary Societies.  February  24,  1673,  "  itt  was  ordered 
that  Mr.  Street's  house  be  Raised  at  the  Townes  charge." 
At  a  Court  of  Election  held  at  Hartford,  May  12,  1681, 


book  on  the  same  subject,  shows  great  clearness  of  thought,  and  some 
pungency  of  style.  That  he  was  no  inferior  preacher,  may  be  inferred 
from  the  fact  that  he  was  found  worthy  to  succeed  Mr.  Hooker,  and  that 
he  maintained  his  standing  as  the  colleague  of  Mr.  Davenport.  The 
whole  course  of  his  ministry  in  New  Haven  was  about  sixteen  years  and 
a  half. 


I  IO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

"The  Court  for  the  encouragement  of  Mr.  Samuel  Streete 
grant  him  two  hundred  acres  of  land,  provided  he  take  it  up 
where  it  may  not  prejudice  any  former  grant  to  any  person  or 
plantation." 

This  was  laid  out  April  24,  1682,  in  Wallingford,  and 
by  him  conveyed,  June  27,  1686,  to  Mr.  John  Hulls,  of 
Derby.  Jan.  12,  1685,  there  was  granted  to  Mr.  Street, 

"  A  house  lott  containing  six  acres  as  may  appear  by  the 
act  of  the  town  in  folio  5,  also  six  acres  of  Land  by  exchange 
with  the  town  in  folio  30,  being  laid  out  by  the  town  sur- 
veigher,  and  lying  on  the  east  side  of  the  town  being  the  sixth 
house  lott  in  number,  and  bounded  on  the  south  by  Abraham 
Dowlittle,  Junr,  on  the  North  side  and  on  the  west  and  east 
end  by  the  town  street  being  fourty  eight  Rods  long  and  40 
rods  wide  and  so  they  lye  for  twelve  acres  more  or  less."1 

At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Wallingford,  April  28,  1696, 

"  The  Town  voted  to  allow  Mr.  Sam1  Street  as  A  recom- 
pense of  his  labour  in  ye  worke  of  ye  ministry  inye  year  1696 
ye  full  &  just  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  in  provision  pay,  only 
ye  sd  Mr.  Street  is  to  find  himself  firewood  &  he  will  set  A 
week  in  ye  forepart  of  ye  sumer  &  A  week  in  ye  latter  part  of 
ye  sumer  y*  each  man  may  bring  A  load  of  wood  or  two  if  ye 
sd  Mr.  Street  se  Cause  &  yl  Mr.  Street  will  allow  2  &  6d  P 
load  to  each  man." 

During  Mr.  Street's  residence  in  Wallingford,  he 
exerted  a  great  influence  in  all  the  affairs  of  the  town, 
and  was  much  respected  by  all  the  inhabitants.  He 
answered  to  a  letter,  Cowper's  description  of  a  preacher, 
such  as  Paul,  were  he  on  earth,  would  hear,  approve  and 
own  : 


i  On  the  town  records  there    are  seven   other  grants  of  land  to  Mr. 
Street,  amounting  in  all  to  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres. 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    STREET.  1  I  I 

"  Simple,  grave,  sincere  ; 
In  doctrine  uncorrupt,  in  language  plain, 
And  plain  in  manner,  decent,  solemn,  chaste, 
And  natural  in  gesture  ;  much  impressed 
Himself,  as  conscious  of  his  awful  charge, 
And  anxious  mainly  that  the  flock  he  feeds 
May  feel  it  too ;  affectionate  in  looks, 
And  tender  in  address,  as  well  becomes 
A  messenger  of  grace  to  guilty  men." 

Mr.  Street  died  January  16,  1717,  aged  eighty-two 
years ;  a  venerable  man,  to  whom  age  had  come  "  frostly 
but  kindly,"  and  whose  last  days  were  like  those  of  an 
Indian  summer,  serene  and  beautiful,  even  till  the  stars 
appeared  in  heaven.  He  was  pastor  of  the  church  for 
forty-two  years.1  Time  was  when  the  location  of  a 
minister  in  any  particular  place,  as  pastor  of  a  church, 
was  regarded  as  a  permanent  establishment.  Until  near 
the  close  of  the  last  century,  the  dismission  of  a  pastor 
was  an  event  of  uncommon  occurrence ;  a  thing  which 
gave  occasion  for  much  remark;  and  the  cause  of  dismis- 
sion was  the  subject  of  earnest  inquiry.  Councils,  when 
called  to  act  on  the  question  of  dissolving  the  connec- 
tion between  a  pastor  and  his  church,  long  hesitated 
before  coming  to  a  decision.  It  was  long  the  custom  in 
Connecticut,  for  the  young  men  and  women  of  a  parish 
to  celebrate  the  occasion  of  the  settlement  of  a  new 
minister  by  a  ball  on  the  evening  following  the  day  of 
his  ordination  or  installation.  This  was  termed  the 
"ordination  ball,"  and  was  sometimes  conducted  with 

i  His  youngest  son,  Nicholas,  was  settled  in  Groton  ;  the  eldest,  Samuel, 
had  three  sons,  Captain  Elnathan,  Samuel,  and  John.  The  eldest  daugh- 
ter was  married  to  Deacon  John  Peck,  and  died  before  her  father.  One 
was  married  to  Theophilus  Yale,  and  another  to  Joshua  Culver.  The 
widow  of  Mr.  Street  died  July  12,  1730. 


112  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

such  propriety  and  decorum  that  church  members  and 
even  the  new  pastor  would  honor  the  ball  with  their 
presence.  They  ultimately  came  to  be  regarded  as  a 
scandal,  and  were  at  last  suppressed  by  public  sentiment.1 
As  Mr.  Street  became  unable  to  perform  the  duties 
of  his  office,  it  became  necessary  to  provide  a  colleague 
and  successor.  The  forethought  and  action  of  the 
people  in  the  matter  are  set  forth  in  the  following  votes : 

"July  26,  1708.     The  town  voted  that  they  apprehended  it 
was  their  duty  to  take  care  and  Look  out  to  geat    another 


i    The  following  are  the  items  for  the  "  laying  out  for  ye  Ordination  of 

Rev.  Nathaniel  Chauncey  of  Durham."     Mr.  Chauncey's  sister  was  the 
wife  of  Rev.  Mr.  Whittelsey  of  Wallingford.     He  was  ordained  February 

17,  1711. 

s.  d. 

"From  Joel  Pamerly  15  Ibs  Pork  and  1-2  Bushel  Mault.  4  4 

By  Beef  from  Mr.  Wadsworth  16  o 

By  20  Ib.  Butter             10  10  o 

By  20  Ib.  Sugar             10  10  o 

By  4  Bushel  Wheat  1 7  o 

By  Cheese                        42  42 

By  Hens,  Goose,  Turkic  16  6 

By  a  Sheep  and  fetching  from  Town,  9  o 

By  3  Bushel  apples  3  6 

By  2  Quarters  of  Mutton  3  o 

Mault  for  Beer  4  o 

Barrel  of  Cyder  8  o 

Chocolate,  Pepper ;  Spice,  Currant,  Nutmeg  6  o 

Metheglin  and  Rum.  12  6 

Two  Piggs,  fresh  Pork,  Salt  Pork  and  Beef  6  6 

Hireing  5  Horses  2  o 

Labor  and  trouble  of  my  Family  10  o 

Four  Neats'  Tongues  2  8 

To  ye  Camps'  girl  56  56 

Good  wife  Taylor  6  o 

Good  wife  Seward  3  o 

Good  wife  Hecox  3  o 

Good  wife  Squire  3  o 

£8  5  8 


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minister The  town    voted   that  they  would  chouse  a 

commetie  to   Seeke  out  and   to  take  the  advice  for  the  pro- 
curing and  bring  in  a  minister  to  seatle  in  the  place." 

Five  men  were  chosen  as  a  committee,  who  invited 
Mr.  Whittelsey  to  preach  ;  and  on  the  2Oth  of  Sep- 
tember, 

"  The  town  by  a  unanimous  vot  did  confiearme  the  com- 
mities  agreement  with  mr.  Sam1.  Whittelsey  in  order  to  his 
Seatelment  in  the  work  of  the  minestuy  in  our  town." 

After  preaching  some  time,  the  people  being  satisfied 
with  his  labors,  invited  him  to  become  their  pastor. 
The  following  is  the  letter  in  which  the  call  was  commu- 
nicated : 

"  MR.  WHITTELSEY,  SUR  : — The  subscribers  hereof  being 
a  committe  appointed  and  empowered  by  the  town  of 
Wallingford  as  may  appear  by  their  record  bearing  date 
April  4,  1789  ;  to  treat  with  yourself  in  order  to  a  settelment 
with  us  in  the  ministry,  and  for  your  incouragement  to  com- 
ply with  us  therein,  doe  propose  to  make  such  grants  of 
Lands  and  other  incouragements  following — first  we  doe 
give  and  grant  to  you  the  said  Mr.  Samuel  Whittelsey,  a  six 
acar  lott  of  land  lying  neare  the  meting  house ;  and  one  acar 
and  a  half  of  the  west  end  Deaken  John  Hall's  home  lott 
for  a  building  lott,  to  be  bought  for  you :  also  a  peace  of 
Land  at  south  ward  side  the  Leatel  quarter  on  the  hill  on 
which  the  town  stands  fifteen  acars ;  and  seaven  acars  of 
pasture  land  on  the  north  side  of  Nath'l  Ives  home  lott :  also 
a  meadow  lott  of  land  in  the  common  field  on  the  west  side 
of  the  river  of  twenty  acars  and  known  by  the  name  of 
the  parsonage  ;  and  fore  acars  of  plaine  in  the  same  field 
called  the  town  lott,  also  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
acars  of  Land  att  Pilgrim's  Harbor  called  the  town  farm 
with  all  the  un  laid  outt  land  adjoining,  and  one  hundred 
pound  right  in  common-age  and  in  all  undivided  land,  all 
I 


114  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

which  shall  be  to  the  said  Mr.  Sam'l  Whittlesey,  his  heirs, 
executors  and  administrators  and  assigns  for  ever,  as  an 
estate  of  inheritance  in  fee  simple :  Likewise  the  said 
committee  do  agree  to  build  a  house  for  the  s'd  Mr  Sam'll 
Whittlesey  of  forty-two  feets  in  Length  and  twenty  feets  in 
breadth,  tow  stories  hye,  with  a  porch  and  a  back  kitching 
and  finish  it  deasantly  the  said  Mr.  Samuel  Whittlesey  to 
provide  glass  and  nales :  which  house  is  to  be  soe  built 
within  tow  years :  the  s'd  committee  doth  farther  agree  that 
the  said  Mr.  Whittlesey  shall  have  a  Sallery  of  Seaventy 
pound  a  year  for  the  tow  first  years  and  the  thurd  yeare 
eighty  pound  and  One  hundred  pound  a  yeare  ever  after, 
soe  long  as  he  carrieth  on  the  work  of  the  ministry :  which 
Sallery  shall  be  paid  in  wheat  at  five  shillings  par  bushel, 
rye  at  three  shillings  sixpence  par  bushel,  indian  corne  at  two 
shillings  sixpence  par  bushel,  pork  at  threepence  farding  par 
povnd,  and  if  it  soe  fall  out  that  there  doth  not  come  a 
supply  of  fire  wood  yearly  to  the  s'd  Mr.  Whittlesey  by 
parsons  appearing  to  do  it  gratis,  then  the  town  are  obliged 
to  take  the  care,  and  find  him  his  wood  in  some  other  way 
— but  if  the  providence  of  God  should  so  order  that  the 
said  Mr.  Sam'll  Whittlesey  dye  leaving  no  male  Hare  that 
is  a  natural  issue  of  his  bodye,  then  the  six  acar  lott 
by  the  meeting  house,  and  the  meadow  lott  called  the 
parsonage  to  returne  to  the  town  againe,  to  the  true  and 
honest  intent  and  parformans  of  the  preameses  we  the  before 
named  committee  have  sett  our  names. 

"THOMAS  YALE,  JOHN  HALL,  SR., 

SAMUEL  HALL,  JOHN  MEARIMAN, 

THOMAS  CURTIS,  JOHN  HALL, 

JOHN  PARKER." 

Mr.  Whittelsey  accepted  this  call,  and  in  September, 
1709,  "The  town  voted  and  Laid  a  Rait  of  eight  pence 
upon  the  pound  for  the  caring  on  of  the  work  mr. 
Sam'll  Whittelsey  hous  fore  pence  upon  the  pound  to  be 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    WHITTELSEY.  I  I  5 

paid  upon  this  year's  List  and  fore  pence  to  be  paid  upon 
the  next  year's  List."  He  was  installed  May,  1710. 

Rev.  Samuel  Whittelsey  was  born  at  Saybrook,  Conn., 
in  1686.  He  was  the  youngest  son  of  John  Whittelsey, 
who  was  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  all  who  bear  the  name, 
and  Ruth  ( Dudley  Whittelsey).  He  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1705,  and  five  years  afterwards  was  in- 
stalled as  colleague  with  Mr.  Street.  Here  he  continued 
until  his  death,  which  took  place  on  the  i5th  of  August, 
1752,  just  as  he  was  entering  his  sixty-seventh  year. 
He  was  a  fellow  of  Yale  College  from  1732  to  1752. 
Mr.  Whittelsey  married  July  i,  1712,  Sarah,  the  young- 
est daughter  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Chauncey  of  Hatfield, 
Mass.,  and  granddaughter  of  President  Chauncey  of 
Harvard  College.  She  was  born  in  1683.  She  was  a 
woman  of  active  mind  and  energy  of  character.  For 
the  accomodation  of  the  parish,  which  at  that  time  in- 
cluded all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town,  she  kept  a  store 
of  goods.  Her  house  was  the  abode  of  hospitality,  even 
after  the  death  of  her  husband.  The  Governor  of  the 
State  had  been  in  the  habit  of  taking  dinner  at  Mr. 
Whittelsey's,  when  on  the  way  to  meet  the  legislature  at 
New  Haven.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Whittelsey,  he  pass- 
ed on  one  occasion  without  stopping,  very  much  to  her 
dissatisfaction.  "To  think,"  said  she,  "that  he  should 
come  to  see  us  so  often  that  his  horse  refused  to  go  by 
without  stopping  until  he  was  whipped  ;  and  now  that 
he  should  refuse  to  stop  and  see  me  in  my  affliction  !" 
She  died  October  20,  or  23,  1767,  aged  eighty-four  years. 

President  Stiles,  in  an  obituary  of  Mr.  Whittelsey, 
published  shortly  after  his  death,  in  the  Boston  "  Post 
Boy"  speaks  of  him  as  follows  :  "  He  was  a  gentleman 
of  penetrating  genius,  solid  judgment  and  extensive 


Il6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

understanding  ;  indefatigable  and  unwearied  in  his  appli- 
cation to  study  and  liberal  inquiry,  by  which  his 
acquaintance  with  the  sciences  became  extensive,  his 
knowledge  universal,  and  in  moral  .wisdom  he  had  few 
equals.  Under  the  influence  of  Christian  principles, 
his  soul  flowed  to  diffusive  benevolence  ;  he  lived  the 
religion  he.  inculcated,  and  recommended  it  by  the  pow- 
erful charms  of  a  virtuous  example.  His  talents  as  a 
preacher  were  singular,  being  master  of  an  engaging 
elocution  and  address,  and  in  composition  judicious  and 
instructive.  He  ministered  intellectual  food,  and 
entertained  his  audience  with  the  beaten  oil  of  the  sanc- 
tuary. He  labored  with  delight  in  word  and  doctrine. 
The  services  and  devotions  of  the  sanctuary  were  his 
supreme  pleasure.  In  many  ways,  by  his  extensive 
influence,  he  served  the  church  of  Christ,  and  the  public 
glory  of  his  kingdom.  Happy  in  offspring  and  a  well 
educated  family,  his  sons  under  the  advantage  of  a 
liberal  education,  survived  him  in  his  genius,  improve- 
ments and  Christian  character.  As  a  private  Christian, 
he  was  exemplary,  virtuous  and  pious  ;  had  a  natural 
reservedness  of  mind  which  rendered  him  singular  in 
bearing  injuries  which  the  best  can't  escape  ;  and  when 
reviled,  he  reviled  not  again,  but  retaliated  in  gratitude 
with  that  meekness  and  goodness  which  extorted  vener- 
ation from  the  partial,  as  well  as  obtained  a  cheerful 
tribute  from  the  candid  judge  of  merit.  Not  less 
eminent  was  his  patience,  especially  in  the  lengthened 
illness  which  finished  his  life.  The  supports  of  religion 
and  a  well  regulated  life,  shone  in  the  steady  calmness 
and  composure  of  his  temper  during  his  illness  ;  while 
a  mortification  in  his  legs  and  feet,  arising  from  an  ill 
state  of  blood  and  disorder  of  body,  preyed  upon  him, 


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and  in  a  gradual  decline  extinguished  his  life.  Thus  died 
Samuel  the  prophet,  full  of  days  and  the  Holy  Ghost ; 
after  he  had  long  and  faithfully  served  his  generation,  he 
'  fell  on  sleep,  was  gathered  to  his  fathers,  and  all  Israel 
lamented  him.' " 

Dr.  Chauncey  of  Boston  said  of  him,  that  he  was  one 
of  the  greatest  men  in  Connecticut.  He  had  not  only 
a  clear,  strong  head,  but  the  clearest  way  of  expressing 
his  thoughts  upon  any  difficult  subject,  of  any  one  he 
was  acquainted  with.  "  I  have  heard  him  say,  that  when 
he  had  clear  ideas  of  any  subject  he  could  communicate 
with  the  same  clearness,  and  do  it  with  ease."1  He  was 
one  of  the  most  eminent  preachers  in  the  colony  in  his 
day,  a  laborious,  faithful  minister  of  Christ,  applying 
his  whole  time  to  his  work,  and  shone  with  distinction 
in  intellectual  and  moral  attainments.  One  of  the  old 
writers  says  :  "  He  was  esteemed  an  heavenly  man."2 


1  Chauncey  Memorials,  p.  203.     Mr.  Whittelsey  published  an  Election 
Sermon,  1730;  a   Sermon  on  the  death  of  John  Hall,  1730;  a  Sermon 
on  the  woful  condition  of  impenitent  souls  in  their  separate  state,  1731  ;  a 
Sermon  on  the  ordination  of  his  son,  1737. 

2  Samuel,  the  eldest  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  Whittelsey,  was  born  Novem- 
ber, 1714,  was    graduated  in    1729,  and  held,  the  office  of  tutor  in  Yale 
College  from  1732  till  1738.     It  was  during  the  period  of  his  tutorship 
that  he  was  invited  by  the  church  in  Milford  to  settle  as  colleague  pastor 
with  the  Rev.  Samuel  Andrews.     He  accepted  the  call,  but  a  large  minor- 
ity in  the  parish  remonstrated     against    his   ordination,    on   the   alleged 
ground  that  he  was  an  Arminian  in  his  theology,  and  that  his  preaching 
savored  too  little  of  Christian  experience.     The  council  called  to  ordain 
him  were  divided  in  their  judgment  of  the  case  ;  and  his  ordination  was 
finally  the  result  of  a  compromise,  which  resulted,  after  all,  in  the  forma- 
tion of  a  second  society.     He  was  ordained  November  8,   1738,  and  con- 
tinued in   the  discharge  of  his  official  duties  till   his  death,  which  took 
place  October  22,    1768.     His  widow,  who  was  a  lady  of  high  intellectual 
and  moral  qualities,  afterwards  became  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  Jabez  Ham- 
lin,  of  Middletown,  who  was,  for  many  years,  dislirgi  it  hcd  in  civil  life. 


Il8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  old  house  with  its  "  two  pues"  and  "  gallers," 
could  not  well  contain  the  growing  population,  for  some 
of  the  hearers  had  to  put  up  with  rather  inconvenient 
church  accommodations.  But  of  these  they  were  cut 
short  by  the  following  peremptory  and  rather  uncour- 
teous  vote  of  the  town  in  1716:  "ordered  that  the  alleys 
in  the  meeting  house  be  cleared  of  chairs  and  stools, 
and  the  constable  see  that  it  be  done."  Where  the 
occupants  of  these  "  chairs  and  stools"  bestowed  them- 
selves after  this  unceremonious  ejectment  we  do  not 
know  ;  but  it  is  quite  probable  that  they  agitated  effect- 
ually the  project  of  a  new  and  better  house  ;  for  in  a  few 
months  we  find  a  new  church  edifice  in  progress.  In 
September  23,  1717, 

"  The  town  by  their  voat  signified  that  they  thought  it  was 
there  Duty  to  begin  about  a  new  meeting  house  &  chose 
capt.  John  Hall,  en  curtis,  ser.  Hart,  Gideon  ives,  william 
ward,  Joseph  parker,  Robert  Hall,  &  Sau  Hall  a  committee 
to  manage  the  affairs  &  carri  on  the  work  about  the  new  meet- 
ing house And  the  forms  of  the  house  to  be  like 

gilford  meeting  house  and  be  left  to  ye  committee  to  make 
sum  little  alteration  if  they  see  cause  ;  And  layed  a  rate  of 
eight  pence  on  the  pounde  for  the  careing  on  the  metting 
hous." 

A  question  arose  as  to  the  place  where  the  meeting- 
house should  stand ;  whereupon  it  was  decided  that  it 
should  stand  where  "  the  timbers  for  the  same  now  lies," 
which  was  almost  in  front  of  the  present  Congregational 
church,  the  steeple  being  at  the  north  end  of  the  house, 
which  fronted  east.  Preparations  were  going  forward 
during  the  whole  of  the  year,  and  in  1718,  the  house  was 
raised.  The  committee  for  raising  the  frame  work  of 
the  house  divided  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  into  three 


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parts.  Each  division  of  the  inhabitants  was  faithfully 
to  attend  to  the  raising  of  the  house  when  called  upon ; 
and  should  this  arrangement  fail,  then  the  committee 
were  empowered  to  hire  them.  It  was 

"  Voted   that  the  metting  hous  floure  shall  be  layed  with 

good    single     Boards    well    Rabbited The    towne 

voated  that  the  metting  hous  shall  have  pues  maid  all  round 
it  and  ye  rest  of  ye  hous  shall  be  long  seats." 

This  last  vote  indicates  the  further  increase  of  lux- 
urious habits,  inasmuch  as  the  "  two  pews"  of  the  old 
house  were  multiplied  into  a  whole  range  of  "pues," 
built  all  around  the  sides  of  the  new  house.  The  next 
vote  was  to  raise  funds  for  the  building. 

"April  28,  1719,  the  Town  voated  y1  they  would  git  so 
many  staves  as  will  load  vessell  and  they  chose  Capt.  Hall 
to  make  a  bargain  for  ye  town  in  ye  Disposall  of  ye  staves, 
they  obliged  themselves  to  git : — in  buying  glass1  and  nales 
and  promise  to  indemnifie  hall  from  any  damages  thereby  if 
he  shall  need  to  stand  or  give  bonds." 

The  house  was  completed  and  occupied  in  1720.  It 
was  a  large  house,  three  stories  high,  with  two  tiers  of 
galleries,  one  above  the  other,  somewhat  in  the  manner 

I  In  January,  1719,  Mr.  John  Russel  proposed  to  furnish  the  glass  for 
the  new  house,  and  his  offer  was  accepted.  The  contract  was  as  follows  : 

"  Wallingford,  January  5,  1719. 

"  John  Russel  of  Wethersfield,  Glazier,  will  oblige  himself  to  make  all 
the  Glass  for  the  New  Meeting  house  workman  like  and  to  do  it  as  cheap 
as  ye  Market  price  for  such  Glass,  and  will  begin  about  May  next ;  and 
take  his  pay  in  good  Barrel  staves  by  the  last  of  June  at  current  Market 
price.  Only  his  necessary  charge  whilst  he  is  about  the  work  to  be 
borne,  he  allowing  it  out  of  the  price  of  the  glass. 

.  (  EBENEZER  BROWN,  JOHN  RUSSEL,  \ 

"  In  presence  of   <  ( 

^  JOHN  WINSTON,  JOHN  HALL>     ( 

SAM'L.  HULL."  ' 


I2O 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


of  a  theater,  and  of  the  "old  South"  church  in  Boston  ;  a 
mode  of  building  churches  quite  common  during  the 
last  century.  The  upper  gallery  was  of  course  very 
high,  and  as  its  occupants  were  almost  entirely  out  of 
sight,  it  furnished  an  admirable  place  for  boys  to  cluster 
together  and  play.  Even  in  the  old  house  it  had  been 
found  necessary  in  1677,  to 

"  Vote  that  Eliazur  Peck  be  desired  to  looke  to  ye  boyes 
on  ye  saboth  that  they  keep  good  order  at  meeting ;"  and 
again  in  1713,  "the  town  chos  Sergtl  Daniel  Hall  to  look 
after  boys  on  ye  saboth  day." 


THIRD    CHURCH. 


In  the  new  house  they  found  it  necessary  to  deny  the 
boys  admission  altogether  into  so  tempting  a  place  as 
the  upper  gallery,  for  in 

"April  25,   1721,  voated  that  no  young  man  shall  go  up 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    WHITTELSEY.  121 

into  the  upper  gallery  to  sett  there  on  the  Saboth  day  under 
eighteen  yeare  old. 

"September  16,  1716,  the  town  voated  and  gave  liberty 
that  particular  men  may  build  a  steeple  to  our  meeting  house." 

But  it  was  not  until  January  9,  1728,  that  a  "  belfree" 
was  built,  the  top  of  which  was  crowned  by  a  large 
brass  rooster. 

The  present  custom  of  renting  the  seats  in  churches 
was  then  unknown  :  and  in  the  new  house  there  would 
be  quite  a  choice  between  the  "  pues"  and  the  "  long 
seats."  In  order  to  arrange  or  prevent  all  disputes  for 
precedence  in  the  matter,  a  committee  was  appointed 
"  to  dignify  and  seat  the  meeting-house."  In  assigning 
seats  to  the  respective  individuals  and  families,  the 
committee  were  enjoined  by  vote  "  to  respect  the  aged 
who  had  been  serviceable  to  the  town,"  and  also  "  to  have 
respect  to  those  who  had  borne  commissions."  After 
giving  the  best  seats  to  these  dignitaries,  they  were  in- 
structed to  have  "  this  general  rule  for  seating  the  meet- 
ing, viz. :  the  lists,  on  which  the  charges  are  raised."  If 
a  plan  had  been  devised  for  creating  and  perpetuating 
envy,  jealousy  and  pride,  no  more  ingenious  scheme 
could  have  been  invented  for  that  purpose,  than  this 
attempt  to  arrange  people  in  the  house  of  God,  every 
Sabbath  day,  according  to  their  wealth  and  supposed 
rank.  Many  an  individual  would  probably  form  quite  a 
different  estimate  of  his  "dignity,"  from  the  committee. 
What  feelings  were  engendered  have  been  forgotten,  ex- 
cept in  one  instance  we  learn  that  one  man  to  whom  was 
assigned  a  position  on  the  "long  seats,"  having  made 
known  his  grievance,  had  redress  as  follows : 

"  The  town  by  their  voat  gave  Capt.  John  Hall,  liberty  to 


122  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

make  him  self  a  pew  in  the  new  metting  hous,  near  the  east 
Dore,  on  men's  side  on  his  own  charge Decem- 
ber 18,  1716,  the  town  voated  that  Robert  Roys  should  sett 
in  y6  fore  seat  in  ye  meeting  hous,  and  that  Capt  Hall  senr 
shall  set  in  the  Deacons  seat  and  capt  Hall  junr  to  set  in  ye 
first  pue  &  Capt.  Doolittle  to  set  in  ye  second  pue.  De- 
cember 20,  1720,  the  town  gave  Mrs  Whittelsey  liberty  to 
choose  her  self  a  pew  in  the  new  metting  hous.  February 
8,  1732  ;  voated  the  ancient  comitee  shall  find  some  sutable 
seat  for  Mr  Studley  where  he  may  sett  on  Saboth  Days." 

The  custom  was  maintained  here  until  the  occupation 
of  the  house  which  was  built  in  1831.  Tn  September, 
1718,  it  was  voted  that  a  steeple  should  be  built  for  the 
meeting-house,  but  it  was  not  until  1728,  that  anything 
was  done  in  regard  to  it  ;  and  in  January  of  that  year  a 
belfry  was  built.  This  house  was  occupied  until  1824, 
when  it  was  taken  down  to  make  room  for  the  fourth 
house  of  worship. 


^, 


123 


CHAPTER  VII. 


MERIDEN,  DOG'S  MISERY,   FALLS  PLAIN. 

THE  north  part  of  the  town,  though  owned'by  Walling- 
ford,  was  not  a  part  of  Wallingford.  The  title  or  fee 
simple  of  the  land  was  in  the  town  of  Wallingford  ; 
the  right  of  government  was  in  the  State,  but  there 
was  no  town  authority  in  it  or  over  it ;  it  was  neither  a 
town,  nor  constituted  a  part  of  any  town.  The  General 
Court,  in  anticipation  of  the  loss  of  the  charter  by  a 
judgment  on  the  Quo  Warranto,  or  of  being  compelled 
to  surrender  it  to  Andros,  now  took  such  measures  as 
were  in  their  power  to  secure  the  colony  against  the 
future  exactions  of  an  arbitrary  governor.  The  charter 
was  yet  valid,  and  the  governor  and  company  were  em- 
powered to  dispose  of  all  vacant  lands,  vesting  them  in 
the  grantees  by  a  tenure  as  liberal  as  that  by  which  the 
colony  now  held  them,  and  exempting  the  proprietors 
from  the  levy  of  quit-rents  or  any  similar  exaction. 
Patents  had  already  been  issued  to  the  several  towns, 
and  to  many  individual  proprietors.  Debts  due  the 
colony  were  to  be  collected,  and  whatever  surplus  should 
remain  in  the  treasury  was  to  be  distributed  to  the 
several  towns.  The  grants  were  intended  to  put  the 


124  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

vacant  lands  beyond  the  reach  of  Andros  or  other  sim- 
ilarly commissioned  governors.  At  "  A  Speciall  Gen' 
Court  held  at  Hartford  January  26,  1686,"  it  was  voted 
that 

"  This  Court  grants  Weathersfeild,  Midletown  and  Farm- 
ington  all  those  vacant  lands  between  Wallingford  bownds 
and  the  bownds  of  those  plantations,  to  make  a  village  there- 


This  grant  comprised  that  part  of  the  town  called 
"  Belcher's  farm,"  on  which  was  the  place  called  Meriden. 
But  no  action  was  taken  until  May  9,  1728,  when 
Bartholomew  Foster,  Ezekiel  Roys,  John  Merriam, 
Robert  Collins,  Nathaniel  Merriam,  Timothy  Foster, 
Thomas  Andrews,  Josiah  Robinson,  Joseph  Merriam, 
John  Merriam  Jun.  and  William  Merriam,  petitioned  the 
Governor  and  General  Court, 

"  That  those  lands  lying  between  farmington  and  walling- 
ford  with  the  north  of  walingford  to  be  a  village  or  parish 
societie,  to  reserve  Mr  Belcher  his  farm  att  the  stone  house 
for  the  present.  We  doe  therefore  now  cast  orselves  on  y" 
Clemency  of  this  Honored  affembly  and  pray  that  the  stone 
house  farm  may  be  granted  to  them." 

The  above  petition  was  granted,  and  the  village  called 
Meriden.  Ten  years  previous  to  this,  some  of  the 
settlers  living  south  of  Belcher's  farm  sent  the  following 
petition  to  Wallingford : 

"We,  the  inhabitants  bordering  and  adjacent  to  the  town 
of  Wallingford,  do  here  entreat  and  request,  that  you  would 
admit  us  the  subscribers  as  wholesome  and  lawful  inhabitants 
into  the  town  of  Wallingford.  We  the  petitioners  here  re- 
quest that  if  it  may  please  you  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Wallingford  to  admit  us  your  humble  petitioners  as  town 


MERIDEN.  125 

inhabitants,  then  your  humble  petitioners  do  promise  and 
engage  to  be  subject  to  your  good  and  wholesome  orders,  laws 
and  constitutions,  as  witness  our  hands. 

"BARTHOLOMEW  FOSTER,  JOHN  MERRIAM, 

JOHN  HOISINGTON,  SOLOMON  GOFFE, 

JOSEPH  HILLS." 

The  town  voted  to  comply  with  the  request  of  the 
petitioners.  But  for  a  time,  not  all  the  inhabitants  re- 
siding in  this  north  part  of  Meriden  were  considered 
citizens  of  Wallingford,  subject  to  its  laws,  privileges 
and  burthens,  but  merely  those  who  had  applied  in 
form  for  citizenship.  We  find  also  on  the  records  sev- 
eral special  petitions  from  individuals  residing  in  this 
same  locality,  to  be  allowed  to  attend  public  worship  in 
the  meeting  house,  and  who  were  by  special  vote 
permitted  to  occupy  a  designated  seat,  on  condition  of 
paying  a  certain  annual  rent.  The  citizens  of  Walling- 
ford, being  regularly  taxed  by  town  vote  for  the  support 
of  religious  institutions,  had  a  right  as  a  matter  of  course 
to  seats  in  the  church  without  any  price  or  rent  what- 
ever. 

It  would  be  tedious  to  trace  out  all  the  transfers  of 
land  in  this  neighborhood,  after  the  Indian  title  was 
extinguished.  It  may  be  a  matter  of  some  interest  how- 
ever, to  know  some  of  the  principal  proprietors  and 
residents  in  the  north  part  of  Meriden  about  the  year 
1716.  Northward  and  eastward  of  West  Meriden,  lay 
the  farm  of  John  Merriam,1  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  who  was  the 

I  "  Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I  John  Prout  Sen'r,  of  New 
Haven,  and  Col.  of  Conn.,  Gent.,  for  and  in  consideration  of  ye  sum  of 
Three  Hundred  and  five  pounds,  current  money,  to  me  in  hand  well  and 
truly  paid  by  John  Merriam  of  Wallingford,  have  sold,  granted  and  C.  a 
certain  tract  or  parcel  of  Land  known  by  ye  name  of  ye  Country  farme 


126  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

ancestor  of  the  numerous  families  of  that  name  still 
residing  here.  He  bought  three  hundred  acres  for 
^305.  More  northerly  lay  the  farm  of  Bartholomew 
Foster,  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  which  seems  to 
have  been  west  of  the  present  old  road,  and  northward 
as  far  as  the  Kensington  road.1 

North  of  this  was  the  land  of  Henry  Coles,  called  the 
"  Coles  farm,"  extending  east  of  Bartholomew  Foster,  so 
as  to  reach  the  land  of  John  Merriam.2  North  of  the 
Coles  farm  was  the  land  of  Natheniel  Roys ;  and  still 
farther  northward  was  the  Belcher  farm,  which,  or  on 
which  was  the  place  called  Meriden.  The  documents 
give  us  some  information  as  to  the  residents  in  this  part 
of  the  town,  at  that  period.  We  derive  some  additional 

formerly  granted  to  James  Bishop  of  New  Haven,  by  the  Governor  and 
Company  of  ye  said  Colony  of  Conn,  containing  three  hundred  Acres 
Abutting  south  on  ye  old  line  of  Wallingford  Township,  North  on  ye 
Coles  farm,  East  on  a  brook,  or  land  formerly  Mr.  William  Jones  Esq., 
west  on  commons  or  land  of  late  years  laid  out  to  sundry  persons  of  ye 
said  town  of  Wallingford,  situate  lying  and  being  the  wilderness  at  a  place, 
commonly  called  Pilgrim's  Harbor  northward  of  Wallingford  old  bounds 
and  51-2  Acres  of  hoop  land,  situated  in  Wallingford,  aforesaid  nere  ye 
said  farm  be  ye  same  more  or  less,  formerly  belonging  to  Robert  and 
Isaac  Roys,  as  witnesseth  my  hand  at  New  Haven,  this  3  day  of  Novem- 
ber in  the  year  1716.  John  Prout. 

Mary  Prout" 

1  "Sept.   19,   1710:  Thomas  Yale,  John  Merriam  and   Thomas  Hall, 
committe  of    Wallingford,  to  sell   Indian    lands,  grant  to  Bartholomew 
Foster,  the  Town  right  to  a  certain  Tract  of  land  of  360  Acres,  situated 
between  Pilgrim's  Harbor  and  Merredan,  bounded  on  ye  N.  E.  corner  by 
a  Black  Oak  tree,  thence  by  the  road  that  goeth  to  Hartford  207  Rods  to 
W   Oak  tree,   thence  westward  312  Rods  to  a  Black  oak  tree,  that  side 
bounds  by  land  of  Mr.  John  Hudson,   thence   Northwardly  1 12  to  a  Bl'k 
oak  tree,  thence  120  Rods  to  a  Walnut  tree,  thence  on  a  line  to  the  first 
station  266  Rods." 

2  "  At  meriden  farme,  march  the  12,  1708,  the  proprietors  of  goodman 
Cools  farme  met  to  decide  about  the  boundaries." 


MERIDEN.  127 

knowledge  of  the  inhabitants,  as  well  as  of  their  situa- 
tion, from  the  following  paper  copied  from  the  original 
petition,  now  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of 
State,  at  Hartford: 

"  To  the  Honorable  the  Governor  and  council  and  house 
of  reprefentatives  in  General  Cort  affembled  in  his  Majefties 
colony  of  Connecticut  att  New  Haven,  Oct.  8,  1724.  The 
Humble  petition  of  the  Subscribers  Humbly  Sheweth,  That 
we  are  under  great  disadvantages  for  want  of  a  Pound  nere 
ye  Meriden  or  Stone  House  and  are  compelled  to  drive 
unruly  cattell  nere  6  or  9  miles  to  ye  nearest  pound,  which  if 
we  had  one  nere  it  would  save  us  a  Great  Deal  of  treble,  and 
we  would  carry  the  marks  and  brands  of  those  Cattell  im- 
pounded where  the  law  directs,  to  the  next  towns  unless  the 
Honorable  Affembly,  would  pleafe  to  Conflitute  a  man 
among  us  to  Depose  of  unruly  Creatures  as  the  law  directs. 
Therefore  your  Humble  Petitioners  Pray  that  there  may  be 
order  for  a  Pound  nere  ye  Meriden,  or  Stone  House,  and  an 
office  to  Despose  of  impounded  Cattell,  and  your  Petitioners 
as  in  duty  bound  will  Ever  Pray. 

"  Signed, 

N.  MERRIAM,  J.  PARSONS, 

N.  MERRIAM  Jr.,  ELEAZER  ASPINWALL, 

WM.  MERRIAM,  J.  MERRIMAN,  Jr., 

TIM.  FOSTER,  B.  FOSTER, 

J.  ROBINSON,  T.  ANDREWS, 

T.  FOSTER,  D.  RICH, 

T.  GERRUM,  J.  SCOFELL." 

While  the  whole  country  was  in  alarm  and  peril 
from  the  Indians,  during  Phillip's  war,  no  settlements 
were  made  beyond  the  bounds  of  the  compact  little 
village,  where  the  planters  had  clustered  together  for 
mutual  protection  ;  though  some  land  which  was  "  in  the 
wilderness,"  was  granted  out  at  that  time.  But  after 


128  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

the  termination  of  that  war,  we  find  the  records  full  of 
grants  of  wild  land  in  distant  parts  of  Wallingford,  to 
actual  settlers,  some  of  which  were  within  the  present 
southern  limits  of  our  town.  At  a  General  Court  for 
the  town  of  New  Haven,  April  23,  1660, 

"  The  governor  desired  that  the  bounds  of  a  p'cell  of  land 
towards  Conne&icote  might  be  sett  out  for  the  prvention  of 
future  differences  that  might  otherwise  arise  betwixt  us,  wch 
motion  was  approved,  and  thereupon  it  was  ordered  yl  Mr. 
Yale,  W"  Andrews,  John  Cowper,  John  Brackett,  Nathaniel 
Merriman,  wth  the  help  of  Montowees,  an  Indian,  ye  late 
pprietor  shall  set  out  the  bownds  wth  lasting  markes,  wch  is 
to  be  done  wth  the  first  convenyence.'" 

The  setting  out  of  these  bounds  occasioned  a  letter, 
which,  in  the  handwriting  of  Daniel  Clarke,  Secretary, 
is  found  among  the  State  Records  at  Hartford,2  and 
which  contains  the  first  notice  that  is  found  recorded  of 
"  Pilgrim's  Harbor."  This  letter  complained  of  encroach- 
ments on  the  Connecticut  Colony  by  those  grants  of 
lands  at  and  above  Pilgrim's  Harbor,  and  that  it  was 
not  a  course 

"  Furthering  and  strengthining  y*  friendly  correspondency 
that  we  desire,  and  ought  to  be  ppetuated  twixt  neighbours 
and  confederates."3 

1  New  Haven  Town  Records,    11.316. 

2  Foreign  Correspondence,  1 1 .  Doc.   4. 

3  "  Honor'd  Gent :  This  Court  haveing  receaved  information,  not  only  by 
what  appeares  in  one  of  yo'r  Lawes  respect :  the  purchase  of  land  from  ye 
Indians,  wherin  there  is  a  seeminge  challeng  of  very  large  intrests  of  lands, 
and   likewise   by  what   intelligence    we    have    had   of  y'or  strechting  y'or 
bounds  vp  towards  vs,  by  makeing  trees  on  this  side  Pilgroomes  Harbour, 
w'ch  things,  as  ye  intrench  upon  o'r  intrest,  soe  they  are  not  satisfying  or 
contentful,   nor  do  we   appr'hend  it  a  course  furthering  or  strengthining  yt 
friendly  correspondency  that  we  desire,  and  ought  to  be  ppetuated  twixt 


MERIDEN.  129 

At  a  General  Assembly  held  at  Hartford,  October 
1 1 ,  i 666, 

"This  Court  orders  Edward  Higby  for  making  and  main- 
teineing  the  way  over  Pilgrums  Harbour  passable  for  man  & 
horse,  shall  have  his  estate  &  farme  free  of  Countrey  [rates] 
for  this  yeare  and  next,  he  mainteineing  the  way  soe  longe  as 
aforesaid."  ....  1684.  "This  Court  being  informed  of  a 
small  tract  of  waste  land,  lying  between  a  farme  granted 
formerly  to  Mr.  Wm.  Joanes  Esq1'  of  New  Haven  lying  upon 
or  near  Pilgrim's  Harbor,  and  a  farm  granted  to  Mr.  Samuel 
Street  of  Wallingford,  the  sayd  waste  land  being  about  one 

neighbours  and  confederates  ;  espetially  in  that  we  conceave  you  cannot 
be  ignorant  of  our  real  and  true  right  to  those  parts  of  ye  countrey  where 
you  are  seated,  both  by  conquest,  purchase  and  possession ;  and  tho  : 
hitherto  we  have  bin  silent,  and  altogether  forborne  to  make  any  absolute 
challenge  to  or  owne,  as  before,  yet  now  we  see  a  necessitie  at  least  to  re- 
vive ye  memoriall  of  o'r  rite  and  interes,  and  therefore  doe  desire  that  there 
may  [be]  a  cessation  of  further  proceed  in  this  nature,  vntil,  vpon  mature 
consideration,  there  may  be  a  determinate  settlement  and  mutuall  concur- 
rence twtxt  yo'rselves  and  this  collonie,  in  reference  to  ye  deviding  bounds 
twixt  the  two  colonies.  It  is  further  desired  and  requestd  by  vs,  that  if 
there  [be]  any  thing  extant  on  record  w'th  you  yt  may  further  ye  [de]ciding 
this  matter,  that  it  may  be  produced,  and  that  there  may  be  a  time  and 
place  appointed,  where  some  deputed  for  yt  end,  furnished  w'th  full  power, 
may  meet,  yt  [so  a]  loving  issue  may  be  effect'd  to  prevent  furth  [er  tro] 
ubles.  And  in  case  there  be  noe  record  of  grant  or  allowance  from  this 
collony,  respecting  the  surrend'r,  not  only  of  lands  possessed  by  you  and 
improved,  but  also  such  lands  as  it  seemes  to  vs  that  you,  vnd'r  some 
pr'tended  or  assumed  right,  have  induced  by  yo'r  bounds  w'thin  yo'r  liber- 
ties, that  you  would  be  pleased  to  consid'r  on  some  speedy  course,  wherby 
a  compliance  and  condescendency  to  what  is  necessary  and  convenient,  for 
yo'r  future  comforte  may  be  obtained  from  vs,  the  true  proprietors  of  these 
parts  of  countrey.  We  desire  yo'r  returne  to  o'r  gen'll  Court,  in  reference 
to  o'r  proposit's,  with  what  convenient  speed  may  be,  y't  soe  what  is  de- 
sired by  vs  in  point  of  mutuall  and  neigbourly  correspondenc,  according  to 
ye  rules  of  justice  and  rightiousnes,  may  be  stil  maintained  and  continued." 
At  a  Court  of  Election,  held  May,  1661,  the  governor,  deputy  governor, 
the  magistrates,  with  Messrs.  John  Davenport,  George  Hubbard,  and  Lieu- 
tenant John  Nash  were  appointed  a  committee  "  for  the  treating  with  &  is- 
sueingof  any  seeming  differance  betwixt  them,  and  of  some  seeming  right 
to  this  jurisdiction,  which  they  pretend  in  a  letter  sent  to  this  Gen'll  Courtt." 
K 


I3O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

hundred  acres  more  or  less,  doe  grant  to  the  sayd  Mr.  Wm. 
Joanes  as  an  addition  to  his  sayd  farm  the  sayd  corner  of 
land,  to  be  layd  out  to  him  by  Mr.  Thomas  Yale." 

Oct.  12,  1715,  six  acres  of  land  were  granted  to 
Jonathan  Atwater  at  "pilgrims  harbour."  In  May,  1742, 
some  persons  in  Middletown  petitioned  for  unappropri- 
ated lands  near  Pilgrim  Harbor,  which  petition  was 
refused.1  Some  of  the  earliest  grants  of  land  were  in 
and  around  a  swamp  called  "  Dog's  Misery."  It  had 
acquired  the  name  from  the  fact  that  wild  animals,  when 
hunted,  took  refuge  in  this  swamp,  which  was  so  thick, 
tangled  and  miry,  that  the  dogs  of  the  hunters  were 
baffled  or  killed  in  their  attempts  to  reach  their  prey  hid- 
den in  this  jungle.  This  swamp  is  that  tract  of  low 
land  (now  partly  reclaimed),  and  swamp,  lying  south  of 
the  Middletown  turnpike,  and  south  of  the  house  of  Mr. 
Warren  Parsons,  extending  nearly  a  mile  in  a  southerly 
direction.  In  1679, 

"  The  town  granted  to  Nathaniel  Royce,  David  Hall,  Thomas 
Hall,  Daniel  Mix,  Joseph  Holt,  each  3  acres  lying  on  the  east 
side  of  the  meadow  called  dog's  misery,  by  the  southward 
branch  of  Pilgrim's  harbor," 

that  being  the  name  of  the  whole  stream  from  its  mouth 
up  to  the  pond  whence  it  flows.  At  the  next  town 
meeting,  Nov.,  1679,  "  granted  to  Neh.  Royce,  Isaac  Cur- 
tiss,  each  3  acres,  and  Nathaniel  How,  and  Isaac  Royce, 
each  2  acres,  and  all  at  dog's  misery."  At  still  another 
meeting,  1679,  there  was  still  another  grant  of  swamp, 
meadow  and  upland,  "about  dog's  misery,"  to  Yale, 
Curtiss,  Royce  and  others.  In  1685,  granted  to  Walter 

i  The  petitioners  were  John  Bacon,  John  Bartlett,  Samuel  Warner, 
Seth  Wetmore,  Nathaniel  Hubbard,  John  Hubbard,  John  Dowd  and 
others. 


DOGS    MISERY.  13! 

Jonson  20  acres,  "  on  long  hill  toward  dog's  misery."  In 
1683,  "granted  to  Daniel  Hooper  12  acres  at  dog's  mis- 
ery." In  1700,  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Royce,  had 
"  three  and  a  half  acres,  at  dog's  misery,"  as  her  portion. 
In  1713,  was  granted  to  Jeremiah  Hull,  a  tract  of  land 
"lying  at  Dog's  misery  commonly  so  called."  Another 
extract  will  indicate  some  quite  curious  facts,  existing  at 
that  early  period.  September  1 6,  1707, 

"The  towne  chose  Eliezer  peeck,  Joshua  culver,  David  Hall, 
a  commetie  to  see  that  [dogs]  missery  hiway  may  not  be 
pinsht  of  the  twenty  rods  in  any  place  from  the  town  to  mis- 
serie  whare  it  was  not  laid  out  before  the  graint  was  of  sd 
hiway." 

This  enormous  allowance  for  a  road  was  not  uncom- 
mon in  those  days,  as  there  are  several  other  notices  in 
the  records,  of  roads  of  the  like  width.  Still  oftener  the 
records  speak  of  highways  six  rods  wide.  It  is  quite 
evident  too,  that  the  special  care  of  the  town  to  preserve 
the  prodigious  width  of  "missery  hiway,"  shows  the 
importance  and  growth  of  the  settlement  in  that  quarter. 
It  had  long  been  the  custom  of  the  early  settlers  to  use 
the  highways  for  raising  tobacco,  and  it  finally  became 
a  subject  of  complaint ;  so  that  in  1693 — 4  the  town  of 
Wallingford  forbade  any  person  improving  any  part  of  the 
town  streets  or  commons  by  fencing,  raising  tobacco, 
corn,  or  anything  else. 

Whether  these  persons  settled  around  Dog's  Misery 
at  the  precise  date  of  these  grants,  we  do  not  know  ;  but 
there  is  evidence  that  they  were  there  soon  after.  For 
as  early  as  1696,  there  was  great  contention  about  lands, 
among  the  owners  of  property  at  Dog's  Misery,  which 
plainly  indicates  that  the  lands  about  there  were  con- 
sidered valuable,  and  that  the  place  was  inhabited.  The 


132  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

party  spirit  ran  high,  bad  feelings  were  engendered,  and 
recourse  was  had  to  the  courts.  It  appears  that  the 
beginning  of  the  trouble  was  owing  to  certain  persons 
appropriating  land  which  had  already  been  granted  to 
others.  In  1677,  at  a  town  meeting,  it  was  voted  to 
reserve  a  certain  watering  place  for  the  use  of  cattle  and 
neighbors  adjacent,  the  watering  place  being  near  the 
property  of  Nathaniel  Royce.  After  some  years  Mr. 
Royce  claimed  the  land  and  watering  place  as  his 
property.  A  committee  were  appointed  to  determine 
whether  the  land  and  watering  place  belonged  to  the 
town  or  to  Ensign  Royce.  Nothing  further  was  heard 
of  this  question  until  March  16,  1696,  when  the  follow- 
ing petition  was  brought  before  the  town : 

Wallingford,  March  i6th,  1696. 

"We  whose  names  are  underwritten  being  in  some  mesure 
sencable  of  ye  mezefy  of  Contention  &  yl  there  is  too  much 
of  it  in  our  Town  &  one  part  of  it  is  about  dogs  mezery  which 
may  hazard  Charg  to  ye  Town  if  not  timely  prevented  allso  ye 
watering-place  so  Called  between  Capt.  yaile  &  Enn  Royss 
has  been  A  great  part  of  our  strife  for  A  great  while  which 
for  ye  preventing  of  both  troble  and  Charg  upon  y(  account 
or  at  least  to  secure  ourselves  therefore  declare  as  followeth 
yl  for  our  parts  wee  enter  our  descents  against  any  Charg  at 
law  about  doggs  mezery,  as  for  y°  watering  place  so  Called 
we  are  sattisfied  y*  Ens  Roys  Enjoy  ye  land  yl  ye  Town  has 
granted  him  &  doe  hereby  declare  our  desent  from  any  voat 
to  ye  Contrary  or  any  vote  yl  may  hereafter  be  gained  by  ye 
Town  or  any  parties  for  ye  suing  out  ye  Towns  or  any  pertic- 
ular  mans  Rights  declareing  to  y°  world  y'  we  will  be  at  no 
Charge  for  time  to  Come  about  doggs  mezery  nor  y- 
watering  place  &  yl  such  y'  Cannot  find  no  other  way  to 
raise  their  own  spirits  but  to  spend  their  Estates  shall  spend 
of  their  own  Estates  &  not  of  ours. 


DOGS    MISERY.  133 

"JOHN  DOOLITTLE,  JOHN  PECK,  senr. 

NEHEMIAH  ROYSS,  NATH'LL  How,  senr. 

SAMU  BROCKETT,  JOHN  BEACH, 

SAMU  LOTHROP,  ROBERT  ROYS, 

JOHN  PECK,  junr,  JOSEPH  ROYSS, 

JOHN  HALL,  jun.,  ROGER  TYLAR, 

JABEZ  BROCKETT,  MICHA  MITCHELL, 

ROBERT  ROYSS,  senr.  SAM".  ROYS, 

JOHN  TYLER,  JAMES  WESTWOOD, 

ISAAC  CURTIS,  THO.  HALL,  sen1". 

SAMH   ROYS,  senr,  JOHN   PARKER,  sen1'. 

DAVID  HALL,  JOHN  Moss,  juneor." 

On  the  28th  of  April,  1696,  the  following  was  pre- 
sented to  the  town  : 

"  Whereas  it  has  been  often  moved  to  ye  town  that  Ensign 
Royce  might  have  ye  Watering  place,  at  ye  lower  end  of  his 
home  lot,  or  pasture,  but  hitherto  has  been  opposed,  y°  town 
do  now  sequester  said  watering  place  to  lye  open  to  the  com- 
mon highway  for  ever,  never  to  be  desposed  of  any  other  way 
unless  every  inhabitant  of  ye  town  do  subscribe  to  the  con- 
trary, ye  which  we  underftand  be  ye  true  intent  of  ye  selectmen 
when  they  received  it  and  ye  mind  of  ye  town,  received  it  for 
the  use  of  cattle  and  good  of  ye  neighbors  adjacent  against 
ye  above  said  Watering  place  Should  lye  open  for  the  above 
said  use  forever  as  may  appear  by  their  act  in  ye  town  book 
April  24,  1677.  The  town  do  by  their  vote  order  and  ap- 
poynt  Eleazer  Peck  surveyor  with  one  or  too  of  yc  Townsmen 
to  lay  out  said  land  and  Watering  place  and  cause  a  Record 
made  of  it  in  yu  Leger  Book,  of  ye  bounds  of  it  and  Capt.  Yale, 
or  Ens.  Royce  pay  the  cost  out  of  it.  They  also  voted  that 
if  the  said  Royce  still  neglects  or  detains  record  restitution  of 
said  Watering  place  ye  which  ye  said  Roice  solemnly  promised 
to  do,  in  ye  Leger  Book  of  Wallingford,  then  the  town  do  here- 
by appoint  Capt.  Yale  to  be  our  atturney,  and  Lawful  Trustee 
to  sue  said  Royce,  at  law  for  our  right,  to  receive  estimation 
of  ye  same." 


134  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Lieutenant  Samuel  Hall  and  William  Ebenatha  dis- 
sented from  the  above  vote.  Thus  after  a  long  contest 
Mr.  Royce  was  compelled  to  surrender  to  the  town  all 
right  to  the  watering  place. 

At  a  General  Court,  held  May,  1696, 

"  Mr  Richrd  Edwards  as  atturney  for  Isaac  Curtis  of  Wal- 
lingford  petitioned  this  Court  to  grant  the  said  Curtis  execution 
upon  a  verdict  of  jury  given  at  the  countie  court  at  Newhaven 
the  second  Munday  in  Novembr  one  thousand  six  hundred 
and  ninetie  five  in  an  action  depending  in  the  said  Court 
between  the  sd  Curtis  and  Mr  John  Hull  of  the  said  town  of 
Wallingford,  which  action  the  said  Curtis  comenced  against 
the  said  Hull  for  that  the  said  Hull  had  illegally  entred  upon 
and  made  improvement  of  three  acrs  and  3  quarters  of  med- 
dow  in  a  place  called  Dogs  Miserie  which  is  the  proper 
estate  of  the  plaintiff,  to  a  surrendrie  of  the  sd  meddow  with 
ten  pound  damages  and  cost  of  Court,  in  which  case  the  jury 
find  for  the  plaintiff  the  case  and  cost  of  court.  This  Court 
doe  see  reason  and  order  that  there  shall  be  execution 
granted  upon  the  said  verdict  of  the  iurie.  May  1697  it  was 
voted  and  granted  by  this  Court  that  Capt"  Thomas  Yale  of 
Wallingford  should  have  liberty  to  renew  his  former  suit  in 
which  he  was  atturney  for  Doctor  John  Hull  in  a  controversie 
between  Isaac  Curtis  and  the  sl1  John  Hull  about  a  piece  of 
meddow  at  a  place  called  Dogs  Misery  in  the  said  town  of 
Wallingford,  notwithstanding  any  former  act  of  the  Gen11 
Court.  Giving  the  said  Curtis  sufficient  notice  thereof." 

From  the  time  of  the  first  settlement  onward,  popula- 
tion slowly  increased  around  "  Dog's  Misery"  and 
"  Pilgrim's  Harbor."  In  1724,  the  whole  number  of 
families  on  and  around  these  localities  was  thirty-five. 
Contemporaneous  with  the  "  plantations"  around  "  Dog's 

i  5  s.  paid  for  the  petition.  Execution  delivered  to  Isaac  Curtis.  Col. 
Rec.  4,  165. 


DOG'S    MISERY.  135 

Misery,"  the  settlements  began  to  cieep  up  into  the 
western  and  southwestern  parts  of  the  present  limits  of 
Meriden.  As  early  as  September,  1677,  it  was 

"  Ordered  allso  that  every  planter  now  in  hering  shall  have 
according  to  theyr  Ranks  4  acrs,  3  acrs,  and  2  acrs  of  the 
choyse  Land  upon  the  River  hopp  ground  land,  beginning  att 
pillgrim's  harbor,  and  what  that  plais  doth  not  aford  they  are 
to  please  themselves  ellswheare." 

February  u,  1684,  there  was  granted  to  John 
Brockett, 

"  Four  acres  of  hopp  Land  upon  pillgrim's  harbor  on  both 
sides  the  river  bounded  on  ye  north  by  ye  Common,  on  ye 
East  by  Samuell  Brockett,  on  ye  south  by  ye  Common,  on  ye 
west  by  John  Moss  senior." 

February  4,  1684,  was  granted  to  John  Moss  senior, 

"  4  acres  of  hopp  Land  Lying  a  Cros  pillgrim's  harbor 
brook  bounded  on  ye  southward  Side  by  me  John  Brockett 
his  Land,  on  ye  northward  side  by  John  Lothny  his  Land, 
on  Both  sides  by  towne  Common." 

March  15,  1689, 

"  Two  acres  of  hopp  Land  lying  around  Pilgrim's 
Harbour." 

August  23,  1698, 

"  3  acres  of  hopp  land  on  ye  west  branch  of  pillgrim 
harber." 

In  1708,  there  was  granted  to 

"  Daniel  Messenger,  wax  drawer,  fore  acres  of  hop  Land 
so  called  at  a  place  commonly  called  pilgram's  Harbor." 

This  "hopp  ground  land"  was  that  which  produced 
the  materials  for  making  hoops.  Such  land,  though 
swampy,  was  then  the  most  valuable  in  the  town.  For 
in  the  great  scarcity  of  a  circulating  medium,  and  of 


136  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

means  for  purchasing  all  foreign  produce,  these  hoops 
and  staves  always  found  a  great  demand,  and  a  ready  sale 
in  the  West  Indies.  Of  course  our  farmers  in  trading 
with  the  New  Haven  merchants,  found  these  hoop-poles 
as  useful  as  cash.  Accordingly  we  find  in  the  records 
of  the  town  that  these  "  hopp  ground  lands,"  were  most 
carefully  managed,  were  granted  out  in  very  small  quan- 
tities, and  in  the  various  grants  recorded  each  man  was 
very  careful  that  a  piece  of  this  precious  land  should 
be  included  in  his  farm.  In  the  year  1676,  a  farm  was 
granted  to  Levi  Fowler,  as  part  "compensation"  for 
building  a  mill.  This  was  at  the  place  which  we  now 
call  "  the  Farms."  Sixty  acres  were  granted  to  him,  and 
are  thus  described : 

"The  north  stake  to  be  pitched  10  rods  to  the  north-ward 
of  the  brook,  commonly  called,  Milking  yard  brook,  as  you 
go  between  Wallingford  and  Hartford,1  and  in  the  middle  way 
between  the  mouth  of  said  brook  and  the  old  path ;  and  so 
to  run  a  straight  line  southward  so  as  to  cut  the  edge  of  the 
red  bank  by  the  east  river  so  called2  at  the  utmost  part  east- 
ward, and  so  from  the  northern  stake  westward  120  rods,  and 
so  to  hold  his  depth  on  the  south  side." 

This  land  would  be  very  nearly  that  which  constitutes 
the  farm  of  Mr.  Wyllys  Smith.3  Near  and  around  this 

1  This  is  the  brook  which  the  old  road  crosses  at  the  lower  end  of 
the  present    district,   and  so  called,  because  cattle   were   of   old   there 
driven  into  a  pen  to  be  milked. 

2  This  red  bank  is  the  little  spur  or  projection  around  which  the  rail- 
road sweeps,  just  before  it  passes  the  high  stone  viaduct  or  culvert  over 
the  turnpike. 

3  Yalesville,  Sept.  27,    1686,  Committee  to  locate  mill  on  the  river. 
Sept.  29,  1686,  Voted  to  move  the  mill.     Oct.  3,  1688,  Land  about  the 
mill  sequestered.     Dec.  27,  1687,  Committee  to  see  the  Miller  and  pro- 
cure a  canoe  to  cross  the  river,  at  the  mill.     Jan.  21,  1689,  Grinding  at 


FALLS    PLAIN.  137 

farm,  other  settlers  soon  located  themselves.     At  a  town 
meeting,  December  16,  1679, 

"  The  Towne  agreed  &  voated  yl  ye  land  about  ye  milking 
yard  and  on  ye  north  side  yc  Brooke  at  ye  head  of  ye  little 
plaine  which  was  formerly  designed  for  that  end  be  viewed 
and  provision  made  for  the  settling  planters  as  they  shall 
appear." 

This  "little  plain"  was  the  upper  part  of  the  present 
"farm  district."  It  was  called  little  plain,  in  distinction 
from  "fall's  plain,"  or  "the  plain,"  which  is  the  locality 
we  now  term  Hanover.  The  same  year, 

"  The  towne  yielded  to  exchange  with  Sam'l  Royce,  the  3 
acrs  of  his  land  att  ye  uper  end  of  little  plain,  for  3  acrs 
of  ye  swamp,  in  ye  middle  of  said  plaine  joining  to  Good11 
Lewes." 

In  another  grant  to  this  Samuel  Royce,  this  same 
spot  is  called  "  milkin  yard  farms,"  as  bounded  south  by 
milking  yard  brook,  and  west  by  milking  yard  hill. 
Also  in  1679, 

"  The  town  granted  to  Good"  Lewes  3  acres  of  ye  swamp 
that  lieth  about  middle  of  ye  little  plains." 

At  the  same  time, 

"The  towne  granted  Tho.  Yale  3  acres  of  swamp  land, 
joining  to  his  two  acrs  that  was  formerly  granted  for  mend- 
ment  of  his  river  lott  att  the  loer  end  of  ye  little  plaine." 

In  the  year  1677,  there  was  a  grant  of  land  to  Nehe- 
miah  Royce  and  Samuel  Royce,  of  some  land  "at  the 
head  of  the  plains,"  which  is  another  phrase  by  which 
Hanover  was  then  designated.  A  very  natural  phrase ; 
for  at  that  point,  the  stretch  of  level  land  which  extends 


mill  regulated.  July,  22,  1695,  "  If  Samuel  Lorthrop  grinds  every  mans 
corn  well  he  may  keep  the  mill  two  months  longer,  but  will  be  turned  out 
on  complaint  of  the  committee  forthwith." 


138  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

from  New  Haven,  through  North  Haven  and  Walling- 
ford,  terminates.  In  1680  a  grant  was  made  "  to  Sam'l 
Hough,  to  settle  on  the  head  of  the  plain  near  to 
Nehemiah  Royces."  In  1689  this  "  head  of  the  plain," 
or  "falls  plain,"  was  considered  so  beautiful  a  spot,  that 
it  was  regularly  laid  out  for  a  village.  The  main  street 
was  to  be  eighty  rods  long,  and  on  each  side  of  it  were 
staked  out  building  lots  ;  the  western  lots  extending  to 
the  hill,  and  the  eastern  ones  to  the  river.  These  lots 
were  assigned  by  raffle,  each  planter  in  the  town  of  Wall- 
ingford  being  allowed  to  draw  one  lot.  The  main  street 
of  this  contemplated  village  must  have  been  nearly  if  not 
quite  coincident  with  the  street  now  in  existence,  run- 
ning north  and  south.  The  street  however,  as  then  laid 
out,  was  continued  northward  to  the  river. 

"Art  a  lawful  towne  meetin  19  Febrary,  1689-90,  the  towne 
voted  yl  falls  plaine  shall  be  cast  lots  for  &  laid  out  accord- 
ing to  the  above  written  ....  &  mape.  The  Lotts  being 
Cast  each  mans  Lbtt  is  as  followeth 

"MR.  STREET,  49,  LIEUT.  MERRIMAN,  24, 

MR.  MOSSE,  12,  ENS  YAILE,  u, 

MR.  BROCKETT,  44,  DR.  HULLS,  52, 

ENS  ANDREWYS  4,  SEIRANT  DOOLITTLE,  62, 

PRESTON,  20,  NATHANIELL  ROYSE,  40, 

SAM"   ROYSE,  33,  SAMU   HULL,  03, 

JOHN  IVES,  39,  SAM"   DOOLITTLE,  51, 

DANIEL  Mix,  59,  JOSEPH  DOOLITTLE,  42, 

EBEN  LEWIS,  48,  JOSEPH  HOULTE,  61, 

JOHN  DOOLITTLE,  37,  JOSEPH  BENHAM,  jun.  25, 

ELEAZER  PECK,  19,  JOHN  MERRIMAN,  58, 

JOHN  PARKER,  01,  JOHN  HALL,  senr.  60, 

SAM"  COOK,  senr.  28,  THO  CURTIS,  58, 

THO  HALL,  30,  DAVID  HALL,  65, 


FALLS   PLAIN. 


139 


JOSHUA  CULVER,  32, 
SAMU  BROCKETT,  55, 
SAMU  THORP,  06, 
SAMU  MERRIMAN,  53, 
SAMU  BROWNE,  29, 
SAMU  STREET,  07, 
SIMON  TUTTLE,  14, 
EDWARD  FEN,  08, 
HENNERY  COOK,  31, 
SAMU  STREET,  35, 
JOHN  PECK,  50, 

SAMU  COOK,  jun.  15, 
HUGH  CHAPPEL,  22, 


WM.  COLE, 
THO  BEACH, 
RUSH  LOTHROP, 

SAM"   MUNSON, 
JOHN  ATWATER, 


23, 
54, 
43, 
4i, 
34, 


NATHANIELL  H6w,  09, 

ROGER  TYLER,  38, 

JOHN  HITCHCOK,  02, 

ABRAHAM  DOOLITTLE,  13, 

EBENEZER  CLARK,  18, 

SAMH   ANDREWS,  jun.  57, 

BENJAMIN  HOULTE,  10, 

JOHN  MORSE,  26, 

JOSEPH  BEENHAM,  sen.  63, 

NATHAN  ANDREWES,  16, 

JEREMIAH  HOWE,  17, 

JOSEPH  THOMSON,  21, 

JAMES  WESTWOOD,  05, 

JOHN  BEACH,  64, 

JOSEPH  ROYSE,  47, 

WILLIAM  EBERNATH,  46, 

WALTER  JOHNSON,  36, 

ISAK  BEACH,  45, 


NEHEMIAH  ROYSE,  27." 


In  1694,  several  grants  of  land  were  made  to  John 
Peck  at  "  falls  plains."  The  residents  in  the  north  part 
of  the  town  found  it  very  inconvenient  to  go  to  Walling- 
ford  to  attend  church,  also  town  and  freeman's  meet- 
ings ;  and  several  petitions  were  sent  to  the  General 
Assembly  requesting  permission  to  become  a  separate 
town,  or  be  annexed  to  other  towns  nearer  to  them  than 
Wallingford.  At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Wallingford, 
May  17,  1773,  the  question  was  put  whether  the  town 
would  choose  an  agent  or  agents,  to  represent  said  town 
at  the  General  Assembly  to  act  on  the  memorial  of  the 
society  of  Worthington,  by  their  agent  Jedediah  Norton, 
petitioning  that  the  land  called  the  Belcher  farm,  in  the 
society  of  Meriden,  and  the  inhabitants  included  thereon, 


I4O  HISTORY    OF     WALLINGFORD. 

might  belong  and  be  annexed  to  the  county  of  Hartford 
and  town   of  Farmington.' 

It  was  voted  in  the  affirmative  that  they  would  ap- 
point an  agent,  and  chose  Macock  Ward  to  represent 
the  town  in  reference  to  the  memorial.  In  May,  1786, 
the  following  petition  was  sent  to  the  General  Assembly  : 

"  The  Petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Parish  of  Meriden 
hi  the  Town  of  Wallingford  and  County  of  New  Haven,  hum- 
bly sheweth :  That  from  the  Court  House  in  New  Haven,  the 
Southern  part  of  Said  parish  is  Distant  about  Seventeen 
Miles,  and  the  Northern  part  of  it  Twenty  three  ;  and  from 
the  Court  House  in  Midclletown  in  the  County  of  Middlesex, 
the  eastern  limmits  of  Sd  parish  is  Distant  but  about  five 
miles  and  its  Western  limmits  about  Eleven  ;  and  from  the 
Southern  part  of  said  Parish  to  the  Town  is  four  miles,  and 
from  the  northern  part  about  eleven.  That  the  List  of  Said 
parish  is  about  .£8000.  And  in  attending  upon  the  Ordinary 
Business  of  the  Town,  Proxys,  Town  Meetings,  &c.,  and 
upon  their  Business  at  the  County  and  Superior  Courts,  the 
Inhabitants  of  Sd  parish  are  subjected  to  great  trouble,  in- 
convenience &  expence,  from  which  they  would  be  free'd,  if 
constituted  a  Distinct  Town,  and  annexed  to  the  County  of 
Middlesex.  Wherefore  your  petitioners  pray  your  Honors  to 
take  their  case  into  your  wise  and  equitable  Consideration  & 
enact,  that  Sd  parish  of  Meriden  be  Constituted  a  Distinct 
Town  by  the  name  of  the  town  of  Meriden,  and  included  in, 
and  made  part  of  the  County  of  Middlesex,  and  that  the  Sd 
Inhabitants  have  all  the  rights  and  privileges  usual  apper- 
taining to  Towns  in  this  State,  except  the  right  of  Sending 
two  Representatives  to  the  General  Assembly,  instead  of 


I  About  1640,  some  of  the  first  and  most  enterprising  citizens  of  Hart- 
ford purchased  a  tract  of  land  from  the  Tunxis  Indians,  and  commenced  a 
settlement  at  a  place  about  ten  miles  west  of  the  city.  This  settlement 
was  incorporated  in  1645,  when  it  was  called  Farmington.  The  town- 
ship was  about  fifteen  miles  square,  and  out  of  it  have  sprung  the  towns 
of  Southington,  Berlin,  Bristol,  Burlington  and  Avon. 


FALLS    PLAIN.  14! 

which  your  petitioners  request  the  privilege  of  but  one,  and 
your  petitioners,  as  in  Duty  bound  will  ever  pray  &c.  Dated 
at  Meriden  in  the  Town  of  Wallingford  the  13th  day  of 
April,  A.  D.  1786. 

"JOHN  COUCH,      1 

SAM"  WHITING,    ^  Agents  in  behalf  of  the  Society." 

DAN.  COLLINS, 

At  a  special  town  meeting  held  in  Wallingford,  May  9, 
1 786,  it  was  voted  that  they  would  oppose  the  parish  of 
Meriden  being  a  town,  and  chose  Col.  Street  Hall  as 
agent  to  remonstrate  against  the  petition  at  the  General 
Assembly.1  In  1794,  the  town  was  petitioned  again 
that  the  parish  of  Meriden  might  be  set  off  as  a  distinct 
town  and  annexed  to  Middlesex  county  ;  and  at  a  special 
town  meeting  the  votes  of  the  parish  of  Meriden  ap- 
pointing Captain  Dan.  Collins,  Capt.  Ezekiel  Rice,  Col. 
Asa  Bray,  Brenton  Hall  and  Samuel  Whiting  a  commit- 
tee to  transact  said  business  being  read,  the  meeting 
adjourned  to  October  12,  1795.  Samuel  Woodruff  and 
Caleb  Atwater  were  appointed  agents  to  attend  the 
General  Assembly,  and  were  intended  to  oppose  the 
petition  of  the  parish  of  Meriden  ;  and  in  order  to  satisfy 
the  inhabitants  of  the  parish,  a  committee  were  appoint- 
ed to  consider  the  subject  of  holding  town,  selectmen's 
and  freeman's  meetings  one  third  of  the  time  at  Meriden  ; 
and  who  reported, 

I  At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Wallingford,  April  8,  1793,  "Chose  Street 
Hall,  Dan.  Collins,  Ezekiel  Rice  a  committee  to  agree  with  the  Town  of 
Berlin  in  perambulating  the  line  where  the  Belcher  Farm,  so  called  lies 
and  exchange  said  farm  or  such  part  of  it  for  an  equivalent  in  Land 
belonging  to  said  Berlin  to  be  annexed  to  this  town  or  make  any  other 
agreement  as  shall  appear  to  said  committee  most  conclusive  to  the  Inter- 
est of  this  Town." 


142  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

"  That  in  our  opinion  it  is  highly  reasonable  and  expedient 
and  likely  to  unite  the  two  Societies  together  and  prevent  a 
separation  also  taking  into  our  consideration  the  disagreeable- 
ness  that  the  said  society  of  Meriden  hath  ever  been  under 
in  attending  Town  and  Freemans  Meetings,  we  therefore 
think  it  reasonable  that  one  third  part  of  the  Town  and 
Selectmens  meetings  for  the  future  and  also  one  third  part  of 
the  Freemans  Meetings  when  liberty  is  obtained  as  above 
mentioned  should  be  holden  in  said  Society,  of  Meriden." 
"  Signed, 

ELIAKIM  HALL,  SAMUEL  WHITING, 

EZEKIEL  RICE,  BRENTON  HALL, 

ABRAHAM  STANLEY,  CALEB  ATWATER." 

The  report  was  accepted  with  the  proviso  that  the  ex- 
pense attending  the  application  to  the  General  Assembly 
for  carrying  this  report  into  effect  "be  born  and  defrayed 
wholly  by  the  Parish  of  Meriden."  But  the  inhabitants 
of  the  parish  of  Meriden  were  determined  to  be  set 
apart  as  a  separate  town  ;  and  again  in  1803  a  petition 
was  sent  to  the  town,  and  at  a  town  meeting  held  in 
September  of  the  same  year,  the  question  was  put 
whether  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Wallingford 
exclusive  of  the  Parish  of  Meriden  would  consent  that 
the  said  parish  of  Meriden  be  separated  from  the  said 
town  of  Wallingford,  and  constituted  and  incorporated 
a  separate  and  distinct  town  ;  and  on  being  submitted  to 
the  meeting,  exclusive  of  the  inhabitants  of  Meriden,  it 
was  voted  in  the  negative.  In  1804,  another  petition 
was  sent  to  the  town  of  Wallingford  in  regard  to  the 
separation  and  incorporation  of  Meriden  as  a  distinct 
town ;  and  it  was  voted  to  choose  a  committee  of  equal 
numbers  from  the  first  society  of  the  parish  of  Meriden 
to  confer  on  the  said  petition.  The  Wallingford 
committee  were  Aaron  Andrews,  Caleb  Atwater,  Aaron 


FALLS    PLAIN.  143 

Hall,  and  Hezekiah  Hall.  From  Meriden  were  chosen 
John  Pluymert,  Benjamin  A.  Hall,  Amasa  Curtis,  and 
Samuel  Yale.  On  September  9,  1805,  a  joint  committee 
from  each  society  were  appointed  to  confer  on  the 
subject,  and  at  a  town  meeting  held  September  18,  1805, 
the  report  of  the  committee  was  read  and  duly  con- 
sidered. 

"Thereupon  it  was  voted  that  this  Meeting  do  accept  and 
approve  of  the  same,  and  that  said  report  be  lodged  in  the 
Town  Clerks  Office." 

A  petition  signed  by  Phineas  Lyman  and  other 
inhabitants  of  Wallingford  was  sent  to  the  General 
Assembly  which  met  at  Hartford  the  second  Thursday 
in  May,  1806,  showing  that  the  parish  of  Meriden  in 
said  town  constituted  in  extent,  population  and  property 
more  than  one  third  part  of  the  town  of  Wallingford, 
and  that  they  did  not  in  their  present  situation  enjoy 
their  just  rights  to  which  they  were  entitled  in  common 
with  their  fellow  citizens,  and  praying  that  the  parish 
might  be  incorporated,  with  the  ordinary  rights, 
privileges  and  immunities  which  were  enjoyed  by 
other  towns  in  the  State.  The  petitioners  were  heard, 
and  the  facts  stated  in  the  petition  were  fully  proved 
to  be  true,  and  it  was  resolved  by  the  Assembly  that 

"  The  inhabitants  living  within  the  limits  of  the  parish  of 
Meriden  be  and  they  are  hereby  incorporated  into  and  made 
a  Town  by  the  name  of  Meriden." 

The  first  town  meeting  was  held  in  Meriden  after  its 
incorporation,  on  the  third  Monday  in  June,  1806,  at 
one  o'clock  P.  M.,  and  the  town  officers  elected.  The 
following  list  of  "North  Farmers,"  is  taken  from  the 
Wallingford  records,  and  from  records  in  the  office  of 
the  Secretary  of  State  at  Hartford  : 


144 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


BENJAMIN  IVES, 
BENJAMIN  WHITING, 
SAMUEL  IVES, 
JOHN  IVES, 
TIMOTHY  MERRIAM, 
WILLIAM  HOUGH, 
JOHN  MERRIAM, 
THOMAS  ANDREWS, 
ISAAC  ROICE, 
JAMES  SCOVILL, 
NATHANIEL  MERRIAM, 
JOSEPH  COLES, 
SAMUEL  CUTLER, 
JOSEPH  MERRIAM, 
MICHAEL  MITCHELL, 

LEAVITT, 

WILLIAM  MERRIAM, 
JOHN  MERRIAM, 
ROBERT  ROICE, 
WILLIAM  ANDREWS, 


EBENEZER  PRINDLE, 
ISRAEL  HALL, 
ELICK  ROBERTS, 
ABELL  ROICE, 
JOHN  WAY, 
JACOB  PARSONS, 
ELIAZER  PECK, 
BARTHOLOMEW  FOSTER 
JOSIAH  ROICE, 
THOMAS  YALE, 
WILLIAM  COLES, 
NATHANIEL  ROICE, 
EZEKIEL  ROICE, 
EBENEZER  COOPER, 
NEHEMIAH  MAY, 
JOSIAH  ROBESON, 
SAMUEL  ANDREWS, 
THEOPHILUS  Mix, 
AMOS  CAMP, 
TIMOTHY  FOSTER, 


JONATHAN  SEAMOUR. 

It  is  difficult  at  the  present  day  to  imagine  the  im- 
mense difficulties  our  fathers  had  to  undergo  in  traveling 
from  one  town  to  another.  Over  mountains,  through 
swamps,  across  rivers,  fording,  or  upon  rafts,  with  the 
compass  to  point  out  their  irregular  way,  now  in  the 
open  space  of  the  forest,  where  the  sun  looked  in  ; 
now  under  the  shade  of  the  old  trees  ;  now  struggling 
through  the  entanglement  of  bushes  and  vines,  with 
perhaps  a  "bridle  path"  cut  out  through  the  trees. 
Wherever  a  road  had  been  built  it  was  little  better  than 
none  at  all. 


ROADS    AND    BRIDGES.  145 

"  No  line  or  compass  traced  its  plan ; 
With  frequent  bends  to  left  or  right, 
In  aimless,  wayward  curves  it  ran." 

From  Hartford  to  New  Haven  it  was  a  good  two  days' 
journey  ;  the  old  stone  house  on  the  Belcher  farm,  and 
Wallingford,  being  the  usual  stopping  places.  There 
being  no  mails1  or  newspapers,  every  traveler  on  his 
arrival  was  instantly  besieged  with  townspeople,  inquis- 
itive for  the  most  recent  intelligence.  "  He  tells  them 
perhaps  that  a  letter  was  received  in  Hartford  but  a 

I  The  Post  Office  system  was  first  established  in  Connecticut  in  1693, 
by  special  authority  from  the  king.  The  mail  went  through  the  Colony 
from  Boston  to  New  York,  once  every  week.  The  postage  from  Boston 
to  Hartford  was  9</.  In  December,  1672,  Governor  Lovelace  of  the  col- 
ony of  New  York,  issued  a  proclamation  "for  the  more  speedy  Intelligence 
and  Dispatch  of  Affayres,"  that  on  the  first  of  January  following,  a  sworn 
messenger  would  start  from  New  York  for  Boston,  and  accomplish  the 
journey  there  and  back,  within  the  month.  Persons  who  had  letters  or 
"small  portable  goods"  for  Hartford  or  Boston,  must  lodge  them  at  the 
secretary's  office  by  a  given  day.  The  post  was  to  be  paid  before  the 
"  bagg  bee  seald  up."  In  1674,  "the  court  being  made  sensible  of  the 
great  damage  that  might  accrue  to  the  publique,  by  a  liberty  or  boldness 
which  some  persons  may  take  to  themselves  (when  employed  by  order  of 
authority  for  the  conveyance  of  letters,  post  and  other  important  occasions 
of  this  colony)  by  profuse  and  extravigent  spending  at  the  ordinaries  and 
other  places  on  the  road  upon  the  countryes  account,"  ordered  that  the 
allowance  of  those  persons  employed,  from  the  first  of  May  to  the  middle 
of  October,  from  New  Haven  to  -Hartford,  the  horse  hire  to  be  five 
shillings,  and  the  man  and  expenses  eight  shillings  sixpence.  From 
Wallingford  to  Hartford,  the  horse  hire  four  shillings,  and  the  man  and 
expenses  six  shillings.  From  the  middle  of  October  to  last  of  April,  to  be 
eight  pence  more  than  the  above,  for  every  night  they  lie  out.  When 
post  offices  and  post  roads  were  first  established  in  America,  the  great 
route  from  Boston  to  New  York  was  through  New  London,  which  was 
then  reckoned  no  miles  from  Boston,  and  156  from  New  York.  By-act 
of  Parliament  in  1710,  New  London  was  made  the  chief  Post  Office  in 
Connecticut.  (  This  act  can  be  found  in  the  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  3rd  series, 
vol.  7,  p.  71).  The  postage  from  New  London  to  Wallingford  was  four- 
pence. 

L 


146  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

week  before  he  left,  which  had  been  brought  through 
from  Boston  in  three  days.  In  this  letter  was  the  latest 
intelligence  from  Europe.  The  '  Seabird,'  after  a  quick 
passage  of  two  months,  had  brought  the  news  of  the 
death  of  Charles  the  Second,  and  the  accession  of 
James,  four  months  ago.  He  gives  them  the  latest 
account  of  the  elections  in  Massachusetts  and  Plymouth, 
which  took  place  three  weeks  previous,  and  adds  a  few 
items  about  the  state  of  the  Indians,  and  the  arrivals  of 
emigrants."  Contrast  that  journey  with  the  railroad 
which  connects  nearly  every  town  and  village,  and  by 
which  a  daily  exchange  of  their  inhabitants  takes  place, 
by  which,  as  it  were,  two  huge  rivers  of  living  beings 
are  flowing  side  by  side  in  opposite  directions.  The 
rivers  and  lakes  have  been  made  navigable,  harbors 
cleared,  bordered  by  docks  and  quays,  and  indented  by 
piers  ;  the  inland  districts  are  intersected  by  high  roads 
and  canals,  and  a  net-work  of  railways  ;  which  but  a 
short  time  since  was  the  lonely  and  scarcely  traceable 
foot-path,  the  region  of  desolation,  and  the  haunt  of  the 
wild  beast  and  savage.  If  a  survey  be  taken  of  the 
various  nations  of  the  earth,  it  will  doubtless  be  found 
that  the  most  prominent  feature  which  distinguishes  the 
regions  of  civilization  from  those  of  the  savage,  and  in- 
dicates the  march  of  improvement,  is  the  general  facility 
for  communication. 

At  a  General  Court  held  at  Hartford  in  October,  1684, 
it  was  voted  that 

"Whereas  there  is  a  great  neglect  found  in  mayntaining  of 
the  high  wayes1  between  towne  and  towne,  the  wayes  being 

i  The  various  highways  were  laid  out  as  follows  :  1670,  the  roads  in  the 
village  of  Wallingford,  and  the  "  old  Colony  road  ;"  1672,  Highways  con- 
sidered ;  1679,  Highway  over  river  ordered  ;  1692,  Highway  over  river; 


ROADS    AND    BRIDGES.  147 

incumbred  with  dirty  slowes,  bushes,  trees  and  stones,  &c., 
this  Court  doe  therefore  order  that  each  plantation 
within  this  colony  shall  forthwith  take  sufficient  care  that  the 
highwayes  stated  between  townes  be  well  amended  from  such 
defects  and  so  kept  from  time  to  time,  ....  especilly  the 
high  wayes  or  road  from  Hartford  to  New  Haven,  etc." 

On  the  1 5th  day  of  December,  1693,  the  town  em- 
powered Ensign  Royce  to  call  out  some  men  to  assist 
him  in  laying  out  a  highway  to  Haddam.  This  is 
probably  the  road  which  passes  through  "  Reed's  gap," 
in  the  north-eastern  part  of  the  town.  In  May,  1766, 
Messrs.  John  Yale,  John  Basset,  Timothy  Foster,  Yale 
Bishop,  Samuel  Andrews,  Jr.,  Jonathan  Foster,  and 
Jonathan  Collins,  petitioned  the  General  Assembly  that 

committee  appointed;  1693,  Twenty  rod  highway  between  Daniel  Mix 
and  Joshua  Culver's  land  ;  1694,  Highway  at  Broad  Swamp ;  1696,  High- 
way to  Saw-mill ;  1697,  John  Parker  and  John  Hitchcock  appointed  to  see 
what  highways  are  needed  to  the  Fresh  Meadows,  and  Mill  River ;  and 
Samuel  Brockett  and  John  Beach  to  see  what  are  needed  between  Pond 
Hill  and  Muddy  River.  A  twenty  rod  highway  from  Falls  plain  to  Stoney 
River,  also  from  Mathew  Howe's  to  Stoney  River,  ten  rods  wide;  A 
highway  past  Simon  Tuttle's  to  ye  Saw  Mill ;  1700,  This  year  the  road 
to  Dog's  Misery  was  made,  twenty  rods  wide,  also  a  highway  to  the  saw 
mill  ;  also  a  two  rod  road  between  Isaac  Curtis  and  Daniel  Mix,  between 
Dr.  Hull's  land  ;  1702,  two  highways  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  one  by 
Benj.  Hull's,  and  one  to  run  westward  to  the  south  side  of  Broad  Swamp, 
the  other  at  the  north  side  of  said  swamp  ;  A  highway  from  the  middle 
bridge,  now  near  Humiston's,  past  Goodman  Beacher's  farm,  to  the  east 
side  of  the  west  rocks,  two  rods  wide  for  "  footmen  and  horses  saddled." 
This  road  ran  to  Cheshire,  nearly  a  mile  south  of  the  village  ;  Highway  to 
John  Cook's  and  Joseph  Mix's ;  This  is  the  old  south  road  to  the  south 
part  of  Cheshire  ;  Two  draft  ways  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  by  Benj. 
Hull's,  one  on  the  south  side,  and  one  on  the  north  side  of  Broad  Swamp  ; 
April  22,  a  highway  adjoining  New  Haven  line  from  the  river,  west- 
ward, five  rods  wide.  This  old  highway  is  on  the  south  side  of  the 
Blue  Hills,  and  north  of  Quinnipiac  factory.  It  runs  past  the  late  resi- 
dence of  Eliasaph  Munson  to  Cheshire,  terminating  at  West  Rock  on 
the  mountain  near  Bethany;  1707,  highway  from  Long  Hill  to  New 
Haven  line. 


148  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

the  road  from  Hartford  to  New  Haven  where  it  passes 
through  Meriden  from  the  "  upper  line  of  Belchers  old 
farm,  as  the  most  northerly  part  of  S'd  Town  of  Walling- 
ford,  down  as  far  in  the  Sd  town  as  the  plain  so  called " 
be  widened,  as  it  was  so  narrow  in  some  places  as  to  be 
very  difficult  of  passage,  the  road  being  originally  forty 
rods  wide.  The  present  Hartford  and  New  Haven 
turnpike  which  passes  through  the  center  of  the  town, 
was  completed  in  1800.  The  inhabitants  of  Walling- 
ford  strenuously  opposed  the  laying  out  of  the  turnpike, 
but  when  it  was  completed  it  was  considered  a  vast, 
wonderful  and  curious  work ;  and  people  came  to  see  it, 
as  they  afterwards  flocked  to  see  the  first  railroad. 
Until  the  year  1802,  there  was  not  a  single  road  in  town 
that  was  made  by  being  rounded  from  the  center  to  the 
sides,  in  the  manner  of  a  turnpike,  and  as  our  roads  are 
all  now  made.  They  were  more  frequently  lower  than 
the  sides,  by  continual  wear,  and  washing  of  the  rains, 
rather  than  raised  above  them.  There  can  be  little 
doubt  that  we  find  in  this  fact,  the  reason  for  laying  out 
roads  of  the  enormous  width  of  six  and  even  twenty 
rods.  For  as  one  track  became  worn,  full  of  ruts,  and 
sunk  below  the  surface,  the  traveler  could  find  sufficient 
room  to  pick  out  for  himself  another  and  still  another 
track, yet  fresh  and  unworn,  in  the  broad  space  of  one 
hundred,  or  three  hundred  feet  reserved  for  a  highway. 
As  there  were  few  laborers  and  plenty  of  land,  this  mode 
of  working  the  roads  was  cheaper  than  the  modern 
process  of  laboriously  constructing  one  good,  rounded 
track.  As  to  the  comfort  of  the  traveler  there  could 
not  be  much  question. 

The  ancient  bridge  at  Humiston's  mill  was  originally 
situated  nearly  seventy  rods  down  the  river,  from  where 


ROADS    AND    BRIDGES.  149 

it  is  now,  and  the  road  up  the  hill  was  a  little  to  the 
north  of  the  bridge,  coming  out  near  the  house  recently 
owned  by  Joel  Camp ;  the  abutments  of  the  bridge  are 
visible  to  this  day.  The  bridge  now  called  "  Horsford's 
bridge,"  was  at  first  built  several  rods  down  the  stream, 
from  its  present  location,  and  was  not  changed  until  the 
present  century.  The  bridge  at  Yalesville  on  the  east 
and  west  road  was  originally  built  nearly  where  it  now  is, 
and  those  on  the  old  turnpike  were  built  by  the  turn- 
pike company  about  the  year  1800.  In  1672,  it  was 
voted  in  regard  to  the  bridge  at  the  "  Pines,"  that  Wal- 
lingford  and  New  Haven  agree  jointly  to  maintain  the 
said  bridge.  January  31,  voted  that  the  making  of  the 
bridge  over  Wharton's  brook,  shall  be  paid  by  the  town. 
December  24,  voted  that  Samuel  Andrews,  Samuel 
Munson,  Nathaniel  Roice,  Thomas  Curtis,  and  Benjamin 
Lewis  be  a  committee  to  view  the  place  and  decide 
where  a  bridge  could  be  most  conveniently  built  over 
the  river.  Where  they  located  the  bridge  does  not 
appear;  but  the  presumption  is  that  it  was  in  North 
Haven,  just  west  of  the  centre  of  the  village,  at  a  place 
then  called  the  Pines ;  as  that  bridge  was  supported 
jointly  by  New  Haven  and  Wallingford  for  many  years. 
November  26,  1695,  a  bridge  was  ordered  to  be  built  at 
"  Goats  pains,"  or  at  Sergt.  Doolittle's  cart-way,  or  some 
place  between  them  for  carts.  December  30,  1695,  a 
bridge  was  built  at  the  mill,  by  Eleazer  Peck.  This  is 
at  what  is  now  Yalesville,  east  of  the  factory,  hear  the 
residence  of  the  late  Charles  Cook  and  Roswell  Yale. 

The  mode  of  traveling  was  usually  by  horseback  ;  and 
it  was  not  until  1789  that  the  first  wagon  was  brought 
into  Meriden.  It  was  owned  by  Mr.  Ezra  Rice.  It  was 
of  a  very  rude  construction,  being  simply  a  square 


I5O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

framed  box  placed  on  four  wheels,  drawn  by  two  horses, 
with  ropes  for  traces,  and  cords  for  the  guiding  or 
driving  lines.  Yet  it  was  then  thought  to  be  a  very 
elegant  establishment.  Previous  to  that  time,  there  had 
never  been  owned  in  the  town,  but  three  two-wheel 
carriages,  being  very  rude,  awkward  chaise  bodies  or 
uncovered  seats  hung  on  two  wheels,  in  the  manner  of 
our  modern  chaise.  The  bridegroom  who  went  to  a 
neighboring  town  to  be  united  with  a  partner  whom  he 
hoped  to  find  through  life  a  "  help  meet  for  him," 
whether  he  was  gentlemen  or  yeoman,  rode  on  horse- 
back, and  carried  her  home  on  a  pillion  behind  him. 

In  1835,  a  petition  was  presented  to  the  legislature, 
asking  for  a  charter  to  construct  a  railway  from  Hart- 
ford to  New  Haven.  The  petition  was  eventually 
granted.  The  most  prominent  persons  in  the  matter 
were  the  Hon.  James  Brewster  of  New  Haven,  Maj. 
Elisha  A.  Cowles  of  Meriden,  Richard  Hubbard  of 
Middletown  and  Seth  J.  North  of  New  Britain.  Mr. 
Hubbard  wanted  the  line  carried  farther  east,  in  order 
that  Middletown  might  be  on  the  direct  route  between 
New  York  and  Boston.  Mr.  North  was  naturally  de- 
sirous that  the  line  should  go  farther  west,  that  New 
Britain  might  profit  by  it.  But  Major  Cowles,  active 
and  energetic  in  everything  he  took  in  hand,  in  con- 
junction with  Mr.  Brewster  succeeded  in  getting  the 
road  located  where  it  now  is  ;  so  that  Meriden  came  in 
for  all  the  advantages  which  would  otherwise  have 
accrued  to  Middletown  or  New  Britain.  The  route  of 
the  Hartford  and  New  Haven  railroad  had  been  pointed 
out  by  Dr.  J.  G.  Percival ;  having  been  determined  by 
him  during  the  progress  of  a  geological  exploration  of 
the  larger  Secondary  formation,  previous  to  his  general 


ROADS    AND    BRIDGES.  151 

survey  of  the  State.  The  route  throughout  is  deter- 
mined by  the  geological  arrangement  of  the  country, 
passing  in  the  depression  between  the  eastern  and  west- 
ern lines  of  elevation,  in  the  Trap  system,  to  Meriden, 
then  in  that  between  the  third  and  fourth  eastern  main 
range  to  Berlin.  The  increase  of  the  western  part  of 
the  town  may  be  dated  from  that  event. 

The  great  increase  of  traveling  since  railways  have 
been  in  use  has  produced  great  and  material  changes  in 
society.  Many  who,  but  a  few  years  since,  scarcely 
penetrated  beyond  the  country  in  which  they  happened 
to  have  been  born,  are  now  induced  to  visit  places  far 
more  remote,  from  the  facility  and  comfort  afforded  them 
by  railway  transit,  which  enables  them  to  travel  over 
thousands  of  miles  with  greater  personal  ease  than  they 
formerly  could  over,  fifty.  The  result  of  this  mutual 
communication  of  facts  and  ideas  must  be  an  improved 
state  of  society.  Great  discoveries  in  science  may  be 
ranked  among  the  greatest  class  of  natural  events,  so 
great  is  their  modifying  influence  on  human  destiny. 
When  considered  with  respect  to  its  scientific  character, 
magnitude,  utility,  its  harmony  of  arrangement,  and  me- 
chanical contrivance,  what  can  equal  that  greatest  of 
discoveries — the  one  which  most  influences  human  ac- 
tion and  happiness — the  practical  applicability  of  the 
expansibility  of  water  into  steam  as  a  motive  power. 
Compared  to  it,  how  shabby  a  structure  would  be  the 
celebrated  Roman  wall,  or  even  the  more  extensive  one 
of  the  Chinese  ;  as  for  the  Egyptian  pyramids,  they,  so 
far  from  being  fit  to  be  mentioned  in  comparison  with 
the  railway,  are  merely  uncouth  monuments  of  the 
ignorance  and  superstition  of  their  founders  ;  woeful 
testimonials  of  the  debasement  to  priestcraft  of  the 


152 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


wretched  slaves  who  erected  them,  and  are  merely  evi- 
dences of  much  physical  force,  having  but  little  aid  from 


science  or  taste. 


c 


153 


CHAPTER     VIII. 

NOMENCLATURE. 
WALLING  FORD. 

PROBABLY  the  names  of  one  hundred  out  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  towns  in  Connecticut,  were  taken  from 
England ;  others  were  derived  from  some  local  peculiar- 
ity, or  from  the  name  of  some  prominent  person,  as 
Chesterfield,  Cromwell,  Putnam,  Ellsworth,  Franklin, 
Madison,  etc.  ;  some  still  retain  the  old  Indian  names, 
Naugatuck,  Mohegan,  Pequonnock,  etc.,  while  others  are 
taken  from  towns  mentioned  in  the  Bible,  as  Bethany, 
Bethel,  Gilead,  Bozrah,  Hebron,  Bethlehem,  etc.  The 
name  of  Wallingford  is  derived  from  the  Anglo  Saxon 
Guall-hen,  i.  e.,  "old  fortification";  and  was  anciently 
called  Gallena.  It  is  the  name  of  an  old  town  in  Eng- 
land, which  Leland  thus  quaintly  describes : 

"The  town  of  Wallingford  hathbeene  a  verry  notable  thing 
and  welle  waulled.  The  diche  of  the  town,  and  the  crest 
whereon  the  waulles  stoode  be  yet  manifestly  perceyved,  and 
begin  from  the  castelle,  going  in  compace,  a  good  mile  and 
more,  and  so  cummith  to  Wallingford  bridg,  a  large  thing  of 
stone  over  the  Tamise.  And  by  the  patentes  and  donations 
of  Edmunde  Erie  of  Cornewaul,  and  Lord  of  the  House  of 
Wallingford,  that  ther  wer  14  Parich  Chirchis  in  Wallingford. 
And  ther  be  men  yet  alyve  that  can  shew  the  Places  and 


154  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Cemiteries,  wher  yn  the  al  stoode.     At  this  tyme  there  be 
but  3  poore  Parich  Chirches  in  die  town."1 

The  town  was  formerly  surrounded  by  a  wall;  the 
castle  stood  by  the  river.  Camden  in  his  Britannia? 
says,  the  castle's  size  and  magnificence  used  to  strike 
me  with  astonishment. 

He  believed  it  to  have  been  built  by  the  Romans, 
afterward  destroyed  by  the  Saxons  and  Danes,  and 
rebuilt  under  William  I. 

The  name  of  Wallingford  was  given  to  the  tract  of 
land  extending  southward  from  the  point  where  the  "  old 
road  to  New  Haven  goeth  over  Pilgrim's  Harbor,  ten 
miles,  and  to  extend  five  miles  each  side  of  the  Quinni- 
piock  river,"  in  1670,  by  some  of  the  planters  from  New 
Haven. 

The  name  of  Pond  Hill  is  frequently  alluded  to  in 
the  early  records.  This  locality  is  said  to  derive  its 
name  from  the  fact  that  in  the  low  ground  nearly  west 
of  the  old  Barker  place,  exists  a  pond  of  water,  just 
over  the  line  in  North  Haven,  and  adjacent  to  the  range 
of  hills  ;  which  fact  was  no  doubt  the  cause  of  the  name 
being  given  to  that  locality. 

Green  Swamp  and  Fresh  Meadows,  were  situated  in 
the  western  and  south-western  part  of  the  town,  and 
bear  the  names  to  this  day.  Happens  Brook,  is  in 
Cheshire,  and  takes  its  rise  a  little  to  the  .  southeast  of 
the  village.  Mill  River,  takes  its  rise  a  little  west  of 
Cheshire,  taking  a  southerly  course  through  the  town  of 
Hamden,  and  finds  its  way  into  the  Sound  at  New 

1  Itinerary,  vol.  2,  p.  II ;  Oxford,  1710. 

2  Vol.  I,  p.  165. 


NOMENCLATURE.  155 

Haven.  Ridge  Hill,  is  that  high  ground  in  the  north 
part  of  Hamden  and  south  eastern  part  of  Cheshire. 
Samerack  Swamp,  is  in  the  eastern  part  of  Wallingford, 
a  little  south  of  the  residence  of  the  late  Peter  Hall. 
Muddy  River,  takes  its  rise  in  the  eastern  part  of 
Meriden,  and  running  south,  empties  into  the  Quinnipiac 
in  North  Haven.  Sugar  Loaf  Hill,  is  that  eminence 
lying  between  the  turnpike  and  river,  just  south  of 
Humiston's  Mills.  Clapboard  Hill,  is  that  land  lying 
east  of  the  residence  of  Joseph  Hough,  and  north  of 
the  late  residence  of  Reuben  Rice.  Broad  Swamp,  is 
in  Cheshire,  about  two  miles  west  of  Yalesville.  Long 
Hill,  is  that  range  of  hills  east  of  Wallingford,  running 
south.  Tank  Hood  Road,  is  the  old  highway  that  for- 
merly ran  from  the  village  of  Wallingford  to  Clapboard 
hill,  past  the  residence,  of  the  late  Reuben  Rice  and 
Ephraim  A.  Humiston,  to  the  North  Farms  road  leading 
to  Meriden  ;  this  old  road  is  now  fenced  up  in  many 
places,  by  consent  of  the  town.  Dr.  Russell,  an  early 
settler,  formerly  lived  on  this  road.  Whartons  Brook, 
is  the  stream  east  of  Wallingford  village,  running  south 
to  the  river  where  it  empties,  just  below  Doolittle  mill. 
This  mill  was  built  by  a  Mr.  Munson,  and  was  called 
originally  Munson's  mill.  The  first  mill  ever  erected 
in  the  town  was  on  this  stream,  just  below  the  village. 
Scotch  Rock,  is  in  the  south  part  of  Cheshire,  a  little 
north  of  the  residence  of  Alonzo  Brooks  ;  and  the  high 
ground  east  of  the  rock  was  called  Scotch  hill.  The 
rock  is  very  large,  running  out  of  the  ground  nearly 
twenty  feet.  Whirlwind,  is  that  high  land  east  of  the 
late  residence  of  Luther  Hall,  and  west  from  Pistapaug 
Pond.  Totoket  Mountains,  are  easterly  from  Walling- 
ford to  Meriden. 


156  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


PILGRIMS     HARBOR. 


The  place  on  which  our  city  now  stands  was  called 
"Pilgrim's  Harbor,"  in  an  Indian  deed  of  1664.  In  the 
year  1660,  when  monarchy  was  restored  in  England, 
many  who  had  acted  prominently  in  the  revolution,  were 
obliged  to  flee  for  their  lives.  Some  fled  to  the  conti- 
nent of  Europe,  some  to  the  American  settlements,  and 
some  were  caught  and  executed  as  traitors ;  and  for  no 
other  crime  than  that  they  partook  too  deeply  of  the 
same  maddening  cup  that  turned  even  the  philosophic 
brain  of  Milton  ;  and  the  remains  of  some  of  the  princi- 
pal actors  in  that  too  fearful  tragedy,  were  treated  with 
profane  indignities,  such  as  have  not  since  that  day 
disgraced  the  name  of  English  freedom.1 

Two  of  these,  Edward  Whalley  and  William  Goffe, 
in  consequence  of  the  rank  they  had  held  in  the  armies 
of  the  Parliament,  and  in  the  commonwealth  of  England, 
were  especially  obnoxious  to  the  restored  king.  They 
arrived  at  Boston  on  the  2/th  of  July  1660;  John  Dix- 
well  came  afterwards.  As  it  was  not  known  at  that  time 
what  disposition  would  be  made  of  them,  and  as  it  was 
believed  that  they  would  be  embraced  in  the  general  act 
of  indemnity,  they  were  treated  by  Governor  Endicott 
and  the  other  principal  gentlemen  of  Boston,  with  all 
the  marks  of  respect  that  were  thought  to  belong  to 
men  who  had  filled  high  places  in  the  government, 
and  whose  venerable  features  and  soldierly  bearing 
comported  so  well  with  their  high  reputation,  as  eminent  • 
civilians  and  military  leaders.  As  soon,  however,  as  it 
was  made  known  in  Boston  in  what  light  the  king 
looked  upon  the  official  conduct  of  these  men,  and  that 

I  Camden's  Imperial  Hist,  of  England,  p.  216. 


NOMENCLATURE.  157 

they  were  regarded  as  traitors,  a  large  share  of  those 
who  had  claimed  to  be  their  friends,  avoided  them  as  if 
they  had  been  infected  with  some  contagious  disease.' 

Finding  that  Endicott  had  called  a  court  of  magis- 
trates to  apprehend  them  and  deliver  them  over  to  the 
executioner,  they  took  advantage  of  the  friendly  dispo- 
sition manifested  towards  them  by  some  of  the  Magis- 
trates and  fled  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of  that  colony, 
and  sought  a  refuge  in  New  Haven  among  the  old  and 
tried  adherents  of  Oliver  Cromwell.  They  passed 
through  Wallingford  on  the  26th  of  March,  1661,  and 
the  next  day  arrived  in  New  Haven.  Meanwhile  the 
royal  mandate  reached  Massachusetts,  requiring  the 
governor  to  arrest  the  fugitives.  As  soon  as  the  news 
of  the  king's  proclamation  reached  New  Haven,  they 
were  obliged  to  abscond  ;  and  were  concealed  for  a  time 
in  a  cave  on  West  Rock,  near  New  Haven,  and  which 
still  bears  the  name  of  "  Judges'  Cave."  Their  stay  in 
this  cave  was  short,  •  however,  on  account  of  the  wild 
animals  who  at  that  time  infested  the  mountains.  One 
night  as  the  regicides  lay  in  bed,  they  saw  a  panther  or 
catamount  thrust  its  head  into  the  mouth  of  the  cave. 
Its  blazing  eyeballs  and  unearthly  cry  so  frightened  the 
inmates  that  they  fled  from  the  cave. 

They  were  concealed  in  various  places  until  October 
13,  1684,  when  they  left  Milford,  where  they  had  been 
for  two  years,  for  Hadley,  Mass.,  then  a  frontier  town,  a 
hundred  miles  from  Milford,  and  so  remote  from  Boston, 
Hartford  and  New  Haven,  that  it  did  not  seem  probable 
that  their  presence  in  such  a  place  would  be  suspected. 
They  traveled  only  by  night,  and  laid  still  during  the 

I  Hollister,   i,  236. 


158  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

day  in  some  shady  nook  in  the  woods,  or  by  the  bank 
of  a  brook  where  the  murmuring  of  the  water  invited 
them  to  repose.  On  their  journey  up  this  road,  they 
encamped  in  what  is  now  West  Meriden,  for  several 
days  ;  it  then  being  a  swampy,  tangled  wilderness,  well 
fitted  for  concealment.  The  place  thenceforward  as  hav- 
ing afforded  shelter  or  harbor  to  these  men,  who  though 
denounced  at  home  as  regicides,  were  honored  by  our 
fathers  as  noble  patriots,  was  called  "  Pilgrim's  Harbor."1 
Now  this  is  a  very  pretty  story,  and  is  quoted  by 
Hollister  and  others  ;  but  unfortunately  for  the  truth  of 
it,  I  have  the  copy  of  a  letter  in  the  hand-writing  of 
Daniel  Clarke,  Secretary,  written  previous  to  1661,  in 
which  we  find  mention  of  "  Pilgroomes  Harbour."  The 
regicides  passed  through  Meriden  in  October,  1664. 
This  letter  was  written  in  consequence  of  some  trouble 
in  the  settlement  of  boundary  lines. 

MERIDEN. 

As  early  as  1664,  another  locality  lying  several  miles 
north  of  the  town,  was  called  Merrideen,  Meridan  or 
Meridon.  For  as  early  as  that,  an  Indian  deed  convey- 
ing a  large  tract  of  land,  describes  it,  or  the  locality 
about  it,  as  "  entitled  and  known  by  the  name  of  Meri- 
deen."  Subsequent  documents  speak  of  land  as  lying 
between  Pilgrim's  Harbor  and  Merridan.  From  a  deed 
in  possession  of  Moses  Gilbert  of  Berlin,  who  is  now 
(1870)  living  on  the  same  farm  owned  by  Jonathan 
Gilbert,  previous  to  1644,  we  find  that  Captain  Daniel 
Clark  of  Windsor  deeded  to  Jonathan  Gilbert,  April  22, 
1672, 

i  Hutchinson,  i,  213 ;  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.  VII.  123  ;  Stiles,  Hist,  of  the 
three  Judges  of  Chas.  i  ;  Hartford,  1794. 


NOMENCLATURE.  159 

"  300  Acres  of  land  (forty  of  which  was  to  be  meadow,  by 
Grant  of  the  Colony  to  sd  Clark,)  lying,  situate,  and  laid  out 
at  a  place  called  Moridam  where  Mr.  Jonathan  Gilbert's  farm 
is,  and  bounded  partly  on  the  Mattabesick  River  where  it  may 
be  allowed  of  the  town  of  Farmington." 

Long  before  there  were  any  settlements  on  this  terri- 
tory, and  as  early  as  there  was  any  house,  we  find  the 
name  Merrideen  or  Meriden.  Mr.  Perkins  in  his  His- 
torical Sketches,  says  that  there  is  a  tradition  that  the 
name  is  compounded  of  two  words,  "  merry  "  and  "  den  ;" 
and  that  in  an  old  stone  house  built  in  that  locality,  there 
were  so  many  merry  meetings  of  travelers,  that  the 
place  acquired  the  nickname  of  Merry-den.  At  or  before 
the  union  of  the  colonies  of  Connecticut  and  New  Haven 
there  was  a  grant  made  to  Mr.  Andrew  Belcher  of  a 
tract  of  land  containing  nearly  five  hundred  acres,  on 
condition  of  his  building  a  stone  house  or  fort  with  port- 
holes, and  keeping  arms  and  ammunition.  With  the 
land,  he  was  to  have  the  right  of  keeping  tavern  forever. 
Mr.  Belcher  did  not  come  himself,  but  it  appears  he  sent 
some  one  to  take  his  place,  ^he  house  was  erected 
between  the  years  1660  and  1667.  This  building  prov- 
ing too  small,  another  was  erected  about  1690.  This 
remained  and  was  occupied  till  after  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  war,  with  the  addition  of  a  wooden  build- 
ing;  and  whoever  lived  there  kept  tavern  if  they  pleased, 
until  the  turnpike  was  made  in  1799.  It  was  a  noted  place 
during  the  French  and  Revolutionary  wars.  The  stone 
house  stood  not  far  from  the  late  residence  of  Mr.  John 
Yale,  in  the  northern  part  of  the  town,  and  about  twenty- 
five  years  ago  the  foundations  of  the  old  house  were 
ploughed  up.  There  can  not  be  a  shadow  of  doubt  but  that 
Mr.  Belcher  gave  the  name,  and  that  it  was  taken  from 


l6o  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Meriden,  Warwickshire  Co.,  England.  In  the  parish 
church  at  Meriden,  in  England,  are  deposited  the  remains 
of  the  Belcher  family  for  many  generations  ;  one  Mar- 
garet Belcher  was  a  patron  of  the  church  in  1582.  The 
resemblance  of  the  valley  in  which  our  town  is  situated, 
with  the  stone  house  or  inn,  with  the  town  in  England, 
and  other  associations,  doubtless  suggested  to  him  the 
propriety  of  giving  the  name  to  his  tract.  Camden1 
derives  the  name  from  the  Anglo  Saxon  Mere,  a  pool  or 
lake,  and  Den,  a  valley.  Dugdale2  thus  describes  the 
town,  as  it  appeared  in  his  day : 

"  MIREDEN.  This  place  situate  upon  London  road,  having 
some  Inns  and  Alehouses,  built  for  the  receipt  of  Passengers, 
grown  to  late  times  to  the  credit  of  village,  doth  utterly 
eclipse  the  name  of  Alspath,  by  which,  and  none  other,  the 
Town  itself  was  known  ;  even  from  Saxon  times,  till  about 
the  beginning  of  King  Henry  the  sixth's  reign ;  I  am  of 
opinion,  that  the  place  where  the  greatest  part  of  Myriden 
now  stands,  was  very  antiently  so  called  ;  for  the  latter  syla- 
ble  dene  importeth  no  lene,  being  the  old  English  word,  that 
signifieth  a  valley,  as  this  is ;  which  (I  suppose)  for  the  foul- 
nesse  thereof,  was  at  first  called  Mireden." 

West3  thus  describes  the  town  : 

"  Meriden,  anciently  called  Alspath,  or  Ailespede,  until  the 
reign  of  Henry  VI,  when  it  bore  the  name  of  Myreden,  from 
its  low  and  miry  situation.  One  of  the  old  seats  of  the  Earl 
of  Aylesford  is  now  turned  into  an  inn,  (The  Bull's  Head,) 
and  a  noble  one  it  is,  commanding  fine  prospects,  and  having 
extensive  gardens,  pleasure  grounds,  a  fine  archery,  and 
bowling  green." 

1  Britannia,  I,  160. 

2  Antiquities  of  Warwickshire,    720;  London,  1656. 

3  History  of  Warwickshire,  598;  Birmingham,  1830. 


NOMENCLATURE.  l6l 

Leland  describes  Meriden  in  his  time,  as  a  "  Village  4 
Miles  by  enclosed  Ground,  having  some  Corne,  Wood 
and  Pasture.  And  at  the  End  of  this  Village  ranne 
downe  a  Broket  on  the  left  Hand,  and  thereby  was  a 
Parke."1  Gorton  (Topographical  Dictionary,  London, 
1833),  gives  the  population  in  1833  as  927,  and  says, 

"  Meriden,  a  parish  in  the  Solihull  division  of  the  hundred 
of  Hemlingford,  which  derived  its  name  from  the  anciently 
low  and  damp  situation ;  The  church,  dedicated  to  St.  Lau- 
rence, has  been  recently  enlarged  ;  patron,  the  Earl  of  Ayles- 
ford,  who  has  a  seat  here,  surrounded  by  a  fine  park,  well 
stocked  with  deer.  An  old  mansion,  formerly  a  seat  of  the 
Earl's,  is  now  converted  into  an  inn,  having  very  extensive 
pleasure  grounds." 

Clarke's  British  Gazetteer  for  1852,  says, 

"Meriden,  Warwick  Co.,  100  miles  from  London,  6  from 
Coventry,  12  from  Birmingham.  The  village  is  very  pleasing. 
One  of  the  seats  of  the  Earl  of  Aylesford,  which  had  latterly 
been  but  little  used,  has  been  converted  into  an  inn,  to  which 
extensive  grounds  and  pleasure  gardens  are  attached.  The 
Meriden  poor-law  union  comprises  18  parishes,  with  a  popu- 
lation of  11,000  persons,  spread  over  an  area  of  seventy-two 
square  miles." 

As  Mr.  Belcher  built  his  stone  house  as  early  as  1664; 
as  we  find  the  name  Meriden  applied  to  the  locality  on 
which  the  house  stood,  as  early  as  the  house  was  built ; 
as  Meriden  in  England  was  distinguished  for  its  beau- 
tiful tavern,  and  as  Mr.  Belcher's  stone  tavern  was  an 
unusually  substantial  and  costly  building  for  that  period, 
there  can  be  no  reasonable  doubt  that  he  gave  the  name 
•  to  the  north  part  of  the  town  ;  which  name  was  nat- 

i  Itinerary,  V.  96;  Oxford,  1710. 
M 


1 62  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

urally  transferred  to  the  settlements  which  sprang    up 
around  it. 

BANGALL. 

Captain  Benjamin  Hall  had  a  tavern  at  the  Noah 
Pomeroy  place,  which  in  those  days  was  a  place  of  great 
resort  by  parties  who  came  from  Middletown,  Durham 
and  Wallingford.  One  night  in  particular,  a  large  party 
came  from  Middletown,  and  kept  up  their  frolics  all 
night  ;  in  the  words  of  Captain  Hall,  "  they  banged  all 
creation  ;"  from  which  circumstance  came  the  name  of 
Bangall. 

CROW    HOLLOW. 

William  Botsford,  in  the  year  1830,  gave  the  name  of 
Crow  Hollow  to  the  locality  near  Julius  Parker's  shops, 
about  two  miles  west  of  the  city,  there  being  such  a 
great  number  of  crows  in  that  vicinity. 
HANOVER. 

A  manufacturing  company  was  formed  in  the  fall  of 
1826,  consisting  of  Elisha  A.  Cowles,  Julius  Pratt,  Fen- 
ner  Bush,  Nathaniel  C.  Sanford,  Howell  Merriman, 
Erastus  C.  Parmelee  and  Edward  Sanford.  All  except 
the  last  were  citizens  of  Meriden.  Of  this  company, 
N.  C.  Sanford  was  the  accredited  agent,  doing  business 
under  the  name  of  N.  C.  Sanford  and  Co.  The  manu- 
facture of  augers  was  commenced  by  this  company  in 
the  summer  of  1827,  near  the  shop  occupied  by  Bradley 
and  Hubbard  at  West  Meriden.  But  there  not  being 
sufficient  water  power,  this  company  purchased  the  lands 
and  water  rights  on  both  sides  of  the  Quinnipiac  river, 
both  above  and  below  the  Fall  Plain  bridge,  so  far  as 
was  then  deemed  necessary  (and  so  far  as  the  rights 
could  then  be  secured),  for  building  purposes  and  the 


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control  of  the  water  power.  They  first  broke  ground  in 
the  prosecution  of  their  work,  April  23,  1832.  Various 
names  had  been  proposed  for  the  village ;  and  to  decide 
upon  one  a  special  meeting  of  the  company  was  called 
at  the  house  of  their  agents  (then  standing  on  the 
grounds  now  occupied  by  the  Byxbee  House).  Four 
only  of  the  members  of  the  company  were  present  at 
that  meeting,  viz. :  Messrs.  Cowles,  N.  C.  Sanford,  Mer- 
riman  and  Parmelee.  Various  names  were  proposed 
and  were  severally  acted  upon  and  rejected  till  the  list 
had  been  reduced  to  three.  Neither  of  these  could  be 
adopted  or  rejected  by  vote  of  the  members  present,  and 
it  was  voted  to  come  to  a  decision  by  casting  lots,  and 
the  first  drawn  to  be  the  name  decided  upon.  One  of 
the  members  present  was  blindfolded.  Another  then 
wrote  the  ballots  and  placed  them  in  a  hat.  The  blind- 
folded man  then  drew  out  one  ballot  and  handed  it  to 
another  member  who  read  the  name  Hanover  written 
upon  it.  Such  was  the  origin  of  the  name,  a  name 
which  Dr.  Hough  at  the  request  of  the  agent  of  the 
company,  announced  to  the  people  who  were  assembled 
on  the  occasion  of  the  raising  of  the  boarding  house, 
June  6,  1832. 


164  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

DR.  DANA  AND  THE  WALLINGFORD  CONTROVERSY. 

MR.  Whittelsey  said  before  his  death,  that  he  observed 
the  symptoms  of  a  latent  spirit  of  strife  and  division 
amongst  his  people,  which  he  expected  would  discover 
itself  and  run  high  after  his  decease.  After  the  death 
of  Mr.  Whittelsey,  the  society  were  for  a  long  time 
without  a  pastor,  the  people  were  so  divided  in  their 
opinions  and  feelings;  above  twenty  .candidates  having 
been  heard,  and  they  had  not  been  able  to  unite  in  the 
settlement  of  any  candidate  whom  they  had  employed. 
At  a  Society  Meeting,  September  5,  1757,  it  was 

"Voted  that  they  would  Signify  their  minds,  who  they 
would  have  to  proceed  with,  in  order  for  Probation,  in  the 
Work  of  ye  Ministry,  in  said  Society,  by  Passing  Round  and 
Giving  in  the  Name  of  ye  Gentleman,  they  would  make 
Choice  of,  for  that  purpose,  but  those  that  Dont  Vote  for  any, 
Signify  their  minds  accordingly." 

The  result  of  the  ballotting  was  that  Mr.  Strong1  had 


I  Nehemiah  Strong  was  born  at  Northampton,  Mass.,  in  1728;  was 
graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1755;  was  chosen  Tutor  in  the  College  in 
1757,  and  continued  in  the  office  three  years  ;  was  soon  after  settled  as  a 
minister  in  the  parish  of  Turkey  Hills  in  Simsbury,  now  Granby  ;  was 
chosen  to  the  Professorship  of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy  in 
Yale  College  in  1770;  resigned  the  office  in  1781,  and  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life  in  retirement.  He  died  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Aug.  12,  1807,  in 
the  eightieth  year  of  his  age.  .  . 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  165 

thirty-eight  votes  ;  Mr.  Chauncey  Whittelsey,  son  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Whittelsey,  had  forty-eight ;  Mr.  Holmes,  ten  ; 
and  Mr.  Hubbard  four  votes.  Mr.  Chauncey  Whittelsey 
had  preached  among  them,  to  more  general  satisfaction 
than  any  other  candidate  ;  but  there  was  such  a  number 
in  opposition  to  him,  that  he  refused  to  settle  with  them. 
The  association  had  advised  the  committee  of  the 
church  and  society  to  call  in  three  candidates,  of  whom 
Mr.  Whittelsey  should  be  one,  and  the  other  two  to  be 
named  by  the  minor  party,  and  to  hear  them  preach  six 
sabbaths  each,  and  then  to  settle  him  who  should  have 
the  major  vote,  and  that  the  minority  should  then  agree 
to  his  settlement.  Provided,  nevertheless,  that  if  the 
minor  party  should  refuse  to  nominate,  that  then  the 
society  might  proceed  in  a  regular  manner  to  the 
settlement  of  Mr.  Whittelsey.  This  advice,  it  seems, 
was  not  acceptable.  There  was  no  prospect  that  the 
majority,  who  were  fixed  in  the  choice  of  Mr.  Whittelsey, 
would  recede  from  their  choice  in  favor  of  any  other 
man.  At  a  special  society  meeting  at  Wallingford, 
March  28,  1758,  it  was 

"  Voted  that  Ensign  Theophilus  Doolittle,  Lieut.  Joseph 
Royce,  Caleb  Merriman,  Esq.,  Major  Elihu  Hall,  Mr.  Charles 
Whittelsey,  Lieut.  Caleb  Johnson,  and  Samuel  Hall,  Esq.,  be 
a  Committee  to  use  such  Measures,  as  speedy  as  may  be,  in 
Behalf  of  said  Society,  as  may  be  by  them  tho't  proper,  con- 
sidering the  difficult  Circumstances  of  said  Society,  to  invite 
a  Candidate  or  Candidates,  to  preach  in  said  Society,  with  the 
Advice  of  some  Rev'd  Gentlemen,  that  are  acquainted  with 
the  Circumstances  of  said  Society,  some  convenient  Time, 
and  Report  make  at  their  next  Society  Meeting,  of  what  they 
have  done  in  the  Affair,  in  order,  &c. 

"A  true  Copy.  Test.      JAMES  MILES,  Clerk." 


1 66  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

This  committee  applied  to  a  number  of  neighboring 
ministers,  who  were  convened  together  in  the  society, 
upon  a  day  when  that  church  and  people  were  sanctify- 
ing a  fast,  who  gave  them  the  following  advice,  drawn  up 
by  Mr.  Samuel  Hall : 

"  Wallingford,  26th  April,  1758. 

"We  the  Subscribers,  neighboring  Ministers,  being  desired 
by  Capt.  Hall,  Maj.  Hall,  Ensi.  Doolittle,  Mr.  Whittelsey, 
Lieut.  Royce,  Lieut.  Merriman,  and  Lieut.  Johnson,  to  give 
our  Advice,  what  Steps  to  take  under  the  difficult  Circumstan- 
ces of  the  first  Society  in  Wallingford,  about  the  Settling  a 
Minister  among  them,  do  advise  to  send  to  Mr.  Holyoke 
President  of  Cambridge  College,  Mr.  Appleton,  Minister  of 
Cambridge,  and  Dr.  Chauncey  of  Boston,  for  their  Direction 
to  some  suitable  Candidate  for  the  Ministry  in  said  Walling- 
ford. 

"SAMUEL  WHITTELSEY, 
SAMUEL  HALL, 
ISAAC  STILES, 
THEOPHILUS  HALL.  " 

The  committee  upon  this  advice  sent  the  following 
letter  to  Cambridge : 

"Wallingford,  28  April,  1758. 
"  REVEREND  AND  HONOURED  GENTLEMEN  : 

"  The  Committee  of  the  first  Society  in  Wallingford  on 
Consideration  of  the  bereaved  and  broken  circumstances  of 
said  Society,  by  the  Death  of  their  late  Reverend  Pastor, 
having  advised  with  the  Reverend  Elders  in  their  Vicinity 
thereon,  do  in  Comformity  of  their  Advice,  and  in  great 
Approbation  thereof,  hereby  most  earnestly  beg  your  kind 
offices  for  this  destitute  Flock,  to  recommend  some  suitable 
and  worthy  Candidate,  for  the  Ministry  in  this  Place;  and 
that  you  would  be  pleased  to  use  your  great  and  good 
Influence  with  such  Candidate,  to  accept  the  Invitation,  &c. 


THE  DANA  CONTROVERSY.  l6/ 

"CALEB  MERRIMAN, 

SAMUEL  HALL, 

ELIHU  HALL,  }-  Committee.' 

JOSEPH  ROYCE, 

CALEB  JOHNSON. 

President  Holyoke  and  Mr.  Appleton,1  Dr.  Chauncey 
being  absent,  recommended  Mr.  James  Dana  of  Cam- 
bridge, a  graduate  of  Harvard  of  the  class  of  1753,  and 
then  in  his  twenty-third  year.  He  was  accordingly 
invited  to  visit  Wallingford  to  preach  as  a  candidate  for 
settlement.  He  accepted  the  invitation,  and  after  he 
had  preached  a  few  Sabbaths,  both  the  church  and  so- 
ciety, with  apparent  harmony,  extended  to  him  a  call  to 
become  their  pastor.  A  committee  of  fifteen2  were  ap- 
pointed "  to  wait  on  said  Mr.  James  Dana  and  Request 
his  acceptance  of  said  Invitation,  and  Confer  with 
him  on  Terms  and  proposals  in  order  to  his  settle- 
ment therein." 

He  accepted  the  invitation  in  the  following  letter : 

1  Rev.  Mr.  Appleton  sent  the  following  letter  to  one  of  the  Wallingford 
committee : 

"DEAR  SIR — I  congratulate  you  upon  the  hopeful  prospect  &c. 
Mr.  Dana  is  a  young  Gentleman  of  so  good  natural  Powers,  and  these 
so  well  cultivated  and  enlarged  by  a  close  Application  in  his  Studies ;  and 
has  preserved  so  clear  and  unspotted  a  Character,  &c.,  as  may  serve  very 
much  to  recommend  him  to  the  Esteem  and  Choice  of  a  people ;  and 
such  are  his  Capacities,  and  Thirst  after  further  Attainments,  that  I  am 
persuaded,  if  God  shall  put  him,  and  continue  him,  in  the  Ministry  for 
some  Years,  he  will  distinguishingly  shine  among  his  Brethren,  .&c. 

"I  am  &c.,  NATHANIEL    APPLETON. 

"Cambridge,  Aug.  u,  1758." 

2  Samuel    Hall,  Elihu    Hall,  Ensign    Theophilus    Doolittle,     Charles 
Whittelsey,  John  Hall,  John  Peck,  Deacon  John  Hall,  Caleb  Merriman, 
Lieut.   Joseph   Royce,    Lieut.   Caleb   Johnson,    Capt.  Nathaniel    Eeadel, 
Capt.  Peter  Hall,  Capt.  Eliakim  Hall,  Abraham  Stanley,  John  Moss. 


1 68  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

"  Wallingford,  Sept.  2nd,  1758. 
"  BELOVED  BRETHREN  : 

"  Your  Invitation  of  me  to  settle  among  you  in  the  Work 
of  the  Gospel  Ministry,  I  received  by  your  Committee 
chosen  for  that  purpose ;  and  apprehend  I  have  duly  consid- 
ered the  same,  &c.  In  Answer  to  this  your  invitation,  I 
would  say,  that  having  sought  divine  direction  &c.  I  judge  it 
my  Duty  to  accept,  and  accordingly,  do  now  declare  my  Ac- 
ceptance of  the  same.  I  embrace  the  present  Opportunity  to 
testify  my  grateful  Sense,  &c.  I  now  stand  ready  to  be  intro- 
duced '  to  the  Work  whereunto  I  am  called,'  as  soon  as 
convenient  Opportunity  therefor  presents  itself,  &c. 

"JAMES    DANA." 

Mr.  Dana  agreed  to  come  to  Wallingford  for  £200 
settlement,  and  ^80  the  first  year,  ,£90  the  second 
year,  and  £100  "per  year  annually,"  as  long  as  he  con- 
tinued in  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  their  society. 
There  appeared  to  be  a  good  degree  of  unanimity  in 
giving  him  a  call  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  the 
society.  None  appeared  in  opposition,  though  some, 
and  two  or  three  of  the  committee  were  not  in  the  vote. 
They  were  not  satisfied  with  respect  to  his  doctrines, 
and  soundness  in  the  faith  ;  and  one  of  the  committee 
made  him  a  visit,  with  a  view  of  obtaining  satisfaction 
relative  to  his  doctrines,  designing,  if  he  could  obtain 
satisfaction  relative  to  them,  to  act  in  favor  of  his 
ordination.  He,  in  as  mild  and  decent  a  manner  as  he 
knew  how,  introduced  the  matter,  and  asked  him  a  few 
questions  relating  to  his  doctrines  and  preaching,  ex- 
pecting "that  Mr.  Dana  would,  at  least,  attempt  to  satisfy 
him  with  respect  to  his  religious  sentiments.  But  instead 
of  this,  to  his  grief  and  surprise,  as  he  testified,  Mr.  Dana 
answered  him  very  short,  and  in  a  loud  and  boisterous 
manner,  and  treated  him  with  such  apparent  anger  and 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  169 

disdain,  as  he  never  met  with  from  any  gentleman 
before,  declaring  that  he  did  not  regard  the  opposition  a 
farthing,  or  words  to  that  effect ;  that  if  there  were  any 
objections  against  what  he  had  delivered  in  preaching, 
he  would  answer  them  before  the  ordaining  council. 
Also,  Mr.  Dana  said,  he  was  too  young  to  be  examined. 
Some  other  gentlemen  waited  on  him  between  the 
meetings,  to  obtain  satisfaction  for  themselves  as  to  his 
religious  sentiments  ;  and  particularly  desired  him  to  let 
them  know  his  sentiments  with  regard  to  original  sin, 
the  saints'  perseverance,  and  with  respect  to  free  will 
and  falling  from  grace.  He  made  them  very  short  an- 
swers, and  said  he  should  not  tell.  They  asked  him  how 
he  liked  the  platform.  He  said  he  had  never  seen  it,  but 
supposed,  if  he  settled,  he  should  settle  upon  it.  They 
inquired  if  he  had  seen  the  doctrines  of  faith  which  Mr. 
Whittelsey  had  used  ?  He  told  them  he  had.  They  in- 
quired how  he  liked  them  ?  In  reply  he  asked  them 
why  they  did  not  ask  him  how  he  liked  John  Bunyan's 
Pilgrim's  Progress  and  ^Esop's  fables  ?"  This  treatment, 
and  his  refusing  to  give  an  account  of  his  doctrines, 
gave  much  dissatisfaction  ;  for  though  both  the  church 
and  society,  with  apparent  harmony,  united  in  giving 
Mr.  Dana  a  call,  the  voting  of  the  call  was  immediately 
followed  by  the  organization  of  a  strong  opposition,  pro- 
moted, as  was  supposed,  by  some  of  the  ministers  of  the 
neighborhood.  The  society,  nevertheless,  proceeded  to 
vote  him  a  settlement  and  salary,  140  voting  in  the 
affirmative,  and  62  in  the  negative;  and  Mr.  Dana  after 
consulting  his  friends,  declared  his  acceptance  of  their 


I  Some  serious  Remarks  upon  the  Rev.  Mr.  Jonathan  Todd's  Faithful 
Narrative,  &c.,  by  Edward  Eells,  A.  M.,  Pastor  of  the  Second  Church  in 
Middletown,  New  Haven,  1760. 


I7O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

invitation.  A  committee  was  appointed  to  "  Mediate 
between  the  Rev'd  Mr.  James  Dana  and  first  Church 
in  Wallingford,  and  the  agrieved  Brethren."  Some  of 
those  who  had  voted  in  the  affirmative  now  joined  the 
other  party,  and  insisted  that  Mr.  Dana  should  be  re- 
moved from  his  pastoral  office.  Some  of  the  leading 
men  in  the  opposition  entered  a  complaint  against  Mr. 
Dana  and  the  church.  Against  him  as  unsound  in 
the  faith,  and  against  the  church  for  calling  him  to  the 
work  of  the  ministry  under  such  circumstances,  against 
so  large  an  opposition  on  account  of  his  doctrines. 
The  complaint  was  as  follows  : 

"To  the  Reverend  Mr.  Samuel  Hall,  moderator  of  the 
consociation,  in  New  Haven  county: 

"  REVEREND  SIR — The  petition  of  us  whose  names  are 
under  written,  humbly  showeth,  that  whereas  the  first  society 
and  church  in  Wallingford  have  been  in  pursuit  of  Mr  James 
Dana,  of  Cambridge,  to  settle  in  the  ministry  among  us,  and 
the  said  church  and  society  have  not  taken  the  steps  of  the 
constitution  of  the  government,-  set  forth  in  the  Saybrook 
platform,  reference  thereto  being  had.  Furthermore,  we  the 
members  of  said  church  and  society,  beg  leave  to  charge  Mr. 
James  Dana  with  declaring  in  public,  some  time  in  June  last, 
that  there  was  no  sacrifice  for  wilful  transgressions  under  the 
law  or  gospel.  He  also  delivered,  some  time  in  the  same 
month,  that  to  suppose  a  man's  sins  are  necessary  and  una- 
voidable, is  to  excuse  the  man  from  guilt,  and  lay  and  cast 
the  blame  upon  God.  Aug.  2oth,  Mr.  Dana  took  his  text  out 
of  Chronicles,  28th  chapter,  gth  verse  ;  under  which  text  he 
undertook  to  inform  us  what  were  the  conditions  of  our 
acceptance  with  God ;  and  saith  our  obedience  must  be  sin- 
cere, uniform,  willing,  universal  and  persevering ;  that  these 
were  the  conditions  of  our  acceptance  with  God,  and  what 
would  interest  us  in  his  favor  ;  and  that  it  would  be  suspended 
until  we  had  fulfilled  the  above  conditions.  Sometime  in 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  171 

July,  said  Mr.  Dana  delivered,  in  one  of  his  sermons,  that 
the  gospel  makes  the  practice  of  the  duties  of  morality,  the 
unchangeable  condition  of  our  future  happiness.  He 
declared  sometime  in  August  or  September,  that  it  was  not 
strange  if  we  had  new  things  delivered  to  us  in  religion,  and 
supposed  we  should  have  further  discoveries  made  to  us  in 
every  century,  till  we  arrived  at  a  perfect  state ;  which  doc- 
trines we  look  upon  as  unfounded,  not  agreeable  to  the  word 
of  God,  or  the  doctrines  of  the  Saybrook  platform,  and  the 
confession  of  faith  therein  set  forth  ;  and  he  has  preached 
twenty-one  sermons  in  Wallingford,  and  has  wholly  omitted 
the  doctrines  of  the  new  birth,  and  the  safety  of  appearing  in 
the  righteousness  of  Christ ;  and  he  compared  the  doctrine  of 
faith  that  the  Rev.  Mr.  Samuel  Whittelsey  taught,  to  ./Esop's 
fables  and  John  Bunyan's  Pilgrim's  Progress  ;  which  we  look 
upon  as  unbecoming.  We  do  hereby  desire  the  consociation 
to  be  called,  to  hear  these,  with  other  grievances,  and  deter- 
mine the  whole  matter ;  and  we  will  be  at  the  cost ;  and  the 
house  of  Caleb  Merriman,  Esq.,  is  appointed  to  meet  at.  He 
declares  he  cares  nothing  about  the  opposition. 

"  Members  of  said  church. 

"  CALEB  MERRIMAN,  CALEB  JOHNSON,  DANIEL  CLARK, 
STREET  HALL,  LEVI  Moss,  of  the  society. 

"  A  true  Copy.  Test.  SAMUEL  HALL,  Moderator. 

"Dated  at  Wallingford,  September  25th,  1758."' 

Thus  was  commenced  the  great  controversy  between 
the  Old  Lights  and  the  New  Lights,  which  culminated 
in  the  "  Wallingford  Controversy  ;"  a  case  which  more 
than  all  others  became  a  matter  of  public  concern,  and 
opened  a  distinct  era  in  New  England  theology  and  in 


i  A  Faithful  Narrative  of  the  Proceedings,  of  the  First  Society  and 
Church  in  Wallingford,  in  the  Calling  and  Settling  of  Rev.  Mr.  Dana,  in 
the  Pastoral  Office  over  them ;  and  of  the  Doings  of  the  several  Councils 
relative  thereto,  with  some  Remarks  interspersed.  By  Jonathan  Todd, 
A.  M.,  New  Haven,  1759. 


1/2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

the  history  of  the  "  liberties  of  the  churches."  Mr. 
Dana  was  set  apart  to  the  ministry  by  an  Old  Light 
council,  in  the  face  of  protest  from  a  repectable  minor- 
ity, and  against  the  solemn  edict  of  the  "  Consociation 
of  New  Haven  County,"  which  had  met  in  Wallingford 
to  forbid  the  ordination  of  a  candidate  charged  with  doc- 
trinal unsoundness,  even  with  Socinian  or  Arminian 
proclivities.  The  bold  procedure  of  ordaining  in  spite 
of  the  prohibition,  was  a  triumph  of  the  principle  for 
which  the  New  Lights  had  long  contended  ;  and  the  pens 
of  the  time  were  alive  in  its  censure  or  its  defense.  It 
was  a  triumph  also  over  the  power  of  the  "  ecclesiastical 
constitution  of  the  dissenters  ;"  and  Noah  Hobart,  aided 
by  President  Clap  and  other  leading  divines  of  the 
colony,  proved  to  be  a  champion  no  more  successful 
here  for  the  Saybrook  Platform  than  he  had  been  in  his 
addresses  to  the  members  of  the  Episcopal  separation 
in  New  England.  Those  on  the  other  side  found  support 
for  their  action  in  the  popular  voice,  as  well  as  in  the  voice 
of  a  body  of  ministers  trained  under  the  influence  of 
Whitefield's  teachings.1 

Mr.  Hall,  the  moderator  of  the  consociation,  by  the 
advice  of  a  number  of  the  neighboring  elders,  and  after- 
wards by  the  advice  of  the  association,  before  whom  he 
laid  the  matter,  called  the  consociation,  to  meet  at 
Wallingford  on  the  loth  day  of  October,  1758;  and 
he  gave  out  citations  under  his  hand,  to  Mr.  Dana,  and 
the  church  at  Wallingford,  notifying  them  of  the  meet- 
ing of  the  consociation,  and  requiring  them  to  appear 
at  time  and  place. 

Agreeably    to  the  call,  the  consociation  convened  at 


I  Beardsley's  Hist,  of  Epis.  Church  in  Conn.,  i,  195. 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  1/3 

Wallingford,  and,  whether  it  was  by  accident  or  design 
is  not  known  ;  but  so  it  was,  that  the  two  councils,  the 
one  called  by  the  church  and  society  to  ordain  Mr.  Dana, 
the  other  called  by  the  minority  to  prevent  his  ordina- 
tion, met  in  Wallingford  on  the  same  day  ;  and  a 
memorable  day  it  was  in  the  annals  of  congregational- 
ism,  and  in  the  ecclesiastical  history  of  Connecticut. 
The  council  consisted  of  Rev.  Messrs.  Noyes,  of 
New  Haven,  Hall,  of  Cheshire,  Stiles,  of  North  Haven, 
Ruggles,  of  Guilford,  Hall,  of  Meriden,  Whittelsey,  of 
Milford,  John  Brown,  of  Hingham,  Mass.,  and  Mr. 
Whittelsey  of  New  Haven,  colleague  with  Mr.  Noyes, 
and  Mr.  Fowler,  of  Guilford,  colleague  with  Mr.  Ruggles. 
They  were  all  members  of  the  association  and  con- 
sociation of  New  Haven  county,  except  Mr.  Brown 
of  Hingham. 

The  council  met  at  Mr.  Caleb  Merriman's.  The  mod- 
erator, as  soon  as  was  convenient,  proposed  to  form  the 
body,  by  choosing  a  moderator  and  scribe.  This  brought 
on  a  dispute  on  the  consociation's  being  called  de  novo 
or  as  a  new  one ;  and  also  on  account  of  some  of  the 
members  not  being  qualified  according  to  the  constitu- 
tion. This,  however,  was  soon  so  far  overruled  that  the 
council  united  in  choosing  a  moderator  and  scribe ;  and 
the  consociation  was  opened  with  prayer.  Upon  this, 
Mr.  Dana  and  the  church  committee,  and  the  complain- 
ants, came  in  before  the  consociation,  and  the  complaint 
was  read.  The  church  then  declined  to  submit  to  the 
consociation.  The  church  pleaded  that,  according  to 
the  constitution,  it  could  have  no  jurisdiction  in  that 
case.  But  they  said  they  were  ready  to  hear  and  answer 
all  objections  made  to  their  proceedings  before  the 
ordaining  council.  The  consociation  wishing  to  conduct 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

an  affair  of  such  moment  in  the  most  amicable  manner 
possible,  chose  a  committee,  of  which  one  was  of  the 
ordaining  council,  to  treat  with  the  parties  and  attempt 
some  mode  of  agreement.  In  this  conference,  the  mi- 
nority made  this  proposal  by  their  agents  : 

"That  in  case  Mr.  Dana  would  submit  to  an  examination 
by  the  consociation  then  met,  and  they  should  approve  of 
him  as  orthodox,  they  would  concur  in  his  ordination  ;  for  his 
principles  were  their  chief  difficulty."1 

But  they  insisted  that  this  should  be  determined  by 
the  consociation,  and  not  by  the  ordination  council  only. 
To  this,  Mr.  Dana  and  the  committee  would  not  consent. 
The  consociation  adjourned  to  meet  in  the  meeting  house 
the  next  morning.  In  the  meantime  the  gentlemen  who 
had  been  invited  to  be  of  the  ordaining  council,  met 
by  themselves  and  formed,  as  was  generally  supposed,  to 
keep  the  council  alive,  that  they  might  act,  when  the 
way  should  be  prepared  by  the  consociation.  It  was 
not  suspected  even  by  some  who  formed  with  them,  that 
it  was  with  a  design  of  separating  from  the  consocia- 
tion. When  the  consociation  met  in  the  morning, 
according  to  adjournment,  they  met  with  it. 

On  declaration  being  made  that  the  council  was 
opened,  and  that  all  parties  concerned  had  liberty  to  be 
heard,  Mr.  Dana  appeared  and  denied  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  council,  and  insisted  that  the  complaint  exhibited 
against  him  was  not  cognizable  by  that  body,  for  he  was 
not  one  of  the  associated  pastors  that  might  be  com- 
plained of  for  heresy  or  scandal  to  the  association  ;  nor, 
if  he  were,  had  there  been  any  complaint  of  scandal  or 

I  Mr.  Eell's  Narrative.  That  this  proposal  was  made,  at  this  time,  is 
attested  by  five  of  the  principal  men  in  the  minority. 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  1/5 

heresy  made  to  the  association  against  him  ;  nor  had 
there  been  any  careful  examination  of  that  matter  by 
them. 

With  respect  to  this  part  of  his  plea,  that  he  was  not 
one  of  the  associated  pastors,  and  that  no  complaint  had 
been  exhibited  against  him  to  the  association,  etc. ;  it 
was  observed,  that  Mr.  Dana's  preaching  to,  and  accept- 
ing the  call  of  a  consociated  church,  to  take  the  pastoral 
charge  of  it,  brought  him  so  far  within  the  reach  of  the 
constitution,  that  he  must  be  subject  to  the  government 
of  the  consociated  churches.  That  it  was  a  maxim  among 
all  nations,  and  so  founded  in  the  reason  of  things  that 
it  will  extend  to  all  communities,  civil  and  sacred, 
that  whoever  comes  into  a  community,  and  reaps  the 
benefits  of  that  body,  must  be  subject  to  the  laws  of  it. 
That  Mr.  Dana  was  reaping  the  benefits  of  a  consociated 
church,  and  therefore  was  subject  to  the  laws  of  the 
consociated  churches,  and  that,  therefore,  a  charge  of 
scandal  or  heresy  might  be  brought  against  him.  That 
a  copy  of  the  charge  in  substance,  was  given  him  by 
those  who  opposed  his  ordination,  and  that  they  certified 
him  that  they  were  going  to  Northbury  to  the  associa- 
tion, and  that  he  refused  to  attend.  That  though  the 
complaint  was  carried  to  the  moderator  of  the  last 
consociation,  yet  that  it  was  by  his  direction  laid  before 
the  association,  and  that  they  had  the  same  opportunity 
to  examine  the  matter,  as  if  it  had  been  directed  to  them 
at  the  first,  and  to  give  advice  in  the  affair ;  so  that  Mr. 
Dana  was  subject  to  the  constitution.  His  cause  had 
been  so  heard  by  the  association,  that  they  judged  it  to 
be  the  duty  of  the  moderator  to  convene  the  consociation 
and  advise  him  to  the  measure,  that  Mr.  Dana  might  be 
heard  on  the  charge  exhibited  against  him. 


1/  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Though  Mr.  Dana  denied  the  jurisdiction  of  the  coun- 
cil, he  expressed  his  desire  to  give  the  pastors  and 
delegates  of  the  churches  satisfaction  by  an  open  vindi- 
cation of  himself;  but  at  the  same  time,  he  gave  the 
consociation  to  understand  that  he  would  not  be  interro- 
gated by  them  on  any  point  of  doctrine,  or  upon  the 
charge,  or  that  he  would  not  be  "  wire  drawn."1 

When  Mr.  Dana  had  finished  what  he  proposed,  the 
committee  of  the  church  and  society  appeared  before  the 
consociation,  denied  its  jurisdiction,  and  pleaded,  first, 
that  the  present  convention  was  not  a  regular  consocia- 
tion. For  all  of  the  consociated  churches  were  not  in- 
vited to  be  present  at  this  council ;  and  the  first  church 
in  Wallingford  had  not  been  notified ;  and  that  Mr. 
Robbins  was  not  a  pastor  of  one  of  the  consociated 
churches.  It  was  replied,  that  it  never  had  been  the 
custom  of  this  consociation,  to  notify  a  church  to  send  a 
messenger,  when  the  consociation  had  been  called  to  con- 
sider any  matter  relating  to  said  church,  or  their  pastor ; 
and  that  universal  practice  had  shown  that  the  article  in 
the  platform  had  never  been  understood  in  the  sense  of 
those  who  had  made  the  objection.2  With  respect  to 
Mr.  Robbins  it  was  alleged  that  he  had  been  received  as 
a  member  both  of  the  association  and  consociation  ;  that 
he  was  one  of  the  committee  of  the  association  and  had 
before  sat  with  the  consociation.3 


1  Narratives  of  Messrs.  Eells  and  Todd. 

2  It  is  believed,  that  there  never  has  been  an  instance,  since  the  form- 
ation of  the  platform  to  this  time,  in  this  county,  of  sending  a  letter  to  a 
church  or  pastor,  to  sit  in  a  consociation,  in  which  a  cause  of  their  own 
was  depending.     This  would  be  like  notifying  a  criminal  to  sit  as  judge  in 
the  very  court  which  was  to  try  him. 

3  Trumbull,  2,  484.     Dr.  Trumbull    has  related  the  particulars  with 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  1/7 

Various  other  objections  were  brought  up  and  an- 
swered, and  the  question  was  put, 

"Whether  this  consociation  have  a  right  to  hear  and 
determine,  in  relation  to  the  complaint  exhibited  against  the 
proceedings  of  the  first  church  in  Wallingford,  with  regard  to 
the  calling  of  Mr.  James  Dana,  to  settle  in  the  gospel  min- 
istry among  them  ?" 

and  passed  in  the  affirmative.  Upon  this,  the  gentle- 
men who  were  of  the  ordination  council,  who  had,  till 
this  time,  joined  and  acted  with  the  consociation,  with- 
drew themselves  wholly  from  it,  and  entered  into,  and 
presented  to  the  consociation  the  following  protest : 

"To  the  Rev.  Mr.  Samuel  Hall,  and  other  elders  and 
messengers  of  churches,  of  this  county,  convened  at  the  house 
of  Caleb  Merriman,  Esq.,  in  Wallingford,  and  acting  or  pre- 
tending to  act,  as  the  consociation  of  this  county.  We,  the 
subscribers,  do  hereby  declare  our  dissent  from,  and  protest 
against  whatever  resolves  may  become  into,  or  determined 
upon  by  you,  for  the  following  reasons :  i,  Because,  by  the 
ecclesiastical  constitution  of  this  colony,  a  consociation  may 
subsist  by  adjournment,  for  a  year  ;  a  new  consociation  was 
called,  and  met  last  May,  and  continued  themselves  by  ad- 
journment, and  must  be  therefore  now  in  being;  yet  the 
present  convention  was  called  together  by  a  new  consociation. 
2,  Because  one  of  the  churches  under  the  constitution,  in 
this  county,  was  not  notified  to  attend  the  consociation  by 
their  delegates.  3,  Because  you  have  voted,  or  resolved  by  a 
prerogative  act,  that  Mr.  Robbins,  of  Branford,  may  sit  and 
act  as  a  member  of  the  consociation,  who,  with  his  church, 
have  voted  out  the  constitution,  and  refused  to  be  regulated 
by  it ;  and  accordingly  did  not  lead  his  church  to  choose  any 
delegate.  4,  Because  the  special  matters  which,  by  com- 
plaint, lie  before  you,  relating  to  the  first  church  and  society 

great  honesty  of  purpose,  but  not  without  some  bias  from  his  personal  and 
party  prejudices. 

N 


1/  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

in  Wallingford,  and  Mr.  James  Dana,  are  so  brought,  that, 
were  you  a  regular  consociation,  they  could  not  be  taken 
cognizance  of  by  you,  consistent  with  the  essential  rights  of 
congregational  churches,  and  the  plain  directions  of  the  con- 
stitution ;  and  the  resolve  you  have  already  come  into  there- 
upon ( if  reduced  to  a  precedent)  will  effectually  deprive  the 
churches  of  their  right  to  choose  their  own  pastors,  and  to 
exercise  church  discipline."1 

The  consociation  met  the  next  morning,  according  to 
adjournment,  and  adopted  the  following  resolutions,  viz. : 

"  Resolved  by  this  consociation,  that  it  shall  be  esteemed, 
and  it  is  hereby  judged  disorderly,  for  any  of  the  members  of 
this  consociation,  or  any  other  persons,  to  proceed  to,  or  be 
assisting  in  the  ordination  of  Mr.  James  Dana,  to  the  gospel 
ministry,  in  the  first  church  and  society  of  Wallingford,  while 
the  matter  is  depending  before  this  consociation.  And  also, 
it  is  judged  disorderly  for  the  church  in  Wallingford  to  pro- 
ceed in  receiving  Mr.  Dana  for  their  pastor,  by  ordination  ; 
and  for  him  to  accept  thereof,  until  the  complaint  against 
Mr.  Dana,  and  the  proceedings  of  said  church,  cognizable  by 
this  consociation,  have  been  heard  and  determined.  There- 
fore, this  consociation  earnestly  beseech  and  desire  the 
church  to  study  the  things  which  make  for  peace  ;  and  all 
our  members  not  to  be  assisting  in  the  ordination  of  Mr. 
James  Dana,  and  Mr.  Dana  not  to  accept  thereof,  till  the 
matter  is  fully  weighed  and  considered  by  this  consociation, 
and  full  satisfaction  given  in  the  matters  lying  before  this 
body.  Voted. 

"Test.  WARHAM  WILLIAMS,  Scribe." 

The  consociation,  at  the  same  time,  sent  a  resolve 
which  they  had  previously  passed,  relative  to  the  case  of 
Mr.  Dana,  which  was  in  the  following  words,  viz. : 

"  This  consociation  having  duly  weighed  and  considered  the 

I  Mr.  Todd's  Narrative,  p.  40. 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  I 79 

reasons  offered  by  Mr.  James  Dana,  why  he  is  not  bound,  &c., 
resolved,  that  this  consociation  have  cognizance  of  the  matter, 
.and  a  right  over  all  who  present  themselves  as  preachers  and 
candidates  for  the  ministry,  in  any  of  the  consociated  churches 
of  this  county ;  so  far  at  least,  as  to  forbid,  where  there  is 
occasion,  any  such  candidates  or  preachers,  to  preach  in  any 
of  the  consociated  churches,  or  be  ordained  in  and  over  them, 
until  such  candidates  or  preachers  give  full  satisfaction  to  this 
consociation,  to  such  matters  of  complaint  as  are  regularly 
brought  against  them,  before  this  body.  Above  voted  and 
resolved.  Test.  WARHAM  WILLIAMS,  Scribe. 

"To  Mr.  James  Dana."1 

In  the  morning,  before  they  went  to  the  meeting- 
house for  a  public  hearing,  the  ordination  council  made 
a  proposal  for  the  dissolution  of  both  councils,  each 
leaving  their  advice  to  all  parties  to  study  the  things 
which  make  for  peace.  The  consociation  declined  an 
acceptance  of  this  proposal,  and  insisted  that  they 
could  not  put  the  case  out  of  their  hands,  and  leave  it  in 
the  power  of  the  church  to  call  another  ordination  coun- 
cil, and  settle  Mr.  Dana,  before  the  consociation  could 
come  together  again.  At  the  same  time,  they  were  very 
desirous  that  both  councils  should  adjourn,  and  have 
further  time  for  consideration.  For  this  purpose,  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Merrick  and  others,  were  appointed  a  com- 
mittee, to  treat  with  the  ordination  council ;  and  they 
expostulated  with  them,  in  as  tender  and  moving  a 
manner  as  possible,  that  the  matter  might  be  deferred 
for  some  time  ;  that  the  heat  which  then  appeared  might 
in  some  measure,  subside ;  and  they  gave  them  as- 
surance, that  the  consociation  would  adjourn  for  a 
considerable  time,  if  they  would  consent  to  a  similar 

I  Mr.  Todd's  Narrative,  pp.  50,  51. 


ISO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

adjournment.  They  urged  that  there  was  great  danger 
of  their  breaking  all  in  pieces,  and  of  great  and  lasting 
divisions,  if  any  thing  was  done  suddenly.1  But  the 
ordination  council  could  not  be  persuaded  to  postpone 
the  affair. 

Several  of  the  ordination  council,  when  they  per- 
ceived how  matters  were  going,  separated  from  them. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Fowler,  colleague  with  Mr.  Ruggles 
of  Guilford,  and  Esq.  Sacket  of  North  Haven,  Mr. 
Stiles,  messenger,  separated  from  them  immediately, 
as  soon  as  they  perceived  they  were  about  to  form 
themselves  into  a  council,  distinct  and  separate  from 
the  consociation.  Mr.  Ruggles  also,  though  he  was 
prevailed  upon  to  sign  the  protest,  yet  he  was  so  affected 
with  the  affair,  that  he  withdrew  from  them  in  .the 
morning,  and  did  not  assist  in  the  examination  or 
ordination  of  Mr.  Dana. 

The  gentlemen  of  the  ordination  council  having 
separated  themselves  from  the  consociation,  after  some 
consultation  upon  the  affair  on  which  they  had  been 
convened  at  Wallingford,  put  the  question, 

"  Whether  this  council  hath  a  right  to  proceed  upon 
matters  relative  to  the  ordination  of  Mr.  James  Dana,  to 
the  pastoral  office  in  the  first  society  in  Wallingford,  and 
over  the  church  in  said  society?" 

and  the  vote  passed  in  the  affirmative.  Upon  the 
desire  of  the  committee  of  the  church  and  of  Mr. 
Dana,  the  ordaining  council  adjourned  to  the  meeting- 
house, with  a  view  to  give  the  committee  an  oppor- 
tunity to  publish  their  proceedings  in  calling  Mr. 
Dana,  and  that  he  might  also  have  an  opportunity 

i  Mr.  Eells'  Narrative,  p.  36. 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  l8l 

publicly  to  manifest  his  orthodoxy.  After  this  public 
hearing  in  the  meeting-house,  the  ordination  council 
returned  to  Mr.  Whittelsey's,  the  place  of  their  meeting. 
The  following  question  was  then  put: 

"Whether  the  church  and  society  have  proceeded  reg- 
ularly in  their  application  unto,  and  call  of  the  said  Mr. 
Dana,  to  the  pastoral  office  among  and  over  them  ? " 

Voted  in  the  affirmative.     The  question  was  also  put, 
"  Whether  Mr.  Dana  hath  vindicated  himself,  with  respect 
to  the  charges  and  allegations  against  him,  to  the  satisfaction 
of  this  council  ?  " 

Voted  in  the  affirmative.  The  ordination  council  then 
proceeded  to  an  examination  of  the  candidate,  and  after 
examination,  the  council  voted  their  satisfaction,  with 
respect  to  Mr.  Dana's  knowledge,  orthodoxy,  and  min- 
isterial qualifications.  Mr.  Dana,  at  the  same  time, 
declared  his  willingness  to  settle  and  take  the  care  and 
charge  of  the  first  church  in  Wallingford  under  the 
ecclesiastical  constitution  of  this  colony. 

The  consociation,  before  the  ordination  council  had 
determined  to  ordain  Mr.  Dana,  certified  them  that  there 
were  ninety-five  in  opposition  to  Mr.  Dana's  ordination. 
They  represented  that  they  possessed  half  the  rateable 
estate  in  the  society.1  The  moderator  intimated  to  the 
ordination  council  that  he  considered  this  as  a  strong 
objection  to  the  ordination  of  Mr.  Dana.  Some  of  the 
opposition  were  men  of  high  standing  in  the  town,  and 
the  largest  tax-payers.  The  ordination  council,  notwith- 
standing the  prohibition  and  earnest  entreaties  of  the 
consociation,  proceeded  to  the  important  question, 

"Whether  the  council  will  proceed  to  the  ordination  of  the 


I  Eells'  Narrative,  pp.  10,  n,  and  33. 


1 82  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

said  Mr.  James  Dana,  to  the  work  of  the  gospel  ministry,  in 
said  church  and  society  in  Wallingford?" 

Voted  in  the  affirmative.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Todd,  one  of 
the  council,  says, 

"We  looked  upon  it,  that  we  were  called  of  God  to  ordain 
Mr.  Dana."1 

The  council  accordingly  proceeded,  in  the  face  of  the 
direct  and  peremptory  prohibition  of  the  consociation, 
to  ordain  Mr.  Dana  at  Wallingford.  The  consociation, 
regarding  the  case  as  one  of  great  difficulty,  now 
invited  the  neighboring  consociation  of  Hartford  county 
to  meet  with  them,  that  they  might  have  the  benefit  of 
their  opinion  and  advice  ;  and  such  a  meeting  accord- 
ingly took  place  three  weeks  afterwards.  The  council 
met  and  formed  in  a  regular  manner,  and  was  the  most 
numerous  and  respectable  ever  convened  before  in  the 
colony,  consisting  of  the  most  learned  and  pious  divines 
in  the  counties  of  Hartford  and  New  Haven,  and  of  the 
deacons  and  justice  of  the  peace,  the  principal  men  in  the 
respective  churches  in  the  two  counties.  The  Rev.  Mr. 
Russell  of  Middletown  was  chosen  moderator  of  the 
consociation  from  the  county  of  Hartford,  a  gentleman 
of  great  respectability  for  knowledge,  experience,  mod- 
eration, and  for  pacific  measures,  on  all  occasions. 
When  the  consociations  had  formed,  united,  and  opened 
with  prayer,  the  committee  of  the  church  in  Wallingford 
appeared  before  them,  and  denied  the  regularity  and 
jurisdiction  of  the  council  thus  united.  That  the 
fullest  proof  might  be  given  of  its  earnest  desire,  if 
possible,  to  accommodate  the  difficulties  at  Wallingford, 
a  committee  was  appointed  to  confer  with  Mr.  Dana, 

i  Todd's  Narrative,  p.  50. 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  183 

and  the  parties,  concerning  a  reconciliation.  The 
committee  reported  the  following  proposal  of  the  minor- 
ity, viz.  : 

"Whereas  the  Consociation  of  New  Haven  county,  and 
the  Consociation  of  Hartford  county,  south  district,  being 
convened  at  Wallingford,  to  hear  and  determine  certain 
difficulties  in  the  first  church  and  society  in  Wallingford ; 
and  said  consociation  appointing  a  committee  to  reconcile 
the  parties,  we  the  subscribers,  members  of  said  church 
and  society,  and  committee  of  the  minor  part,  do  offer 
at  this  time,  to  the  church  committee,  and  Mr.  Dana,  to 
have  the  consociation  of  the  south  district  of  Hartford  county 
examine  Mr.  Dana's  notes,  referred  to  in  the  complaint ;  and 
another  sermon,  preached  the  8th  day  of  October  last ;  and 
also  examine  Mr.  Dana,  according  to  their  method  of  examin- 
ation, and  if  they  find  him  sound  in  the  faith  of  the  gospel, 
(and  also  examine  his  moral  conduct)  and  if  they  find  him 
qualified  for  a  gospel  minister,  we  will  consent  to  him,  and  re- 
ceive him  as  our  minister :  but  if  he  is  not  qualified  as  set 
forth  above,  then  to  have  him  dismissed. 

"JOHN  HALL,  2d,  STREET  HALL, 

ELIAKIM  HALL,  CALEB  MERRIMAN, 

DAN.  JOHNSON,  DANIEL  CLARK, 

ABEL  PECK,  CALEB  JOHNSON, 

"ISAAC  JOHNSON. 
"Wallingford,  Nov.  2,  1758." 

Afterwards,  they  declared  to  Mr.  Dana .  and  to  the 
council  they  were  willing  to  concede  that  which  respected 
his  moral  character  should  not  be  regarded  on  trial. 
This  proposal  was  rejected  by  Mr.  Dana.  He  refused  to 
be  examined  by  the  consociation,1  but  sent  them  a 
written  Confession  of  Faith.  Numerous  other  meetings 
were  called,  and  various  resolutions  were  passed.  Mr. 

I  Eells'  Narrative,  pp.  38,  39. 


184  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Dana  denied  the  regularity  and  jurisdiction  of  the  con- 
sociation, and  refused  to  submit  to  their  determinations. 
At  an  adjourned  meeting  at  the  house  of  Charles 
Sperry,  in  Wallingford,  April  3,  1759,  the  following  reso- 
lution was  passed  : 

"Whereas,  this  united  council  have  judged  Mr.  James 
Dana  guilty  of  scandalous  contempt,  as  expressed  in  our 
result ;  and  have  used  proper  measures,  in  order  to  bring  him 
to  a  sense  of  his  sinful  conduct,  and  exercised  due  patience, 
he  continuing  obstinate  ;  we  do  therefore,  according  to  that 
divine  direction,  2  Thes.  in.  6,  and  according  to  the  rules  of 
our  ecclesiastical  constitution,  declare  him  to  be  unworthy  of 
the  communion  of  churches  ;  and  that  henceforth  we  will  not 
hold  communion  with  him  in  any  acts  of  ecclesiastical 
discipline,  or  special  ordinances ;  and  according  to  our 
ecclesiastical  constitution,  the  churches  are  to  approve  this 
sentence,  by  withdrawing  communion  with  him,  which  we 
advise,  and  expect  accordingly.  " 

It  was  also  voted  in  council,  that 

"  Whereas,  the  greater  part  of  the  first  church  of  Christ  in 
Wallingford,  have  promoted  the  ordination  of  Mr.  James 
Dana,  and  received  him  as  their  pastor,  contrary  to  the 
prohibition  of  the  consociation  of  New  Haven  county,  while 
a  charge  of  heterodoxy  lay  against  him,  before  said  consocia- 
tion ;  and  chose  Samuel  Hall,  Esq.,  and  others,  a  committee, 
with  instructions  to  appear  before  this  council,  and  in  the 
name  of  said  church,  to  deny  their  jurisdiction,  and  refuse  to 
submit  to  their  determination ;  and  whereas,  this  council,  (as 
appears  in  our  result,  in  the  session,  Nov.  a8th,  last)  have 
judged,  with-  respect  to  Samuel  Hall,  Esq.,  and  the  rest  of 
said  committee,  and  all  the  other  members  of  said  church, 
who  acted  in  choosing  the  said  committee,  and  giving  the 
instructions  aforesaid,  that,  in  case  they  continue  to  adhere 
to  the  said  Mr.  Dana,  and  acknowledge  him  as  their  pastor, 
until  the  third  Tuesday  of  March  next,  they  shall  be  judged 


THE    DANA     CONTROVERSY.  185 

guilty  of  scandalous  contempt,  and  the  sentence  of  non- 
communion  declared  against  them.  And  whereas,  the  above 
mentioned  Samuel  Hall,  Esq.,  etc.,  have,  notwithstanding, 
continued  to  adhere  to  the  said  Mr.  James  Dana,  and  ac- 
knowledged him  as  their  pastor;  we  judge  said  Samuel  Hall, 
Esq.  and  the  rest  of  the  committee,  and  all  the  members  who 
acted  in  choosing  said  committee,  and  giving  the  instructions 
aforesaid,  guilty  of  scandalous  contempt,  and  proper  meas- 
ures having  been  taken  to  bring  them  to  a  sense  of  their  sin- 
ful conduct,  and  due  patience  used,  they  still  continuing 
obstinate  ;  we  do  now,  according  to  that  divine  direction,  2 
Thessalonians,  in.  6,  and  the  rules  of  our  ecclesiastical  con- 
stitution, declare  them  to  be  unworthy  of  the  communion  of 
churches  ;  and  that,  henceforth,  we  will  not  hold  communion 
with  them,  in  any  acts  of  ecclesiastical  discipline,  or  special 
ordinances ;  and  according  to  the  rules  of  our  ecclesiastical 
constitution,  the  churches  are  to  approve  this  sentence,  by 
withdrawing  communion  from  them ;  which  we  advise,  and 
expect  accordingly.  And  while  we  declare  those  members 
who  adhere  to  Mr.  Dana,  and  are  now  under  sentence  of  non- 
communion,  to  have  fallen  off  from  our  ecclesiastical  consti- 
tution ;  we  acknowledge  the  remaining  members  as  the 
consociated  church  in  the  first  society  in  Wallingford,  and  are 
determined  to  treat  them  accordingly.  This  council  do  ap- 
point the  Rev.  Messrs.  Jonathan  Merrick,  John  Trumbull, 
Mark  Leavenworth  and  Benjamin  Woodbridge,  messengers  ; 
deacons  Ithiel  Russell,  Jonathan  Guernsey,  Mr.  Stephen 
Hopkins,  and  deacon  Theophilus  Baldwin,  a  committee  of 
this  council,  to  stand  in  that  capacity  for  the  space  of  four 
months  from  this  date,  to  whom  any,  or  all  the  members  of  the 
first  church  in  Wallingford,  now  under  the  sentence  of  non 
communion,  may  apply ;  and  upon  their  manifesting  repent- 
ance, they  are  empowered,  in  the  name  of  this  council,  to 
take  off  the  sentence  they  are  under,  and  restore  them  to  the 
privileges  of  the  consociated  churches  ;  and  if  any  member 
shall  neglect  to  apply  to  the  committee  aforesaid,  within  four 


1 86  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

months,  they  may  afterwards  apply  ( if  they  desire  it )  to  the 
moderator  of  the  consociation  of  New  Haven  county,  to  call 
the  consociation  of  New  Haven  county,  to  call  the  consocia- 
tion of  said  county,  for  the  purpose  aforesaid. 

"A  complaint  being  exhibited  to  this  council,  dated  March 
22,  1759,  by  several  members  of  the  first  church  of  Christ 
in  Wallingford,  against  the  Rev.  Messrs.  Joseph  Noyes,  Isaac 
Stiles,  Theophilus  Hall,  Samuel  Whittelsey,  Jonathan  Todd 
and  Chauncey  Whittelsey,  elders ;  and  Robert  Treat,  Na- 
thaniel Ruggles,  Thomas  Darling  and  Ezekiel  Royse,  messen- 
gers, and  members  of  the  consociation  of  New  Haven  county 
for  breaking  off  from  said  consociation,  and  aiding  and 
assisting  in  the  ordination  of  Mr.  James  Dana,  &c.  ;  the 
persons  complained  of  were  properly  notified.  Several  of 
them  appeared  personally  and  others  by  letters,  denying  our 
jurisdiction,  &c.  The  council  not  thinking  it  proper  to  act 
upon  the  above  said  complaint,  the  complainers  withdrew  it. 
This  council  having  already,  in  our  result,  condemned  the 
ordination  of  Mr.  Dana,  as  contrary  to  the  word  of  God,  and 
the  ecclesiastical  constitution  of  the  churches  in  this  colony, 
have  therein  condemned  the  ordination  council,  or  those  who 
were  active  therein  ;  we  think  it  our  duty  more  explicitly  to 
declare  our  judgment  relating  to  them,  which  is,  that  they 
have  so  violated  the  good  rules  of  our  ecclesiastical  constitu- 
tion, that  they  ought  to  be  treated  as  disorderly  persons,  and 
not  fit  to  sit  in  any  of  our  ecclesiastical  councils,  until  they 
shall  clear  up  their  conduct,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  conso- 
ciation of  New  Haven  county,  for  their  disorderly  breaking 
off  from  them,  and  aiding  and  assisting  in  Mr.  Dana's  ordi- 
nation. And  we  advise  the  moderator  of  said  consociation, 
to  call  the  consociation,  upon  application  made  to  him  by 
said  gentlemen." 

"Voted  in  council. 

WARHAM  WILLIAMS,  )  „ 

"Test.  _  „  >  Scribes  of  the  council. 

EDWARD  EELLS,         I 


THE    DANA    CONTROVERSY.  l8/ 

Though  this  council  was  composed  of  some  of  the 
most  respectable  gentlemen  of  the  clergy  and  churches 
in  the  colony,  for  literature,  age  and  candor ;  and  though 
they  took  great  pains  to  compromise  the  difficulties  at 
Wallingford,  and  appeared  to  act  with  coolness  and 
patience,  yet  their  doings  were  cried  out  against  by  the 
gentlemen  of  the  ordination  council,  and  others  who 
engaged  in  their  cause,  as  unconstitutional  and  tyranni- 
cal, depriving  the  churches  of  their  most  essential  rights. 
Many  hard  and  severe  things  were  said  of  them.  The 
Rev.  Mr.  Todd,  who  was  one  of  the  ordination  council, 
wrote  a  narrative  of  the  transactions  at  Wallingford, 
even  before  the  united  council  had  finished  their  result. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Hart  of  Saybrook1  wrote  against  it 
immediately.  He  wrote  in  a  high  and  positive  strain, 
condemning  the  council  and  insisting  that  their  doings 
were  wholly  unconstitutional  and  inconsistent  with  the 
essential  rights  of  the  churches.2  The  Rev.  Mr.  Eells,3 
who  had  been  one  of  the  scribes  of  the  united  council, 
wrote  a  narrative  of  the  transactions  of  the  council, 
supplying  such  facts  and  circumstances  as  Mr.  Todd 

1  Mr.   Hart  was  born  at  East    Guilford,  in  1713;    graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1732;  and  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  First  church  in  Saybrook, 
Nov.    17,   1736.     He  had   the  reputation  of  being  an  Arminian;  was   a 

.  vigorous  controversal  writer,  and  produced  several  pamphlets  that  were 
much  read  in  their  day.  He  engaged  with  great  zeal  in  the  Wallingford 
controversy,  fully  justifying  the  council  that  acted  in  the  ordination  of  Mr. 
Dana.  He  had  a  strong  aversion  to  Hopkinsianism,  and  is  said  to  have 
been  the  first  to  give  that  name  to  the  system  of  doctrine  which  it  now 
represents. 

2  Trumbull,  II.  505. 

3  Mr.  Eells  was  a  son  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Eells  of  Scituate,  Mass. ;  was 
graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1733  ;  was  ordained  pastor  of  a  church 
in  Middletown,  Sept.  6,  1738,  and  died  Oct.  12,  1776,  ae.  64.     He  published 
the  Conn.  Election  Sermon,  1767. 


1 88  HISTORV    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

omitted,  noticing  some  of  those  things  in  his  narrative 
wm'ch  he  judged  severe,  uncharitable  and  calculated  to 
render  his  brethren  of  the  council  odious  and  contempti- 
ble. He  also  made  such  general  remarks  as  he  supposed 
were  necessary  for  the  vindication  of  the  council.  The 
Rev.  Mr.  Hobart  of  Fairfield1  replied  in  particular  to 
Mr.  Hart,  in  vindication  of  the  council  at  Wallingford, 
showing  that  they  had  assumed  no  powers  inconsistent 
with  the  rights  of  congregational  churches  at  large,  and 
consequently  could  not  be  inconsistent  with  the  ecclesi- 
astical constitution  of  the  colony,  and  no  more  than  it 
was  the  original  design  of  the  Saybrook  agreement  to 
give  them.2 

The  separation  that  originated  in  this  conflict,  con- 
tinued a  number  of  years.  Mr.  Dana  and  the  ministers 
who  had  ordained  him,  being  cut  off  from  all  ecclesiastical 
and  ministerial  intercourse  with  the  other  pastors  of  the 
county,3  formed  an  association  by  themselves,  which 

1  Noah   Hobart  was  born  at  Hingham,  January    12,    1706.     He  was  a 
son  of  Daniel  Hobart,  and  a  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Peter  Hobart,  the  first 
pastor  of  the  church  in  that  town.     He  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College 
in  1724,  and  was  ordained  pastor   of  the  First  Congregational  church  in 
Fairfield,  Conn.,  Feb.  17,  1733.     He  died  December  6,  1773,  aged  68.     He 
published    in    1754,    "Principles   of  the  Congregational   Churches,"  &c. ; 
and  in  1761,  a  vindication  of  the  piece  entitled,  The  Principles  of  Congre- 
gational Churches,  &c.,  applied  to  the  case  of  the  late  ordination  at  Wai-, 
lingford  occasioned  by  remarks  made  thereon  by  Mr.  Hart. 

2  There  were  also  published,  A  letter  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Noah  Hobart, 
by    R.    Walcott ;    Some   Remarks   upon   the    claims    and    doings  of  the 
Consociation,  &c.,  By  Andrew  Bartholomew,  A.  M.,  Pastor  of  the  Church 
in   Harwinton  ;  The  Wallingford  Case  Stated,  &c. 

3  Rev.  Joseph  Howe  of  Killingly,  Conn.,  in  a  letter  dated  February  14, 
1771,  says,  "  I  have  been  preaching  about  a  little  now  and  then,  at  Guilford 
and  Hartford  (West  Division);  I  was  engaged  to  preach   at  the  latter 
place,  but  got  no  farther  than   Wallingford,   where  I  preached  for  that 
great  heretic  Dana.     I  don't  know  but  some  will  call  me  as  great  a  one 


DIVISION    OF    THE    CHURCH.  189 

continued  until  the  year  1772,  or  later,  when  the  contro- 
versy was  finally  terminated,  in  consequence  of  pacific 
overtures  made  by  the  ministers  then  constituting  the 
consociation.1 

The  prejudice  against  Mr.  Dana  gradually  wore  away ; 
and  even  those  of  his  brethren  whose  views  of  religious 
doctrine  did  not  fully  accord  with  his  own,  neverthe- 
less, had  a  high  estimate  of  his  talents  and  character, 
and  did  not  hesitate  to  receive  him  into  their  pulpits. 
And  when  the  revolutionary  struggle  came  on,  he  ren- 
dered himself  particularly  popular  by  the  very  decided 
part  which  he  took,  both  in  public  and  in  private,  in 
favor  of  the  American  cause.  Mr.  Whittelsey  of  New 
Haven  was  accustomed  to  exchange  with  him  at  least 
once  while  the  Legislature  was  in  session  ;  and  Mr. 
Dana,  by  some  of  his  patriotic  sermons  preached  on 
these  occasions,  did  much  to  increase  his  popularity 
throughout  the  State.  Many  of  the  members  who  were 
predisposed  to  judge  him  unfavorably,  from  having  heard 
his  theological  views  called  in  question,  were  so  well 
satisfied  with  his  political  orthodoxy,  that  they  came  to 
regard  his  supposed  Arminianism  as  a  very  pardonable 
offense.2 

After  Mr.  Dana  was  disfellowshiped  his  party  con- 
tinued in  Wallingford,  and  the  minor  party  applied  to  the 
New  Haven  association,  who  advised  them  to  meet  and 
carry  on  public  worship  among  themselves,  and  to  apply 
to  the  society  committee  for  the  use  of  the  meeting- 
house, when  not  occupied,  and  some  members  of  the 


for  it.     Be  that  as  it  will,  I  meant  not  to  espouse  his  party,  his  cause,  or 
his  principles." 

1  Stiles'  Lit.  Diary.     Bacon's  Hist,  Dis.  270. 

2  Sprague's  Annals,  I.  566. 


IQO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

association  would  meet  with  them  to  carry  on  worship. 
Accordingly,  July  22,  1759,  Rev.  Mr.  Woodbridge1  agreed 
to  officiate  for  them  after  Mr.  Dana's  service  in  the  fore- 
noon and  in  the  evening,  which  he  performed.  But  a 
grand-jurors'  complaint  was  entered  against  him,  before 
John  Whiting,  Esq.,  at  New  Haven,  July  26,  1759,  for 
holding  a  disorderly  meeting ;  and  on  a  warrant,  August 
14,  1756,  he  was  arrested  and  brought  up  for  trial;  and 
being  unadvised  as  to  the  proper  course,  pleaded  not 
guilty,  and  begged  delay  to  take  advice  ;  and  at  the  ad- 
journment, he  asked  leave  to  enter  a  special  plea  of 
guilty,  so  as  to  bring  the  case  before  the  Superior  Court, 
which  was  denied,  and  the  court  pronounced  him  guilty, 
and  he  was  obliged  to  pay  a  fine  or  suffer  imprisonment ; 
and  he  stood  recorded  a  transgressor.  He  prayed  the 
General  Assembly,  April  24,  1760,  that  said  judgment 
might  be  reversed,  and  a  restoration  made.  This  was 
granted  in  the  lower  house,  but  negatived  in  the  upper 
house.  October  4th,  he  renewed  his  petition,  and  the 
Assembly  considering  his  innocent  intentions,  and  the 
veneration  due  the  sacred  office,  ordered  the  penalty 
removed,  and  the  amount  of  fine  and  costs  refunded. 

After  the  trial  of  Mr.  Dana  was  ended,  the  inhab- 
itants were  greatly  excited  in  regard  to  taxes,  and  the 
use  of  the  meeting-house.  In  May,  1760,  ninety-six2 

1  Benjamin  Woodbridge  was  son  of  Rev.  John   Woodbridge,  the  first 
minister  of  West  Springfield,  Mass.     He  was  graduated  at  Yale  College 
in  1740,  and  was  settled  at  Amity,  afterwards  called  Woodbridge,  in  re- 
membrance of  him, — near  New  Haven. 

2  Names  of  the  petitioners  :  John  Hall,  Caleb  Merriman,  Eliakim  Hall, 
Israel  Johnson,  Elnathan  Street,  Stephen  Hall,  Street  Hall,  John  Hall,  zd, 
Charles  Sperry,  Stephen  Doolittle,  Jennings  Johnson,  Joel   Ives,  James 
Royce,  Gideon  Ives,  Jeremiah  Hull,  Charles  Ives,  Joseph  Francis,  Jacob 
Francis,  Thomas  Hall,  Titus  Hall,  Ezekiel  Hall,  Bates  Hall,   Stephen 


DIVISION    OF    THE    CHURCH.  IQI 

persons  petitioned  the  Assembly  that  they  were  opposed 
to  the  settlement  of  Mr.  Dana,  as  they  had  doubts  of  his 
orthodoxy  when  preaching  on  probation.  But  the  ma- 
jority, who  were  much  attached  to  him,  and  fearing  an 
investigation,  did  not  take  the  advice  of  the  association 
in  calling  and  settling  him,  and  before  his  ordination, 
articles  of  complaint  against  him  were  presented  to  the 
consociation,  which  he  refused  to  answer.  He  and  his 
friends  denied  the  authority  of  the  consociation  over 
them,  thus  declaring  their  dissent  from  the  church  order 
before  practiced  by  the  church  and  society,  and  hence 
the  memorialists  ought  to  be  acknowledged  as  the  estab- 
lished church  and  society.  The  consociation  had  a 
meeting  and  dissolved  all  connection  between  Mr.  Dana 
and  the  church  and  society,  but  his  adherents  outvoted 
the  petitioners  in  the  society,  and  laid  rates,  &c.,  for  his 
support.  They  prayed  that  the  doings  of  the  consocia- 
tion of  the  twenty-third  of  April,  1760,  might  be 
defended,  and  that  the  petitioners  might  have  the  meet- 


Peck,  Able  Peck,  Jonathan  Hall,  Samuel  Merriman,  Levi  Moss,  Timothy 
Hart,  John  Barker,  Samuel  Street,  Benjamin  Ford,  Daniel  Peck,  John 
Miles,  Ebenezer  Fitch,  Joseph  Thomson,  Daniel  Clark,  Caleb  Johnson, 

Enos  Page,  Elnathan  Street,  Jun.,  Abner ,  Joshua  Doolittle,  David 

Robinson,  Giles  Hall,  Enos  Johnson,  Sherben  Johnson,  Reuben  Johnson, 
Jun.,  Benj.  Johnson,  Charles  Johnson,  Edward  Fenn,  Samuel  Street,  Jun., 
Theophilus  Merriman,  Hezekiah  Johnson,  Dayton  Johnson,  Joseph  John- 
son, John  Cook,  Jun.,  Israel  Negus,  John  Cook,  John  Curtis,  Jun.,  Eph- 
raim  Hall,  Benjamin  Fenn,  Daniel  Tuttle,  Daniel  Johnson,  Isaac  Hall, 
Ben'j.  Culver,  Richard  Hackley,  Abel  Merriman,  John  Mulbree,  Clement 
Hopson,  Samuel  Hopson,  David  Page,  Timothy  Page,  Samuel  Miles, 
Stephen  Peck,  Jun.,  Elijah  How,  Samuel  Culver,  Reuben  Benham,  John 
Austin,  Jun.,  Samuel  Hall,  Benijah  Tyler,  Theophilus  Jones,  Jun.,  Caleb 
Hall,  2d,  David  Hall,  John  Curtis,  Wm.  Mullbree,  Ambrose  Hall,  Elna- 
than Thorp,  Joseph  Atwater,  Wm.  Bestow,  Seth  Plum,  Samuel  Hopson, 
Jun.,  John  Dudley,  John  Thomson,  Elisha  Brockett,  Isaac  Johnson,  Jun., 
Samuel  Jones. 


IQ2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ing-house  and  the  immunities  pertaining  to  the  First 
society.1 

Mr.  Charles  Whittelsey,  agent  for  the  society,  replied : 

"That  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Samuel  Whittelsey,  April,  1758, 
on  the  advice  of  neighboring  ministers,  Chauncey  Whittelsey 
supplied  the  pulpit  with  general  approbation,  only  about 
seven  opposing.  But  on  proposing  terms  of  settlement  the 
cloud  of  opposition  gathered  thick,  and  one  third  of  the 
voters  with  the  co-operation  of  some  neighboring  ministers 
frustrated  their  attempt.  After  this,  about  twenty  candidates 
succeeded,  but  no  one  was  approved  by  the  opposing  party. 
And  by  the  advise  of  neighboring  ministers,  and  vote  of  the 
society,  Mr.  Dana  was,  March,  1758,  introduced  by  a  com- 
mittee and  their  doings  were  approved  by  a  society  meeting 
June  20*  1758.  But  the  Minor  party,  after  a  vain  endeavor 
to  introduce  a  Consocional  council,  which  was  an  irregularity, 
raised  a  most  violent  opposition,  and  although  they  were  re- 
leased from  rates  for  the  support  of  Mr.  Dana,  and  allowed 
to  worship  by  themselves,  as  provided  by  assembly,  yet  they 
persisted  and  petitioned  the  General  Assembly.  The  General 
Assembly  were  requested  to  subject  the  Minor  party  to  taxes, 
or  restrain  them  from  interference." 

In  1762,  John  Hall,  Caleb  Merriman,  Eliakim  Hall 
and  Isaac  Johnson,  agents  for  the  "constitutional  party" 
who  did  not  adhere  to  Mr.  Dana,  gave  a  history  of  the 
difficulties  to  the  General  Assembly,  and  claimed  their 
rights.  They  prayed  that  the  society  and  the  public 
interest  might  be  divided.  They  had  called  and  settled 
Mr.  Waterman,  and  further  prayed  that  the  major  party 
with  Mr.  Dana,  might  be  required  to  render  an  account 
of  monies  received,  and  be  prohibited  from  collecting  of 
them  further  rates.  In  April  oi  the  same  year,  a  com- 

i  The  petition  is  in  the  State  Library,  Ecclesiastical  Records,  vol.  13,  p. 
324- 


THE    WELLS    SOCIETY.  1 93 

mittee  was  appointed  to  fix  the  place  for  a  meeting- 
house within  certain  limits,  specified  by  vote,  and  to  ac- 
cept the  report  locating  the  house  partly  on  Israel  John- 
son's lot,  and  partly  on  the  common.  On  the  memorial 
of  John  Hall,  jun.,  and  others,  May  i,  1762,  it  was 
enacted  that  the  minor  party  be  incorporated  a  distinct 
ecclesiastical  society,  and  that  they  be  "  called,  known 
and  distinguished  by  the  name  of  Wells,"  and  that 
members  might  enroll  their  names  within  six  months, 
and  those  who  arrive  of  age,  or  come  into  the  society, 
may  choose  to  which  they  will  belong.  A  committee 
was  appointed  to  locate  a  meeting-house,  so  as  not  to 
disturb  the  other  society,  and  to  inquire  and  propose  a 
division  of  the  property. 


THE    WELLS    MEETING-HOUSE. 

The  same  month,  Theophilus  Doolittle,  Isaac  Cook, 
Samuel  Hall,  and  Reuben  Royce,  agents  for  the  First 
society,  petitioned  that  an  injunction  might  be  laid  on 
the-  minor  party,  prohibiting  them  from  building  a  meet- 
ing-house. This  petition  was  negatived.  Lydia  Moss, 
Mary  Price  and  others  testified  that  they  could  hear  Mr. 
Waterman  preach,  and  the  deacon  read  the  psalms,  at 
least  twenty-five  rods  from  the  place  of  worship ;  and 
that  the  new  meeting-house  was  but  eighteen  rods  from 
the  old  one.  The  same  month  a  committee  of  the 
o 


194  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

minor  party  petitioned  that  they  had  a  minister  settled 
over  them,  and  were  building  a  meeting-house  ;  and  as 
some  of  Mr.  Dana's  parish  threatened  to  throw  down  the 
house,  because  built  partly  on  the  highway,  they  prayed 
that  the  location  might  be  confirmed  to  them.  When 
the  dissentients  proceeded  to  erect  a  new  meeting-house, 
an  attempt  was  made  to  arrest  their  work  ;  and  a  fight 
over  the  trenches  dug  for  the  foundations  brought 
together  the  inhabitants  for  miles  around  to  participate 
in  the  scene,  or  to  witness  its  issue. 

Numerous  petitions  were  sent  to  the  General  Assem- 
bly from  both  parties,  in  regard  to  the  division,  taxes,  &c. 
May  2,  1765,  the  agents  of  the  First  society  in  a  petition 
said  that  there  could  be  no  absolute  property  in  the  old 
meeting-house,  and  that  the  memorialists'  leaving  was  no 
advantage  to  those  that  remained.  They  prayed  there- 
fore for  liberty  to  tax  the  Wells  society  for  repairing  the 
steeple  and  hanging  the  bell.  The  Wells  society  replied 
that  said  society  and  the  other  societies  set  off  had  en- 
joyed the  use  of  the  meeting-house  for  nearly  half  a 
century,  and  there  could  be  no  rule  for  estimating  their 
interest.  As  for  taxes,  they  had  never  paid  any,  except 
for  schools  and  some  incidental  charges.  March  25, 
1766,  it  was  voted  that  the  First  society  pay  the  Wells 
society  £60  for  the  meeting-house  ;  that  the  bell  be  used 
in  common,  and  that  no  taxes  granted  since  December 
5,  1758,  be  collected  by  members  of  the  Wells  society. 
A  remonstrance  signed  by  Messrs.  Ingersoll  and  Johnson 
was  sent  in,  conveying  the  idea  that  the  meeting-house 
was  not  divisible ;  but  it  was  ordered  that  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  First  society  pay  the  inhabitants  of  the 
Wells  society  £60.  Execution  was  granted,  and  land 
of  Benjamin  Atwater  was  taken  and  set  off  to  the  Wells 


THE    WELLS    SOCIETY.  1 95 

society.  At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Wallingfbrd  First 
society,  held  the  last  Tuesday  in  December,  1 766,  a  long 
petition  was  read,  giving  a  history  of  the  settlement  and 
church  affairs  of  Wallingford. 

"  By  all  which  appears  that  it  was  a  fundamental  principle 
that  no  planters  that  were  or  should  be  admitted,  should  with- 
draw due  Maintenance  from  the  Minister  or  Ministry.  Yet 
nevertheless  upon  the  Ordination  of  the  Rev'd  Mr  Dana  a 
party  of  the  said  Antient  Society  who  Voted  and  Acted  in 
his  Call  and  Settlement  have  withdrawn  due  Maintenance 
from  said  Minister,  contrary  to  the  Original  Contract,  League 
and  Covenant,  have  embroiled  us  in  great  Strifes  and  Conten- 
tions and  now  demand  a  heavy  Exaction  for  the  present 
Meeting  House  belonging  to  said  first  Society  in  Violation 
of  the  first  and  fundamental  principles  of  said  Society. 
WHEREUPON  it  is  Voted  and  Agreed  that  Messrs.  John  Moss, 
Benjamin  Hall  2d,  Daniel  Ives,  Elihu  Hall,  Isaac  Cook, 
Peter  Hall,  Nathaniel  Hart  and  Moses  Price  be  a  Committee 
in  behalf  of  this  Society  to  treat  with  the  members  of  the 
present  Society  of  Welles  and  Expostulate  with  them  on  these 
Matters  and  Endeavour  a  Safe  and  honourable  Settlement  of 
that  Dispute  consistant  with  the  Antient  Rights  of  said  first 
Society  and  Agreeable  with  the  fundamental  Maxims  of  the 
first  Planters  of  the  same  and  make  Report  to  this  Society. 
Also  to  try  any  other  methods  to  Accomodate  the  Differences 
Subsisting  between  this  Society,  and  the  present  Society  of 
Welles  and  make  Report  to  this  Society." 

The  Committee  appointed,  reported  at  the  next  meet- 
ing that  they  appointed  time  and  place  for  the  purposes 
aforesaid,  and  notified  the  committee  of  said  society  of 
Wells ;  but  that  said  committee  did  not  meet.  Ten 
persons,  members  of  the  Wells  society,  in  a  petition 
sent  to  the  General  Assembly  in  1767,  stated  that  long 
and  wearisome  had  been  their  contentions ;  and  the 
decree  respecting  the  old  house  had  opened  the  wounds 


196  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

afresh ;  they  prayed  that  the  said  decree  might  be  set 
aside,  as  they  Wished  for  part  of  said  house,  and  that 
they  might  be  free  from  taxes  for  the  steeple  and  bell. 
The  agents  for  the  First  society  in  reply  said  that  before 
the  execution  was  granted  they  made  overtures  to  come 
to  terms,  to  make  way  for  peace  and  a  good  understand- 
ing, which  was  prevented.  The  levy  of  the  execution 
would  make  the  breach  irreparable.  They  prayed  for  a 
committee  to  recommend  a  plan  of  agreement,  and  that 
the  execution  might  be  suspended.  This  was  negatived. 
In  October,  1768,  Benjamin  Atwater  petitioned  the 
General  Assembly  that  members  of  the  Wells  society 
entered  on  his  land,  and  at  trial  before  the  Superior 
Court,  August,  1768,  they  recovered  judgment  against 
him,  for  a  large  amount  of  costs ;  and  as  the  sheriff  had 
no  right  to  do  this,  to  take  private  property,  he  prayed 
that  said  judgment  might  be  set  aside.  This  was  nega- 
tived. April  24,  1769,  he  renewed  his  petition,  as  the 
decree  affected  personal  rights,  that  it  might  be  set 
aside;  this  was  negatived.  May  i,  1770,  Mr.  Atwater 
renewed  his  petition,  that  an  execution  could  not  be 
levied  against  a  corporate  body,  on  an  individual.  He 
prayed  the  decree  might  be  set  aside.  This  was 
negatived.  March  21,  1771,  he  renewed  his  petition  and 
presented  a  long  argument,  that,  i.  An  assembly  can- 
not award  and  enforce  execution.  2.  Which  was 
against  a  society  in  their  corporate  capacity.  3.  Real 
Estate  cannot  be  taken  except  in  want  of  personal  es- 
tate. He  prayed  that  their  judgment  might  be  set 
aside  This  was  negatived.  Sept.  28,  1772,  Oliver 
Stanley,  agent  for  the  First  society,  petitioned  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  that  the  steeple  was  injured  by  lightning, 
and  he  prayed  that  the  cost  of  repairing,  and  expense  of 


RECONCILIATION. 

ringing  the  bell,  might  be  partly  paid  by  the  Wells  soci- 
ety. This  was  negatived.  Thus  matters  progressed  for 
a  number  of  years,  dividing  the  town,  and  alienating 
brethren.1 

May  3,  1787,  the  Wells  church  and  society,  each  by 
separate  vote,  declared  themselves  unable  longer  to  sup- 
port Mr.  Waterman.2  In  November,  1788,  they  voted 
unanimously  that  they  were  "  desirous  of  holding  Chris- 
tian fellowship  and  communion  with  the  church  under 
the  care  of  Rev.  James  Noyes,  notwithstanding  the  sen- 
tence of  non-communion  passed  some  years  since  by  a 
consociated  council  against  said  Church."  Some  of 
them  returned  to  the  old  church,  and  others  went  to 
other  ecclesiastical  organizations  ;  and  their  church  edi- 
fice passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Episcopalians  about 
1831. 

The  controversy  at  Wallingford  was  essentially  a 
conflict  between  the  "  Old  Light "  and  "  New  Light  " 
parties.3  Dr.  Dana  was  understood  to  be  of  the  then 


1  The  Wells  society  numbered  in  the  beginning,  about  fifty  members  ; 
and  at  the  ordination  of  their  pastor,  they  were  increased  to  sixty-one.     In 
1770,  they  had  one  hundred  and  four  members. 

2  Mr.   Waterman  was  settled  October,    1761;  dismissed  June,    1787; 
and  died  November,  1813. 

3  At  the  period  of  the  great  attention  to  religious  subjects  about  the 
year  1740,  the  religious  part  of  the  community  were  mostly  divided  into 
two  parties,  the  New  Lights  and  the  Old  Lights.     The  New  Lights  were 
active  and  zealous  in  the  discharge  of  every  thing  which  they  conceived  to 
be  their  religious  duty,  and  were  in  favor  of  Mr.  Whitefield  and  others  itin- 
erating through  the  country,  stirring  up  the  people  to  reform,  &c.     The 
Old  Lights  considered  much  of  their  zeal  as  wild-fire,  and  endeavored  to 
suppress  it.     The  contention  between  these  two  parties  grew  so  bitter,  that 
those  who  were  of  the  New  Light  party,  in  some  instances,  withdrew  and 
formed  separate  churches  from  those  of  the  standing  Order.     About  thirty 
separate  congregations  were  formed  from   174010  1750.     Dr.  Dana  in  his 


198  HISTORY   OF    WALLINGFORD. 

liberal  school  of  Boston  and  that  region,  and  of  that 
party  which  had  opposed  the  revival  of  religion  ;  his 
settlement  in  so  large  and  important  a  church,  would  be 
a  triumph  of  that  party,  which  had  already  become  a 
minority  in  the  county  and  in  the  colony ;  and  there- 
fore the  new  light  men  were  determined  by  all  means  to 
prevent  the  ordination,  and  when  the  thing  was  done  to 
undo  it  if  possible.  The  ministers  constituting  the  con- 
sociation of  New  Haven  county  were  little  disposed  that 
one  of  their  prominent  churches  should  be  commited  to 
the  pastoral  care  of  one  whom  they  considered  as  having 
departed  so  far  from  their  own  standard  of  Christian 
doctrine.  The  old  light  party  had  previously  attempted 
to  use  the  peculiar  constitution  of  the  Connecticut 
churches  as  an  engine  of  oppression.  They  had  carried 
matters  with  a  high  hand  while  they  had  the  power, 
interfering  arbitrarily  with  the  rights  of  pastors  and  of 
churches  ;  and  now  they  found  the  very  enginery  which 
had  been  so  convenient  to  them,  turned  against  them. 
The  ordination  of  Mr.  Dana  marks  the  complete  and 
final  overthrow  of  the  old  lights  as  a  dominant  party. 
Their  great  fortress,  "  our  ecclesiastical  constitution " 
had  been  seized,  and  all  its  guns  were  turned  upon  them. 
A  new  generation  of  ministers,  trained  under  the 
influence  of  the  great  awakening,  and  indoctrinated  to 

"Century  sermon"  preached  in  1770,  says  :  "No  town  of  the  same  bigness 
in  the  government  hath  had  fewer  of  the  people  called  separates.  In  the 
large  parish  of  New  Cheshire,  there  is  not  one  family  of  this  denomination. 
In  Meriden  but  two  or  three.  In  the  old  society  there  are  eight  or  nine 
families,  who  assemble  for  religious  worship  by  themselves."  p.  44.  A 
full  history  of  the  Old  Light  and  New  Light  controversy  and  of  separate 
churches,  can  be  found  in  Trumbull's  Hist,  of  Conn.,  2,  163-195 ;  Tracy's 
Great  Awakening,  310-325;  Contributions  to  the  Eccles.  Hist,  of  Conn., 
280  ;  Bacon's  Hist.  Dis.,  271. 


REV.    JAMES    DANA.  1 99 

some  extent  with  the  writings  of  Edwards  and  Bellamy, 
had  come.  The  era  of  New  England  theology  was 
opening. 

Mr.  Dana  was  a  young  man  at  the  time  of  his  ordina- 
tion, and  had  little  acquaintance  with  the  colony,  and 
doubtless  took  his  measures  partially  from  the  ordaining 
council.  His  theological  views  when  he  began  to 
preach  were  those  which  in  that  day  were  becoming 
prevalent  in  the  region  about  Boston ;  views  which  there, 
in  the  course  of  one  or  two  generations,  beginning  with 
opposition  to  the  extravagances  and  enthusiasm  of  the 
revival,  and  growing  into  opposition  to  what  was  called 
bigotry  and  superstition,  ripened  into  Unitarianism.1 
Whatever  his  sentiments  were  at  the  time  of  his  ordina- 
tion, he  doubtless  considerably  changed  them  upon 
further  improvement  and  more  mature  consideration. 
He  made  no  secret  of  it,  that  he  committed  numbers  of 
his  first  sermons  to  the  flames.  As  the  ministers  and 
churches  of  Connecticut  began  to  be  better  acquainted 
with  him,  and  to  recover  from  the  fright  occasioned  by 
the  extraordinary  manner  in  which  he  was  settled,  they 
were  constrained  to  recognize  him  as  a  man  of  great 
talent  and  learning,  of  great  judgment  and  prudence  in 
the  management  of  affairs,  of  great  fearlessness  and  con- 
scientiousness in  performing  what  he  conceived  to  be 
his  duty,  and  of  eminent  public  usefulness.2 

James   Dana  was  a  descendant,  in  the  third  genera- 

1  "  I  do  not  regard  it  as  right  to  imply  that  Dr.  Dana  was  a  Unitarian, 
or  that  he  held  doctrines  inconsistent  with  those  received  in  orthodox 
churches.     Vide  his  confession  of  faith,  and  the  testimony  of  the  ordain- 
ing  council   after   his  examination,   &c.     He   was  suspected,   being  from 
Boston.     If  the   views  of  others   ripened  into  Unitarianism,  his  did  not." 
Ex  tract  from  letter  of  Rev.  E.  /?.   Gilbert. 

2  Bacon's  Hist.  Dis.,  272. 


2OO  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

tion,  from  Richard  Dana,  who  was  born  in  1620,  came 
from  England  to  America  and  settled  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  in  1647,  an<^  died  April  2,  1690.  He  was  a  son 
of  Caleb  and  Phcebe  ( Chandler)  Dana,  and  was  born  at 
Cambridge  in  the  year  1735.  He  was  graduated  at 
Harvard  College  in  1753,  and  remained  there  as  a  resi- 
dent graduate  for  several  years  afterwards,  pursuing  his 
theological  studies  and  giving  much  attention  to  general 
literature.  In  1758  he  was  called  as  pastor  of  the 
church  at  Wallingford,  being  then  in  his  twenty-third 
year.  In  1768,  he  was  honored  with  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity  from  the  University  of  Edinburg. 
His  health  being  very  poor  in  1785,  Mr  James  Noyes 
was  chosen  as  his  colleague  ;  but  the  Doctor's  health  was 
soon  after,  so  far  restored,  that  he  was  able  to  perform 
his  part  of  the  duties,  both  public  and  private,  without 
any  serious  embarassment. 

In  1789,  being  then  in  his  fifty-fourth  year,  Dr.  Dana 
was  called  to  the  pastoral  charge  of  the  First  church  in 
New  Haven,  then  vacant  by  the  death  of  the  Rev. 
Chauncey  Whittelsey.  He  accepted  the  call  and  was 
installed  on  the  twenty-ninth  of  April.  The  installation 
sermon  was  preached  by  himself,  and  was  published. 
After  the  council  for  installing  him  had  met,  and  the 
preliminary  matters  had  been  attended  to,  Dr.  Dana  read 
a  statement  of  his  religious  views,  written  with  great 
care  a'nd  caution,  but  containing  some  pungent  allusions 
to  the  "  new  divinity  "  of  that  day.  After  the  reading  of 
this  document,  Dr.  Edwards,  as  the  champion  of  a  newer 
and  more  thorough  orthodoxy,  undertook  to  examine 
him  by  asking  him  questions.  The  questioning  being 
finished  on  Dr.  Edwards'  part,  Dr.  Dana  retaliated,  by 
proposing  a  series  of  questions  for  the  examiner  to 


REV.    JAMES    DANA.  2OI 

answer.1  Both  had  prepared  themselves  beforehand  ; 
and  both  appear  to  have  brought  their  questions  in 
writing  to  the  place  of  meeting.  Dr.  Dana  doubtless 
anticipating  some  such  collision,  Dr.  Edwards  as  ap- 
peared afterwards,  did  not  obtain  satisfaction.  Whether 
Dr.  Dana  was  satisfied,  we  are  not  informed.  Dr. 
Edwards  is  said  to  have  expressed  the  conviction  that 
"  Dr.  Dana,  besides  being  opposed  to  the  '  new  divinity,' 
was  unsound  respecting  the  Trinity,  the  doctrine  of 
Election,  and  the  doctrine  of  future  punishment." 
"  Yet,"  says  President  Stiles,  in  recording  this  fact,  "all 
the  rest  of  the  council  (except  Dr.  Edwards  and  Mr. 
Austin),  were  satisfied  that  the  Doctor  was  sound  as  to 
all  these  points."  Dr.  Bacon,2  in  referring  to  this 
subject,  expresses  his  full  conviction  of  Dr.  Dana's 
orthodoxy  in  regard  to  the  doctrine  of  the  Trinity,  and 
of  future  punishment ;  but  adds,  "  I  think,  however, 
notwithstanding  Dr.  Stiles'  testimony,  that  his  doctrine 
of  Election  was  nothing  more  than  that  which  is  com- 
monly known  as  the  Arminian  doctrine  on  that  subject." 
The  ministry  of  Dr.  Dana  at  New  Haven  was  for  the 
most  part  peaceful  and  quiet  ;  but  none  who  remember 
that  the  great  end  of  the  ministry  is  to  "  win  souls,"  and 
by  the  blessing  of  God,  to  bring  men  under  the  full 
power  of  the  gospel  of  Christ,  can  call  it  successful. 
The  average  annual  addition  to  the  number  of  commu- 

1  These  questions  can  be  found  in  Bacon's  Historical  Discourses,  page 
396;  also  in  Stiles'  Literary  Diary.     Dr.  Stiles  said  that  he  copied  these 
questions  "from  the  original  paper  which  Dr.  Dana  had  before  him  in  his 
own  hand-writing  in  council,  at  the  time  of  asking  the  questions,  and  from 
which   he   asked  the  questions.     Dr.   Edwards  asked  his  questions  also 
from  a  prepared  paper,  which  he   brought  into  the  council,  took  out  of 
his  pocket  and  used." 

2  Hist.  Dis.,  276. 


2O2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

nicants  during  his  ministry  of  sixteen  years  and  a  half, 
in  New  Haven,  was  only  between  five  and  six  ;  ninety- 
three  in  all.  Two  services  on  the  Sabbath,  the  monthly 
sacramental  lecture,  the  occasional  catechising  of  the 
children,  and  the  annual  public  fast  and  thanksgiving, 
were  all  the  religious  meetings  known  in  the  congrega- 
tion. Dr.  Dana,  by  his  discretion,  and  his  dignified 
propriety  of  conduct ;  by  his  diligence  and  courage  in 
visiting  the  sick,  especially  in  times  of  pestilence,  when 
some  other  ministers  retreated  from  the  danger ;  by  the 
venerable  beauty  of  all  his  public  performances,  particu- 
larly his  prayers ;  and  by  his  unquestionable  reputation 
for  learning  and  wisdom,  continued  to  hold  the  affections 
of  the  people  much  longer  than  most  men  could  have 
done  in  similar  circumstances.1 

Notwithstanding  the  growing  infirmities  of  age,  Dr. 
Dana  appears  to  have  lost  nothing  of  the  respect  of  his 
own  people  or  of  the  community.  But  in  the  winter  of 

1804,  ne  was  confined,  for  some  time,  by  illness;  and 
Mr.   (afterwards  Professor)  Stuart,  having  then  been  re- 
cently licensed  to  preach,  was  employed  to  supply  the 
pulpit.     His  preaching  was  earnest,  direct,  and  pungent, 
differing  herein  from  that  to  which  the  congregation  had 
been  accustomed ;  and  so  powerful  was  the  impression 
made  by  it  that  they  quickly  resolved  on   an   effort  to 
secure  Mr.  Stuart's  labors  permanently  by  settling  him 
as  a  colleague  with  Dr.   Dana.     On  the  3Oth  of  July, 

1805,  the  society  by  vote  signified  their  will  "that  Dr. 
Dana  retire  from  his  pastoral  labors."     This  vote  was  in 
effect  the  dismission  of  the  aged  pastor ;  the  younger 
part  of  the  congregation  after  listening  to  the  strong, 

I  Bacon's  Hist.  Dis.,  278. 


REV.    JAMES    DANA.  2O3 

impetuous  eloquence  of  Mr.  Stuart,  had  found  out  all 
at  once  that  their  pastor,  then  threescore  and  ten  years 
old,  was  indeed  an  old  man.  The  relation  of  Dr.  Dana 
to  the  church  and  society  was  formally  disolved  by  an 
ecclesiastical  council  in  December,  1805  ;  and  then  the 
way  being  clear,  the  society  immediately  elected  Mr. 
Stuart  to  be  their  pastor.1  Dr.  Dana's  feelings  were 
deeply  wounded  by  this  procedure ;  and  in  consequence 
of  it,  he  attended  public  worship  for  several  years,  in  the 
college  chapel. 

After  Mr.  Stuart  had  left  his  charge  and  gone  to 
Andover,  Dr.  Dana  occasionally  came  back  to  the  old 
meeting-house  to  join  in  worship  with  those  who  had 
formerly  constituted  his  flock.  His  presence  there  was 
grateful  to  the  people,  and  revived  the  associations  of 
other  days.  The  society  expressed  by  vote  their  grati- 
fication at  seeing  him,  and  their  wish  that  he  would, 
worship  with  them  statedly.  The  gentleman  who 
presented  him  a  copy  of  the  vote,  gave  Dr.  Bacon  the 
following  account  of  the  interview :  "  Dr.  Dana,"  said 
he,  "  I  have  a  communication  for  you  from  the  society." 
"  Please  to  read  it  sir,"  said  the  old  man  in  reply,  putting 
the  paper  back  into  the  hands  of  the  other,  and  straight- 
ening himself  up  to  a  little  more  than  his  usual  dignity. 
The  vote  was  read  distinctly,  and  with  due  emphasis. 
"  Please  to  read  it  again,  sir,"  said  the  Doctor,  still 
sitting  in  stiff  and  antique  dignity,  with  his  thin,  ghastly 
countenance  unmoved,  as  if  he  were  something  between 
a  ghost  and  a  monument.  Again  the  communication 
was  read,  with  earnest  desires  that  it  might  make  a 


I  The  ordination  of  Mr  Stuart  took  place  on  the  fifth  of  March.  He 
was  dismissed  on  the  ninth  of  January,  1810,  having  been  invited  to  the 
professorship  of  Sacred  Literature  in  the  Thelogical  Seminary  at  Andover. 


2O4  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

favorable  impression.  "  It  is  well,"  said  the  old  man  ; 
and  his  voice  quivered  and  broke,  as  he  uttered  his  reply, 
"  I  know  not  but  that  I  may  say,  '  Lord,  now  lettest  thou 
thy  servant  depart  in  peace.'  " 

When  Mr.  (afterwards  Dr.)  N.  W.  Taylor  was  or- 
dained, April,  1812,  Dr.  Dana  officiated  as  Moderator  of 
the  Council,  and  gave  the  charge  to  the  candidate.  On 
the  first  Sabbath  after  the  ordination,  Mr.  Taylor  invited 
him  to  take  his  seat  in  the  pulpit ;  and  there  he  was 
regularly  found  every  Sabbath,  as  long  as  he  was  able  to 
attend  public  worship.  He  died  after  a  brief  illness, 
August  1 8,  1812,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven.  His 
funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  President  Dwight. 


REV.    JAMES    DANA,    D.    D. 

Says  Dr.  Sprague :  "  When  I  entered  Yale  College  in 
1811,  Dr.  Dana  was  a  regular  attendant  at  the  public 
service  on  the  Sabbath,  in  the  College  chapel.  I  recol- 
lect him  as  the  mere  shadow  of  a  man,  tall,  slender,  and 
in  his  general  appearance  more  ghostly  than  any 
human  being  I  remember  to  have  seen.  He  used  to  sit 
in  the  pulpit  with  Dr.  Dwight,  and  I  believe  pretty 


REV.    JAMES    DANA.  2O5 

uniformly  took  part  in  the  Communion  service.  His 
prayers  were  remarkably  solemn,  reverential  and  impres- 
sive. The  only  other  public  service  I  ever  heard  from 
him  was  the  Charge  at  the  ordination  of  Mr.  Taylor, 
which  was  pertinent  and  excellent,  and  seemed  almost 
as  if  he  were  speaking  it  from  out  of  his  grave.  I  had 
never  but  one  interview  with  him,  and  my  recollection  of 
him  then  is  that  he  was  extremely  bland  and  courteous."1 

Says  Professor  James  L.  Kingsley,  of  Yale  College : 
"Dr.  Dana,  I  always  thought,  had  more  talent  than  ap- 
peared from  his  publications.  The  circumstances  in 
which  he  was  early  placed  led  him  to  be  cautious  in  his 
language ;  and  habit  so  confirmed  him  in  an  indefinite 
style  of  writing  that  his  preaching  ordinarily  made  but 
little  impression  on  an  audience.  He  sometimes  preached 
in  the  College  chapel,  and  I  have  often  remarked  that 
for  the  first  third  of  his  sermon  he  would  gain  the  atten- 
tion of  the  students  ;  for  the  second  third  it  would  be 
difficult  to  say  whether  he  retained  it  or  not ;  and  for 
the  last  third  he  would  lose  it  entirely.  His  sermons 
had  a  plan  ;  but  a  large  part  of  his  audience  would 
scarcely  perceive  it,  and  were  soon  lost.  Dr.  Dana  con- 
tinued to  write  sermons  as  long  as  he  preached.  Old 
sermons  he  probably  sometimes  reproduced  ;  but  this  he 
did  seldom.  For  the  sermons  he  had  once  delivered, 
certainly  for  many  of  them,  he  seemed  to  care  little.  If 
the  fire  was  failing,  I  have  seen  him,  to  restore  it,  use  a 
sermon  or  sermons.  If  the  time  for  tea  had  arrived, 
and  the  tea-kettle  had  not  boiled,  he  would  sometimes 
send  a  sermon  into  the  kitchen,  and  perhaps  with  the 
remark,  '  it  will  boil  now.'  He  was  the  best  textuary  I 

I  Annals  of  the  American  Pulpit,  i,  569. 


2C)6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

have  ever  known.  He  would  not  only  refer  at  once  any 
text  to  its  proper  place,  but  if  I  asked  what  were  the 
words  in  any  book,  chapter,  and  verse  of  the  Bible,  he 
would  generally  answer  correctly.  When  he  had  sold 
or  given  away  his  Concordance  to  a  young  clergyman, 
and  some  surprise  was  expressed  at  his  doing  it,  I 
remember  he  put  a  finger  to  his  forehead,  and  said  sport- 
ively, 'My  best  Concordance  I  have  retained.'  From 
his  peculiar  style  of  writing,  he  was  sometimes  thought 
to  mean  what  he  never  intended.  Thus,  when  he  was 
about  leaving  his  society  in  New  Haven,  and  he  sup- 
posed that  he  should  preach  to  his  people  but  once 
more,  I  remember  that  he  said  at  breakfast  on  the  Sun- 
day when  he  appeared  in  his  desk  for  the  last  time,  that 
he  should  deliver  a  discourse  which  he  prepared  for  his 
people  in  Wallingford,  when  he  left  them  in  circum- 
stances somewhat  similar.  That  is,  when  he  preached 
the  discourse,  it  was  doubtful  whether  he  should  con- 
tinue any  longer  in  Wallingford,  and  it  was  now  doubt- 
ful whether  he  should  continue  any  longer  with  his 
society  in  New  Haven.  He  said  he  had  left  Wallingford 
with  the  best  feelings  on  both  sides,  and  that  he  had  no 
wish  to  say  in  New  Haven  any  thing  which  might  be 
supposed  to  proceed  from  a  sense  of  injury  on  his  part. 
In  taking  his  Wallingford  sermon,  he  thought  he  should 
escape  all  danger.  The  sermon  I  heard.  The  text  was 
very  appropriate  for  the  occasion :  Phil.  I.  27  ;  'Only 
let  your  conversation,'  &c.  The  whole  of  the  discourse 
was  kind  and  affectionate.  It  was  thought,  however,  to 
have  been  written  expressly  for  the  occasion  ;  and  some 
said,  '  The  Doctor  has  made  some  very  good  hits.'  Dr. 
Dana  was  thought  to  excel  in  prayer,  especially  before 
the  Legislature  or  in  Court.  His  prayers  on  such  occa- 


REV.    JAMES    DANA.  2O/ 

sions  were  written  and  committed  to  memory.  They 
were  short  and  very  appropriate.  On  one  occasion,  one 
of  his  friends  told  him  that  General  P.,  of  the  south, 
distinguished  as  a  civilian,  but  not  much  distinguished 
for  his  attendance  on  public  worship,  had  remarked  that 
a  prayer  which  he  (Dr.  D.)  had  offered  at  the  opening 
of  the  Legislature,  was  the  most  impressive  prayer  to 
which  he  had  ever  listened.  '  How  many  prayers  do 
you  think  General  P.  has  ever  heard  ? '  was  the  reply. 
Dr.  Dana  was  a  man  of  gentlemanly  and  dignified  man- 
ners, and  he  had  a  very  nice  sense  of  propriety  in  all 
his  intercourse  with  others." 

Rev.  Timothy  Mather  Cooley,  D.  D.,  communicated 
the  following  letter  to  Sprague's  Annals  of  the  American 
Pulpit. 

"Granville,  May  8,  1854. 
"  My  Dear  Sir : 

"  While  I  was  in  College,  Dr.  Dana  was  minister  of  the 
First  Church  in  New  Haven  ;  and,  during  my  senior 
year,  I  had  my  home  in  his  family.  I  had,  therefore,  a 
good  opportunity  of  knowing  him  ;  and  cheerfully  com- 
ply with  your  request,  in  giving  you  my  impressions 
concerning  his  character.  In  his  person  he  was  strongly 
marked.  He  was  of  a  tall  and  slender  form,  and  had  a 
sort  of  shadowy  appearance  that  would  have  dis- 
tinguished him  even  in  a  crowd.  He  had  a  sharp,  thin 
face  ;  but  his  expression  was  at  once  benignant  and 
highly  intellectual ;  and  his  face  was  a  faithful  index  to 
his  character.  His  riatural  temper  was  free  from  all 
asperity,  and  full  of  kindness  and  good  will.  His  man- 
ners were  in  a  high  degree  urbane  and  gentlemanly,  and 
shewed  that  he  had  been  accustomed  always  to  move  in 
the  most  polished  circles.  He  was  one  of  the  most 


2O8  HISTORY    OF    VVALLINGFORD. 

agreeable  companions  I  ever  knew,  with  great  intel- 
lectual resources  and  a  large  fund  of  anecdote ;  and  he 
could  accommodate  himself  with  the  most  graceful  ease 
to  the  highest  and  lowest  classes  ;  and  all  were  equally 
delighted  with  his  conversation.  In  his  dress  he  was 
remarkably  neat,  without,  however,  seeming  to  be  unduly 
particular.  His  mind  undoubtedly,  was  of  a  very  high 
order.  He  was  an  acute  metaphysician,  and  had  the 
courage  even,  to  grapple  with  that  intellectual  giant  of 
his  generation — the  elder  Jonathan  Edwards.  He  was  a 
remarkably  well  educated  man  ;  had  an  exact  and  culti- 
vated taste,  and  there  were  few  men  of  his  day  in  New 
England,  whose  style  of  writing  was  equally  pure  and 
faultless.  As  a  preacher,  Dr.  Dana  certainly  did  not 
belong  to  the  most  orthodox  class  in  New  England.  His 
sermons  were  generally  very  little  of  a  doctrinal  charac- 
ter, and  were  remarkable  rather  for  a  chaste  and  correct 
style,  and  excellent  practical  suggestions,  than  for  a  high- 
ly evangelical  tone,  or  for  direct  and  earnest  appeals. 
He  had  uncommon  aptness  of  mind,  and  would  often 
introduce  passages  of  Scripture  with  most  striking 
appropiateness  ;  as,  for  instance,  in  preaching  President 
Stiles'  funeral  sermon,  he  quoted  a  passage  in  reference 
to  him  concerning  Ezra  the  Scribe.  His  character  as  a 
preacher  was  formed  about  the  middle  of  the  last  cen- 
tury, under  the  influence  which  then  prevailed  at  Cam- 
bridge and  Boston  ;  and  it  is  probable  that  the  type  which 
it  then  assumed,  though  it  may  have  been  somewhat 
modified,  remained  substantially*  the  same  during  his 
life.  The  last  time  I  saw  Dr.  Dana  was  after  he  had 
become  very  old,  and  had  entirely  lost  his  sight.  I  found 
him  however,  just  as  cheerful  as  when  I  had  known  him 
in  former  years.  I  asked  him  whether  he  did  not  find 


REV.   JAMES    DANA.  2OQ 

it  difficult  to  be  submissive  under  so  grievous  a  calamity  ; 
and  he  answered  with  the  most  perfect  serenity  and 
cheerfulness,  '  Not  at  all.  I  would  not  double  an  afflic- 
tion by  being  unsubmissive  under  it.' 

"  Your  affectionate  friend  and  brother, 

"  TIMOTHY  MATHER  COOLEY." 

The  following  is  believed  to  be  nearly  a  correct  cata- 
logue of  his  published  works  : 

Sermon  on  the  death  of  John  Hall,  Esq.,  1763;  Sermon 
on  the  death  of  Chas.  Whittelsey,  1764;  Two  Sermons  on 
faith  and  inscrutable  Providence,  preached  at  Cambridge, 
1767;  A  Century  Discourse  in  Wallingford,  1770;  An 
examination  of  Edwards  on  the  will  (  anonymous),  1770  ;  An 
examination  of  the  same  continued,  ( with  his  name),  1773; 
Discourse  at  the  opening  of  a  new  place  of  worship  in 
Kensington,  1774;  Election  Sermon,  1779;  Sermon  on  the 
tragical  exit  of  William  Beadle,  &c.,  1782;  Yale  College 
subject  to  the  General  Assembly,  (anonymous),  1784; 
Sermon  on  the  death  of  Rev.  Chauncey  Whittelsey,  1787  • 
Sermon  on  the  nativity  of  Christ,  1789;  Discourse  at  his 
own  installation,  1789 ;  Discourse  on  the  African  Slave 
Trade,  1790;  Discourse  at  the  execution  of  Joseph  Moun- 
tain, 1790;  Three  Sermons  in  the  American  Preacher,  1791 ; 
Discourse  at  the  installation  of  the  Rev.  Abiel  Holmes,  1792  ; 
Discourse  at  the  ordination  of  Ebenezer  Gay,  Jr.,  1793  ;  Dis- 
course at  the  ordination  of  Elijah  Waterman,  1794  ;  Discourse 
on  the  folly  of  practical  Atheism,  1794;  Discourse  on  the 
death  of  President  Stiles,  1795  >  Two  occasional  discourses 
at  the  beginning  of  the  year,  1801 ;  Sermon  at  the  ordination 
of  Andrew  Yates,  1801 ;  Sermon  on  the  death  of  Ebenezer 
Grant,  March,  1803  ;  Sermon  on  the  character  of  Scoffers, 
1805 ;  Thanksgiving  Sermon,  1805  ;f  Sermons  to  young 
people,  1806. 


2IO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER    X. 

CHURCH    AT    MERIDEN. 

IN  1724,  the  number  of  families  within  the  limits  of 
Meriden  had  increased  to  thirty-five.  The  distance  to 
Wallingford  being  great,  and  the  roads  bad,  they  natu- 
rally wished  for  public  worship  nearer  to  their  residences. 
Some  families  had  attended  the  ministry  of  the  Rev. 
William  Burnham,  of  the  Great  Swamp  or  Kensington 
parish.1  According  to  the  custom  of  that  day,  however, 
they  did  not  proceed  to  accomodate  themselves  in  the 
matter,  until  it  had  been  laid  before  the  town,  and  their 
express  permission  obtained.  Accordingly  in  1724,  we 
find  a  vote  that  "  in  respect  to  the  North  Farmers  that 
they  may  hire  a  minister  for  four  months  this  winter  on 
their  own  charge."  In  May,  1725,  Nathaniel  Merriam 
and  others  petitioned  the  General  Assembly  that  the 
town  of  Wallingford  at  their  meeting  held  April  27, 
1725,  had  by  their  vote  granted  that  there  should  be  a 
society  in  or  near  the  north  part  of  Wallingford,  upon 
the  condition 

"In   sd   vote  mentioned,  and  appointed  a  Committee  to 

I  "May,  1722:  Resolved  by  this  Assembly  that  the  2d  Society  in  Farm- 
ington,  with  what  of  Wethersfield  and  Middletown  is  by  this  Assembly 
annexed  thereto,  shall  for  the  future  be  called  and  known  by  the  name  of 
Kensington." 


CHURCH    AT    MERIDEN.  211 

state  bounds  for  sd  society  or  such  part  thereof  as  is  in- 
tended to  be  taken  out  of  sd  Wallingford  which  together  with 
the  lands  commonly  called  Wallingford  West  Society  or  to 
Farmington  South  Society,  we  hope  are  and  will  be  capable 
of  carrying  on  and  supporting  the  work  of  a  Society  and 
the  Gospell  ministry  among  themselves  (especially  if  Mr. 
Belchers  farm  were  added)  and  the  sd  Inhabitants  living 
very  remote  from  any  place  of  Public  worship,  viz  at  the 
distance  of  6,  7,  and  8  miles  and  the  nearest  4.  We 
therefore  urged  by  these  pressing  Difficulties  and  encour- 
aged by  yor  Honbles  wonted  paternal  care  and  goodness  do 
Humbly  Pray  this  Honble  Assembly  that  we  may  (with 
the  addition  of  Mr.  Belchers  farm  afforrsd)  be  made  a 
District  society  for  setting  up  and  carrying  on  and  support- 
ing the  Public  worship  of  God  among  ourselves  with  such 
Liberties  powers  and  priveledges  as  other  such  societies 
have  and  by  law  enjoy." 

The  above  petition  was  granted  exclusive  of  Mr. 
Belcher's  farm,  and  in  1725,  they  organized  themselves 
into  a  distinct  Ecclesiastical  Society  ;  and  that  society 
and  the  territory  they  occupied,  received  the  present 
name  of  Meriden.  For  the  next  two  years  they  had 
public  worship  only  in  the  winter  season,  and  their 
meetings  were  held  in  a  private  house.  But  at  the  very 
outset,  there  arose  a  very  serious  difficulty  as  to  the 
location  of  their  meeting-house.  The  inhabitants 
around  "  Dog's  Misery,"  would  naturally  desire  that  the 
church  should  be  as  near  as  possible  to  their  farms  ;  and 
the  people  at  "  Pilgrim's  Harbor,"  "  the  Old  Road,"  and 
"  Milking-yard  farms,"  would  be  equally  desirous  of  a 
site  convenient  to  themselves.  That  part  of  the  town, 
now  constituting  "  the  center,"  was  then  entirely  unin- 
habited, or  was  of  so  little  consequence,  that  its  claims 
in  the  matter  do  not  appear  to  have  been  thought  of. 


212  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

At  length  it  was  decided  that  the  meeting-house  should 
be  built  on  the  western  slope  of  the  hill,  still  known  as 
the  "  meeting-house  hill,"  in  which  decision,  the  "  Dog's 
Misery"  party  had  the  advantage.  In  accordance  with 
this  decision,  the  materials  were  all  prepared,  and  col- 
lected at  .the  chosen  spot.  But  the  aggrieved  party, 
hoping  yet  to  gain  redress,  collected  men  and  teams  at 
night,  and  hauled  the  timbers  over  a  brook,  and  up  a 
hill,  to  a  lot  on  or  near  which  the  old  Willard  Hall  house 
now  stands,  that  being  the  spot  where  they  wished  the 
house  to  stand.  Of  course  such  a  step  would  excite  no 
small  stir.  The  other  party  assembled  amidst  great  ex- 
citement, and  loud  and  bitter  was  the  controversy.  A 
town  meeting  was  called,  and  the  very  men  and  teams 
who  toiled  all  night  to  carry  the  timbers  westward,  were 
compelled  to  haul  them  back  to  the  old  spot,  in  broad 
daylight,  amid  the  taunts  and  jeers  of  the  assembled 
people.  To  them  it  was  more  sport  in  bringing  the 
timbers  over  than  in  carrying  them  back. 

Facilis  descensus  Averni ; 

Sed  revocare  gradum, . 

Hoc  opus,  hie  labor  est. 

The  house  was  then  built  on  the  spot  first  selected. 
It  was  about  thirty  feet  square,  and  built  in  the  very 
plainest  style.  That  humble  edifice,  humble  in  compar- 
ison with  the  spacious  and  beautiful  structures  that  now 
adorn  the  town,  was  built  and  maintained  in  repair  with 
an  honorable  zeal  for  public  worship.  In  such  a  temple, 
our  fathers  maintained  the  worship  and  ordinances  of 
God  for  twenty-eight  years,  sitting  sabbath  after  sab- 
bath, through  a  long  course  of  exercises,  which  would 
weary  out  the  men  of  our  degenerate  days.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1728,  Rev.  Theophilus  Hall  began  to  preach  in  the 


REV.    THEOPHILUS    HALL.  213 

new  meeting-house.  October  9,  1729,  it  was  resolved  to 
form  a  church  ;  and  on  October  22,  after  a  day  of  fasting 
and  prayer  the  church  was  duly  organized,  and  the 
following  persons  were  gathered  as  the  original  members : 

JOHN  MERRIAM,  Jr.,  and  wife,  The  wife  of  JOHN  IVES, 

NATH'L  MERRIAM  and  wife,  The  wife  of  BENJ.   CURTIS, 

ROBERT  ROYCE,  JOHN  HECOCK  and  wife, 

SAMUEL  ROYCE  and  wife,  JOHN  COLE, 

THOMAS  YALE  and  wife,  The  wife  of  WILLIAM  HOUGH, 

JOHN  MERRIAM,  The  wife  of  JOHN  YALE, 

BARTHOLOMEW  FOSTER,  The  wife  of  JOSEPH  COLE, 

ROBERT  COLLINS,  The  wife  of  NATH'L  ROYCE, 

DAVID  LEVIT,  The  wife  of  DAVID  RICH, 

EZEKIEL  ROYCE  and  wife,  The  wife  of  DANIEL  HARRIS, 

ABEL  ROYCE  and  wife,  The  wife  of  S.  ANDREWS, 

BENJ.   ROYCE  and  wife,  The  wife  of  TIM.  JEROM, 

JOSEPH  MERRIAM,  The  wife  of  J.  ROBINSON, 

DAN.  BALDING  and  wife,  The  wife  of  W.  MERRIAM, 

AMOS  CAMP  and  wife,  The  wife  of  JAS.   ROYCE, 

BENJ.  WHITING  and  wife,  WIDOW  ROYCE, 

SAM'L  IVES  and  wife,  MARY  HOUGH, 

EBENEZER  PRINDLE  and  wife,  EUNICE  COLE, 
JOHN  WAY  and  wife. 

The  Rev.  Theophilus  Hall  was  the  first  pastor  of  the 
church.  He  was  born  in  Wallingford,  April  i,  1707, 
and  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Love  Hall.  He  was 
graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1727,  and  was  ordained 
first  pastor  of  the  church  in  Meriden,  Oct.  29,  1729, 
where  he  remained  until  his  death,  March  25,  1767,  in 
the  sixtieth  year  of  his  age.  In  his  personal  appear- 
ance he  was  quite  small  in  stature,  and  with  suavity 
of  temper  and  dignity  of  manners,  he  united  the  greatest 
affability.  Persuaded  of  the  truth  of  Christianity,  and 
deeply  sensible  of  its  importance,  he  was  well  able  to 


214  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

defend  it.  Feeling  the  truth,  dignity  and  importance 
of  his  subject,  in  composing  his  sermons,  he  seemed 
to  have  caught  the  fervor  of  St.  Paul  in  delivering 
them.  Diligent  to  know  the  state  of  his  flock,  and 
naturally  caring  for  it,  his  pastoral  visits  were  frequent 
and  judiciously  conducted.  Dr.  Dana  said  of  him 
that  he  was  "  a  man  of  strong  intellectual  powers, 
much  esteemed  as  a  preacher,  of  great  firmness  and 
stability,  and  a  zealous  advocate  for  civil  and  religious 
liberty."  During  his  ministry  about  two  hundred  and 
fifty  person  were  added  to  the  church.  Self-denying, 
humble,  prayerful,  full  of  love  for  souls,  and  faithful  to 
the  cause  of  Christ,  he  unquestionably  was.  Geoffrey 
Chaucer,  the  father  of  English  poetry,  draws  his 
picture  in  the  following  description  of  a  parish  priest : 

"  A  good  man  there  was  of  religion, 

He  was  a  poor  parson  of  a  town, 

But  rich  he  was  of  holy  thought  and  werk, 

He  was  a  learned  man,  a  clerk, 

That  Christe's  Gospel  trewely  wolde  preche ; 

His  parishens  devoutly  wolde  tech, 

Benign  he  was,  and  wonder  diligent, 

And  in  adversity  full  patient. 

******* 

Wide  was  his  parish  and  houses  far  asunder, 

But  he  ne  left  nought  for  no  rain  ne  thunder, 

In  sickness  and  in  mischeefe  to  visite, 

The  feerest  in  his  parish,  moche  and  lite, 

Upon  his  fete,  and  in  his  hand  a  staff. 

But  if  were  any  person  obstinat, 

What  so  he  were  of  high  or  low  estat, 

Him  would  he  snibben  sharply  for  the  nones. " 

Mr.  Hall  left  a  widow  and  seven  children.     His  eldest 
son,  the  Rev.  Avery   Hall,  was  pastor  of  a  church  in 


REV.    THEOPHILUS    HALL.  21 5 

Rochester,  N.  Y  The  second  daughter,  Eunice,  mar- 
ried the  Rev.  Andrew  Lee,  D.  D.,  of  Lisbon,  Conn., 
Oct.  15,  1768.  Mr.  Hall  published  two  sermons  on  the 
death  of  Rev.  Isaac  Stiles  ;  two  sermons  on  Faith ;  and 
a  sermon  delivered  at  the  ordination  of  the  Rev.  Mat- 
thew Merriam,  of  Berwick,  Me.1  Mr.  Hall  lived  in  a 
house,  not  now  in  existence,  which  stood  on  the  lot 
where  the  present  Willard  Hall  house  now  stands,  on 
Curtis  street,  near  the  city  line.  He  also  owned  a  farm 
of  about  one  hundred  acres,  which  comprised  all  the 
central  part  of  the  town.  It  was  bounded  by  a  line 
drawn  from  the  Town  House,  and  running  southerly 
about  one  hundred  rods,  then  easterly  to  a  point  near 
the  grounds  of  the  old  Catholic  Church,  corner  of  Olive 
and  Broad  streets,  thence  northerly  to  the  head  of 
Liberty  street,  and  thence  to  the  point  of  departure. 
On  this  farm  he  built  a  house  for  his  son.  That  house 
now  stands  in  its  original  location,  and  is  occupied  as 
the  Central  Hotel. 

In  1750,  the  subject  began  to  be  agitated  in  regard  to 
building  a  new  house,  and  Mr.  Hall  offered  to  give  the 
land  which  was  near  the  place  where  the  Center  Congre- 
gational church  now  stands,  which  was  nearly  a  mile 
north  of  the  old  church.  This  place  met  with  much 
opposition,  and  April  17,  1752,  Ezekiel  Royce  and 
Daniel  Hough  petitioned  the  General  Assembly  that 
the  place  set  by  the  committee  appointed  for  that  pur- 
pose, "  is  upon  Rev.  Mr.  Theophilus  Hall's  land,  which 
renders  it  impracticable  to  use  the  place  for  the  purpose 
proposed The  committee  supposing  the  center 

I  Mr.  Merriam  was  a  native  of  Wallingforcl,  and  was  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1759.  He  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  church  at  Berwick,  Me., 
in  September,  1765,  and  died  in  January,  1797. 


2l6  HISTORY    OF    VVALLINGFORD. 

of  the  society  to  be  north  of  the  place  set,  where  truly 
it  ought  to  be  esteemed  by  reason  of  much  mountainous 
and  waste  land  in  the  northern  part  of  said  society." 
The  petitioners  went  on  to  show  that  another  place 
south  of  the  place  set  by  the  said  committee  was  much 
more  commodious,  and  to  which  the  people  might  resort 
with  less  travel.  The  petition  was  not  granted,  and  the 
church  was  built  in  1755.  It  was  about  sixty  feet  long 
and  fifty  broad.  Originally  it  was  without  steeple  or 
bell,  but  in  1803  a  steeple  was  added  and  a  bell  pro- 
cured. This  house  was  occupied  for  public  worship 
seventy-six  years. 

At  the  time-1  of  the  decease  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hall,  the 
church  in  Meriden  was  in  special  relation  to  the  neigh- 
boring elders  and  churches,  as  a  member  of  the  Conso- 
ciation of  New  Haven  county.  Churches  standing  in 
this  relation,  had  esteemed  it  their  duty  to  consult  the 
association  in  times  of  pastoral  bereavement  with  regard 
to  a  suitable  candidate  to  be  improved  upon  probation 
in  order  to  settlement.  Many  of  the  society  earnestly 
requested  that  the  society  would  pursue  this  common 
and  orderly  practice,  which  the  majority  refused  ;  and  at 
the  same  time,  Oct.  5,  1767,  voted  to  invite  Mr.  Hubbard, 
a  clergyman  reputed  unsound  in  the  great  principles  of 
the  gospel,  to  preach  four  Sabbaths  upon  probation. 
This  vote  was  not  unanimous,  as  forty-two  were  in  favor 
of  the  call,  and  twenty-one  opposed  it.  At  the  society 
meeting,  the  votes  on  the  proposal  to  present  a  call  to 
Mr.  Hubbard  stood,  sixty-five  in  the  affirmative  and 
thirty-seven  in  the  negative.  They  also  voted  to  give 
him  a  settlement,  as  it  was  called ;  that  is,  a  gift  of  one 
hundred  pounds  at  his  settlement,  and  an  annual  salary 
of  eighty  pounds,  which  was  about  equal  to  $250 ;  one 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    HUBBARD. 

half  of  which  was  to  be  paid  in  wheat,  rye  and  corn. 
But  the  division  indicated  by  these  votes  appears  to 
have  been  a  very  serious  one,  and  the  feelings  excited  in 
the  church  very  strong.  On  the  twelfth  of  October, 
forty-seven1  of  the  society  preferred  a  petition  to  said 
society,  entreating  that  they  would  advise  with  the  asso- 
ciation as  usual,  relative  to  a  candidate  for  settlement,  or 
that  application  might  be  made  to  either  of  the  associa- 
tions in  the  Colony  to  advise  them  in  that  important 
affair,  objecting  at  the  same  time  against  Mr.  Hubbard, 
on  account  of  his  general  character  for  unsoundness 
in  the  great  doctrines  of  the  gospel.  The  major  party 
notwithstanding,  on  the  second  of  November  following, 
did  by  their  vote,  invite  Mr.  Hubbard  to  settle  among 
them  in  the  work  of  the  ministry.  The  minor  party  upon 
this,  invited  the  Consociation  of  the  County  to  meet  in 
Meriden,  and  exhibited  a  complaint  to  the  Association 
alleging  that  his  introduction  as  a  candidate  among 
them  was  irregular,  and  that  his  principles  were  heret- 
ical. Being  regularly  notified  to  appear  before  the  Asso- 
ciation, and  he  making  no  objection  with  regard  to  the 
shortness  of  the  time  given  him,  nor  intimating  that  he 
desired  more,  or  would  ever  answer  to  the  complaint  be- 
fore the  Association  ;  but  denying  their  right  of  juris- 
diction, the  Association  rcalled  his  recommendation  to 
the  churches,  and  so  far  as  they  were  concerned,  silenced 
him.  The  church  proceeded  nevertheless,  and  invited  a 
council  to  assemble,  Dec.  29,  1 767,  to  ordain  Mr.  Hub- 
bard. They  met,  but  on  the  same  day,  the  Consociation 

I  It  ought  properly  to  have  been  forty-three  ;  for  four  signed  after  the 
meeting,  which  made  the  whole  number  forty-seven.  These  four  were 
against  Mr.  Hubbard  at  the  time  of  the  meeting,  but  had  not  opportunity 
then  to  sign. 


2l8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

of  the  county  also  assembled  in  Meriden  at  the  invita- 
tion of  the  minority.  The  council  prepared  to  ordain 
Mr.  Hubbard,  agreeably  to  the  wishes  of  the  majority  ; 
the  Consociation  assembled  to  aid  and  advise  the 
minority  in  opposing  the  ordination.  There  was  thus 
presented  the  unseemly  spectacle  of  two  ecclesiastical 
bodies,  assembled  as  rallying  points  for  the  two  little 
parties  into  which  the  church  was  divided.  Both  of 
these  bodies  remained  in  session  four  days,  sending 
from  one  to  the  other,  letters,  resolutions  and  remon- 
strances, becoming  themselves  more  and  more  excited, 
and  of  course,  exasperating  the  feud  among  the  people 
which  had  already  become  intense. 

Mr.  Hubbard  had  for  many  years  been  reported 
unsound  in  some  important  articles  of  the  Christian 
faith,  and  the  Association  might  possibly  with  justice 
have  called  him  to  give  a  new  account  of  his  principles 
before;  but  he  being  generally  employed  in  other  busi- 
ness, and  no  complaint  being  exhibited  against  him,  the 
Association,  whether  out  of  neglect,  or  tenderness  to 
Mr.  Hubbard,  never  took  the  matter  into  consideration 
until  he  preached  at  Meriden  on  probation,  when  a 
formal  complaint  being  exhibited  against  him,  and  he 
refusing  to  vindicate  himself,  the  Association  thought 
they  could  not  answer  a  good  conscience,  unless  they 
proceeded  as  related  above.  The  major  part,  notwith- 
standing, agreed  with  Mr.  Hubbard  to  settle  with  them 
as  their  pastor,  and  invited  a  council  to  ordain  him,  who 
having  met  and  heard  the  whole  affair,  and  considered 
the  broken  state  of  the  society,  were  of  the  opinion  that 
it  was  not  best  to  ordain  him. 

But  it  seems  the  difficulties  only  became  worse.  The 
next  May  session,  the  minor  party  applied  to  the 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    HUBBARD.  2IQ 

Assembly  for  relief,  who  granted  them  a  committee  to 
hear  the  affairs  of  the  society  and  look  into  the  state  of 
it,  and  make  report  thereof;  which  they  afterwards  did, 
and  the  Assembly  released  the  aggrieved  from  all  taxes 
to  Mr.  Hubbard,  until  the  rising  of  the  next  Assembly ' 
The  committee  from  the  Assembly,  previous  to  their 
report,  advised  to  the  calling  in  a  number  of  ministers 
and  lawyers,  whom  they  particularly  named,  as  a  council 
to  advise  the  parish  in  their  broken  and  unhappy  cir- 
cumstances. The  minor  party  in  compliance  with  their 
advice,  agreed  to  call  in  the  reverend  gentlemen 
nominated  by  said  committee,  viz.,  the  Rev.  Messrs. 
Devotion,  Salter,  Strong,  Welles,  Johnson,  Cogswell  and 
Huntington  of  Coventry,  as  a  council  for  advice;  and 
declared  by  a  writing2  under  their  hand  that  they  would 

1  This  petition  which  was  preferred  at  the  May  session,  was  not  heard 
until  the  session  in  October  following.     "In  April,  1768,  twenty-eight  per- 
sons petitioned  the  General  Assembly  that  the  society  at  Meriden  was 
destitute  of  a  pastor,  and  invited  Rev.  John  Hubbard  Jr.  of  New  Haven  to 
preach  ;  a  man  reputed  unsound  in  gospel  doctrines,  against  whom  the 
memorialists  presented  a  complaint  to  the  Association,  who  revoked  his 
license.     Yet  the  Society  agreed,  November  1767,  with  him  for  settlement, 
and  fixed  the  time  for  the  ordination,  which  they  could  not  obtain.     They 
then  hired  him,  and  laid  a  tax  to  support  preaching,  and  to  avoid  being 
called  to  account  for  disorderly  proceedings,   the  church  and  society  have 
removed  the  Ecclesiastical  constitution  established  by  law.     The  petition- 
ers prayed  that  they  might  be  freed  from  paying  rates  and  charges,  and 
allowed  to  hire  a  minister  among  themselves."     This  petition  was  signed 
by  John  Ives,   Elijah   Scovill,  Samuel  Penfield,  Isaac  Hall  3d,   Brenton 
Hall,  Dan.  Collins,  Levi  Yale,  Amos  Camp  Jr.,  Timothy  Ives,  Abel  Yale, 
Edward  Collins,  Elisha  Scovill,  Yale  Bishop,  Peter  Penfield,  Isaac  Hall, 
Ebenezer  Prindle,  Amos  Camp,  Nathaniel   Penfield,  Reynold  Beckwith, 
Noah  Yale,  Gideon  Ives,  Stephen   Perkins,  John  Hall,   Samuel  Scovill, 
David  Hall,  Elnathan  Ives,  John  Berry.     October  4,  1769,  fifty-four  peti- 
tioners desired  that  the  memorial  should  be  prosecuted. 

2  The  proposal  was  in  these  words  :  "That  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Devotion, 
Mr.  Salter,  Mr.  Strong  of  Coventry,  Mr.  Welles  of  Stamford,  Mr.  Johnson 


22O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

follow  their  advice,  until  ready  for  ordination,  and  that 
these  gentlemen  should  nominate  an  ordaining  council 
for  them.  With  this  agreement  which  was  delivered  to 
the  society  signed  by  the  minor  part,  the  major  part  of 
the  society  refused  a  compliance  ;  and  after  much  pains 
taken,  finding  that  they  could  obtain  no  one  in  the 
colony  who  would  assist  them  in  the  ordination  of  Mr. 
Hubbard,  excepting  the  two  Elders,  who  were  particu- 
larly interested  in  the  affair,  and  had  before  given  their 
judgment  in  the  matter,  they  prevailed  upon  four  gentle- 
men, with  delegates  from  two  neighboring  colonies  ( one 
nevertheless,  even  of  this  number  being  a  brother  by 
marriage  to  the  pastor  elect,  and  in  this  respect  disquali- 
fied to  judge  in  such  an  affair)  to  assist  them  in 
conjunction  with  the  others  above  mentioned.  In 
October,  1768,  Isaac  Hall,  and  others,  members  of  the 
society  of  Meriden,  petitioned  the  General  Assembly, 
after  stating  the  particulars  of  the  settlement  of  Mr. 
Hubbard, 

"That  there  is  near  one  half  of  the   Society  in  Number 
and   List   who   cannot   in   Conscience    attend   his   ministry, 

of  Lyme,  Mr.  Cogswell  of  Canterbury,  and  Huntington  of  Coventry,  shall 
be  a  committee  with  whom  we  will  advise  respecting  a  Candidate  for 
Settlement  among  us  in  the  work  of  the  Gospel  Ministry;  and  whose 
advice  we  will  follow  from  Time  to  Time,  'till  we  are  ready  for  Ordination. 
And  that  whenever  we  are  agreed  in  a  Candidate,  and  desire  his  ordination 
these  same  Ministers  with  Delegates  from  their  respective  Churches,  shall 
be  the  Council  to  ordain  him  ;  or  we  will  be  advised  by  them  in  choosing 
a  Council  and  will  send  for  such,  and  such  only  as  they  shall  advise  to." 
This  proposal  was  introduced  with  a  preamble  setting  forth  the  willingness 
and  desire  of  the  minor  part,  to  unite  with  their  brethren  upon  any 
reasonable  terms.  That  they  made  this  proposal  in  compliance  with  the 
advice  of  the  commissioners  from  the  "  Honorable  General  Assembly," 
and  that  they  would  abide  by  it.  The  writing  bore  date  January  9,  1769. 
Sealed  proposals  had  been  before  made  by  the  aggrieved,  much  to  the 
same  purpose. 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    HUBBARD.  221 

that  said  Society  have  laid  a  tax  on  the  members  of  it  to 
pay  Mr.  Hubbard  for  preaching,  and  defray  the  charges  of 
his  intended  ordination.  That  by  their  continuing  him  in 
said  Society  no  minister  can  be  settled,  nor  any  orthodox 
regular  Candidate  be  introduced  or  improved.  That  said 
Society  and  Church  have  renounced  the  Ecclesiastical 
Constitution  of  this  Colony  so  that  they  cannot  be  called 
to  an  account  by  an  Ecclesiatical  Council.  Though  the 
Memorialists  continue  to  adhere  to  the  established  Con- 
stitution, which  they  highly  value  and  praying  for  relief  &c., 
as  per  Memorial  on  file.  Resolved  by  this  Assembly  that 
Joseph  Spencer,  Zebulon  West,  Esq.,  and  Mr.  Jonathan 
Welles,  he  and  they  are  hereby  appointed  a  Committee  to 
repair  to  said  Meriden,  with  full  Power  and  Authority  to 
examine  all  the  Matters  and  Things  complained  of  in 
said  Memorial  or  relating  thereto,  and  the  State  of  said 
Society,  and  to  hear  all  the  concerned,  and  to  make  Report 
of  what  they  shall  find  with  their  opinion  thereon  to  this 
or  the  next  General  Assembly  to  be  holden  at  Hartford  in 
May  next,  and  that  in  the  meantime  the  tax  mentioned  in 
said  Memorial  be  not  levied  upon  the  Memorialists  and 
those  who  have  been  aggrieved  with  said  Proceedings  of 
said  Society." 

In  October,  1769,  it  was  resolved  that  all  persons  who 
entered  their  names  with  the  Town  Clerk  at  Wallingford 
before  the  expiration  of  six  months  should  be  exempted 
from  paying  any  rates  laid  and  imposed  by  the  society 
for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  expenses  of  the  settle- 
ment and  support  of  Mr.  Hubbard.  The  same  year  a 
committee  was  appointed  to  make  inquiries,  &c.,  and 
reported  that  the  list  of  the  Meriden  society  was 
^8420  i6s.  id. 

"Major  party  list,  lawful  voters,  ^4732  lu.  gd. 
Major  party,  unlawful  voters,  415  18       3 


222  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Minor  party,  lawful  voters,         ^3020  igs  $d. 
Minor  party,  unlawful  voters,  162  10 

List  of  neutral  and  non-residents,  723  19     6." 

They  thought  a  division  would  be  ruinous  to  both 
parties ;  "  but  to  oblige  the  minor  party  to  pay  taxes  to 
such  a  preacher,  is  an  infringement  of  their  rights,  and 
they  recommend  a  council."  The  minor  party  said  in 
their  petition,  September,  1770,  that  the  church  and 
society  continued  on  the  Saybrook  platform,  during  the 
life  of  their  late  pastor,  from  which  the  major  party  had 
withdrawn,  but  excluded  the  petitioners  from  the  meet- 
ing-house which  the  major  party  had  forfeited.  They 
prayed  to  be  recognized  as  the  First  Society,  with  right 
to  possess  the  house,  and  that  a  committee  be  appointed. 
This  petition  was  signed  by  Isaac  Hall,  Amos  Camp, 
Nathaniel  Penfield,  Noah  Yale,  Elnathan  Ives,  Gideon 
Ives,  Moses  Mitchell  and  John  Berry.  The  committee 
appointed,  reported  that  the  major  party  taxed  the  chil- 
dren of  the  minor  party  when  they  came  of  age ;  which 
they  thought  should  be  refunded,  and  the  children  of  all 
when  they  came  of  age,  and  persons  coming  into  the 
society,  might  choose  to  which  party  they  belong.  In 
October,  1774,  eight  petitioners  who  joined  the  minor 
party,  found  the  charges  against  Mr.  Hubbard  without 
foundation,  and  returned  ;  but  the  minor  party  continued 
to  tax  them  ;  they  prayed  therefore  for  a  release,  which 
was  negatived.  The  petition  was  signed  by  James 
Scovill,  Daniel  Baldwin,  Divan  Berry,  Benjamin  Rexford, 
John  Morgan,  Thomas  Mix,  Jr.,  Daniel  Baldwin,  Jr.,  and 
Benjamin  Ford.  The  affair  seems  to  have  excited  a 
good  deal  of  attention  throughout  the  state  ;  for  letters 
and  statements  respecting  all  these  proceedings  appeared 
in  the  papers,  and  several  pamphlets  were  published,  in 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    HUBBARD.  223 

which  the  affair,  with  all  its  bearings,  and  the  principles 
involved,  were  earnestly  discussed. 

At  length,  June  22,  1769,  after  nearly  two  years  of 
unhappy  controversy,  Mr.  Hubbard  was  ordained,  and 
the  Rev.  Chauncey  Whittelsey,  of  New  Haven,  preached 
the  ordination  sermon.  But  so  strong  was  the  feeling 
among  the  ministers  of  the  State,  that  few  would  take 
any  part  in  the  ordination  ;  and  a  council,  composed 
principally  of  persons  out  of  the  State,  convened  at 
Meriden,  and  performed  the  required  ceremonies.1  In 
consequence  of  his  settlement  a  portion  of  the  church 
and  society  seceded,  organized  themselves  as  a  separate 
body  and  maintained  public  worship.  They  met  for 
some  years  in  a  private  house,  belonging  to  Captain 
Shaler,  situated  near  the  spot  where  the  house  of  Mr. 
George  P.  Hall  now  stands,  on  the  road  leading  to  the 
north-east  part  of  the  town,  and  about  one  mile  from  the 
center.  In  1770,  there  were  but  eight  or  nine  families 
who  met  there.  Gradually  they  all  returned,  as  Mr. 


I  In  a  "  Letter  from  the  Association  of  the  County  of  New  Haven  to 
the  Reverend  Elders  in  the  Colony  of  Rhode  Island  and  Massachusetts- 
Bay  who  assisted  at  the  Ordination  of  Rev.  John  Hubbard,"  printed  at 
New  Haven  in  1770;  the  writer  says,  "  It  was  extraordinary  that  among 
so  large  a  number  of  unexceptionable  candidates  as  were  to  be  found  in 
the  colony,  they  should  fix  upon  one  whose  character  for  many  years  had 
been  exceptionable  !  It  was  extraordinary,  that  after  a  trial  of  four  Sab- 
baths, and  almost  fifty  in  opposition,  that  they  should  invite  him  to  settle- 
ment !  It  was  extraordinary,  that  after  his  License  was  regularly  recalled, 
they  should  continue  their  invitation  !  It  was  extraordinary  that  a  Council 
of  Judges  of  their  own  choosing  should  not  judge  agreeable  to  their  minds  ! 
There  were,  doubtless,  extraordinary  circumstances  attending  the  Society, 
that  a  Council  could  not  be  obtained  in  the  Colony,  who  would  proceed  to 
ordination  !  It  was  extraordinary,  that  when  the  union  was  so  small,  and 
the  matter  was  properly  under  the  consideration  of  the  Assembly,  that  the 
Church  and  Society  should  so  strenuously  urge  the  Ordination  !  These 
things  indeed  are  unusual  and  may  well  be  termed  extraordinary  !  "  p.  10. 


224  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Hubbard's  unusually  kind  and  amiable  disposition,  and 
his  persevering  course  of  conciliatory  conduct,  slowly 
affected  the  minds  of  those  who  had  opposed  him. 

Mr.  Hubbard's  great  error  appears  to  have  consisted 
in  his  being  in  advance  of  the  age  in  which  he  lived. 
In  his  examination  he  doubted  that  Christ  was  coeval 
with  the  Father ;  and  when  he  was  asked  what  he  un- 
derstood by  the  words  "In  the  beginning,"  he  said,  "the 
Scripture  was  somewhat  silent,  and  he  chose  not  to  say 
much  about  it."  In  his  confession  of  faith,  there  is 
nothing  that  affords  the  least  evidence  that  he  believed 
the  doctrine  of  original  sin,  in  the  sense  in  which  Cal- 
vinistic  divines  have  generally  understood  it ;  but  the 
contrary.  Mr.  Hubbard  also  rejected  the  doctrine  of 
"  original  righteousness  ;"  but  believed  that  man  resem- 
bled God,  or  was  made  in  his  image,  as  He  was  a 
rational,  intelligent  being,  and  as  he  was  Lord  and 
Governor  of  the  new  made  world,  and  upright,  as  he 
was  made  capable  of  righteousness.  Not  that  man  had 
any  holiness  or  conformity  to  the  moral  perfections  of 
his  Creator,  in  his  state  of  innocence.  This  was  held 
to  be  the  grossest  Arminianism.  Mr.  Hubbard  was 
held  to  be  unsound  in  the  doctrine  of  the  "  Saint's  Per- 
severance, and  of  "  Regeneration,"  as  generally  under- 
stood by  the  Calvinistic  divines.  Says  a  writer  of  that 
day: 

"  It  was  an  important  Duty  which  Mr.  Hubbard  owed  to 
himself,  to  clear  up  his  character,  and  give  full  Satisfaction 
that  he  believed  the  great  Doctrines  of  the  Divinity  of  our 
Blessed  Saviour ;  of  Original  Sin,  the  Perseverance  of  the 
Saints,  and  Regeneration,  as  received  and  held  in  these 
Churches,  if  he  could  have  done  it  consistent  with  the  Truth. 
He  was  bound,  in  Duty,  to  do  it,  as  the  Honor  of  God, 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    HUBBARD.  225 

and  his  own  Peace  and  Welfare  all  his  Days,  were  greatly 
concerned  in  it.  The  Peace  and  Edification  of  the  Church 
and  Society  of  Meriden,  and  all  the  Churches  in  general 
required  it.  This  would  have  made  all  Things  easy  and 
quiet  at  Meriden ;  for  the  aggrieved  Brethren  respected  Mr. 
Hubbard's  Person,  and  would  by  no  Means  have  opposed  his 
Settlement,  could  they  have  been  satisfied  with  Regard  to  his 
religious  Sentiments.  The  Churches  would  have  all  rejoiced 
to  have  been  satisfied  in  this  Matter,  and  used  their  utmost 
Influence  to  have  made  his  Life  peaceful  and  happy.  He 
must  therefore,  be  highly  guilty  and  inexcusable,  in  not  doing 
it,  provided  it  could  have  been  done  with  a  good  Conscience. 
These  Things,  he  doubtless  well  knew.  Can  any  Man  there- 
fore, in  his  Senses,  imagine  that  he  would  not  have  done  it 
when  every  engaging  Prospect  and  Motive  urged  him  to  it, 
had  not  his  Sentiments  been  really  different  from  what  is  es- 
teemed sound  and  orthodox  in  these  churches  ?"' 

Rev.  Mr.  Hubbard  was  born  in  New  Haven,  in  a 
house  that  stood  on  Chapel  street,  near  the  corner  now 
occupied  by  the  New  Haven  Hotel,  January  24,  1742. 
He  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1744.  His  father 
was  Dr.  John  Hubbard,  born  at  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  Novem- 
ber 30,  I7O3,2  and  married  in  1724  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Stevens.  He  left  eight  children,  of  whom  John  was  the 

1  Remarks  on  the  Confession  of  Faith  and  Examination  of  Mr.  Hub- 
bard; New  Haven,  1770. 

2  The  following  is  taken  from  the  New  Haven  Journal,  and  the  New  Ha- 
ven Post  Boy,  dated  Friday,  Nov.  5,  1773:  "Last  Saturday,  Colonel,  (that 
is  Dr. )  John  Hubbard,  departed  this  life  ;  who  for  many  years,  has  been 
one  and  the  chief,  of  the  civil  authority,  and  Representative  of  this  town, 
Judge  of  Probate  for  this  district,  and  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  for  the  County  of  New  Haven.     A  gentleman  of  superior 
genius,  delicate  taste,  and  good  education,  an  honest,  faithful  man,  an  able, 
upright  Judge,  and  Exemplary  Christian ;   who  having  served  his  genera- 
tion by  the   will   of  God,   fell  asleep,    with  a  hope  full  of  immortality, 
grounded  on  the  grace  of  the  gospel,  ae.  70. 

Q 


226  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

eldest.  Rev.  John  Hubbard  married  first  Rebecca  Dick- 
erman,  January  25,  1750,  by  whom  he  left  two  sons,  John 
and  Isaac.1  He  married  second,  Mary  Russell.  About 
the  year  1783,  Mr.  Hubbard  was  seriously  injured  by  being 
thrown  from  his  sleigh,  and  thereby  disabled  from  preach- 
ing. He  lingered  until  November  18,  1 786,  when  he  died 
in  the  sixtieth  year  of  his  age.  He  built  and  occupied  a 
house  that  stood  near  where  the  residence  of  Mr.  Edward 
Miller  now  stands,  and  which  now  stands  a  few  rods 
south,  on  the  east  side  of  Broad  street.  Mr.  Hubbard 
was  a  man  of  about  the  middle  size,  with  an  unusually 
pleasant  and  benignant  countenance.  His  pleasing 
manners  and  amiable  disposition  won  for  him  the  affec- 
tions of  the  people.  As  a  preacher  he  was  animated 
and  interesting.  The  Connecticut  Journal,  dated  New 
Haven,  Wednesday,  November  22,  1786,  says: 

"On  the  i8th  inst,  died  Rev.  John  Hubbard,  senior  pastor 
of  the  church  in  Meriden,  in  the  6oth  year  of  his  age. 
After  receiving  a  liberal  education  in  Yale  College,  where 
he  graduated  in  1744,  he  at  length  settled  in  the  ministry 
at  Meriden.  Here  he  labored  to  good  acceptance,  and 
Apostolic  fidelity  for  a  number  of  years  until,  by  the  provi- 
dence of  God,  he  was  disabled  from  his  work,  about  two 

i  John  was  born  January  14,  1751.  He  married  Anna  Atwater,  in  1775, 
by  whom  he  had  one  son,  John,  who  was  born  January  14,  1778.  His  wife 
died  February  2,  1778.  In  May,  1779,  he  was  married  to  Martha  Bradley, 
by  whom  he  had  five  children.  The  first  was  born  March  i,  1780,  and 
died  in  infancy;  Anna  was  born  June  15,  1782;  Russell  was  born  Oct. 
1 8,  1784;  William  was  born  July,  24,  1787;  Dana  was  born  Aug.  17, 
1789.  Isaac,  the  second  son  of  Rev.  John  Hubbard,  was  born  Nov.  22, 
1752.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas  Berry,  Dec.  5,  1782,  by 
whom  he  had  seven  children:  Rebecca,  born  Nov.  25,  1783  ;  Mary,  born 
Dec.  24,  1785;  Thomas,  born  Jan.  9,  1788;  Isaac,  born  July  7,  1790,  and 
died  Feb.  17,  1812;  John,  born  April  21,  1792  ;  Ezra  Stiles,  born  May  13, 
1794;  Elizabeth,  born  Sept  20,  1796. 


SETTLEMENT    OF    MR.    HUBBARD.  22/ 

years  since.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Willard  was  last  June  ordained 
colleague  pastor  with  him.  His  interment  was  on  Monday 
last,  when  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dana  preached  a  sermon  suitable 
to  the  occasion,  after  which  the  funeral  was  attended,  both 
by  his  relatives,  and  by  an  affectionate  and  mournful  flock, 
with  every  mark  of  esteem  and  respect  towards  a  beloved 
and  worthy  pastor,  and  a  character  venerable  for  piety  and 
virtue.  He  entertained  the  highest  ideas  of  the  dignity 
and  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ,  of  salvation  by  sovereign  grace, 
of  the  merits  of  the  Redeemer's  atonement,  and  his  glorious 
righteousness,  which  he  judged  the  only  foundation  of  a 
sinner's  justification  and  acceptance  with  God,  while  he  was 
a  firm  advocate  for  moral  virtue  and  real  holiness  of  heart 
and  life.  Very  useful  was  he  to  his  people  during  his  min- 
istry, and  never  was  a  pastor  more  sincerely  beloved  by  his 
flock,  which,  in  his  visitations  as  well  as  in  the  ministrations 
of  the  sanctuary,  beheld  his  face,  as  it  had  been  the  face 
of  an  Angel,  for  he  was  conversant  among  them  with  gravity, 
prudence,  wisdom  and  benevolence."1 

I  Mr.  Hubbard  descended  from  an  honorable  line  of  ancestry.  As 
early  as  1630,  ten  years  after  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  set  their  feet  on  Plymouth 
Rock,  Mr.  Wm.  Hubbard  left  his  island  home,  and  crossed  a  trackless 
ocean  to  seek  a  home  amid  the  wilds  of  America.  After  a  few  years  he 
established  himself  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  which  town  he  represented  in  the 
General  Court  six  years,  between  1638  and  1646.  He  afterward  removed 
to  Boston,  and  died  about  1670,  leaving  three  sons,  William,  Richard  and 
Nathaniel.  William,  the  eldest,  was  born  in  England,  in  1621 ;  came  to 
this  country  with  his  father  when  about  nine  years  of  age  ;  was  educated 
at  Harvard  College,  and  received  his  Bachelor  degree  at  the  age  of  21 
years,  with  the  first  class  that  graduated  at  Harvard  College.  From  the 
time  that  he  left  college  till  he  had  passed  the  age  of  thirty-five  no  record 
of  his  life  remains ;  but  it  is  ascertained  that,  during  this  period  he  studied 
theology,  and  was,  for  some  time,  an  assistant  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Cobbet  of 
Ipswich.  About  the  year  1656  he  was  ordained  as  colleague  with  Mr. 
Cobbet,  who,  though  in  the  prime  of  life,  required  an  assistant,  on  account 
of  the  great  extent  of  his  ministerial  labours.  Mr.  Hubbard  employed 
much  of  his  time  in  historical  investigations.  His  first  work  was  a  narra- 
tive of  the  troubles  with  the  Indians  in  1676 — 7,  with  a  supplement 
concerning  the  war  with  the  Pequots  in  1637,  to  which  is  annexed  a  table 


228  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Rev.  John  Willard,  from  Stafford,  Ct,  was  settled  as 
colleague  pastor  in  June,  1786,  a  few  months  before  the 

and  postscript  of  twelve  pages.  Also  a  narrative  of  the  troubles  with  the 
Indians  in  New  England,  from  Piscataqua  to  Paumaquid.  The  whole  was 
published  at  Boston  in  1677.  The  same  work  was  printed  in  London,  in 
1677,  under  the  title  of  "The  Present  State  of  New  England."  An  edition 
of  fifty  copies  in  two  vols.  royal  8vo  was  printed  at  Albany  in  1865.  A 
copy  of  the  original  edition  was  sold  at  auction  in  New  York  in  1864,  from 
the  library  of  Mr.  Andrew  Wight,  for  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  dollars. 
Mr.  Hubbard's  "History  of  New  England"  was  completed  in  1680,  but 
was  not  published  until  1815.  In  1682  the  author  received  .£50  from  the 
General  Court  "as  a  manifestation  of  thankfulness"  for  this  history,  "he 
transcribing  it  fairly,  that  it  may  be  more  easily  perused."  Mr.  Hubbard 
died  September  14,  1704,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years.  He  married 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  and  granddaughter  of  the 
Rev.  John  Rogers,  who  was  burnt  at  the  stake  in  Smithfield,  England, 
Feb.  4,  1555.  At  the  age  of  seventy-three,  Mr.  Hubbard  married  for  a 
second  wife,  Mary,  the  widow  of  Samuel  Pearce.  His  children  were  John, 
Nathaniel,  and  Margaret.  John  the  eldest,  and  his  wife  Ann,  were  living 
in  Boston  in  1680.  Margaret  married  John  Pynchon,  Esq.,  of  Springfield. 
Rev.  John  Huhbard,  grandson  of  Rev.  William  Hubbard  of  Ipswich,  was 
born  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1677  ;was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1695, 
and  settled  as  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Jamaica,  Long  Island, 
in  1698;  where  after  a  ministry  of  seven  years,  he  died  October  5,  1705,  aged 
twenty-eight  years  and  nine  months.  A  particular  account  of  his  death 
may  be  found  in  the  Boston  News  Letter  of  October  22,  1705,  No.  79.  Dr. 
John  Hubbard,  son  of  Rev.  John  of  Jamaica,  was  born  at  Jamaica,  Long 
Island,  Nov.  30,  1703.  At  the  age  of  two  years  he  lost  his  father,  after 
which,  he,  with  his  mother,  removed  to  Boston,  where  he  received  the  rudi- 
ments of  a  good  education  at  a  grammar  school.  We  next  find  the  family 
in  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  his  mother  was  married  to  Rev.  Samuel  Wood- 
bridge  of  East  Hartford.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  Dr.  Hubbard  was  ap- 
prenticed to  a  physician.  In  1724  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Stevens, 
and  two  years  after  removed  to  New  Haven.  In  1730,  the  Rector  and  Trus- 
tees of  Yale  College  conferred  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  upon 
Dr.  John  Hubbard  "  for  his  eminent  attainments  in  Latin  and  Greek,  as  well 
as  in  Philosophy,  Medicine,  Poetry  and  Belles-lettres — attainments  chiefly 
due  to  his  own  native  enthusiasm  and  unaided  efforts."  Dr.  Hubbard  had 
eight  children ;  John,  born  Jan.  24,  1727;  Daniel,  born  Dec.  24,  1729; 
Elizabeth,  born  July  3,  1731;  William,  born  March  20,  1733;  William 
Abdial,  born  Dec.  15,  1736;  Stephen  Whitehead,  born  Jan.  16,  1747; 
Leverett  and  Amelia.  The  eldest  son  was  the  Rev.  John  Hubbard  of 


CONG.    MINISTERS    OF    MERIDEN.  22Q 

death  of  Mr.  Hubbard.1  His  salary  was  ;£ioo,  about 
equal  to  $330,  and  thirty  cords  of  wood  annually  ;  and 
by  agreement  the  wood  was  to  be  taken  at  8s.  per  cord. 
He  also  received  a  settlement,  as  it  was  then  termed,  of 
,£200.  Since  that  time,  the  custom  of  making  dona- 
tions at  the  settlement  of  a  pastor — once  almost  univer- 
sal in  our  Churches — has  been  entirely  abandoned  here, 
and  throughout  the  State. 

At  the  time  of  Mr.  Willard's  ordination,  serious  diffi- 
culties arose  in  the  Congregation,  similar  in  their  origin 
to  those  which  appeared  at  the  settlement  of  Mr.  Hub- 
bard.  The  Theological  doctrines,  styled  Arminianism 
and  Calvinism,  were  then  warmly  debated  throughout 
the  State,  and  had  their  respective  advocates  among  the 
ministers  and  churches.  It  seems  that  Mr.  Willard's 
doctrinal  sentiments  on  some  of  these  controverted 
points,  were  distasteful  to  a  portion  of  the  people,  and 
they  consequently  opposed  his  settlement.  Although 
there  was  no  organized  secession  from  the  church  on 
account  of  these  differences,  yet  the  dissatisfaction  re- 
mained and  increased.  Very  great  numbers  during  his 
ministry,  either  deserted  public  worship  altogether,  or 

Meriden.  See  Holmes'  Am.  Ann.,  i.  Hutchinson's  Hist.  Mass.  Mass. 
Hist  Coll.,  vn.  Felt's  Hist.  Ipswich.  Eliot's  Biog.  Diet.  Young's  Chron. 
Felt's  Eccl.  Hist.  N.  E.,  i.  Am.  Quar.  Reg.  for  Nov.,  1835.  Thompson's 
Hist,  of  Long  Island,  II.  108.  Sprague's  Annals,  I.  148.  Turtle's  Hist. 
Sketch  of  Hon.  William  Hubbard. 

i  The  following  were  chosen  a  council  for  the  purpose  of  ordaining  Mr. 
Willard  :  Rev.  Ezra  Stiles,  D.  D.,  President  of  Yale  College ;  Rev. 
Joseph  Willard,  President  of  Cambridge  College ;  Rev.  James  Dana, 
D.  D.;  Elizur  Go.odrich,  D.  D. ;  Rev.  Chauncey  Whittelsey ;  Rev.  John 
Willard ;  Rev.  Jesse  Ives ;  Rev.  Enoch  Huntington ;  Rev.  John  March  ; 
Rev.  Nathan  Williams ;  Rev.  Charles  Beers  ;  Rev.  Benjamin  Trumbull ; 
Rev.  Thomas  Minor;  Rev.  John  Lewis;  Rev.  John  Foot;  Rev.  Nathan 
Fenn;  Rev.  Abner  Benedict;  Rev.  Benoni  Upson ;  Rev.  Wm.  Robinson. 


230  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

transferred  themselves  to  other  denominations ;  so  that 
the  congregation  was  very  much  diminished  and 
weakened.  In  consequence  of  which  Mr.  Willard  was 
dismissed  in  the  year  1802.  He  subsequently  removed 
to  Vermont,  where  he  died.  He  is  said  to  have  been  in 
his  personal  appearance,  very  tall  and  slender,  and  to 
have  preached  with  a  good  deal  of  animation.  While 
residing  in  Meriden  he  built  and  occupied  the  house  now 
owned  and  used  by  Mr.  Hiram  Yale  on  North  Broad,  at 
the  head  of  Liberty  street. 

In  February,  1803,  Rev.  Erastus  Ripley1  was  settled. 
His  salary  was  four  hundred  dollars.  In  the  course  of 
his  ministry  his  congregation  rapidly  diminished.  Great 
numbers  joined  themselves  to  other  denominations,  and 
at  one  time  it  seemed  as  if  the  church  would  become 
quite  extinct.  He  was  dismissed  in  February,  1822, 
after  a  ministry  of  nineteen  years.  During  his  ministry 
one  hundred  were  added  to  the  church.  Mr.  Ripley  was 
a  very  large  and  commanding  man  in  his  personal 
appearance,  and  possessed  of  a  strong  mind.  But  his 
manner  of  preaching  was  dry,  metaphysical,  and  desti- 
tute of  all  animation.  While  here  he  built  and  occupied 


I  Mr.  Ripley  was  the  ninth  child  of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  (Lathrop) 
Ripley,  and  was  born  at  Windam,  Ct,  June  17,  1770.  He  belonged  to  a 
family  which  has  furnished  a  good  many  Congregational  ministers.  He 
was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1775,  and  was  a  licentiate  of  the  New 
Haven  East  Association  in  1797.  He  supplied  the  church  at  Brookfield 
(Newbury,)  from  March,  1800,  till  April,  1811.  He  was  ordained  at 
Meriden,  February,  1803;  dismissed  February,  1822;  was  installed  at 
Goshen  parish,  now  Lebanon,  Sept.  24,  1823,  and  dismissed  February  16, 
1832.  He  then  supplied  the  church  at  Montville  about  three  years,  and 
finally  returned  to  Meriden,  where  he  died  November  17,  1843,  ae.  73.  In 
1829  he  published  a  sermon  on  the  Evil  and  Cure  of  Intemperance.  He 
married  Elizabeth,  sister  of  Rev.  Jno.  Sherman,  and  had  no  children.  His 
wife  died  November  3,  1834. 


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MAP    OF    MERIDEN    IN    1830. 

m  ;  7,  Edward  Collins  ;  9,  Gen.  Walter  Booth  ;  12,  Salmon  Merriman  ; 
16,  Store  ;  17,  Lorrin  Merriam  ;  18,  A.  Merriam  ;  19,  Barn  ;  20,  J.  S. 
Merriam  ;  22,  Store ;  24,  L.  Green ;  25,  Store ;  26,  Major  Cowles ;  28, 
Caleb  Austin;  30,  S.  Perkins;  31,  Griswold  ;  34,  Barnes;  35,  Capt. 

J.  Mecorney ;  37,  Orren  Belden  ;  38,  F.  Farrington  ;  39,  Tyler's  Tin 
c  Holt ;  41,  Church  ;  42,  Episcopal  Church  ;  43,  Seth  Plum ;  44,  Amos 

Clark;  46,  Baptist  Church;  47,  W.  Yale;  48,  Tin  Shop;  49,  John 
ite;  51,  Barn;  52,  Blacksmith  Shop ;  53,  D.  Dayton;  54,  Lyman  Col- 
56.  Esq.  Andrews  ;  57,  Ivah  Yale;  58,  Tavern;  59,  Barn;  61,  Lewis; 
ordan's  Factory ;  64,  Distillery ;  65,  J.  Hall  <  66,  Samuel  Yale ;  67,  Ben- 

W.  Martin;  70,  Rev.  Mr.  Ripley;  71,  G.   Plimet;  72,  Watrous ;  74, 


ngraved  it  was  discovered  that  the  artist  had  made  a  few  mistakes.  Above  Edward  Col- 
>ny  road,  and  on  the  same  side,  were  houses  of  Noah  Foster,  Patrick  Clark,  Jesse  Curtis, 
he  other  side,  and  above  Darius  Benham's,  were  the  houses  of  Matthew  Foster,  Samuel 
i  Twiss,  Stephen  Bailey,  and  Sidney  Merriman,  near  whose  house  stood  the  old  stone  fort. 


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CONG.    MINISTERS    OF    MERIDEN.  23! 

the  house  opposite  the  residence  of  Deacon  Walter 
Booth,  on  North  Broad  street. 

Rev.  Charles  J.  Hinsdale,1  commenced  preaching  in 
Meriden  September  22,  1822  ;  and  after  preaching  five 
Sabbaths,  he  was  ordained  and  installed  January  15, 
1823.  During  his  ministry,  the  church  and  congregation 
increased  very  much  in  numbers  and  prosperity,  and 
about  fifty  were  added  to  the  church.  There  were  re- 
peated revivals  of  religion,  and  a  new  house  of  worship 
erected,  at  a  cost  of  $7000.  Its  dimensions  were 
seventy-three  feet  long,  and  fifty  feet  wide.  He  was 
dismissed  in  December,  1833,  after  a  ministry  of  eleven 
years.  His  salary  in  Meriden  was  five  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars. 

Rev.  William  McLain  supplied  the  church  one  year, 
from  1834  to  1835.  He  was  afterwards  for  many  years 
secretary  of  the  American  Colonization  Society. 

In  March,  1836,  Rev.  Arthur  Granger  was  settled.2 
He  was  dismissed  in  July,  1838,  and  became  pastor  of 
the  South  church,  Middletown,  from  April,  1839,  to 
May,  1844,  when  he  was  called  to  the  High  street 
church,  Providence,  R.  I.,  where  he  died  about  1846.  In 
1837,  Rev.  Mr.  Ludlow  attempted  to  deliver  a  lecture 
in  the  Congregational  church  on  the  subject  of  slavery, 
when  he  was  interrupted  by  a  mob,  who  attempted  to 

1  Mr.  Hinsdale  was  born  at  Newark,  N.  J.  ;  was  graduated  at  Yale  Col- 
lege in  1815;  was  installed  at  Blandford,  Mass,  January  20,   1836,  where 
he  now  lives. 

2  At  the  installation  of  Mr.  Granger,  Rev.  Mr.  Noyes  made  the  introduc- 
tory prayer  ;  Rev.  Mr.   Shepherd  made  the  installing  prayer  ;    Rev.  Joel 
Hawes  preached  the  sermon  ;  Rev.   Mr.  Gilbert  gave  the  right  hand  of  fel- 
lowship ;  Rev.  Mr.  Whitmore  gave    the  charge  to  the  pastor;    Rev.  Mr. 
Button  gave  the   charge  to  the  people ;  Rev.  Mr.  Griggs  made  the  con- 
cluding prayer. 


232  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

break  up  the  meeting.  The  doors  were  locked,  but 
were  broken  down,  and  Mr.  Ludlow  was  made  a  target 
for  rotten  eggs  and  other  missiles,  and  was  obliged  to 
flee  for  his  life.  A  long  and  tedious  lawsuit  followed 
this  affair,  in  which  a  number  of  prominent  persons  of 
the  town  were  engaged.  We  have  elsewhere  given  a 
full  history  of  this  affair. 

From  1840  to   1841,  Rev.  Charles  Rich  supplied  the 
pulpit,  but  declined  a  settlement.1 

May   19,  1841,  the  Rev.  George  W.  Perkins  was  in- 
stalled pastor  of  the  church.2     The  next  year  twenty- 

1  Mr.  Rich  was  the  son  of  a  Boston  merchant,  Benjamin  Rich.     He 
went  to  sea  for  a  short  time,  became  a  methodist  preacher ;  afterward 
entered  Yale  College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1838;  studied  Theology 
at  New  Haven,  and  after  leaving  Meriden  was  settled  for  a  short  time  at 
Washington,  D.  C.,  and  also  at  Nantucket,  Mass.     He  afterwards  retired 
from  the  ministry. 

2  George  William  Perkins  was  born  at  Hartford,   Feb.  22,   1804.     His 
father  was  Enoch  Perkins,   a  lawyer  of  that  city.     His  mother  was  Anna 
Pitkin,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Timothy  Pitkin,   of  Farmington,   Conn.     The 
great  grandfather  of  Mr.  Perkins,  on  his  mother's  side,  was  the  Rev.  Tho- 
mas Clap,  for  twenty-seven  years  President  of  Yale  College.     Mr.  Perkins 
took  a  high  rank  as  a  scholar,   and  when  he  graduated,   received  the  ap- 
pointment of  an  oration.     After  taking  his  degree  in  September,    1824,  he 
went  to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  to  take  charge  of  a  school.     Among  his  pupils 
was  Margaret  Fuller,  afterwards  Countess  d'Ossoli,  whose  remarkable  life 
and  sad  death  is  known  to  every  one.     In  the  autumn  of  1825,  Mr.  Perkins 
left  his  school  and  entered  a  law-office  in  New  York,   having  chosen  the 
law  as  his  profession.     In  1826,   he  entered  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Andover,  where  he  was  graduted  in  1829,  was  first  ordained  at  Montreal, 
in  1829,   and  in  May,    1841,   was  settled  over  the  church  at  Meriden.     In 
July,  1853,  he  sailed  for  Europe,  and  returned  in  November.     In  1854  he 
was  dismissed  from  the  church  at  Meriden,    and  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  he   died   November  13,  1856.     His  remains  repose  in  the  cemetery 
at  West  Meriden.     Mr.  Perkins  through  life  was  a  hard  working  man  ;  he 
published  a  good  deal  in  the  form  of  pamphlets,  reports,  articles  in  peri- 
odicals, sermons,  &c.     While  in  Chicago,  besides  his  ordinary  duties  as  a 
clergyman  over  a  large  parish,  he  edited  a  newspaper,  and  established  a 


CONG.    MINISTERS    OF    MERIDEN.  233 

seven  persons  were  converted.  In  1844  twenty  were 
converted.  In  1847  and  1848,  a  still  more  powerful 
work  of  grace  was  enjoyed,  and  about  one  hundred 
professed  faith  in  Christ.  In  1848  a  division  took 
place  in  the  church,  and  a  portion  of  the  members, 
with  their  pastor,  removed  to  West  Meriden,  the 
others  remaining  to  worship  where  their  fathers  had 
worshiped  before  them.  Those  who  removed  to  the 
"Corner,"  claimed  to  be  the  First  Congregational 
church  of  Meriden,  and  also  claimed  and  retained 
the  church  records.  Those  who  remained,  therefore, 
assumed  the  name  of  the  Center  Congregational 
church  of  Meriden.  The  First  society  erected  a  church 
building,  at  West  Meriden,  ninety  feet  in  length  and 
fifty-six  in  width,  at  a  cost  of  $8000.  In  addition 
to  the  cost  of  the  house,  the  land  was  purchased  for 
$800.  The  parsonage  cost  about  $3000. 

Mr.  Perkins  resigned  in  July,  1854,  and  the  Rev. 
George  Thatcher  was  installed,  but  not  settled,  Novem- 
ber, 1854.  He  remained  until  1860.  During  his  min- 
istry eighty  persons  were  received  to  the  communion. 

January     16,    1862,    Rev.     Hiram    C.    Hayden    was 
ordained   and    installed    pastor   of    the   church.1       He 


theological  seminary.  In  1841  while  in  Meriden  he  was  offered  the  Presi- 
dency of  Wabash  College  in  Indiana.  "  His  discourses  were  characterized 
by  lucid  statement,  forcible  argument,  illustrations  that  were  generally 
striking  and  always  apt,  appeals  that  were  powerful  and  sometimes  (when 
the  occasion  required)  eloquent.  In  1859,  a  volume  of  his  sermons  was 
published  in  New  York. 

I  At  Mr.  Hayden's  ordination  the  sermon  was  delivered  by  Rev.  J.  P. 
Gulliver,  Norwich;  ordaining  prayer  by  Rev.  Hiram  P.  Arms,  Norwich, 
Conn ;  charge  by  Rev.  Mr.  Folsom,  Fair  Haven  ;  Right  Hand  of  fellow- 
ship, by  Rev.  O.  H.  White,  Meriden ;  address  to  the  people,  by  Rev. 
J.  G.  Miller,  Branford. 


234  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

resigned  in  December,  1865,  and  was  succeeded  by  the 
Rev.  Wm.  H.  H.  Murray,  from  Greenwich,  Conn.,  who 
preached  his  first  sermon,  November  1 1 ,  1 866,  and 
resigned  in  November,  1868,  to  accept  the  charge  of  the 
Park  street  church  in  Boston.  During  the  year  ending 
November  i,  1868,  there  was  received  into  membership, 
one  hundred  and  twenty-two.  Of  this  number  eighty- 
one  were  admitted  on  the  profession  of  their  faith,  and 
forty-six  by  letter. 

The  society  of  the  Center  Congregational  church  was 
formed  on  the  2Qth  of  September,  1846,  by  the  follow- 
ing persons,  who  occupied  the  old  church  :  John  Butler,* 
Silas  Royce,  Lyman  Collins,*  Walter  Booth,*  Levi  Yale, 
Nathaniel  C.  Sanford,  Gardner  Barlow,*  Ralph  H.  Beck- 
ley,  L.  C.  Hotchkiss,  Russell  Coe,  Lyman  Butler,*  Isaac 
Butler,  James  Hall,  Stephen  Seymour,*  Benajah 
Andrews,  Samuel  Clark,  Hezekiah  Root,*  Ira  Preston, 
Eli  Way,  Isaac  I.  Hubbard,  Herman  Hough,  Henry  S. 
Barnes,  Joseph  B.  Jewett,  Philip  Eddy,*  Sylvester  S. 
Post,  John  W.  Miles,  Daniel  W.  Clark,  George  A. 
Sawyer,  Ira  Curtis,*  Uri  Foster,  Charles  Page,  John 
Hubbard,*  Ezekiel  Hall,  Julius  Yale,*  Henry  Royce, 
Ezra  S.  Clark,  Lewis  G.  Burgess,  Luther  H.  Root,  Elias 
Sanford,  E.  P.  Parmelee,  John  W.  Hall,*  Henry  P.  Judd, 
Alvin  E.  Bervins,*  Edmund  Tuttle,  Isaac  I.  Hough,* 
H.  J.  Tennant,*  Lyman  C.  Seymour,  A.  C.  Breckenridge, 
A.  L.  Beckley,  P.  Sage,  N.  B.  Wood,  Reuben  H.  Way  * 
Henry  E.  Sanford,*  J.  L.  Clark,  Eli  Butler,  Luther 
Root,  H.  B.  Sperry,  William  H.  Yale,  Don  Alonzo 
Leeds,  Benjamin  H.  Royce.1 

I  Those  marked  with  a  *  are  deceased. 


CONG.    MINISTERS    OF    MERIDEN.  235 

March  15,  1848,  Rev.  Asahel  A.  Stevens1  was  ordained 
and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  church,  and  remained  until 
December  n,  1854.  On  account  of  the  failure  of  his 
voice,  Mr.  Stevens  was  allowed  a  vacation  in  the  spring 
of  1854,  and  Rev.  A.  S.  Cheesbrough2  was  hired  to 
preach  in  the  spring  of  1854,  and  supplied  the  pulpit 
until  November,  1855.  The  Rev.  Lewis  C.  Lockwood 
was  installed  June  3,  1857,  and  dismissed  February  22, 
1858.  The  Rev.  O.  H.  White  supplied  the  pulpit  from 
June  29,  1858,  until  June,  1862.  Rev.  Joseph  Woolley 
was  installed  October  22,  1862. 

Mr.  Stevens  in  the  first  year  of  his  ministry,  received 
five  hundred  dollars  salary.  Three  years  later  it  was 
increased  one  hundred  dollars.  Mr.  Lockwood's  salary 
was  eight  hundred  dollars  a  year.  Mr.  White's  salary 
was  first  eight  hundred  dollars,  but  it  was  subsequently 
raised  to  one  thousand.  Mr.  Woolley's  salary  was  first 
one  thousand  dollars,  then  increased  to  twelve  hundred, 
with  an  annual  donation  and  house  rent  free.  The  fol- 
lowing persons  sustained  the  office  of  deacon  in  tha 
First  Church,  previous  to  its  division  : 

SAMUEL  ROYCE,  elected  Dec.  14, 1729,  died  May  14, 1757,32.  84. 
ROBERT  ROYCE,      "      060.29,1729,    "  1759,33.94. 

BENJ.  WHITING,      "      Nov.        1748. 

1  Mr.  Stevens  was  born  at  Cheshire,  Conn,  December  25,  1815,  and 
was  graduated   from  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  in  the  summer  of 
1847.     He  is  now  settled  in  Lacon,  111. 

2  Mr.  Cheesbrough  was  born  at  Stonington,  Conn.  ;  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1835.  and  at  the  Yale  Theological   Seminary,  and  was 
licensed  to  preach  in  1839.     In  December,   1841  he  was  settled  as  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  church  at  Chester,  Conn.,  where  he  remained  until 
1853.     After  leaving  Meriden  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and 
in  traveling  abroad,  until  July,  1858,  when  he  was  settled  over  the  Congre- 
gational church  in  Glastenbury,  Conn. 


236  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

BENJ.  ROYCE,   elected  Nov.,  1748,  died  Jan.,      1758,26.53. 
EZEKIEL  ROYCE,      "      Nov.,  1748,       "  Sept.,      1765,26.67. 
EBENEZER  COWLES,  "      060.26,1765,     "July,       1800. 
BENJ.  ROYCE,  Jan.   i,   1757,    "  Jan.  20, 1758. 

JOHN  HOUGH,  "  Feb.  24,1788. 

JAMES  HOUGH,  "  Sept.  14,1794. 

ISAAC  HUBBARD,  "  July    5,  1796. 

NATHANIEL  YALE,  removed,  June,       1806. 

ZENAS  MITCHELL,  "  1814. 

SILAS  ROYCE,  "        Oct.   16, 1853. 

WALTER  BOOTH,  elected  Sept.  i,  1814,  Died  1870. 
PHINEAS  HOUGH. 
NATHANIEL  C.  SANFORD. 
BENJ.  H.  CATLIN,  elected  March,  1848. 
HOMER  CURTISS,          "  "         " 

DAVID  N.  CAMP,          "  "          " 

JOHN  YALE,  "  "          "  Died  1870. 

Since  the  division  of  the  church,  the  following  per- 
sons have  sustained  the  office  of  deacon  in  the  Center 
Congregational  church : 

WALTER  BOOTH,  died,  April  30,  1870. 
SILAS  ROYCE,         "      Oct.     15,  1853. 
PHINEAS  HOUGH,  removed. 
NATHANIEL  C.  SANFORD,  removed. 
NORMAN  B.  WOOD. 
EDMUND  TUTTLE,  removed. 
BENJAMIN  H.  ROYCE. 

The  Hanover  Congregational  church  was  organized 
February,  1853,  and  consisted  originally  of  twenty-five 
members  who  were  dismissed  from  the  church  at  Meri- 
den.  Rev.  James  A.  Clark  preached  for  the  society  from 
December,  1853,  until  1855.  Rev.  Jacob  Eaton  was  set- 
tled May  28,  1857,  and  dismissed  in  1861.  A  revival 
occurred  in  1853,  and  eight  were  added  to  the  church  on 


CONG.    MINISTERS    OF    MERIDEN.  237 

profession.  In  1857,  another  revival  of  great  power 
occurred,  which  resulted  in  the  conversion  of  twenty-five 
young  persons,  sixteen  uniting  with  the  church  at  one 
time  on  profession. 

The  following  ministers  were  raised  up  from  the  Con- 
gregational church  in  Meriden :  Matthew  Merriman, 
Avery  Hall,  Isaac  Foster,  Thomas  Holt,  Samuel  J.  Cur- 
tis Erastus,  Curtis,  Charles  E.  Murdock,  Daniel  C.  Curtis, 
Ralph  Tyler,  Lyman  C.  Hough.1 

I  Rev.  Jesse  Ives,  was  a  native  of  Meriden,  and  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College,  in  1758.  He  was  a  Congregational  minister  in  Monson, 
Mass.  He  was  settled  June  23,  1773,  and  remained  in  office  thirty-two 
years  and  a  half,  until  December  31,  1805,  when  he  died  aged,  seventy-one 
years. 


238  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

EPISCOPAL  CHURCH  IN  WALLINGFORD  AND  MERIDEN. 

WHEN  the  commissioners  of  Charles  the  Second  visited 
Connecticut  in  1665,  they  carried  back  a  report  that  the 
colony  "will  not  hinder  any  from  enjoying  the  Sacra- 
ments and  using  the  Common  Prayer  Book,  provided  they 
hinder  not  the  maintenance  of  the  public  minister." 
But  it  was  not  until  1708  that  there  was  any  legal  pro- 
vision for  such  liberty.  In  that  year  the  General 
Assembly  of  Connecticut  passed  what  was  called  the 
"  Act  of  Toleration,"  by  which  all  persons  who  soberly 
dissented  from  the  worship  and  ministry  by  law  estab- 
lished, that  is,  the  Congregational  order,  were  permitted 
to  enjoy  the  same  liberty  of  conscience  with  the  Dissen- 
ters in  England  under  the  act  of  William  and  Mary. 
But  notwithstanding  they  were  allowed  to  have  public 
worship  in  their  own  way,  they  were  still  obliged  to  pay 
for  the  support  of  the  Congregational  churches  in  the 
place  of  their  respective  residences. 

A  petition  was  sent  to  the  "  honorable  the  Governor, 
Assistants  and  Representatives  in  General  Court  Assem- 
bled, this  1 5th  of  May,  1727,"  and  signed  by  the  church 
wardens  and  vestry  of  the  Church  of  England  in 
Fairfield,  praying  to  be  excused  from  paying  taxes  to 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  239 

any  dissenting  minister,  or  to  the  building  of  any  dis- 
senting meeting-house. 

"And  whereas  we  were,  ten  of  us,  lately  imprisoned  for 
our  taxes,  and  had  considerable  sums  of  money  taken  from 
us  by  distraint,  contrary  to  his  Honour  the  Governor's 
advice,  and  notwithstanding  solemn  promises  before  given 
to  sit  down  and  be  concluded  thereby  in  this  affair,  we 
pray  that  those  sums  of  money  taken  from  us  may  be 
restored  to  us  again."1 

Upon  this  petition,  the  General  Assembly  enacted 
that  all  persons  who  were  of  the  Church  of  England, 
and  those  who  were  established  by  the  law  of  the  col- 
ony, living  in  the  bounds  of  any  allowed  parish,  should 
be  taxed  by  the  same  rule  and  in  the  same  proportion  for 
the  support  of  the  ministry  ;  but  where  it  happened  that 
there  was  a  society  of  the  Church  of  England,  having  a 
clergyman  so  near  any  person  who  had  decided  himself 
to  be  of  that  Church  that  he  could  and  did  attend  pub- 
lic worship  there,  then  the  collector  was  to  deliver  the 
tax  collected  of  such  persons  to  the  minister  of  the 
Church  of  England  to  whom  he  lived  near,  who  was  also 
authorized  to  receive  and  recover  the  same  ;  and  if  such 
proportion  of  taxes  was  not  sufficient  in  any  society  of 
the  Church  of  England  to  support  the  incumbent,  such 
society  was  authorized  to  levy  and  collect  of  those  who 
professed  and  attended  that  Church,  greater  taxes  at 
their  discretion.  The  parishioners  of  the  Church  of 
England  were  also  excused  from  paying  any  taxes  for 
building  meeting-houses  for  the  established  Church  of 
the  colony.2  In  1722,  the  Rev.  Samuel  Whittelsey,  with 

1  State  Archives;  Ecclesiastical  Documents,  vol.  in.  p.  188. 

2  See  the  Statute  on  page  340  of  the  Law  Book  of  the  Colony,  edition 
of  1715. 


24O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

a  number  of  the  clergy,  met  from  time  to  time  in  the 
library  of  Yale  College,  and  examined  a  few  theological 
books  sent  over  in  kindness  from  the  mother  country. 
They  examined  the  doctrines  and  practices  of  the  Prim- 
itive Church,  and  compared  them  with  the  model  of 
their  own  discipline  and  worship  ;  and  the  farther  they 
pushed  their  inquiries,  the  more  uneasy  they  became. 
As  light  would  break  in  upon  the  darkened  chambers  of 
their  toil,  they  were  compelled  at  last  to  welcome  it ;  and 
they  finally  sent  into  the  Trustees  a  formal  statement  of 
their  views,  and  declared  for  Episcopacy,  or  doubted  the 
validity  of  Presbyterian  ordination/  Overwhelming 
was  the  sorrow  and  wide  the  consternation  as  the 
tidings  of  it  passed  from  town  to  town  and  village  to  vil- 
lage. "  I  suppose,"  says  President  Woolsey,2  "  that 

1  ["To  the  Rev.  Mr.  Andrew  and  Woodbridge  and  others,  our  Rever- 
end Fathers  and  Brethren  present  in  the  library  of  Yale  College,  this 
I3th  day  of  September,  1722.] 

"  Reverend  Gentlemen :  Having  represented  to  you  the  difficulties 
which  we  labor  under  in  relation  to  our  continuance  out  of  the  visible  com- 
munion of  an  Episcopal  Church,  and  a  state  of  seeming  opposition  there- 
to, either  as  private  Christians,  or  as  officers,  and  so  being  insisted  on  by 
some  of  you  (after  our  repeated  declinings  of  it)  that  we  should  sum  up 
our  case  in  writing,  we  do  (though  with  great  reluctance,  fearing  the  con- 
sequence of  it)  submit  to  and  comply  with  it,  and  signify  to  you  that  some 
of  us  doubt  the  validity,  and  the  rest  are  more  fully  persuaded  of  the  in- 
validity of  the  Presbyterian  ordination,  in  opposition  to  the  Episcopal ;  and 
should  be  heartily  thankful  to  God  and  man,  if  we  may  receive  from  them 
satisfaction  herein,  and  shall  be  willing  to  embrace  your  good  counsels  and 
instructions  in  relation  to  this  important  affair,  as  far  as  God  shall  direct 
and  dispose  us  to  it. 

"TIMOTHY  CUTLER,  JOHN  HART,  SAMUEL  WHITTELSEY, 

JARED  ELIOT,  JAMES  WETMORE,          SAMUEL  JOHNSON, 

DANIEL  BROWN." 

"  A  true  copy  of  the  original.  ) 
"Testify  DANIEL  BROWN."  j 

2  Hist.  Disc,  delivered  at  the  isoth  anniversary  of  Yale  College. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  24! 

greater  alarm  would  scarcely  be  awakened  now,  if  the 
Theological  Faculty  of  the  College  were  to  declare  for 
the  Church  of  Rome,  avow  their  belief  in  Transubstan- 
tiation,  and  pray  to  the  Virgin  Mary." 

The  General  Assembly  was  to  have  a  session  in  the 
ensuing  October,  and  Saltonstall,  the  Governor  of  the 
colony,  of  whom  Dr.  Trumbull  speaks  as  "  a  great  man, 
well  versed  in  the  Episcopal  controversy,"  was  invited 
to  preside  over  a  debate  held  the  day  after  the  session 
commenced.  The  debate  was  a  stormy  one,  and  both 
sides  claimed  the  victory.  The  defence  of  the  Episco- 
pacy by  one  of  the  number,  exciting  some  irritating 
remarks  from  the  other  side,  the  Governor  abruptly  put 
an  end  to  the  debate.  The  abrupt  termination  of  the 
debate  was  soon  to  save  to  Congregationalism  three  of 
the  signers  of  the  declaration,  Eliot,  Hart  and  Whittel- 
sey,  who  only  doubted  the  validity  of  Presbyterian 
ordination  ;  and  they  continued  in  their  respective  places, 
and  for  the  rest  of  their  days  "  were  never  known  to  act 
or  say  or  insinuate  anything  to  the  disadvantage  of  the 
Church."1  As  we  have  said,  this  defection  of  Mr. 
Whittelsey  created  the  greatest  excitement  in  Walling- 
ford.  The  Rev.  John  Davenport,  in  a  letter  to  Rev. 
Doctors  Increase  and  Cotton  Mather,  dated  at  Stamford, 
Sept.  25,  1722,  says:  "two  societies,  branches  of  the 
famous  New  Haven,  one  on  the  north  and  the  other  on 
the  south,  are  mourning  because  of  their  first  ministers, 
in  so  little  a  time  after  their  ordination,  declaring  them- 
selves Episcopal,  and  their  ordination,  lately  received,  of 
no  value,  because  a  non  habentibus  potestatem.2 

1  Beardsley's  Hist,  of  Epis.  Church  in  Conn.,  I.  42. 

2  Hawk's  Doc.  Hist  of  Epis.  Church  in  Conn.,  p.  68. 

R 


242  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  precise  time  that  the  Episcopal  church  in  Wall- 
ingford  was  gathered,  is  unknown.1  In  1729,  the  church 
wardens  and  thirteen  members  of  the  church  in  Wallmg- 
ford,  sent  the  following  letter  to  the  Bishop  of  London : 

'May  it  please  your  Lordship  : 

"We,  the  Churchwardens  and  parishioners  of  Wallingford 
and  the  adjacent  parts  in  the  Colony  of  Connecticut,  in  New 
England,  beg  leave  to  offer  our  humble  duty  to  your 
Lordship.  We  are  a  Church  but  newly  planted,  and 
however  content  we  are  at  present  to  have  the  service  of 
the  Church  only  once  a  quarter  by  a  minister,  on  ever}' 
Lord's  day  besides  we  perform  the  service  as  far  as  is 
proper  for  laymen ;  but  in  that  part  we  are  something 
deficient  for  want  of  sermon  books,  &c.,  which  we  cannot 
easily  procure  in  this  country.  We  are  sensible  the  Rev. 
Theodore  Morris  cannot  leave  his  other  parishes  oftener, 
yet  we  hope  God,  in  his  providence,  will  so  order  it,  that 
we  may  at  last  be  oftener  attended  ;  there  are  many  ready 
to  join  in  our  communion,  and  have  nothing  to  object  to 
it,  but  our  having  service  so  seldom  by  a  minister.  We 
greatly  rejoice  that  we  are  assisted  in  learning  to  know 
which  is  the  true  Church  of  Christ,  and  the  manner  how 
we  ought  to  worship.  But  with  melancholy  hearts  we  crave 
your  Lordship's  patience,  while  we  recite  that  divers  of  us 
have  been  imprisoned,  and  our  goods  from  year  to  year 
distrained  from  us  for  taxes,  levied  for  the  building  and 
supporting  meeting-houses ;  and  divers  actions  are  now 
depending  in  our  courts  of  law  in  the  like  cases.  And 
when  we  have  petitioned  our  governor  for  redress,  notifying 
to  him  the  repugnance  of  such  actions  to  the  laws  of 
England,  he  hath  proved  a  strong  opponent  to  us ;  but 

i  In  1734,  there  were  five  Episcopal  parishes  in  Connecticut,  with 
Church  edifices  and  settled  ministers ;  viz.,  Johnson  at  Stratford;  Coner 
at  Fairfield ;  the  elder  Seabury  at  New  Ixjndon ;  Beach  at  Newton  and 
Redding. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  243 

when  the  other  party  hath  applied  to  him  for  advice  how 
to  proceed  against  us,  he  hath  lately  given  his  sentence 
'  to  enlarge  the  gaol  and  fill  it  with  them '  (that  is  the 
Church.)  But  we  supplicate  both  God  and  man  that  our 
persecutors  may  not  always  prevail  against  us.  And  now 
that  God  may  bless  your  Lordship,  and  the  charitable 
endeavors  of  the  honorable  Society,  and  enable  them  to 
send  more  labourers  to  a  harvest  truly  plentiful,  is  the 
sincere  prayer  of 

"Your  Lordship's  Most  dutiful  and  obedient  servants, 

"THOMAS  IVES,       )       _. 

r      Churchwardens. 
NORTH  INGHAM,      ) 

EBENEZER  WAINWRIGHT,  SHADRACK  SEAGOR, 

JOHN  BELLAMY,  THOMAS  DEWLITTLE, 

WAITSTILL  ABINATHER,  AARON  TUTTLE, 

PHINEAS  IVES,  MATTHEW  BELLAMY, 

EBENEZER  BLAKESLEY,  ENOS  SMITH, 

JOHN  MEKY,  THOMAS  WILLIAMS, 
GEORGE  FISHER." 

Nothing  further  is  known  of  this  society  until  June 
20,  1741,  when  the  Rev.  Theophilus  Morris,  writing 
from  Derby  to  the  Secretary  of  the  society  for  the  pro- 
motion of  Christian  knowledge,  says  : 

"I  have  taken  another  Church  into  my  care  at  Wallingford, 
which  consists  of  twelve  families,  I  engaged  to  attend  them 
once  a  quarter,  which  they  seem  to  be  satisfied  with,  for  they 
know  it  is  as  much  as  I  can  do  for  them.  I  procured  Mr. 
Thomson,  whom  I  mentioned  before,  to  officiate  every  Sunday 
in  some  one  parish  in  my  absence,  and  as  his  prudence  and 
discretion  have  rendered  him  entirely  agreeable  to  the  people, 
he  proves  very  serviceable  to  me." 

Three  months  before  this,  the  members  of  the  Church 
of  England  at  Wallingford  and  North  Haven  united  and 


244  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

formed  a  parish  by  the  name  of  "  Union  Church,"  and 
erected  a  Church  building  near 
Pond  Hill.  They  sent  an  appeal 
to  the  Bishops  of  London  for 
assistance,  in  which  they  stated  : 

"  With  melancholy  hearts  we 
UNION  CHURCH,  POND  HILL.  crave  your  Lordship's  patience, 
while  we  recite  that  divers  of  us  have  been  imprisoned 
and  our  goods  from  year  to  year  distrained  from  us  for 
taxes,  levied  for  building  and  supporting  "  Meeting  houses," 
and  divers  actions  are  now  pending  in  our  courts  of  law,  in 
like  cases,  and  when  we  have  appealed  to  our  Governor,  for 
redress,  he  has  proved  a  strong  opponent  to  us,  and  has 
lately  ordered  our  opponents  to  enlarge  the  Gaol,  and  to  fill  it 
up  with  the  Episcopalians." 

In  1743,  the  Churchwardens  of  Wallingford  sent  the 
following  letter  to  the  Secretary  : 

"Wallingford,  in  New  England,  December  ist,  1743. 
"  REVEREND  SIR  :  We,  the  inhabitants  of  Wallingford,  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  of  England,  make  bold  on  behalf  of  our- 
selves and  at  the  request  of  our  bretheren  inhabiting  in  the 
neighbouring  towns  of  Guilford  and  Branforcl,  to  inform  you 
that  we  are  twenty-five  masters  of  families  that  are  members 
of  said  Church,  and  meet  together  every  Lord's  day  and  edify 
ourselves,  as  well  as  we  can,  by  reading ;  and  while  the  Rev- 
erend Mr.  Morris  was  in  these  parts,  we  were  edified  to  our 
great  comfort ;  our  number  then  increased,  and  many  more 
were  coming  in  to  join  us,  but  he  being  removed  from  us,  and 
Mr.  J.  Lyon  cannot  attend  us,  we  are  now  destitute,  and  our 
dissenting  bretheren  from  year  to  year  are  distressing  us  with 
executions  for  meeting-houses,  rates,  steeples  and  bells  for 
them ;  so  that  our  present  melancholy  circumstances  crave 
your  good  offices  with  the  honorable  Society.  We  are  willing 
to  do  the  best  we  can  toward  the  support  of  a  minister,  and 
make  no  doubt  but  in  two  or  three  years'  time  we  shall  be 


EPISCOPAL    CHCRCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  245 

able  to  raise  £20  sterling  per  annum  toward  the  support  of  a 
minister.  We  humbly  pray  we  may  be  assisted  with  a  minis- 
ter, and,  might  we  choose  for  ourselves,  we  having  experienced 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Morris,  would  heartily  wish  he  might  be  the 
person ;  and  could  a  method  be  found  for  quelling  the  per- 
petual demands  of  our  dissenting  bretheren  for  meeting- 
houses, rates,  &c.,  it  would  greatly  add  to  the  growth  and 
consolation  of  our  distressed  Churches,  and  we,  as  in  duty 
bound,  shall  ever  pray. 

"  HENRY  BATES,  )  Churchwardens, 
JOHN  WARD,       )    and  several  others." 

Dr.  Samuel  Johnson,  under  date  of  March  28,  1749, 
referring  to  the  growth  of  Episcopacy,  mentions  that 
in  Middletown  and  Wallingford,  the  Church  had  in- 
creased, and  that  Mr.  Camp1  had  continued  to  read 
to  them  with  good  success,  and  thought  he  would  be 
a  worthy  and  useful  person.  In  1753,  he  was  appointed 
to  Middletown,  Wallingford,  and  the  parish  of  New 
Cheshire.  In  1750,  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Punderson,2 

1  Rev.  Ichabod  Camp,  son  of  John  Camp,  was  born  at  Middletown, 
and  graduated  at  Yale  College  in   1743  ;  read  services  and  sermons  in 
Wallingford  in  1748;  after  his  ordination,  he  divided  his  labors  between 
Middletown  and  Wallingford,  from   1753  to  1760,  when  he  removed  to 
Louisburg,  Virginia.     Some  years  afterwards  he  was  murdered  by  his  son- 
in-law.     He  was  a  man  of  excellent  character  and  principles.     His  wife, 
Mrs.  Content  Camp,  died  while  he  officiated  at  Middletown,  and  on  a  tab- 
let in  the  church  her  name  was  placed. 

2  Rev.  Samuel  Seabury  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Venerable  Society  for 
Propagating  the  Gospel  : 

New  London,  March  3Oth,  1734. 

Reverend  Sir  :  These  wait  upon  the  honorable  Society  by  the  hands 
of  Mr.  Ebenezer  Punderson,  who  comes  to  make  his  application  to  my 
Lord  Bishop  of  London  and  the  Society  for  Propagating  the  Gospel  in 
Foreign  Parts,  for  orders  and  a  mission.  He  hath  been  educated  in  Yale 
college,  Connecticut,  where  I  had  a  particular  acquaintance  with  him,  and 
where  he  always  had  the  character  of  a  sober  person.  About  five  years 
ago  he  was  called  to  preach  in  the  Presbyterian  or  Independent  way,  at 


246  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

who  was  the  successor  of  Samuel  Seabury  in  the 
Congregational  ministry  at  Groton,  but  who  declared 
for  Episcopacy  and  was  ordained  as  a  priest  in  Eng- 
land in  1734,  preached  for  a  time  in  Wallingford  and 
adjoining  towns,  and  whatever  ministerial  taxes  they 
had  been  assessed  to  pay,  he  ordered  to  be  entirely 
applied  toward  building  their  churches  and  main- 
taining readers  among  them,  without  appropriating 
any  part  thereof  to  himself.  In  a  letter  dated  October 
1 8,  1750,  he  says,  "the  next  day  rode  to  Wallingford, 
preached  to  a  pretty  congregation,  baptized  three 
children."1  At  a  town  meeting,  held  at  Wallingford, 


Groton,  near  New  London,  where  he  soon  received  ordination ;  but  falling 
under  doubts  and  scruples  concerning  their  power  of  ordination  and  method 
of  church  government,  and,  at  the  same  time,  acquainting  himself  with  the 
church  of  England,  he  found  himself  obliged,  upon  true  and  regular  convic- 
tion, to  embrace  her  communion,  and  thereupon  he  laid  down  his  ministry 
in  which  he  was  settled  to  good  advantage ;  but  a  considerable  number  of 
the  people  at  that  place  being  also  convinced  of  the  reasonableness  and 
necessity  of  church  communion,  and  having  strong  affection  for  the  person 
of  Mr.  Punderson,  on  account  of  his  abilities  and  pious,  exemplary  life, 
have  been  very  solicitous  with  him  to  make  his  application  to  the  honorable 
Society  for  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  foreign  parts  for  a  mission  to  that 
place.  In  testimony  of  which  they  have  signed  a  desire  or  petition  to  the 
h  onorable  society,  with  the  premise  of  contributing  a  certain  sum  consid- 
erably to  his  support  and  maintenance,  and  it  is  most  probable  that  many 
more  will  conform  to  the  church  of  England  upon  better  knowledge  of  it 
and  acquaintance  with  it. 

i  "  Mr.  Punderson  was  ordained  at  Groton,  December  29,  1729.  Mr. 
Adams  of  New  London  preached  the  sermon.  On  the  first  day  of  Janua- 
ry 1733 — 4,  Mr.  Punderson  made  a  communication  to  the  society,  avowing 
himself  '  a  conformist  to  the  Episcopal  Church  of  England,'  and  express- 
ing doubts  of  the  validity  of  his  ordination.  This  notice  was  received  in 
the  first  place  with  amazement  and  sorrow,  and  a  committee  was  appointed 
to  reason  with  him  and  endeavor  to  convince  him  that  his  ordination  was 
canonical  and  his  position  safe  and  desirable.  Of  course  this  measure  was 
unavailing.  A  council  was  convened  at  the  house  of  Capt.  Morgan  Feb. 
5th,  and  the  connection  dissolved."  Miss  Caul  kins'1  History  of  New  Lon- 
don, p.  420. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  247 

December  20,    1757,  the  following  memorial  was  pre- 
sented : 

"THE  MEMORIAL  of  us  the  subscribers  on  behalf  of  our- 
selves, and  others  our  Breatheren  who  have  Declared  our 
Conformity  to  the  Doctrine  Discipline  and  Worship  of  the 
Church  of  England,  who  did  for  Some  years  Past  assemble 
Together  for  Divine  Worship  near  Pond  Hill,  and  have  more 
Lately,  for  our  Convenience  Met  at  the  Lower  End  of  the 
first  Society  in  said  Wallingford  and  How  having  Entered 
into  a  Covenant  Engagement  by  Subscription  to  build  a 
Church  in  said  First  Society  do  Now  Signify  our  Desire 
Petition  and  Request  to  the  Inhabitants  of  said  Town 
That  they  would  Grant  us  To  Build  a  Church  on  the  West 
side  of  Mix's  lane  (so  Called)  Viz.  the  West  side  the 
Countray  Road  in  the  East  End  of  Said  Lane,  so  as  not 
to  Obstruct  or  Hinder  the  Passing  of  his  Majesty's  Subjects 
and  we  hope  and  Desire  to  Cultivate  Cherish  and  Maintain 
Christian  Charity  Love  and  Freindship  with  our  Freinds 
and  neighbors,  Members  of  this  Community  of  all  denomin- 
ations of  Christians.  And  shall  Esteem  such  a  favour  a 
mark  of  your  Good  Will  Love  and  affection  and  your 
Memorialist  Shall  Ever  Pray. 
"  Wallingford  Decr  20,  1757. 

"JOSEPH  RICE,  JuNr, 
TITUS  BROCKITT, 
DAVID  COOK, 
ABEL  THOMSON." 


SECOND    EPISCOPAL   CHURCH. 


248  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

This  church  was  built  in  1758,  on  the  north-west 
corner,  above  the  present  church.  In  this  church  was 
placed  an  organ  by  David  Cook,  who  brought  it  from 
England.  The  church  formed  a  union  with  the  Wells 
society,  after  which  they  placed  the  organ  in  the  Wells 
house,  where  it  underwent  some  repairs,  and  was  used 
until  the  erection  of  the  new  church  edifice,  when  the 
old  organ  was  sold  to  the  society  at  North  Haven. 
Here  it  was  used  until  1869,  when  it  was  sold  to  Wm. 
P.  Gardner,  Esq.,  of  New  Haven. 

Dr.  Johnson,  under  date  of  1762,  speaking  of  one  of 
his  missionary  tours,  says  that  Mr.  Andrews  was  ap- 
pointed missionary  to  Wallingford,  Cheshire  and  North 
Haven.1  Mr.  Andrews  remained  in  charge  of  the  socie- 

i  Samuel  Andrews  was  born  at  Meriden,  June  4,  1737,  and  was  the 
youngest  of  eight  sons.  He  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1759,  and 
in  1761,  he  went  to  England  to  receive  Holy  Orders.  In  1767  he  under- 
took a  long  journey  into  "  different  towns  and  governments  to  the  north- 
ward," preaching  and  lecturing,  and  administering  the  sacrament  as  he 
passed  from  village  to  village.  He  penetrated  to  Allington,  in  New 
Hampshire,  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles  from  his  home  ;  and  though  he 
was  the  first  clergyman  who  had  appeared  among  the  settlers,  he  found  that 
a  layman  from  Connecticut  had  been  there  before  him  with  the  services  of 
the  church  of  England.  When  on  the  fourth  of  July,  1776,  the  Thirteen 
Colonies,  through  the  Congress  at  Philadelphia,  declared  themselves  inde- 
pendent of  Great  Britain,  all  connection  with  the  mother  country  was 
solemnly  dissolved,  and  the  American  people  were  released  from  any 
allegiance  to  the  sovereignty  of  the  King.  The  Declaration  involved  the 
Episcopal  clergy  in  new  trouble.  As  faithful  Missionaries  of  the  Venera- 
ble Society,  from  which  came  their  chief  support,  they  honestly  believed 
themselves  bound  by  their  oaths  of  allegiance  taken  at  the  time  of  their 
ordination,  to  pray  for  the  Sovereign  whose  dominion  the  colonies  had 
thrown  off ;  and  guided  by  the  forms  of  the  Liturgy,  they  could  omit  no 
part  in  conducting  public  worship  without  doing  violence  to  their  own 
consciences.  Mr.  Andrews  was  placed  for  a  time  under  heavy  bonds,  and 
was  not  allowed  to  visit  even  a  parishioner  without  special  leave  from  the 
Selectmen  of  the  town.  In  1781,  he  removed  to  New  Brunswick,  and  be- 
came the  first  Rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Andrews.  Here  he  lived  in  affluence,  and  died  at  an  advanced  age. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  249 

ties  of  Wallingford,  North  Haven  and  Cheshire  for 
several  years.  It  is  but  justice  to  his  memory  to  say 
that  he  executed  well  the  office  to  which  he  had  been 
called.  To  a  consistent  and  unaffected  piety,  were  added 
talents  of  a  popular  kind,  and  attainments  more  than 
respectable.  He  published  some  of  his  occasional  dis- 
courses ;  and  among  the  number  was  a  Farewell  Sermon 
to  his  people  in  Connecticut,  and  a  Discourse  on  the 
Death  of  his  friend  and  brother  in  Christ,  the  Rev. 
James  Scovill,  who  was  a  minister  of  the  church  in 
Waterbury,  and  accompanied  Mr.  Andrews  to  the  Brit- 
ish provinces,  and  settled  in  New  Brunswick.  Like 
most  of  the  clergy  of  that  period,  Mr.  Andrews  was  re- 
markable for  his  cheerfulness  and  amiability.  In  his 
intercourse  with  his  people,  he  had  none  of  the  gloom 
of  the  ascetic,  nor  any  of  the  forbidden  levity  of  the 
man  of  the  world.  He  remembered  that  he  was  charged 
with  the  holiness  of  his  flock  ;  and  while  he  "  taught 
them  as  one  having  authority,"  he  did  not  forget  himself 
to  practice  in  private  the  lessons  which  he  gave  in  pub- 
lic. Mr.  Andrews  was  the  last  missionary  to  this 
church  in  the  employ  of  the  "  Society  for  the  Propaga- 
tion of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  parts."  He  received 
annually  from  that  source  thirty  pounds  sterling ;  and 
this,  in  addition  to  what  was  contributed  by  his  parishes, 
enabled  him  to  live  in  a  style  of  more  comfortable  inde- 
pendence than  many  of  our  clergy  at  the  present  day. 

In  1770,  there  were  sixty-three  families  attending  the 
Episcopal  Church.  There  were  eighty-six  communi- 
cants, and  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  baptisms  by  Mr. 
Andrews.  In  Cheshire  in  1770,  there  were  forty-seven 
families,  sixty-four  communicants  and  eighty-six  bap- 
tisms ;  and  in  Meriden,  six  families,  fourteen  communi- 


25O  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

cants  and  twenty  baptisms.  In  Wallingford  in  1770, 
there  had  died  in  twelve  years,  fifty-six  members  of  the 
Episcopal  Church.  When  Mr.  Andrews  first  came  to 
Wallingford  the  people  had  just  recovered  from  the 
"  thunderings  and  lightnings,  and  earthquakes  ecclesias- 
tical," which  had  so  long  divided  that  community.  The 
Episcopal  clergy  had  taken  no  part  in  the  theological 
disputes  which  the  Independents  carried  on  among 
themselves.  They  quietly  watched  the  progress  of 
events,  and  seemed  to  feel,  as  the  Rev.  Mr.  Chandler 
expressed  himself  in  writing  to  Dr.  Johnson  on  a  later 
occasion,  "if  these  dissenters  will  but  confute  one  an- 
other, it  will  save  us  the  trouble."  They  were  accused 
to  the  Society,  and  to  their  friends  in  England,  with 
attempting  to  make  proselytes  ;  and  this  accusation  was 
urged  in  order  to  depreciate  their  services,  and  prevent 
them  from  securing  the  boon  they  had  so  long  im- 
plored— an  American  Episcopate.  But  Johnson  denied 
this,  and  vindicated  his  brethren  when  he  wrote  to 
Archbishop  Seeker  from  New  York  ;  and  after  referring 
to  his  experience  of  thirty-one  years  in  Connecticut,  said, 

"  I  never  once  tried  to  proselyte  dissenters,  nor  do  I  believe 
any  of  the  other  ministers  did ;  we  never  concerned  ourselves 
with  them  till  they  came  to  us  ;  and  when  they  did  we  could 
do  no  other  than  give  them  the  best  instructions  and 
assistance  we  could  in  making  a  right  judgment  for  them- 
selves. And  so  far  were  we  from  promoting  or  taking 
advantage  of  any  quarrels  that  happened  among  themselves, 
that  in  many  instances  we  obliged  them  to  accomodate 
matters  with  their  former  brethren,  or  at  least  do  all  they 
could  towards  an  accomodation,  before  we  would  receive  them 
to  our  communion." 

The   pamphlets   published   by   both    parties    of   the 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  251 

Independents,  stirred  up  such  an  acrimonious  spirit,  and 
threw  so  unsatisfactory  a  light  upon  the  real  questions 
involved,  that  many  among  the  people  escaped  from  the 
controversies  to  find  peace  and  enjoyment  in  the  com- 
munion of  the  Episcopal  church.1  2 

Edward  Winslow,  the  missionary  at  Stratford,  was 
frequently  called  to  officiate  to  the  people  at  Wallingford. 
On  the  29th  of  December,  1 760,  he  addressed  the  follow- 


1  Beardsley's  Hist,  of  the  Epis.  Church  in  Conn.,  i.  195. 

2  Dr.  Johnson  in  writing  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  under  date  of 
July  13,  1760,  says,  "  The  Church  is  generally  in  an  increasing  and  flour- 
ishing condition,  and  much  the  more  so,  on  account  of  the  violent  conten- 
tions of  the  Dissenters   among   themselves,  which  in  effect   drive  people 
into  the  Church.     The  Wallingford  affair  was  again  before  the  Assembly 
last  May,  and  the  lower  house  were  still  more  zealous  in  the  cause  of  the 
minor  party,  which  seems  the   prevailing  disposition    of   the  country,   so 
that  there  probably  will  be  a  great  struggle  to  get  out  the  governor  and 
several  of  the  upper  house  for  not  favouring  them ;  and  I  here  send  your 
Grace  two  pamphlets  relating  to  these  controversies,  that  have  been  pub- 
lished since  my  last.     The  parties  are  both  upon  bad  extremes.     Hart  and 
Yale,  &c.,  are  followers  of  Taylor,  Foster,  &c. ;  and,  I  doubt  Socinianism 
is  at  the  bottom,  and  the  President,  Hobart,  &c.,  are  most  rigid  Calvinists, 
and  intend  at  any  rate  to  oppose  the  others  to  their  utmost.     Meantime 
the  Church  is   every  where  in  peace,  and  the  Clergy  orthodox.     It  is  a 
great  detriment  to  the  Churches  at  Middletown  and  Wallingford  that  Mr. 
Camp  hath  left  them,  induced  partly  by  his  necessities,  and  partly  by  the 
persuasion  of  Governor  Dobbs,  to  move  to  North  Carolina.     How  they 
are  to  be  supplied  I  am  at  a  loss  to  know  ;  they  ought  each  to  have  a  min- 
ister, and  I  wish  the  Society  were  in  a  condition  to  settle  at  least  forty 
pounds  on  the  former  and  thirty  pounds  upon  the  latter,  who  hope  for  one 
Mr.  Andrews,  a  candidate  of  good  character,  and  one  Treadwell,  said  to 
be  a  worthy  youth,  who  has  lately  appeared  for  the  Church,  both  bred  at 
New  Haven  College,  where  I  found  three  hopeful  young  men  preparing 
for  orders.     Mr.  Punderson  seems  a  very  honest  and  laborious  man  ;  yet 
the  Church  at  New  Haven  appears  uneasy,  and  rather  declining  under  his 
ministry,  occasioned,  I  believe,  partly  by  his  want  of  politeness,  and  partly 
by  his  being  absent  so  much,   having  five  or  six  places  under  his  care.     I 
wish  he  were  again  at  Groton  and  some  politer  person  in  his  place,  and 
another  at  Guilford  and  Branford." 


252  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ing  letter  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Society  for  Propagating 
the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts  : 

"Stratford,  December  29th,  1760. 
"  REVEREND  SIR  : 

"  During  the  past  six  months  have  been  baptized  here  and 
at  Wallingford  nineteen  white  infants  and  two  negro  children, 
and  several  persons  added  to  the  communion  of  this  Church. 
The  present  number  of  communicants  is  near  one  hundred 
and  fifty,  and  I  have  still  the  satisfaction  to  be  able  to 
acquaint  you  that  our  people  continue  steadfast  in  their 
attachment  to  the  Church,  and,  in  general,  careful  to  evidence 
the  purity  of  their  profession,  and  their  sincerity  in  it,  by 
endeavoring  to  make  its  substantial  fruits  and  ornaments 
appear  in  their  own  personal  improvement,  in  maintaining  a 
union  among  themselves,  and  in  giving  no  occasion  of  offense 
to  others.  By  this  means,  through  the  divine  blessing,  the 
Church  in  this  town  preserves  its  ground,  notwithstanding  a 
restless  spirit  of  opposition  is  but  too  evident  in  some  of  our 
dissenting  brethren  of  influence  and  authority  among  us. 
This  has  an  unhappy  tendency  to  keep  up  the  prejudices  of 
many  who  are  otherwise  not  ill  affected  to  the  doctrines  and 
worship  of  our  Church,  and  are  much  disposed  to  live  in 
friendship.  Much  artifice  is  used  by  the  leading  persons 
among  the  Dissenters  in  this  colony  to  prevent  their  people 
from  attending  our  service,  and  to  possess  them  with  the 
absurd  notion  of  their  worship  and  discipline  being  an  estab- 
lishment here,  from  which  ours  is  a  separation  ;  but  their  own 
late  divisions  and  distractions  among  themselves,  with  regard 
to  doctrine  and  discipline,  have  already  unsettled  so  many 
and  must  necessarily  have  the  like  effect  with  others,  that,  I 
doubt  not  at  all,  there  will  be  seen  numbers  gladly  embracing 
the  refuge  from  these  confusions,  and  those  wholesome  means 
for  all  needful  instruction  and  improvement  in  Christian 
knowledge  and  practice,  which  our  happy  constitution  will 
afford  them.  This  is  manifestly  the  present  care  at  Walling- 
ford and  in  its  immediate  neighborhood,  where  the  church 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  253 

congregation  has  so  far  increased  that  the  people  think  them- 
selves in  a  condition  to  make  some  suitable  provision  for 
sending  home  for  holy  orders,  and  for  supporting  a  deserving 
young  man,  who  has  been  some  time  employed  as  a  reader 
among  them.  They  dare  not  presume  upon  the  society's 
assistance,  further  than  to  crave  the  liberty  to  apply  for  part 
of  the  salary  granted  to  Middletown  and  Wallingford,  should 
they  in  their  goodness  see  fit  to  allow  it.  The  people  who 
belong  to  the  congregation  at  Wallingford,  and  live  at  some 
distance,  have  lately  built  themselves  a  small  church  for  their 
greater  convenience  in  the  winter  season,  when  their  families 
can  not  well  attend  at  the  other.  I  continue  to  officiate  at 
Wallingford  about  once  in  six  weeks,  which,  by  the  reason  of 
the  distance  of  near  thirty  miles,  and  the  needful  care  of  my 
particular  charge,  is  as  frequent  attendance  as  I  am  able 
to  give. 

"  I  am,  Reverend  Sir,  the  Society's, 

"  And  your  most  obedient  servant, 

"EDWARD  WiNSLOW."1 

During  the  Revolution  the  interests  of  all  denomina- 
tions suffered  greatly,  but  the  Church  of  England  had 
the  hardest  lot  of  all ;  for  she,  especially  as  represented 

I  Rev.  Edward  Winslow  was  born  at  Boston,  and  was  graduated  at 
Harvard  College  in  the  class  of  1741.  He  succeeded  Dr.  Johnson  as  mis- 
sionary at  Stratford.  He  preached  a  number  of  times  at  Wallingford,  but 
on  peculiar  circumstances  of  his  family,  he  requested  a  removal,  and  the 
Mission  of  Braintree,  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  friends  in  Boston,  being 
offered  him  he  thought  proper  to  accept  it.  He  died  in  1780.  It  was  said 
of  him  that  besides  "excelling  all  in  the  colony  as  a  preacher  ;  he  was  be- 
hind none  of  them  in  discretion  and  good  conduct ;  and  being  rector  of 
the  first  Church,  and  otherwise  duly,  if  not  the  best  qualified,  I  wish,  when 
Commissaries  are  appointed,  he  may  be  a  Commissary,  being  also  of  the 
most  creditable  family  and  education  ;  and  as  he  has  a  large,  young,  grow- 
ing family,  and  is  obliged  in  that  situation  to  live  at  the  most  expense  of 
any  of  them,  it  would  he  highly  expedient,  if  practicable,  to  add  ten  pounds 
more  to  his  support." — Dr.  Johnson  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
July  13,  1760. 


254  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

by  her  clergy,  was  considered  as  the  very  impersonation 
of  rebellion  ;  many  of  the  clergy  were  forced  to  leave 
the  country.  The  very  small  number  who  were  enabled 
to  continue  their  ministrations,  succeeded  in  doing  so, 
either  by  their  remarkable  prudence,  or  by  engaging  in 
conflicts  or  submitting  to  deprivations,  which  must  have 
rendered  life  itself  little  less  than  a  burden.  The  close 
of  the  war  found  the  Episcopal  Church  in  a  state  of  the 
deepest  depression.  Her  altars  prostrate  or  deserted, 
her  ministers  gone  or  disheartened,  herself  the  object  of 
political  odium  and  suspicion,  without  the  inherent 
power  of  perpetuating  her  own  polity,  her  cause,  in  the 
view  of  men,  seemed  well  nigh  desperate.  So  mourned 
her  friends  ;  so  vaunted  her  enemies. 

Shortly  after  the  return  of  peace,  the  Episcopal  clergy 
of  Connecticut  resolved  to  send  one  of  their  number  to 
England,  with  a  view  to  his  obtaining  Consecration  as 
Bishop.  On  the  twenty-first  of  April,  1783,  Dr.  Samuel 
Seabury  was  chosen,  and  shortly  after  sailed  for  Eng- 
land. It  was  necessary  that  the  candidate  for  Episcopal 
consecration  should  take  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  king, 
and  of  obedience  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  But 
it  was  feared  that  there  would  be  a  renewal  of  that  oppo- 
sition which  had  kept  Dr.  Seabury  from  his  native  State 
during  the  whole  period  of  the  Revolutionary  war. 
They  feared  that  the  State  of  Connecticut  would  not 
give  her  consent  to  the  exercise  of  his  functions,  and 
that  he  would  not  be  obeyed.  The  obstacles  thrown  in 
his  way  were  enough  to  dampen  the  zeal  of  any  but  a 
stout,  earnest  and  believing  heart.  He  wrote  to  the 
clergy  of  Connecticut  who  were  now  on  tiptoe  with 
expectation,  stating  the  fear  entertained  in  England,  that 
the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  would  prevent  a 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  255 

Bishop,  should  he  be  consecrated,  from  entering  on  the 
discharge  of  his  Episcopal  labors.  A  convention  of  the 
clergy  was  forthwith  called  at  Wallingford,  February  27, 
1787,  to  determine  what  was  to  be  done.  As  the 
Assembly  was  then  in  session  at  New  Haven,  a  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  confer  with  the  principal  men 
of  the  Legislature,  and  solicit  the  passage  of  an  act 
authorizing  a  Bishop  to  reside  in  Connecticut,  and  to 
exercise  the  Episcopal  functions  there.  The  gentlemen 
to  whom  this  request  was  made,  replied,  as  they  well 
might,  that  it  was  not  necessary  to  pass  such  an  act,  as 
the. law  of  Connecticut  was  already  in  conformity  with 
their  wishes.1  Certified  copies  of  the  statutes  of  the 
colony  in  relation  to  this  matter  were  made  out  and 
forwarded  to  England  without  delay.  Although  the 
evidence  was  conclusive,  other  objections  were  started. 
Wearied  at  length  with  the  opposition  and  delay  which 
he  encountered  in  England,  and  despairing  of  success  in 
that  quarter  he  at  last  bethought  himself  of  the  Episco- 
pal Church  of  Scotland.  To  this  Church,  as  free  from 
the  state,  and  unencumbered  by  political  restraints,  he 
determined  to  resort.  Here  his  application  met  with  a 
cordial  response,  and  the  favor  he  asked  was  readily 
granted. 

In  1786,  Sept.  21,  Bishop  Seabury  admitted  as  Deacon 
at  Derby,  Reuben  Ives,2  who  that  year  had  graduated  at 

1  See  page  21   of  "The  General  Laws  and  Liberties  of  Connecticut 
Colony,"  edition  of  1672  ;  also  statute  of  1727,  ante. 

2  Reuben  Ives  was  the  son  of  Zachariah  Ives  of  Cheshire,  and  was  born 
in  that   town,  October  26,   1672.     He  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
1786,  at  which  time  the  institution  was  under  the  Presidency  of  the  cele- 
brated Dr.   Stiles.     His  attachment  to  the  Episcopal  Church  was  always 
strong,  and  he  had  early  resolved  to  devote  his  energies  and  talents  to  the 
promotion  of  her  interests.     The  state  of  the  country  was  such,  and  the 


256  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Yale  College.  For  some  time  he  was  the  assistant  of  the 
Bishop  of  New  London.  The  organization  of  the 
parishes  in  Meriden,  Southington,  and  Hamden,  was 


REV.    REUBEN    IVES. 

due  to  the  ministrations  of  Mr.  Ives,  who  in  the  be- 
gining  of  1788  had  accepted  the  Rectorship  of  the 
Church  in  Cheshire,  his  native  place,  for  two-thirds 
of  the  time,  with  the  privilege  of  occupying  the  remain- 
ing third  in  missionary  duties  in  the  neighboring  towns.1 

want  of  ministerial  services  so  great,  at  the  time  of  his  leaving  college,  that 
Bishop  Seabury,  who  had  two  years  before  visited  Scotland  and  returned 
clothed  with  the  highest  Episcopal  authority,  deemed  it  necessary  to  dis- 
pense with  much  theological  education  ;  and  accordingly  admitted  Mr.  Ives, 
together  with  his  friend  and  classmate,  Mr.  (afterwards  Dr.)  Bronson,  to 
the  order  of  Deacons  in  St.  James'  Church,  Derby,  September  21,  1786. 
For  some  time  after  his  ordination,  Mr.  Ives  was  with  the  Bishop  at  New 
London,  in  the  capacity  both  of  pupil  and  assistant  minister.  He  married 
a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  R.  Marshall  of  Woodbury,  a  missionary  of 
the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts.  Mr.  Ives 
was  a  great  lover  of  church  music,  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  introduce 
chanting  in  Connecticut.  He  died  October  17,  1836.  His  daughter  mar- 
ried Dr.  A.  I.  Driggs  of  Cheshire. 

I  The  Cheshire  Academy,  founded  in  1794,  and  the  first  institution  of 
the  kind  strictly  belonging  to  the  Church  in  New  England,  and  one  of  the 
first  in  the  country,  owed  its  existence  to  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Ives. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  257 

He  remained  in  Cheshire  over  thirty  years,  after  sup- 
plying the  Church  at  Wallingford  and  Meriden  parish. 
Rev.  Tillotson  Bronson1  occupied  the  pulpit  at  Wall- 
ingford on  several  occasions,  as  also  did  Rev.  Messrs. 
Solomon  and  Abraham  Blakesley.  The  Rev.  Charles 
Seabury,2  the  youngest  child  of  Bishop  Seabury, 
preached  at  Wallingford  a  number  of  times.  Near 
the  close  of  1794,  Rev.  Seth  Hart,3  who  had  preached 
for  the  Episcopal  Society  of  Waterbury,  removed  to 
Wallingford,  and  remained  nearly  four  years. 

In  1 80 1,  Rev.  Ammi  Rogers4  assumed  the  charge  of 
the  parishes  of  Branford,  Wallingford  and  East  Haven. 
Rev.  Messrs.  Joseph  Perry  and  Plumb,  supplied  the 

1  Dr.  Bronson  was  born  at  Plymouth,  Conn.,  in  1762  ;  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1786;  was  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Seabury,  Sept.  21, 
1787,  and  Priest  Feb.  25,  1788.     In  1795,  he  was  called  to  the  Rectorship 
of  St.  John's  church,  Waterbury,  and  in  1805,  was  elected  Principal  of  the 
Episcopal  Academy  at  Cheshire.     He  died  Sept.  6,  1826. 

2  Charles  Seabury  was  born  at  Westchester,  N.  Y.,  May  29,  1770  ;  he 
removed  with  his  father  to  New  London,  under  whose  supervision  he 
studied  theology,   and  was  admitted  to  the  holy  order  of  Deacon  June  5, 
1 793,  and  was  ordained  Priest  July  1 7,  1 796 ;  was  settled  at  New  London, 
and  Setauket,  L.  I.     He  died  Dec.  29,  1844. 

3  Seth  Hart  was  born  at  Berlin,  Conn.,  June  21,  1763  ;  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1784  ;  was  ordained  Deacon  Oct.  9,  1791,  and  Priest  Oct. 
14,  1792.     He  preached  first  at  Waterbury,  and  from  1794  to  1798  was 
Rector  of  the  churches  in  Wallingford  and  North  Haven.     Some  difficulty 
having  arisen  in  the  parish  at  North  Haven,  he  resigned  it  and  was  called 
to  St.  George's  church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  where  he  remained  until  his  death, 
March  16,  1832.     He  was  a  good  classical  scholar,  an  amiable  man,  a  suc- 
cessful teacher,  and  an  acceptable  preacher.     He  died  of  paralysis,  as  also 
did  his  son,  Rev.  William  H.  Hart.     On  Mr.  Hart's  removal  from  Water- 
bury,  several  individuals  liberally   inclined,  united  and  bought  his  house 
and  five  acres  of  land,  and  conveyed  the  whole  to  the  church  forever. 

4  Ammi  Rogers  was  born  at  Branford ;  was  graduated  at  Yale  college, 
in  1790;  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Provoost  of  New  York  in  June,  1792, 
and  Priest  at  a  later  date. 

S 


258  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

pulpit  at  Wallingford  at  various  times,  as  also  did  Rev. 
Virgil  H.  Barber.1  In  1822,  Rev.  James  Keeler2  became 
the  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Wallingford. 

He  was  followed  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bottsford,  who  re- 
mained but  a  short  time.  In  1824,  Rev.  Ashbel  Bald- 
win3 removed  to  Wallingford,  where  he  officiated  several 
years.  He  afterwards  preached  at  Meriden,  North 
Haven,  and  Oxford,  until  1832,  when  he  became  disabled 
by  age  for  any  active  duty.  His  voice  was  very  clear 
and  loud,  and  it  seemed  the  louder,  coming  as  it  did  from 
one  who  was  considerably  under  size.  He  walked 
haltingly,  in  consequence  of  one  leg  being  shorter  than 
the  other.  He  abounded  in  anecdotes,  and  he  evidently 
had  a  great  relish  for  them  in  the  conversation  of  other 

1  Virgil  Horace  Barber  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Jarvis  in  1805,  and  was 
called  to  St.  John's  church,  Waterbury,  where  he  remained  till  1814,  when 
he  was  elected   Principal  of  the  Academy,  and  Rector  of  the  church  at 
Fairfield,  N.  Y.     About  1817,  he  declared  himself  a  Romanist.     It  was 
doubtless  through  his  influence  that  his  father,  the  Rev.  Daniel   Barber, 
about  a  year  after  made  a  similar  avowal. 

2  James  Keeler  was  born  at  Norwich,  April  20,  1 787 ;  studied  under 
Rev.  Dr.  Bethel  Judd  ;  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Hobart  in  1818.     In 
1822,  removed  to  Wallingford  as  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  church  ;  was  ordained 
Priest  by  Bishop  Brownell,  November  4,  1823.     In  1828,  became  Rector  of 
St.  Andrew's  church  in  Meriden.  He  died  at  Janesville,  Iowa,  June  26,  1833. 

3  Ashbel  Baldwin,  son  of  Isaac  Baldwin  Esq.,  was  born  at  Litchfield, 
March  7,  1757,  and  was  graduated  at  Yale  College   in  1776.     Soon    after 
leaving  college  he  received  an  appointment  in  the  Continental  army  which 
he  held  for  some  time,  and  which  proved  of  great  importance  to  him  in  his 
latter  years  in  securing  to  him  a  pension,   when  he  had  little,  if  any,  other 
means  of  subsistence.     He  was  married  to  Clarissa,  eldest  daughter  of  Mr. 
Samuel  Johnson  of  Guilford,  and  grand-niece  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Johnson  of 
Stratford.    He  was  ordained  Deacon,  August  3,  and  Priest,  Sept.  18,  1785, 
by  Bishop  Seabury,  and  was  immediately  called  to  the  Rectorship  of  St. 
Michael's  church  in  his  native  place.     101793,  he  became  the  Rector  of 
Christ  church,  Stratford,  and  remained  there  until  1824.     He  died  at  Roch- 
ester, N.  Y.,  in  1846,  in  the  eighty-ninth  year  of  his  age. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  259 

people.  His  kind  and  affable  manners  and  social  habits 
rendered  him  a  welcome  guest  at  the  tables  of  the  more 
wealthy  parishioners,  and  he  had  the  power  of  accommo- 
dating himself  with  equal  facility  to  those  in  the  oppo- 
site extremes  of  society.  Mr.  Baldwin  was  long  a 
member  of  the  standing  committee  of  the  Diocese,  was 
delegate  to  the  General  Convention,  Secretary  of  the 
Diocesan  Convention  for  many  years,  and  several  times 
Secretary  of  the  General  Convention.  His  uncommon 
self  possession  and  promptness  in  giving  expression  to 
his  opinions,  gave  him  great  advantage  in  a  deliberative 
assembly,  over  many  of  his  brethren  who  were  not  infe- 
rior to  him  in  good  judgment  or  in  general  ability.  After 
Mr.  Baldwin  left,  the  pulpit  was  supplied  for  a  time  by 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Lucas. 

Since  1832,  the  following  clergymen  have  assumed  the 
Rectorship  of  St.  Paul's  in  Wallingford  : 

WILLIAM  CURTIS,  1832-1836.  JOSEPH  BREWSTER,  1850-1853. 

LEMUEL  HULL,      1836-1839.  CHAS.  S.  PUTNAM,   1853-1858. 

R.  M.  CHAPMAN,  1839-1840.  JOHN  TOWNSEND,    1858-1864. 

HILLARD  BRYANT,  1841-1850.  EDW'D  M.  GUSHEE,  1864-1870. 

Four  edifices  have  been  erected  for  the  Episcopal 
society  in  Wallingford.  A  rude  structure,  about  the 
year  1741,  in  a  northern  district  of  the  township;  a 
second  on  the  lot  now  held  for  a  public  school,  in  the 
north  part  of  the  borough  ;  the  third  on  nearly  the  pres- 
ent site.  This  was  destroyed  by  fire,  Oct.  27,  1867.  It 
was  valued  at  $15,000,  and  insured  for  $4,700.  The 
corner  stone  of  the  fourth  church  was  laid  by  Bishop 
Williams,  May  26,  1868,  and  consecrated  Sept.  2,  1869. 
The  new  church  is  built  of  Portland  sandstone,  and  is 
finished  with  black  walnut  and  southern  pine.  The  en- 
tire length  is  124  feet ;  the  width  58  feet ;  the  height  62 


26O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

feet.     The  church  will  seat  700  persons.      Its  cost  was 
about  $65,000. 

The  Episcopal  Church  in  Meriden  was  originated 
about  the  year  1789.  The  following  is  the  agreement  by 
which  the  parish  of  St.  Andrews  was  formed  :x 

"  Meriden,  April  i3th,  1789. 

"We  whose  names  are  underwritten  do  declare  our  con- 
formity to  the  Church  of  England  and  are  desirous  of 
enjoying  the  worship  and  Sacraments  of  said  Church,  do 
consent  and  agree  to  support  the  same : 

"  REUBEN  IVES,  CLERK. 

"  DENISON  ANDREWS,  JOHN  B.  DOUGLAS, 

MOSES  ANDREWS,  EZRA  BUTLER, 

ISAAC  ATWATER,  LEVI  DOUGLAS, 

MARVEL  ANDREWS,  WATTS  HUBBARD, 

SIMEON  PERKINS,  SETH  D.  WOLF, 

"SOLOMON  YALE."2 

For  several  years  their  assemblies  for  public  worship 
convened  at  a  private  house  in  the  western  part  of  the 
town.  December  28,  1789,  it  was  voted  "  to  keep  up 
meeting  this  year,"  and  to  hire  Mr.  Ives  to  preach.  In 
1792,  Isaac  Atwater,  Seth  Wolf,  and  Simeon  Perkins, 
were  appointed  a  committee  for  the  purpose  of  erecting 
a  church,  but  nothing  further  was  done  in  the  matter 
until  1795,  when  it  was  voted  to  erect  a  church  at  the 

1  The  original   document  was  deposited  in  the    corner  stone   of  the 
church  erected  in  1836. 

2  On  the  back  of  this  document  was  endorsed  the  following :  "  Decem- 
ber, 13,  A.  D.  1793.     Public  money  from  Mr.  Merriam,  £o  15  3.     Deliv- 
ered to  Mr.  Perkins,  out  of  which  £o  3  1 1  was  due  to  him.     August  22, 
A.  D.   1794.     Sent   to  Mr.   Ives  by  Mr.  Butler,   cash  ,£0  15  o.     Moses 
Andrews.     January  28,  A.  D.    1790.     Sent  to  Mr.   Ives  by  Mr.  Butler, 
cash  ^3  o  o.     April  9,  sent  to  Mr.  Ives  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  Douglass, 
cash  £120.     May  30,   Paid  to  Mr.  Ives  at  his  house,  cash  ^128.     Feb- 
ruary 1 8,  A.  D.  1796,  paid  to  Mr.  Ives,  cash  £o  12  o. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    MERIDEN.  26 1 

south-east  corner  of  the  green,  provided  the  land  can  be 
obtained.  The  year  previous  it  was  voted  to  hire  preach- 
ing six  Sundays  for  the  year  ensuing.  In  1803,  Mr. 
Virgil  Horace  Barber  was  hired  for  six  Sabbaths,  and 
Nicholas  Andrews  was  chosen  to  be  a  committee  to 
agree  with  the  Wallingford  committee  for  his  services. 
In  1806,  it  was  voted  to  build  a  Church  on  the  ground 
belonging  to  Joseph  Merriam,  and  shortly  after  it  was 
voted  to  build  the  Church  within  sixty  rods  of  the 
meeting-house  ;r  also  that  the  house  for  the  use  of  pub- 
lic worship  be  under  the  direction  of  the  Episcopal 
society,  but  that  the  doors  be  opened  to  Baptists  and 
Presbyterians  when  not  occupied  by  the  Episcopal  so- 
ciety. A  committee  was  appointed  to  petition  the 
Assembly  for  a  Lottery,  to  raise  money  for  furnishing 
the  Church,  but  the  petition  was  not  granted.  April  22, 
1811,  it  was  voted  "to  hire  Parson  Ives  to  perform 
divine  service  and  preach  for  us  one  sixth  part  of  the 
year  ensuing."  Mr.  Ives  resided  at  Cheshire,  but  sup- 
plied the  Church  at  Meriden  until  1824.  In  1821,  the 
Meriden  parish  voted  not  to  unite  with  the  Wallingford 
parish  that  year.2 

In  1816,  October  1 8,  during  the  pastorate  of  Mr.  Ives, 
the  first  house  of  worship  was  consecrated3  as  St.  An- 
drew's Church,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  John  Henry  Hobart, 

1  The  Congregational. 

2  The  following  is  the  receipt  of  Mr.  Ives,  for  his  salary,  for  his  last 
year's  service  at  Meriden  :     "  Received  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Andrews  church 
in  Meriden,  for  services  from  Easter  1823,  to  Easter  1824,  one  hundred  and 
one  dollars  and  fourteen  cents,  being  in  full  for  said  year. 

"Meriden  18  May,  1824.  REV.  REUBEN  IVES." 

3  This  building  was  forty-five  feet  long  and  thirty-six  feet  wide.     The 
building  has  been  converted  into  a  dwelling  house,  and  removed  to  Liberty 
near  Broad  street,  where  it  now  stands. 


262 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


D.  D.,  Bishop  of  New  York,1  who  at  the  same  time  con- 
firmed thirty-eight  persons.  In  1825,  Rev.  Ashbel 
Baldwin  became  Rector  of  the  Church,  on  a  salary  of 


FIRST    EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    MERIDEN. 

three  hundred  and  three  dollars.     Since   1826,  the  fol- 
lowing clergymen  have  had  charge  of  the  parish  : 

1826,  NATHANIEL  BRUCE; 

1828,  JAMES  KEELER; 

1832,  ROBERT  A.   HALLAM  ;2 

1835,  EDWARD  INGERSOLL; 

1837,  JOHN  M.  GUION  ;3 

1839,  MELANCTHON  HOYT. 

1  While  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut  was  for  several  years  without  a 
Bishop  after  the  death  of  Dr.  Jarvis  in  1813,  Bishop  Hobart  consented,  in 
1816,  to  extend  his  Episcopal  jurisdiction  to  that  See;  and  he  held  this 
provisional  charge  until  1819,  when  he  was  relieved  by  the  consecration  of 
Dr.  Brownell. 

2  Dr.  Hallam  was  called  to  the  Rectorship  of  St.  James'  church,  New 
London,  in   1834,  and  assumed  the  charge  January  i,    1835.     He  is  the 
eighth  rector  of  that  church. 

3  Mr.  Guion  was  graduated  at  Columbia  college  in  1826,  and  at  the 
General  Theological  Seminary  in  1829.     Ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Ho- 
bart in  1829,  and  Priest  the  year  following. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    MERIDEN.  263 

August  21,  1839,  it  was  voted  "that  Edwin  E.  Curtis 
be  authorized  to  supply  the  pulpit  after  the  ist  of 
October,  at  which  time  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hoyt's  resignation 
takes  effect."1 

1840,  S.  STEBBINS  STOCKING; 

1841,  CHARLES  W.  EVEREST; 

1843,  JOHN  T.  GUSHING; 

1844,  CYRUS  MUNSON; 
1848,  JOSEPH  BREWSTER. 

June  8,  1848,  the  corner-stone  was  laid  of  the  second 
house  of  worship.  The  church  was  consecrated  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1850,  by  Bishop  Brownell.  This  church  was  a 
pretty  Gothic  edifice,  of  brown  stone.  Its  cost  was 
about  $12,000.  It  was  eighty  feet  long  and  forty-five 
wide. 

1849,  ABRAM  NEWKIRK  LITTLEJOHN  ;2 
1851,  GILES  HENRY  DESHON. 

The  increase  of  the  population  in  the  western  and 
northern  part  of  the  town,  and  the  necessity  of  providing 
additional  accommodations  for  the  parish,  rendered  it 
necessary  to  erect  another  and  larger  edifice  near  the 

1  Mr.  Curtis  was  to  see  that  the  pulpit  was  supplied  with  some  clergy- 
man. 

2  Dr.  Littlejohn  was  born  in  Montgomery  county,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  13,  1824; 
was  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1845,  an(^  was  ordained  Deacon,  March 
1 8,  1848,  and  Priest  in  November,  1850,  soon  after  entering  upon  the  rec- 
torship of  Christ  church,  Springfield,  Mass.     He  remained  in  Meriden  ten 
months.    He  was  afterwards  Rector  of  churches  in  New  Haven,  and  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.     In  1856,  he  received  the  degree  of  D.  D.,  from  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  and 'soon  after  was  elected  to  the  Presidency  of  Hobart  col- 
lege, Geneva,  N.  Y.     For  ten  years  he  was  lecturer  on  Pastoral  Theology  at 
the  Berkeley  Divinity  School,  Middletown.     Nov.  n,  1868,  he  was  elected 
Bishop  of  Central  New  York,  at  the  Episcopal  Convention  at  Utica.     He 
declined  the  appointment,  and  on  the  iQth  of  November  was  elected  Bishop 
of  Long  Island,  which  he  accepted. 


264  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Town  Hall.  The  corner-stone  was  laid  August  8,  1866, 
by  the  Rt.  Rev.  John  Williams,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the 
Diocese.  The  second  church  was  taken  down,  and  the 
stone  was  used  in  building  this  third  church.  It  was 
consecrated  November  7,  1867.' 

The  ministers  of  the  Church  of  England  in  Connecti- 
cut in  1740,  numbered  seven  ;  in  1755,  eleven.  Episco- 
pal parishes  in  1750,  twenty-five  ;  houses  of  worship  in 
1750,  twenty-four  ;  Episcopal  parishes  in  1800,  sixty-two. 
Increase  in  the  half  century,  thirty-seven.  The  increase 
was  largest  soon  after  Whitefield's  first  visit  to  New 
England,  and  just  before  the  war  of  the  Revolution. 
Mr.  Goodrich,2  in  1774,  said,  "The  number  of  the  Epis- 

1  At  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone,  the  procession  composed  of  the 
choristers,  twelve  in  number,  the  architect,  builde'rs,  building  committee, 
wardens  and  vestry,  deacons,  priests  and  the  Rt.  Rev.  John  Williams,  D.  D., 
the  celebrant,  marched  from  the  Institute  rooms  in  the  Town  Hall.     On 
reaching  the  church,  the  procession  opened,  the  Bishop  and  clergy   pass- 
ing  through,   repeating  the  cxxn   Psalm.     The  Bishop  then   proceeded 
with  the  service.     The  Rector  of  the  parish,  Rev.  G.  H.  Deshon,  then  read 
a  list  of  documents  placed  in  the  stone,  viz.,  all  those  originally  in  the  cor- 
ner stone  of  the  old  building,  laid  in  1848,  together  with  a  copy  of  the  last 
will  and  testament  of  Moses  Andrews  Esq.,  (whose  name  and  memory  the 
church  most  warmly  cherishes  and  reveres),   a  copy  of  the  Journal  of  the 
Convention  of   the  Diocese   of  Connecticut,  for    1866,  the   Connecticut 
Churchman,  The  Meriden  Recorder,   and  specimens  of  the  fractional  cur- 
rency then  in  use  in  the  United  States.     There  were  present  besides  the 
Bishop    and   Rector,  Rev.  Drs.   Beardsley  of  New   Haven,  Goodwin  of 
Middletown,  Hallam  of  New  London,  The  Rev.  Messrs.  Adams  of  Haz- 
ardville,  Baldwin  of  New  Britain,  Chamberlain  of  Birmingham,  Gushee  of 
Wallingford,  Huntington  and  Mallory  of  Trinity  college,  Mason  of  New 
Haven,  Niles  of  Trinity  College,  Townsend   of  New   Haven,   Ward  of 
Cheshire,  and  Witherton  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Priests ;  and  the  Rev.  Messrs. 
M'Cook  of  St  John's  Chapel,  East  Hartford,  and  March,  assistant  minister 
of  Christ  church,  Hartford,  Deacons     Mr.    Henry  Dudley  of  New  York 
was  the  architect,  and  the  cost  of  the  Church  was  about  forty  thousand 
dollars. 

2  Minutes  of  Convention,  for  1774,  p.  62. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    IN    MERIDEN.  265 

copalians  are  about  one  in  thirteen  of  the  whole  number 
of  inhabitants  ;  and  probably  there  would  be  no  great 
difference  from  the  proportion  were  the  account  of  all 
the  towns  come  in."  The  church  in  this  colony  had  a 
long  and  feeble  minority,  forming  as  she  did,  part  of  the 
Diocese  of  the  Bishop  of  London,  and  being  of  course 
far  removed  from  all  immediate  Episcopal  inspection, 
and  having  no  means  of  keeping  up  her  ministry,  except 
as  she  received  fresh  supplies  from'  England,  or  sent  her 
own  sons  thither  for  ordination.  The  early  clergy 
struggled  hard  to  establish  the  foundations  of  the  church 
in  the  colony,  and  to  overcome  those  prejudices  with 
which  they  were  compelled  to  contend.1 

It  has  already  been  said,  that  from  almost  the  first 
settlement  of  the  colony,  there  had  existed  in  it  an  estab- 
lished religion  which  belonged  to  the  government,  and 
was  as  firmly  upheld  by  it  as  any  branch  of  the  civil 
machinery.  Says  a  writer,  "  Intolerant  principles  were 
so  deeply  implanted  in  the  inhabitants  of  New  England, 
that  all  efforts  to  eradicate  them  at  this  period  proved 
ineffectual."2  In  the  elegant  and  forcible  language  of 
one  of  Connecticut's  historians,  "  It  is  impossible  that  the 
opinions  of  any  one  generation  should  be  locked  up  in  a 
vault  strong  enough  to  keep  them  from  age  to  age  in 
their,  primitive  condition.  Dampness  will  gather  around 

1  In  1 705,  a  youth  among  the  Friends  wished  to  espouse  a  fair  Puritan 
maiden,  but  the  Quakers  disapproved  his  marrying  out  of  their  society, 
and  the  Congregationalists  his  marrying  into  theirs ;  so  in  despair  he  thus 
addressed  her  :  "  Ruth,  let  us  break  from  this  unreasonable  bondage.     I 
will  give  up  my  religion,  and  thou  shalt  give  up  thine  ;  and  we  will  marry 
and  go  into  the  church    of  England,  and  go  to  the  devil  together."     "  And 
they  fulfilled  their  resolution,"  the  Puritan  historian  says,  "so  far  as  going 
into  the  church,  and  marrying,  and  staying  there  for  life." 

2  Hannah  Adams'  New  England,  p.  117. 


266  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

them  and  steal  away  their  vitality,  violence  will  break 
open  the  doors  that  imprison  them,  and  set  them  free,  or 
their  deliverance  will  be  left  to  the  more  slow  but  equally 
rude  action  of  the  rains  and  frosts,  which  will  soften  and 
crack  asunder  the  mortar  and  stones,  until,  if  the  key 
does  not  drop  from  the  arch,  there  will  be  found  many 
seams  and  crevices  in  the  walls  for  the  entrance  of  the 
winds.  So  it  has  been  in  the  old  world  and  so  was  it  in 
the  new."1  Since  the"  year  1713,  when  Episcopacy  was 
first  introduced  into  Connecticut,  we  have  seen  it  grow 
to  number  in  this  state  one  hundred  and  thirty-four 
parishes,  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  clergy,  fifteen 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  thirty-four  communicants, 
and  with  an  annual  contribution  for  Missionary,  Church 
and  other  purposes,  of  over  two  hundred  and  nineteen 
thousand  dollars.  It  may  be  interesting  to  mention 
here,  that  the  annual  stipend  allowed  the  Episcopal 
clergy  in  the  colony  of  Connecticut,  was  usually  from 
£40  to  £$o  sterling ;  and  unless  the  people  provided  a 
suitable  parsonage  and  glebe,  and  contributed  an  equal 
amount  yearly  toward  his  maintenance,  the  clerical  office 
was  hardly  surrounded  in  any  place  by  a  dignity  and 
decency  sufficient  to  command  respect.  Few  of  the 
Missionaries  had  any  private  means,  and  though  they 
lived  frugally,  in  conformity  with  the  habits  of  the  times, 
they  were  obliged  occasionally  to  state  their  wants  and 
the  disadvantages  of  an  inadequate  support.2 


1  Hollister,  n.  540. 

2  The  Mission  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  at  Yalesville,  belongs  to  the 
parish  of  Wallingford. 


267 


CHAPTER  XII. 

THE  BAPTIST  CHURCH  IN  WALLINGFORD  AND  MERIDEN. 

THE  first  Baptist  church  organized  in  the  colony  was 
planted  in  Groton  in  1705.  The  second  was  organized 
in  Waterford  (then  part  of  New  London)  in  1710.  The 
third  was  organized  in  Wallingford  in  1735,  consisting 
of  about  ten  families,  with  Timothy  Waters  as  pastor. 
The  history  of  the  earlier  Baptist  churches  in  Connecti- 
cut are  especially  interesting,  because  they  grew  up  at  a 
time  when  there  was  a  legalized  union  of  church  and 
state.  For  a  series  of  years  they  stood  as  visible  expo- 
nents of  divine  doctrines  and  principles.  We  are  to  view 
the  organization  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Wallingford 
with  its  thirteen  members,  not  as  we  should  now  view 
the  formation  of  a  society,  or  voluntary  association,  in 
similar  circumstances,  simply  as  the  frothy  effervescence 
arising  from  the  spirit  of  the  age,  but  rather  as  a  note- 
worthy illustration  of  heroic  faith.  Society-making  had 
not  then  become,  as  now,  a  prevalent  epidemic.  These 
Baptist  pioneers  did  not  float  along  in  the  current  of 
general  opinion,  but  studied  the  Bible  themselves.  They 
organized  a  church  because  they  thought  there  was  no 
such  local  organization  as  the  New  Testament  describes, 
composed  exclusively  of  baptized  believers,  existing  there, 
and  because  they  devoutly  sought  a  religion  which  wore 
every  discernable  mark  of  Apostolic  genuineness. 


268  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  political  ecclesiasticism  which  was  established  by 
law  throughout  the  State,  was  enforced  by  fines,  by 
extortion,  by  imprisonment,  and  by  branding.  The  fol- 
lowing laws  stood  on  the  old  Colony  Law  Book : 

"Nor  shall  any  persons  neglect  the  public  worship  of  God 
in  some  lawful  Congregation,  and  form  themselves  into  sepa- 
rate companies  in  private  houses,  on  penalty  of  ten  shillings 
for  every  such  offence  each  person  shall  be  guilty  of."1 

In  1723,  a  law  was  passed  making  the  penalty  of  the 
above  offence  against  a  lawful  congregation,  twenty 
shillings.  "  Whatsoever  person  not  being  a  lawfully 
allowed  minister  of  the  gospel,"  administered  the  sacra- 
ment to  his  flock,  was  fined  ten  pounds  for  every  such 
offence  and  suffered  besides  "  corporeal  punishment  by 
whipping,  not  exceeding  thirty  stripes  for  each  offence." 
Many  clergymen  and  members  of  the  Baptist  church 
were  imprisoned  for  exhorting  non-payment  of  assess- 
ments, and  preaching  the  doctrines  of  the  Bible  as  held 
by  Baptists.  In  February,  1744,  at  Saybrook,  fourteen 
persons  were  arrested  for  holding  a  Baptist  meeting. 
The  charge  brought  against  them  was,  "  holding  a  meet- 
ing contrary  to  law,  on  God's  holy  Sabbath  day."  They 
were  arraigned,  tried,  fined  and  driven  on  foot  through 
a  deep  mud  to  New  London,  a  distance  of  twenty-five 
miles,  and  thrust  into  prison,  without  fire,  food,  or  beds, 
where  they  remained  enduring  dreadful  sufferings  for 
several  weeks.  It  was  once  so  unpopular  in  Wallingford 
to  be  a  Baptist,  that  when  certain  men  were  baptized, 
their  wives  felt  that  they  had  lost  caste  in  society,  and 
yielded  to  tears  to  assuage  their  sorrow  for  their  fallen 
husbands. 

I  Acts  and  Laws,  p.  139. 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  269 

The  Baptist  church  in  Wallingford  had  been  organ- 
ized but  a  short  time  when  Rev.  John  Merriman  was 
ordained  their  pastor.1  By  the  advice  of  Governor 
Talcott,  the  Wallingford  society  had  not  required  any 
taxes  from  them  for  a  number  of  years.  In  the  "great 
awakening"  they  were  aroused  to  a  concern  for  the  great 
interests  of  their  souls  ;  and  their  pastor  in  behalf  of 
himself  and  people,  had  invited  some  of  the  neighboring 
ministers  of  the  established  church  to  preach  for  them  ; 
observing  that  as  to  the  internals  of  religion  they  could 
heartily  join  with  them,  though  not  in  the  mode. 

In  December,  1741,  Rev.  Philemon  Robbins,2  a  "  New 
Light"  minister  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Bran- 
ford,  received  a  letter  from  the  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
church  in  Wallingford,  informing  him  that  Dr.  Bellamy 
had  preached  to  their  society  to  mutual  satisfaction,  and 
desiring  that  he  would  do  the  same.  He  was  pleased  to 
accept  the  invitation,  and  appointed  a  meeting  for  the 
purpose,  January  6,  1742.  But  two  days  before  the  time 
specified,  a  deacon  from  Wallingford  brought  him  a 

1  Mr.  Merriman  was  subsequently  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  South- 
ington.     The   following  record  is   taken   from  his  tombstone  in  a  small 
burying  ground  in  the  western  part  of  the  town.     "  The  Rev.  John  Mer- 
riman died  on  Feb.  17,  1784,  in  the  eighty-ninth  year  of  his  age.  He  was  a 
Calvinistic  Antipedo  Baptist  minister. 

Here  lies  the  body  death  has  bound, 
Whose  soul  with  ministerial  gifts  was  crown'd, 
His  life  his  Master's  doctrine  did  adorn, 
And  waits  his  last  reward  till  the  auspicious  morn." 

Another  stone  bears  this  inscription :  "  In  memory  of  Mrs.  Jemima,  wife 
of  ye  Rev  Mr.  John  Merriman.  She  died  Oct.  II,  1764,  in  ye  64*  year  of 
her  age." 

2  Philemon  Robbins  was  the  son  of  Nathaniel  Robbins,  and  grandson 
of  Nathaniel  Robbins  who  emigrated  from  Scotland  to  Massachusetts  in 
1670.     He  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1729,  and  was  ordained 
at  Branford,  Feb  17,  1731.     He  died  August  13,  1781. 


2/O  HISTORY    OF     WALLINGFORD. 

letter  signed  by  forty-two  men  of  the  town,  desiring  him 
not  to  preach  to  the  Baptists,  without  assigning  any  rea- 
son for  the  request  but  their  own  wishes.  The  messen- 
ger who  conveyed  him  this  letter,  also  presented  him 
with  a  line  from  the  Rev.  Mr.  Stiles,  of  North  Haven, 
and  Mr.  Hemmingway,  of  East  Haven,  advising  him  not 
to  preach  in  the  Baptist  meeting-house  in  Wallingford. 
Mr.  Robbins  could  see  no  reason  why  these  gentlemen 
should  desire  that  he  should  not  preach  to  the  Baptists. 
It  appeared  to  him  rather  unkind,  and  contrary  to  a 
Christian  spirit,  to  prevent  their  having  preaching,  when 
they  thirsted  for  the  word  of  life,  and  there  was  a  more 
than  common  prospect  of  doing  good.  He  had  given 
his  word,  and  appointed  the  day,  and  though  he  had 
some  hesitation  with  respect  to  it  at  first,  after  he  had 
received  the  letter  from  Wallingford,  he  determined  to 
go  according  to  his  engagement,  and  preached  two  ser- 
mons. For  this  he  was  complained  of  to  the  consocia- 
tion of  Congregational  Churches  of  New  Haven  county, 
February  9,  ensuing,  as  a  disorderly  person,  as  follows  : 

"  I,  the  subscriber,  do  signify,  by  way  of  complaint  to  this 
reverend  consociation,  that  on  the  6th  day  of  January  last  past, 
the  Rev.  Philemon  Robins  did  enter  into  the  first  society  in 
Wallingford  and  preach  in  a  disorderly  manner,  in  contempt 
of  the  authority  of  this  consociation,  without  the  consent  of 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Whittlesey,  pastor  of  said  society,  contrary  to 
the  act  of  the  Guilford  council,  contrary  to  the  act  of  this 
consociation,  and  contrary  to  the  desire  of  two  neighboring 
ministers,  and  a  great  number  of  church  members  in  Wall- 
ingford. THOMAS  YALE." 

Mr.  Robbins  replied,  that  Governor  Talcott  had  ad- 
vised the  Wallingford  collectors  not  to  distrain  ministeri- 
al taxes  from  them  ;  and  that  the  public  authority  of  the 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  2/1 

State  sent  them  their  annual  proclamations  for  Fasts 
and  Thanksgivings,  as  to  other  societies.  Besides  he 
had  not  entered  Mr.  Whittelsey's  parish,  but  had  preach- 
ed to  a  people  entirely  different  from  his.  With  respect 
to  his  preaching,  contrary  to  the  advice  of  two  neighbor- 
ing ministers,  and  a  great  number  of  church  members, 
he  observed,  that  he  knew  no  rule  in  the  word  of  God, 
or  the  Saybrook  platform,  which  obliged  him  to  comply 
with  their  desire  in  his  preaching,  nor  could  he  see  any 
reason  in  such  desire.  He  observed  that  there  was 
nothing  in  the  complaint  accusing  him  of  the  violation 
of  any  of  the  divine  commands,  or  of  doing  anything 
contrary  to  the  word  of  God.  The  consociation,  never- 
theless, resolved : 

"  That  the  Rev.  Mr.  Robbins  so  preaching  was  disorderly : 
That  Mr.  Robbins  should  not  sit  as  a  member  of  this  council 
for  his  disorderly  preaching." 

Mr.  Robbins,  upon  the  reading  of  the  resolutions  of 
the  council,  returned  home,  expecting  no  more  com- 
plaints or  trouble,  and  he  was  sustained  in  his  course  by 
his  own  church.  Very  unexpectedly  to  him,  a  com- 
plaint was  exhibited  against  him,  to  the  association 
which  sat  at  Cheshire,  in  May,  1743.  Mr.  Robbins 
accidentally  heard  of  it,  soon  after,  but  he  could  not 
learn  who  were  the  complainants,  nor  what  number  of 
them  there  were,  nor  what  were  the  articles  of  complaint. 
The  next  association  which  met  at  North  Haven,  again 
took  the  •  matter  into  consideration,  and  drew  up  the 
following  confession,  which  they  presented  to  him : 

"Whereas  I,  Philemon  Robbins,  was  condemned  by  the 
consociation  of  New  Haven  county,  for  disorderly  preaching, 
in  the  first  society  in  Wallingford  ;  I  do  now  acknowledge 
that  my  preaching  there  was  disorderly ;  and  I  purpose  to 


2/2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

preach  disorderly  no  more,  and  desire  the  reverend  associa- 
tion of  New  Haven  county  to  overlook  it ;  I  purposing  and 
resolving,  if  opportunity  favor,  to  go  to  said  consociation,  and 
acknowledge  the  said  disorderly  preaching  before  them,  in  or- 
der to  be  restored  to  their  favor." 

As  he  could  not  acknowledge  that  his  preaching  to 
the  Baptists  was  contrary  to  the  word  of  God,  or  the 
Saybrook  platform,  and  as  he  did  not  believe  in  his  con- 
science that  it  was  disorderly,  he  refused  to  subscribe  to 
the  confession.  He  offered  a  confession  of  his  own,  but 
the  association  would  not  accept  it.  But  as  the  people 
were  uneasy  that  he  was  not  on  good  terms  with  the 
association,  and  as  a  good  understanding  with  his  breth- 
ren in  the  vicinity  was  desirable,  he  went  to  the  associa- 
tion the  next  year  in  May,  while  it  was  sitting  in  North 
Branford,  and  offered  three  confessions  to  the  associa- 
tion. The  first  was  in  these  words  : 

"  I  the  subscriber  do  acknowledge  that  I  preached  at  Wal- 
lingford,  within  the  bounds  of  the  first  society,  and  without 
the  consent  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Whittelsey,  pastor  of  the  first 
society,  on  January  6th,  1741-2,  and  now  do  acknowledge, 
that  my  preaching  there  was  a  breach  of  the  order  that  the 
ecclesiastical  authority  of  New  Haven  county  have  come  into, 
by  an  agreement  and  vote,  A.  D.,  1741,  and  so  disorderly 
preaching  in  that  respect,  as  it  was  contrary  to  said  vote. 
And  now  I  declare  that  it  is  my  full  purpose,  at  present,  not 
to  preach  contrary  to  said  vote  of  said  authority  ecclesiastical, 
for  time  to  come,  nor  contrary  to  the  act  of  the  general 
assembly  in  May,  1742.  And  further,  I  humbly  ask  that  the 
association  of  New  Haven  county  would  overlook  what  is 
past,  and  receive  me  to  sit  with  them,  &c.  as  formerly,  and 
recommend  me  to  be  received  by  the  consociation,  upon  my 
making  this  acknowledgment  before  them,  which  I  stand 
ready  to  do  when  opportunity  presents. 

"PHILEMON  ROBBINS." 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  2/3 

It  was  a  long  time  debated  in  council,  whether  this 
confession  should  be  received  or  not.  Some  were  for  it  ; 
but  finally  a  majority  appeared  against  it,  and  it  was 
rejected.  He  offered  them  a  second,  but  that  did  not 
satisfy  them.  He  told  them  he  had  a  third  to  offer,  if 
they  would  hear  it.  They  refused  ;  but  one  of  the  asso- 
ciation wished  to  have  it,  and  promised  to  return  it  to 
him  again,  and  there  was  no  doubt  but  that  the  associa- 
tion heard  it.  It  was  as  follows  : 

"  I  the  subscriber  do  humbly  acknowledge  that  I  preached 
at  Wallingford,  within  the  bounds  of  the  first  society,  to 
the  people  called  the  baptists,  January  6th,  A.  D.  1741-2, 
for  which  the  reverend  consociation  have  secluded  me 
from  the  privilege  of  sitting  with  them,  and  people  at 
home  and  abroad  have  been  uneasy :  I  do  therefore  de- 
clare, that,  though  if  I  was  instrumental  of  any  spiritual 
good  to  any  souls  there,  I  must  so  far  rejoice;  yet  upon 
every  other  account,  I  am  sorry  that  I  went ;  and  desire 
the  association  and  consociation  of  said  county  to  overlook 
it,  and  receive  me  to  sit  with  them,  &c.,  as  formerly. 

"  PHILEMON  ROBBINS." 

Finding  that  nothing  which  he  could  conscientiously 
say  would  satisfy  the  association,  he  went  home,  hoping 
that  what  he  had  said  might  give  satisfaction  to  his 
own  people,  though  it  had  not  to  the  association. 
Another  complaint  was  privately  drawn  up  and  pre- 
sented to  the  association  sitting  at  Amity,  May  29,  1745, 
and  a  paper  was  drawn  up,  signed  by  fifteen  members 
of  the  first  society  of  Branford,  requesting  the  con- 
sociation to  take  into  consideration  the  difficulties  and 
grievances  they  were  laboring  under.  At  a  meeting 
of  the  association  held  at  Waterbury,  September,  1745, 
Mr.  Robbins  offered  another  confession,  stating  that 
he  could  not  after  more  than  three  years  study,  medi- 
T 


2/4  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

tation  and  prayer,  be  convinced  in  conscience  that 
his  so  preaching  was  contrary  to  the  holy  scriptures, 
or  the  mind  of  God.  The  confession  concluded  as 
follows : 

"  And  now,  gentlemen,  I  humbly  beg  forgiveness :  let  my 
ignorance  of  its  being  a  crime  apologize  for  me,  that  I  may 
be  restored.  And  I  would  humbly  offer  one  motive  to 
engage  your  compassion,  viz.  a  prospect  of  peace  among 
my  people,  who  have  been  uneasy,  for  I  think  that  in  other 
respects,  they  are  friendly  and  kind ;  but  this  case  has 
been  an  uneasiness  with  them,  and  a  principal  uneasiness, 
if  I  may  judge  by  their  complaints,  or  what  I  hear  from 
their  own  mouths.  And  therefore,  gentlemen,  as  you  are 
professed  lovers  of  peace,  you  will  undoubtedly  promote 
it,  by  restoring  your  unworthy  servant." 

The  association  would  not  accept  this  confession, 
nor  give  it  so  much  as  a  second  reading.  After  some 
further  prosecution  of  the  affair,  the  consociation  pro- 
ceeded to  depose  him  from  the  ministry  and  the 
communion  of  their  church.  The  record  is  as  follows : 

"  This  Consociation  do  now  and  upon  the  whole  judge 
and  determine  the  said  Robins  unworthy  the  ministerial 
character  and  Christian  communion ;  and  accordingly  do, 
in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  according  to  the 
word  of  God,  and  the  powers  invested  in  this  Consociation 
by  the  ecclesiastical  constitution  of  the  government,  depose 
the  said  Robins  from  his  ministerial  office,  and  ministerial 
and  pastoral  relation,  to  the  first  church  in  said  Branford, 
and  debar  and  suspend  him  from  communion  in  any  of 
the  churches  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ." 

This  occured  in  1747.  Subsequently  a  petition  was 
preferred  before  the  General  Court,  that  they  would  eject 
Mr.  Robbins  from  his  meeting-house,  that  a  regular  min- 
ister might  be  settled  in  his  place.  It  should  be  observed 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  2/5 

that  his  church  had  previously  voted  to  renounce  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  consociation.  The  Sabbath  after  he 
was  deposed,  Mr.  Robbins  preached  from  i  Cor.  9  :  16  ; 
"  For  necessity  is  laid  upon  me  ;  yea,  woe  is  unto  me, 
if  I  preach  not  the  gospel."  Some  of  the  people  went 
to  meeting  with  hesitation  whether  he  would  attempt  to 
preach,  or  if  he  should,  whether  they  should  stay  and 
hear  him  or  not  ;  but  he  made  such  an  extraordinary 
prayer  as  arrested  all  their  attention  and  deeply  im- 
pressed their  minds.  They  judged  that  such  a  prayer 
had  never  been  made  in  that  house.  They  all  tarried  to 
hear  what  he  would  preach.  And  here  again  he  gained 
their  attention  and  entered  deeply  into  their  feelings. 
They  imagined  that  his  discourses  were  not  less  ex- 
traordinary than  his  prayer.  He  continued  preaching, 
and  performed  all  ministerial  duties  as  he  had  done 
before,  and  the  people  attended  his  ministrations.  The 
society  advanced  his  salary  and  encouraged  him  by  pub- 
lic acts  of  generosity.  In  the  year  1755,  about  seven 
years  after,  he  was  invited  to  .sit  with  the  consociation  at 
the  ordination  of  Mr.  Street,  at  East  Haven,  and  no 
objections  were  made  on  account  of  any  thing  which 
had  passed  in  the  times  of  his  trouble.  He  attended 
the  consociations  until  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1781. 
Yet  his  church  sent  no  messenger  with  him.1 

There  is  no  evidence  that  this  First  Church  in  Wall- 
ingford  continued  in  existence  after  the  year  1750.     But 


I  A  History  of  New  England,  with  particular  reference  to  the  denomi- 
nation of  Christians  called  Baptists,  by  Isaac  Bachus,  Boston,  1779-84,  11. 
631.  Trumbull's  Hist,  of  Conn.,  n.  196-233.  A  plain  Narrative  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  Rev.  Association  and  Consociation  of  New  Haven 
county,  against  the  Rev.  Mr.  Robbins,  of  Branford,  since  the  year  1741, 
and  the  doings  of  his  church  and  people.  1743.  Sprague's  Annals,  1,367. 


2/6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

no  doubt  it  exerted  much  influence  toward  the  formation 
of  another  church  in  the  town,  nearly  fifty  years  later. 
The  immediate  cause  of  the  organization  of  the  church 
whose  history  is  now  to  be  sketched,  may  probably  be 
found  in  the  occasional  labors  of  certain  Baptist  min- 
isters attached  to  other  churches  in  the  State.  Among 
these,  the  influence'  of  Rev.  Solomon  Wheat  is  most 
apparent  from  the  records.  The  first  conversions  to 
Baptist  principles  among  those  who  afterwards  con- 
stituted the  church,  appear  to  have  occurred  under 
his  preaching.  And  the  first  two  candidates  baptized 
repaired  to  Glastenbury,  his  place  of  residence,  for 
the  ordinance.  August  23,  1786,  seven  males  and 
five  females  met  at  the  house  where  Charles  Ives  now 
lives,  and  "  by  mutual  agreement  spent  the  day  in 
fasting  and  solemn  prayer  to  Almighty  God  to  succeed 
and  bless  their  endeavour  to  build  him  an  house,  and 
that  He  would  form  them  into  a  gospel  church."  The 
pledge,  "  We  therefore  agree  to  unite  to  make  the 
following  covenant  with  God  and  with  one  another,"  &c., 
was  signed  by 

ISAAC   HALL,  SAMUEL  Mix, 

CHARLES  IVES,  LEAH  PECK, 

EPHRAIM  HOUGH,  SARAH  IVES, 

ZENA  BROCKETT,  MARY  HULL, 

ASEPH  MITCHELL,  JERUSHA  MATOON, 

CHARLES  IVES,  Jr.,  ESTHER  MATOON, 
ISAAC  HALL,    Clerk. 

On  the  /th  of  October,  following,  the  church  was 
publicly  recognized,  after  due  examination  of  their 
articles  of  faith  and  church  order ;  the  Rev.  Solomon 
Wheat  of  Glastenbury,  and  a  delegation  from  the 
church  over  which  he  presided,  giving  the  right  hand 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD. 

of  fellowship.  The  form  of  covenant  adopted  by  them 
is  very  full  and  explicit,  and  expressed  in  language  of 
great  strength  and  solemnity.  It  should  be  remarked 
that  the  church  was  formed,  their  worship  held,  and 
their  first  house  of  worship  erected  within  the  present 
town  of  Meriden.  No  records  remain  of  their  action 
as  a  society,  and  hence  information  is  wanting  on 
some  points,  in  which  it  would  be  desirable.  Their 
church  records  however,  are  measurably  full,  and 
afford  many  hints  of  their  general  condition.  They 
seem  to  have  been  without  a  house  of  worship  for 
many  years,  and  hence  must  have  held  their  meetings 
in  private  dwellings,  school- houses,  etc.  For  several 
years  they  were  generally  held  in  the  south-eastern 
part  of  the  town  of  Meriden,  at  the  residence  of  one 
of  their  members. 

In  the  year  1801,  fifteen  years  from  their  organization, 
a  dwelling-house  was  purchased  and  located  near  the 
division  line  of  both  towns,  but  within  the  limits  of 
Meriden,  and  refitted  as  a  house  of  worship.  As  may 
be  supposed,  it  was  of  moderate  size,  and  devoid  of  all 
ornament.  Yet  it  served  about  fifteen  years  as  a  shelter 
and  rallying  point  for  Baptists,  who  gathered  from  Meri- 
den, Wallingford,  Cheshire,  Hamden,  North  Haven, 
Westfield  and  Berlin.  And  unpretending  as  the  build- 
ing was,  yet  the  language  of  the  admiring  Israelite 
concerning  Zion,  might  be  accommodated  to  the  works 
of  saving  mercy  wrought  within  it.  "The  Lord  shall 
count  when  he  writeth  up  the  people  that  this  and  that 
man  was  born  there."  To  many  it  proved  "  the  house 
of  God  and  the  gate  of  Heaven."  This  building  was 
called  the  "Temple,"  and  was  situated  just  north  of  the 
residence  formerly  occupied  by  Ivah  Curtis.  It  was 


2/8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

about  thirty-five  feet  long  and  twenty-five  feet  wide. 
And  now  that  it  has  passed  the  second  time  to  the  uses 
of  a  private  dwelling,  it  is  still  associated  in  the  memories 
of  some  with  tried  and  faithful  friends  and  brethren, 
whose  voices,  long  since  stilled  in  death,  they  were  there 
wont  to  hear,  as  they  sang  the  praises  of  God,  and  spoke 
his  word  with  power. 

It  is  somewhat  remarkable  that  this  church  remained 
without  the  regular  service  of  an  ordained  minister  for 
even  a  longer  period  than  they  lacked  a  house  of  wor- 
ship. It  was  not  until  May  2Oth,  1806,  that  their  first 
pastor  was  ordained,  making  in  all  twenty  years  from  the 
date  of  their  organization.  Yet,  it  should  not  be 
inferred  from  this  that  they  were  wholly  destitute  of  the 
preaching  of  the  gospel,  and  the  administration  of  the 
ordinances  of  Christ.  Doubtless  they  were  enjoyed  by 
them  at  stated  seasons,  in  days  of  the  greatest  destitu- 
tion. And  there  appears  from  their  records  no  cause 
for  doubt  that  the  worship  and  order  of  a  church  were 
regularly  maintained  by  them,  from  the  time  of  their 
existence  as  a  church.  And  they  appear  to  have  had 
more  ministerial  service  than  most  churches  which  are 
destitute  of  pastoral  care.  Their  first  pastor  seems  to 
have  conducted  their  worship  and  supplied  their  pulpit, 
much,  if  not  most  of  the  time,  for  several  years  previous 
to  his  ordination  ;  and  he  probably  by  exchanges 
secured  the  services  of  ordained  ministers  for  the  regu- 
lar administration  of  the  ordinances.  But  during  their 
comparative,  and  even  their  greatest  destitution,  we 
have  cause  to  regard  them  as  on  the  whole  a  prosper- 
ous church. 

It  appears  from  this  record  that  their  discipline  was 
eminently  Scriptural  and  laborious.  No  complaint  was 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  2/9 

tolerated  against  a  member  until  the  aggrieved  or  com- 
plaining member  had  taken  the  first  and  second  steps  of 
labor  prescribed  in  the  i8th  chapter  of  Matthew.  And 
then  the  complaint  must  assume  the  form  of  a  written 
allegation.  Then  they  seem  to  have  been  prepared  to 
bestow  upon  it  any  amount  of  time  and  labor  which  jus- 
tice to  the  parties  and  the  interests  of  religion  might 
demand.  And  we  have  evidence  also,  that  they  practi- 
cally recognized  the  right  of  the  church  to  the  gifts  of 
its  members,  to  a  degree  by  no  means  common  among 
us  at  the  present  day.  Brethren  of  tried  character  and 
ability  were  regularly  appointed  by  a  vote  of  the  church 
to  conduct  their  religious  services  in  the  absence  of 
ministerial  aid.  And  the  memory  of  many  of  these 
members  is  still  fragrant,  as  characterised  by  eminent 
purity  and  devotion  of  life,  and  by  the  habit  of  frequent 
and  powerful  exhortation  from  the  Word  of  God.  And 
it  may  be  doubted  whether  in  any  recent  period  it  has 
been  favored  with  as  many  able  Christian  exhorters  as 
it  had  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  century.  More- 
over, in  view  of  the  disadvantages  under  which  they 
labored  for  many  years,  from  the  want  of  a  house  of 
worship  and  of  needful  pastoral  service,  and  added  to 
this,  the  strong  prejudices  and  civil  disabilities  with 
which  they  were  called  to  contend,  we  may  regard  them 
as  prosperous  in  the  point  of  numbers. 

In  1791,  this  church  dismissed  thirteen  males  and 
eleven  females  to  form  another  church  in  the  south  part 
of  the  town.  They  were  soon  recognized  as  the  "  Sec- 
'ond  Baptist  church  in  Wallingford,"  by  delegates  from 
the  First  and  Second  Baptist  churches  in  Danbury. 
Their  house  of  worship  was  known  as  the  "  Separate 
Meeting  House,"  and  was  located  about  a  mile  south  of 


28O  HISTORY    OF    WALLJNGFORD. 

the  present  village.  Their  "Articles  of  Faith"  were 
very  full  and  decidedly  Calvinistic.  In  doctrine  they 
were  in  sympathy  with  the  "  Separates,"  who  had  left  the 
churches  of  the  standing  order  after  the  adoption  of 
the  "  Saybrook  Platform,"  and  the  "  Halfway  Covenant" 

It  is  impossible  to  trace  the  history  of  this  second 
church  from  the  records  of  the  first,  as  we  meet  with  no 
more  than  a  single  recognition  of  them  afterwards. 
This  church  had  no  pastor  until  the  year  1800,  when 
Seth  Higby  was  called  to  the  pastorate.  He  continued 
his  labors  with  them  until  his  death  in  1 804.  After  this 
the  church  had  no  settled  pastor,  but  was  supplied  much 
of  the  time  by  ministers  from  neighboring  towns. 
Elders  Lester  and  Green  frequently  visited  them.  In 
1793,  seven  years  from  the  formation  of  the  first  church, 
it  had  numbered  in  all  sixty-four  members.  This  rate 
of  increase  is  probably  greater  than  that  generally 
realized  by  the  Baptist  churches  during  the  last  twenty 
years. 

In  1803,  they  dismissed  twenty-nine  of  their  number 
to  form  a  church  in  Waterbury.  Among  the  members 
of  the  2d  Baptist  Church  in  Wallingford,  who  formed 
the  first  Baptist  church  in  Waterbury,  were  Zenas 
Brockett,  David  Frost,  and  Isaac  Terrell.  For  several 
years  it  was  their  custom,  and  the  custom  of  those  after- 
wards associated  with  them,  to  visit  the  church  of  their 
adoption  at  least  once  every  month,  and  this  journey,  a 
distance  of  twelve  miles,  they  usually  performed  on  foot. 
By  these  brethren,  meetings  were  established  and  con- 
ducted in  the  town  of  Waterbury  ;  and  Nov.  10,  1803,  a* 
church  was  organized  of  those  previously  connected 
with  the  Second  Baptist  Church  in  Wallingford.  Preem- 
nent  in  this  movement  were  the  brethren  whose  names 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  28 1 

are  above  recorded ;  men  who  deserve  a  cherished  and 
honored  memory  as  leaders  of  the  infant  church,  and  as 
Christians  of  tried  integrity  of  character  and  purity 
of  life. 

In  1804,  a  church  was  formed  in  Westfield  parish, 
Middletown,  by  members  dismissed  for  that  purpose 
from  the  Second  Baptist  Church  of  Wallingford.  That 
church  maintained  its  existence  nearly  fifty  years,  and 
saw  days  of  peace  and  usefulness.  More  recently,  it  ex- 
perienced heavy  trials,  resulting  in  the  reduction  of  its 
membership.  Reduced  still  farther  by  the  removal  of 
members  to  other  places,  it  finally  disbanded.  Yet  it 
lived  not  in  vain.  *It  has  given  back  to  the  church  from 
which  it  originated  a  number  of  valued  members,  and 
to  other  and  remoter  churches  it  has  made  its  contribu- 
tions of  active  laborers  in  the  cause  of  Christ. 

In  1811  the  second  society  in  Wallingford  disbanded, 
and  a  part  of  their  number  united  with  the  labors  of 
Joshua  Bradley,  who  was  living  in  Wallingford.  Mr. 
Bradley  came  from  Rhode  Island  in  1809,  and  being  a 
thoroughly  educated  man,  commenced  teaching  and 
preaching  in  the  village  of  Wallingford.  Soon  an  acade- 
my was  built  for  him,  and  he  preached  a  part  of  the 
time  in  that.  There  was  no  organized  Baptist  church 
in  the  center,  while  he  labored  in  the  town.  But  there 
was  a  (Baptist)  congregation  of  that  order,  and  they  met 
for  worship  a  part  of  the  time  in  what  was  known  as 
the  "Wells  House."  A  Mr.  Wells  held  Calvinistic 
sentiments,  and  with  many  others  separated  from  the 
old  Congregational  church,  and  erected  a  new  house  of 
worship  which  was  located  where  the  Episcopal  church 
now  stands.  The  Baptists  worshiped  in  it  until  their 
present  house  of  worship  was  erected  in  1822. 


282  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

There  are  many  now  living  who  testify  to  Mr.  Bradley's 
faithful  and  incessant  labors  during  a  period  of  seven  or 
eight  years,  while  he  taught  in  the  Academy  and 
preached  on  the  Sabbath.  He  did  not  escape  the  perse- 
cution of  those  days.  On  one  occasion  he  was  forcibly 
taken  from  the  school-room  by  an  officer  of  the  law,  and 
hurried  away  to  New  Haven  and  confined  in  jail.  His 
friends  immediately  bailed  him  out.  When  he  was 
preaching  in  New  Haven,  about  the  time  of  the  consti- 
tution of  the  First  Baptist  church  in  that  city,  he  was 
tried  before  the  Superior  Court.  In  the  language  of 
the  indictment,  he  was  charged  with  "drawing  away 
from  their  respective  Pastors  and  Ecclesiastical  Societies, 
to  which  they  belonged,  many  of  the  citizens."  But  in 
every  trial  his  enemies  were  confounded ;  and  the  oppo- 
sition to  him  resulted  in  the  furtherance  of  the  gospel. 

At  this  time  there  was  no  Baptist  church  in  Walling- 
ford.  What  was  the  First  church  in  the  north  part  of 
the  town,  was  still  in  existence,  but  the  house  of  wor- 
ship was  in  Meriden.  In  1806,  when  Meriden  was 
incorporated  as  a  town,  a  part  of  the  township  was  set 
off  from  Wallingford,  as  has  been  before  stated.  The 
line  of  division  between  the  two  towns  was  run  a  little 
south  of  the  Old  "  Temple."  After  this  the  church  was 
called  the  "  Baptist  church  in  Meriden."  The  house  of 
worship  stood  about  three  miles  from  Meriden  center, 
and  about  four  from  the  center  of  Wallingford.  It  was 
found  at  length  to  be  unfavorable  with  respect  to  the 
centers  of  the  population  around  them.  Hence,  after 
long,  perhaps  too  long  delay,  it  was  resolved  to  rear  the 
banner  which  had  been  given  them  to  be  displayed 
because  of  the  truth,  in  the  center  of  Meriden.  This 
appears  to  have  been  done  also,  with  the  view  to  a 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  283 

separate  organization  for  the  center  of  Wallingford. 
Accordingly  in  1815,  measures  were  taken  for  the 
erection  of  a  house  of  worship  in  the  village  of  Meriden. 
This  appears  to  have  been  done  mainly  at  the  expense 
of  that  part  of  the  members  who  resided  in  Meriden, 
and  who  would  naturally  attend  at  the  new  place  of  wor- 
ship. The  building  was  probably  erected  the  same 
year ;  and  although  left  unfinished  in  the  interior,  was 
applied  to  the  uses  for  which  it  was  designated.  Whe- 
ther the  members  in  Wallingford  united  with  them  in 
worship  for  a  time,  or  maintained  a  separate  meeting  at 
the  old  place  or  in  Wallingford  village,  does  not  appear 
from  the  records.  When  the  brethren  in  Meriden 
erected  a  new  house  of  worship,  the  members  living  in 
Wallingford  then  began  to  think  of  forming  a  separate 
church  of  their  own.  Accordingly,  as  the  record  reads, 

"  The  Baptist  Church  in  Meriden  being  fully  persuaded 
that  it  would  be  for  the  advancement  of  Zion,  to  constitute  a 
Baptist  Church  in  Wallingford  out  of  their  number,  voted  to 
call  a  council  for  that  purpose." 

At  the  call  of  the  Meriden  church,  a  council  was 
convened  May  15,  1817,  and  the  present  Baptist  church 
of  Wallingford  was  then  constituted,  consisting  of 
thirty-four  members.  In  1821,  when  the  Hartford 
Association  met  in  Sandisfield,  Mass.,  the  church  re- 
ported eighty  members.  Their  first  pastor  was  Rev. 
Samuel  Miller.  Henceforth,  the  paths  of  the  two 
bodies  diverge,  or  rather  run  distinct,  though  parallel. 
Let  us  follow  the  history  of  the  church  in  Meriden. 

Greatly  weakened  by  the  loss  of  one-half  or  more  of 
its  members,  the  progress  of  the  church  was  not  rapid, 
if  indeed  it  has  ever  been  so,  in  point  of  enlargement. 
Two  other  churches  preceded  it  in  the  village,  in  the 


284  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

order  of  time,  and  one  of  them  which  had  existed  from 
the  year  1725,  more  than  fifty  years  before  the  existence 
of  the  Baptist  church  had  gathered  around  it  the  mass 
of  the  population.  The  small  meeting-house,  for  two  or 
three  years  naked  in  the  interior,  and  the  small  number 
of  attendants,  presented  a  painful  contrast  with  the 
numbers  and  circumstances  of  their  brethren  adjoining 
them.  Many  pronounced  the  attempt  a  failure  at  the 
beginning ;  and  probably  for  sometime  afterwards  had 
little  apprehension  of  proving  false  prophets.  Years  of 
toil,  and  apparently  of  unrequited  toil,  awaited  the 
brethren.  Yet  amid  periods  of  comparative  weakness 
and  barrenness  there  were  seasons  of  limited  success, 
and  of  brightening  prospects.  A  revision  of  the  roll 
of  members,  reported  October  3,  1819,  showed  the 
whole  number  of  members  to  be  seventy-three. 

But  the  year  1820  appears  to  have  been  one  of 
increase,  both  in  point  of  numbers  and  of  strength,  and 
hence  of  reviving  hope  and  courage.  About  twenty 
persons  were  added  to  their  number  by  baptism.  Some 
valuable  additions  were  made  to  the  church  in  succeed- 
ing years  ;  but  no  general  revival  followed  until  the  year 
1829.  In  the  autumn  of  this  year  a  more  extensive 
revival  of  religion  commenced,  than  the  church  had 
before  witnessed  since  its  organization.  A  revision  of 
the  records  which  took  place  a  few  years  afterwards,  in- 
volving the  destruction  or  loss  of  the  former  roll  of 
membership,  has  rendered  it  impossible  to  determine  the 
number  added  to  the  church  during  that  revival.  It  is 
believed  however,  that  about  twenty  were  received. 
While  the  work  was  rising  and  spreading  rapidly,  the 
pastor  of  the  church  was  suddenly  removed  to  his 
account.  The  short  interval  of  four  days  only,  occurred 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    MERIDEN.  285 

between  vigorous  health  and  active  labor,  and  his  death. 
Four  days  later  the  wife  of  the  pastor  was  removed  by 
death.  Five  days  more,  and  one  of  the  deacons  of  the 
church,  who,  for  nearly  twenty  years  had  proved  himself 
a  firm  friend  and  advocate  of  the  church,  lay  prostrate 
in  death. 

Rev.  William  Bentley  was  secured  for  the  temporary 
supply  of  the  pulpit,  and  under  his  preaching,  an 
impulse  was  given  to  the  church  which  it  has  probably 
never  wholly  lost.  Father  Bentley  was  naturally  pos- 
sessed of  considerable  mental  energy,  and  especially 
great  intensity  of  feeling,  and  vividness  of  imagination. 
His  language  was  often  awkward  and  blundering;  but 
the  moment  his  mind  began  to  glow,  it  became  simple 
and  touching,  and  often  quite  eloquent.1  In  June,  1830, 
Rev.  Russell  Jennings  assumed  the  pastoral  charge. 
During  this  year,  the  house  of  worship  was  removed, 
and  received  an  addition  to  its  length,  together  with  a 
spire,  and  a  basement  room  used  as  a  vestry.  Mr. 
Jennings  remained  until  November,  1832,  a  period  of 
two  years  and  five  months.  In  September  ensuing, 
1833,  Rev.  Nathaniel  Hervey  became  pastor  of  the 
church,  and  continued  in  that  relation  about  one  year. 
April  i,  1835,  Rev.  George  B.  Atwell  was  called  to 
the  pastoral  charge,  and  retained  it  two  years.  In  May 


i  Rev.  Wm.  Bentley  was  born  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  March  3,  1775.  At  the  age 
of  fifteen,  he  was  sent  to  Boston  to  learn  a  trade  of  a  baker  ;  was  baptized 
May,  1791.  At  the  end  of  his  apprenticeship  he  commenced  business  as  a 
baker  in  Boston.  He  was  first  licensed  to  preach  in  1806,  and  was  first 
settled  at  Tiverton,  R.  I.  From  thence  he  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass., 
where  he  preached  three  years  with  a  salary  of  one  hundred  dollars  per 
annum.  In  1815,  he  removed  to  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  where  he  remained 
six  years  ;  after  which  he  sustained  no  pastoral  charge,  but  preached  in 
various  parts  of  the  State.  He  died  December  24,  1855,  aged  eighty  years. 


286  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ensuing,    1837,    Rev.    Leland   Howard   succeeded    him, 
and  served  until  June,  1838. 

In  August,  1838,  Rev.  Harvey  Miller  entered  upon 
the  services  of  the  church,  which  he  served  in  all  fidelity 
until  called  to  his  rest  and  reward  on  high,  upon  which 
he  entered  August  27,  1856,  having  served  the  church  as 
pastor  eighteen  years.1  He  was  a  genial  and  loving 
friend,  with  rare  conversational  powers,  and  a  favorite 
with  all.  As  a  preacher,  his  sermons  were  full  of  rich 
thought  and  evangelical  truth,  and  his  delivery  was 
rapid,  animated  and  energetic.2 

In  1848,  the  society  increasing  with  the  growth  of  the 
town,  erected  for  themselves  a  large  and  beautiful 
church,  not  far  from  the  site  of  the  former  one.  The 
cost  of  the  new  house,  completed  and  furnished,  together 
with  the  land  and  the  lecture-room,  was  $9,500.  Its 
dimensions  are  seventy-six  feet  long  and  fifty-three  feet 
wide.3 

April  i,   1857,  Rev.  D.   Henry   Miller  entered    upon 

1  Church  Manual,  1861. 

2  Rev.  Harvey  Miller  was  born  in  Wallingford,  April,  3,  1814.     His 
father,  Rev.  Samuel  Miller,  preached  in  this  town  twenty-three  years.     On 
his  seventeenth  birth-day,  1831,  he  was  baptized  by  Rev.  Simon  Shailer, 
and  two  months  after  united  with  the  church.     He  preached  his  first  ser- 
mon in  the  North    Farms'  school-house,  Sabbath  evening,  June  5,  1831, 
from  John  in  :   14.     After  preaching  in  various  places  for  nearly  a  year, 
he  entered  upon   a  course  of  study  at    Hamilton  Theological  Institute  in 
1832.    His  health  failing  him  he  left  the  Institution  in  June,  1836,  and  went 
to   Ann   Arbor,   Michigan,  where  he  was   ordained  November  23,  1836. 
After   preaching  there   two   years  he   came  to   Meriden,  where   he   was 
married  to  Mrs.  Sarah  R.  Ives,  May  21,  1839.     His   pastorate  in  Meriden 
extended  through  eighteen  years.      He  preached  his  last  sermon  in  this 
church,  August  17,  and  died  on  the  27th,  1856,  aged  42  years. 

3  In  1869,  an  addition  was  built  on  the  west  end  of  the  church,  to  con- 
tain an  organ,  which  was  presented  by  Edward  Miller,  Esq. 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    MERIDEN.  28/ 

the  duties  of  the  pastorate,  at  the  unanimous  call  of  the 
church.  A  work  of  grace  soon  blessed  his  labors,  and 
ninety-three  persons  were  received  in  the  ordinance  of 
baptism,  and  forty-nine  by  letter  and  experience,  during 
the  first  two  years  of  his  ministry.  The  membership  at 
this  time  was  474. 

During  his  pastorate  the  Second  Baptist  church  in 
West  Meriden  was  organized,  June  4,  1861,  by  members 
dismissed  from  the  First  Baptist  church.  A  lot  for  a 
church  edifice  was  secured  at  a  cost  of  $400.  A  chapel 
was  built  at  a  cost  of  $1,700,  in  which  the  society  wor- 
shiped until  their  church  was  built.  This  church  is 
built  of  brick,  with  brown  stone  trimmings,  after  the 
modern  Gothic  style  of  architecture.  Its  dimensions  are 
eighty-two  by  forty-two  feet,  with  transepts  seventy-two 
feet  wide  extending  twenty-five  feet  on  one  side,  and 
thirty-three  on  the  other,  making  the  entire  width  of 
the  church  across  the  transept  to  be  one  hundred  feet. 

Mr.  Miller  closed  his  connection  with  the  church,  and 
entered  the  service  of  his  country  as  chaplain  in  the 
1 5th  regiment.1  He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Mr.  Mason, 
who  remained  here  about  one  year.  Rev.  Henry  A. 
Cordo  was  settled  over  the  society  in  1864,  and  re- 
mained until  September,  1866.  He  was  followed  by 
Rev.  Otis  Saxton,  who  supplied  the  pulpit  until  Septem- 


i  Rev.  D.  Henry  Miller  was  the  eighth  son  of  James  and  Mary  A.  Miller, 
of  Charlestown,  Mass.  His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  one  of  the  heroes  of 
Bunker  Hill.  Mr.  Miller  was  born  in  Jersey  City,  Oct.  31,  1825;  was 
graduated  in  1845  ;  took  degree  of  A.  M.  in  1849  from  Madison  Univer- 
sity. He  was  ordained  at  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  Nov.  17,  1847.  I'1 
1866  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  on  him  by  the 
University  of  Lewisburg,  Penn.  Became  pastoral  Meriden  April  i,  1857, 
where  he  served  successfully,  and  left  the  church  to  enter  the  service  of 
his  country  during  the  rebellion.  In  1868,  he  was  called  to  the  Broad  St. 
Baptist  church  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 


288  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

her,  1867,  when  he  left  for  Valparaiso,  Wisconsin.  June 
7,  1868,  Rev.  Almond  Barelle1  was  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  church. 

We  will  now  return  to  the  Wallingford  church. 
When  the  Rev.  Samuel  Miller  was  dismissed  to  join  the 
church  in  Meriden,  his  associate,  Rev.  Sedgwick  Rice,  in 
connection  with  Rev.  Mr.  Wilson,  who  preached  a  part 
of  the  time,  had  the  oversight  of  the  church  until  1825, 
when  Rev.  Seth  Ewer  was  called  to  the  pastorate.  He 
continued  his  labors  until  July,  1827.  From  that  time 
to  1831,  the  church  was  successively  supplied  by  El- 
ders Glazier,  Kimball  and  Knowlton.  In  1831,  Simon 
Shailer  was  called  to  the  pastorate.  Under  his  ministry 
a  good  number  were  added  to  the  church.  Early  in 
1837  he  was  succeeded  by  Francis  Hawley,  who,  in 
1841  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Batcheler.  In  1843  Mr. 
Batcheler  adopted  "  Millerite  views,"  and  thus  created 
division  in  the  church,  which  resulted  in  the  exclusion  of 
many  from  its  fellowship.  In  1844  A.  E.  Denison  was 
called  to  take  the  pastoral  charge  of  the  church.  When 
he  commenced  his  labors,  the  church  was  in  a  low 
state  ;  but  with  his  judicious  efforts  there  was  soon  a 
good  degree  of  union  and  prosperity  in  the  church.  In 
1847  they  remodeled  their  house  of  worship,  and  added 
the  front  part  and  steeple  at  a  cost  of  nearly  $3,000.  In 
1850  Charles  Keyser  became  pastor  of  the  church,  and 
was  succeeded  in  1853  by  S.  B.  Grant.  In  1855  Rev. 
R.  J.  Adams  was  called,  and  during  his  pastorate  the 


I  Mr.  Barelle  was  graduated  at  Madison  University,  and  was  a  student 
at  the  Rochester  Theological  Seminary.  He  was  first  located  at  Central 
City,  Colorado,  where  he  remained  three  years.  His  next  pastorate  was 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  two  years.  Sept.  24th,  1864,  he 
married  Miss  Julia  E.  Merchant  at  Central  City,  Colorado. 


BAPTIST    CHURCH    IN    WALLINGFORD.  289 

church  enjoyed  two  revivals,  and  seventy-one  were  added 
to  the  membership.  January  19,  1870,  Mr.  Adams  was 
installed  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Holyoke, 
Mass.,  and  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  A.  C.  Bronson  in 
1870.  The  church  has  suffered  greatly  from  a  frequent 
change  of  pastors.  During  the  fifty-two  years  of  its 
existence  it  has  had  no  less  than  fifteen.  The  longest 
terms  of  office  were  held  by  Messrs.  Shailer  and  Denison  ; 
the  one  five  years,  and  the  other  seven  years. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice,  that  at  the  call  of  this  church, 
a  convention  of  delegates  from  nine  churches  met  in  the 
academy  at  Wallingford,  Sept.  15,  1825,  and  formed  the 
New  Haven  Baptist  Association.  Since  1826,  there  have 
been  added  to  the  church  by  baptism,  three  hundred  and 
ninety-three ;  by  letter,  ninety-five.  As  nearly  as  can 
be  estimated,  there  have  been  connected  with  the  church 
since  its  formation  over  six  hundred  members.1 

The  doctrinal  views  of  the  Baptist  churches  are  like 
those  of  the  early  Puritans,  and  their  church  organiza- 
tion is  strictly  congregational,  holding  that  none  are 
proper  subjects  of  Christian  ordinances,  but  professed 
believers,  and  thus  of  course  excluding  unconscious 
babes  from  the  ordinance  of  baptism.  Their  church 
government  is  essentially  democratic.  As  a  denomina- 
tion, it  is  believed  they  have  ever  in  all  countries,  and 
at  all  times,  been  opposed  to  the  interference  of  the 
civil  authority  in  matters  of  conscience  ;  believing  as 
Roger  Williams  has  said,  in  that  great  cardinal  principle, 
the  full  enjoyment  of  "soul  liberty."  It  is  worthy  of 
special  note,  that  the  Rev.  Asahel  Morse,  then  pastor 
of  the  first  Baptist  church  in  Suffield,  was  one  of  the 


I  Minutes  of  N.  H.  Bapt.  Ass.,  1859. 
U 


290 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


delegates  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  1818,  and 
that  the  article  in  the  constitution,  on  religious  liberty, 
is  from  his  pen.1 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  regular  pastors  who  have 
been  settled  over  the  church  in  Meriden  : 


DANIEL  WILDMAN,  1789, 

NATHANIEL  NORTON,  1791, 

SAMUEL  MILLER,  1806, 

RUSSELL  JENNINGS,  1830, 

NATHANIEL  HERVEY,  1833, 

GEORGE  B.  ATWELL,  1835, 

LELAND  HOWARD,  1837, 

HARVEY  MILLER,  1838, 

D.  HENRY  MILLER,  1857. 
H.  G.  MASON. 

HENRY  A.  CORDO,  1864, 

ALMOND  BARELLE,  1868. 


Served  one  year. 


twenty-three  years, 
two  years, 
one  year, 
two  years, 
one  year, 
eighteen  years. 


two  years. 


During  the  vacancies  in  the  pastoral  office  at  different 
times,  the  pulpit  has  been  supplied  by  Rev.  S.  Wheat, 
and  Elders  S.  Higby,  Parsons,  Graves  and  Beach,  and 
Rev.  Messrs.  William  Bentley,  Otis  Saxon,  and  other 
clergymen.  The  following  have  served  the  church  as 
deacons : 


EPHRAIM  HOUGH,   1788. 
JESSE  DICKERMAN,  1789. 
JOHN  HALL,  1800. 
SEDGWICK  RICE,  18.14. 
OTHNIEL  IVES,  1816. 
GERSHOM  BIRDSEY,  1830. 
AUGUSTUS  HALL,  1830. 
SAMUEL' I.  HART,  1851. 
LYMAN  CLARK,  1853. 


CHARLES  IVES,   1788. 
JEDUTHAN  HIGBY,   1792. 
AMBROSE  HOUGH,  1802. 
ASA  BUTLER,  1814. 
RANSOM  IVES,   1816. 
JOHN  HALL,  re-elected,    1830. 
NATHAN  F.  GOODRICH,    1830. 
HORACE  PRATT,   1851. 
RUSSEL  B.  PERKINS,   1853. 


ALANSON  BIRDSEY,  1860. 


I  Hollister,  n.  561. 


291 


CHAPTER     XIII. 

SETTLEMENT  OF  MESSRS.  NOYES  AND  GILBERT. 

IN  1785  Dr.  Dana's  health  had  become  so  much  en- 
feebled that  he  found  himself  inadequate  to  discharge 
all  his  duties  ;  and  by  request,  the  church  and  society 
with  great  unanimity  chose  Mr.  James  Noyes  to  be  his 
colleague.  Mr.  Noyes  belonged  to  a  line  of  ministers 
which  at  the  time  of  his  death  had  existed  during  two 
hundred  years  in  uninterrupted  succession.  The  family 
of  Noyes  is  of  Norman  descent,  and  originated  in  Eng- 
land with  William  de  Noyes,  one  of  the  followers  of 
the  Duke  of  Normandy  in  his  conquest  of  England 
in  1006.  The  family  settled  in  Cornwall,  England,  in 
the  reign  of  Charles  I.  William  de  Noyes  of  St.  Burian, 
was  Attorney  General,  and  his  son  Humphrey  was  a 
Colonel  in  the  Royal  army  and  married  to  the  heiress  of 
Lord  Sandys. 

Rev.  James  Noyes,  the  emigrant,  was  born  at  Choul- 
derton,  or  as  Brook  has  it,  Chaldrington,  in  Wiltshire, 
England,  in  the  year  1608.  His  father,  who  had  a  high 
reputation  for  learning,  was  a  minister  and  school-master 
in  that  town ;  and  his  mother  was  a  sister  of  the  Rev. 
Robert  Parker,  a  famous  Puritan  divine.  Mr.  Noyes 
was  graduated  at  Brazenose  college,  Oxford.  After  he 
had  entered  upon  the  work  of  the  ministry,  he  felt  that 


2Q2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

he  could  not  conscientiously  conform  to  all  the  instituted 
ceremonies  of  the  Established  Church  ;  he  therefore 
formed  the  purpose  of  seeking  a  home  on  this  side  of 
the  ocean.  Shortly  before  carrying  this  purpose  into 
effect,  he  was  married  to  Sarah,  the  eldest  daughter  of 
Joseph  Brown,  of  Southampton.  He  came  to  this  coun- 
try in  1634,  being  accompanied  by  a  younger  brother, 
Nicholas  Noyes,  and  his  cousin,  Thomas  Parker.  Shortly 
after  his  arrival  he  was  called  to  preach  at  Mystic  ( now 
Medford),  and  remained  there  a  year.  A  church  was 
gathered  at  Newbury,  of  which  Mr.  Parker  was  chosen 
pastor,  and  Mr.  Noyes  teacher.  Mr.  Noyes,  at  the  close 
of  his  life,  endured  a  long  and  tedious  illness  with  the 
most  cheerful  submission.  He  died  October  22,  1656, 
in  the  forty-eighth  year  of  his  age,  having  been  minister 
at  Newbury  more  than  twenty  years. 

Mr.  Noyes  left  six  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of 
whom  lived  to  become  the  heads  of  families.  His 
eldest  son  James,  was  born  March  1 1,  1640  ;  was  gradu- 
ated at  Harvard  college  in  1659  ;  began  to  preach  at 
Stonington,  Connecticut,  in  1664;  was  ordained  pastor 
of  the  church  there  September  10,  1674;  and  died 
December  30,  1719,  in  his  eightieth  year.  Moses, 
another  son,  was  born  at  Newbury,  December  6,  1643; 
was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1659;  was  or~ 
dained  the  first  minister  of  Lyme,  Connecticut,  in  1693, 
having  preached  there  twenty-seven  years  before  a 
church  could  be  formed;  and  died  November  10,  1726, 
aged  eighty-three.1  Joseph  Noyes  was  the  son  of  Rev. 
James  Noyes  of  Stonington.  He  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College,  1709,  and  was  a  tutor  there  from  1710  to 


I   Mather's  Magnalia,  III.     Brook's  Lives,  161.     Coffin's  Hist,   of  New- 
bury.    Sprague's  Annals,  I. 


REV.    JAMES    NOYES.  293 

1715  ;  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  First  church  in  New 
Haven,  July  4,  1716;  where  he  died  June  14,  1761, 
aged  seventy-three  years.1  He  left  two  sons ;  John, 
who  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1753,  became 
a  preacher,  but  was  prevented  from  settling  in  the  min- 
istry by  imperfect  health,  and  died  greatly  lamented  in 
1767.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph  Fish 
of  Stonington,  and  had  three  sons,  two  of  whom  after- 
wards became  clergymen.  One  of  them,  John,  was 
graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1799,  was  ordained  pastor 
of  the  church  at  Norfield,  parish  of  Weston,  Ct.,  May  31, 
1786,  and  died  May  15,  1846,  in  his  eighty-fourth  year. 
He  published  a  Half-century  sermon  in  1836. 

The  other  son,  James,  the  successor  of  Dr.  Dana  at 
Wallingford,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  August  4,  1764. 
He  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1782,  and  ordained 
colleague  pastor  with  Rev.  James  Dana,  May  4,  1785, 
being  then  in  his  twenty-first  year.  He  continued  to 
discharge  the  duties  of  the  pastoral  office  till  June  5, 
1832,  i.  e.,  for  forty-seven  years  ;  in  all  which  long  period, 
almost  half  a  century,  he  was  prevented  from  performing 
his  'public  duties,  by  ill  health,  only  on  two  Sabbaths. 
His  relation  with  his  people  was  dissolved  amicably  and 
at  his  own  request.  He  continued,  however,  to  reside 
among  them  until  his  death,  February  18,  1844,  sus- 
taining with  them  and  with  his  successor,  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Gilbert,  the  most  friendly  relations.  His  funeral  was 
attended  on  February  20.  Several  members  of  his 
family  being  ill,  prayer  was  offered  at  the  house  by  the 
Rev.  Stephen  Dodd,  of  East  Haven.  An  excellent  and 
very  appropriate  sermon  from  Hebrews  13:7,  was  pro- 
nounced by  the  Rev.  Edwin  R.  Gilbert,  with  sacred 


i   Bacon's  Hist.  Dis.,  p.  200.     Allen's  Kiog.  Diet. 


294  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

music  from  the  choir,  while  an  attentive  audience  (almost 
the  entire  population),  listened,  with  manifestations  of 
deep  feeling.  An  address  was  delivered  at  the  grave  by 
the  Rev.  Saul  Clark,  of  Meriden  ;  it  was  solemn  and 
affectionate,  and  the  sick  family  were  warmly  commended 
to  favor  and  sympathy. 

Mr.  Noyes  was  distinguished  for  a  sound  judgment 
both  in  his  public  discourses  and  in  his  personal  deport- 
ment, which  was  always  discreet,  amiable  and  concili- 
ating. He  was  a  lover  of  peace  and  harmony,  and  passed 
through  difficult  times,  in  a  trying  position,  in  so  happy 
a  manner  as  at  once  to  maintain  the  dignity  of  his  office 
and  character,  and  still  to  command  the  respect  and 
good  will  of  all ;  for  it  is  not  known  that  he  ever  had  a 
personal  enemy.  His  prayers,  especially  on  peculiar 
occasions,  such  as  cases  of  domestic  affliction,  were  re- 
markable for  their  elevation,  spirituality,  and  adaptation 
to  the  circumstances  of  every  case.  His  language  was 
select  and  happy,  and  so  peculiarly  his  own,  that  it  ap- 
peared always  original  but  still  met  every  feeling  of  the 
mourner ;  and  he  never  hesitated  or  use  1  an  inappropri- 
ate word.  His  house  was  eminently  hospitable,  and  a 
hearty  welcome  was  given  to  the  friend  and  the  stranger, 
both  by  him  and  his  excellent  partner,  who  died  in 
January,  1838.  Out  of  fourteen  children,  they  buried 
eight,  and  most  of  them  of  mature  years.  The  death  of 
Mr.  Noyes  was  peculiarly  happy  ;  during  the  week  of  his 
illness  with  lung-fever  he  was  patient,  cheerful,  affec- 
tionate and  joyful  in  hope  ;  he  took  leave  of  his  family, 
one  by  one,  with  counsels  and  prayer,  and  when  he  died 
those  who  loved  him  most  could  not  wish  that  he  might 
return,  for 

"  Blessed  are  the  dead  who  die  in  the  Lord." 


REV.    JAMES    NOYES. 


295 


No  picture  of  the  "  good  parson"  that  was  ever  drawn 
could  exceed  in  beauty  that  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Noyes, 
whose  life  and  manners  had  that  indescribable  beauty, 
completeness,  and  sacredness,  which  religion  sometimes 


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gives  when  shining  out  through  a  peculiarly  congenial 
natural  temperament.  The  following  entry  was  made 
by  Mr.  Noyes  on  the  church  records : 


296  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

"From  the  day  of  my  ordination  May  4th,  1785,  I  was 
continued  in  office  till  June  5th,  1832  ;  having  preached  to 
the  people  of  my  charge,  forty-six  years  and  six  months. 
During  this  period  with  the  addition  of  four  months,  two 
hundred  and  seventy-nine  have  been  admitted  to  com- 
munion ;  five  hundred  and  forty  have  received  baptism ; 
and  six  hundred  and  ninety  have  died. 

"JAMES  NOYES."' 

Rev.  Mr.  Gilbert,2  then  in  his  twenty-fourth  year,  and 
a  recent  graduate  of  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary, 
succeeded  to  the  pastoral  office,  and  was  ordained  Octo- 
ber 3,  1832.  He  still  remains  pastor  of  the  church, 
being  the  oldest  pastor  in  Connecticut  performing  the 
duties  of  the  office,  with  one  exception  ;  viz.,  Rev.  Dr. 
Elbridge  of  Norfolk,  his  college  and  theological  class- 
mate. The  church  membership  in  1832  was  about  one 
hundred  and  fifty.  Notwithstanding  deaths  and  remov- 


.1   For  descendants  of  Mr.  Noyes,  see  genealogies. 

2  Edwin  Randolph  Gilbert,  son  of  Peyton  K.  and  Anna  Gilbert,  of  He- 
bron, Conn,  (ecclesiastical  society  of  Gilead),  was  born  Feb.  10,  1808. 
His  father  was  a  plain,  substantial  farmer,  of  more  than  ordinary  intelli- 
gence and  worth.  He  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens, and  was  several  times  elected  their  representative  in  the  Legislature, 
and  once  a  member  of  the  State  Senate.  Rev.  Mr.  Gilbert  was  fitted  for 
college  by  Rev.  Amos  Bassett,  D.  D.,  of  Hebron,  and  in  the  academies  of 
Monroe  and  Westfield,  Mass.  He  entered  Yale  college  in  1825,  and  was 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1829.  One  of  his  classmates  says  of  him,  that 
he  was  a  diligent  student,  and  much  esteemed  by  members  of  his  class, 
especially  by  those  most  intimately  acquainted  with  him.  He  passed  im- 
mediately into  the  theological  department  of  Yale  college,  and  was  licensed 
at  the  end  of  the  second  year  by  the  New  Haven  East  Association,  and 
was  installed  pastor  of  the  First  church  in  Wallingford,  Oct.  3,  1832. 
While  in  college,  Mr.  Gilbert  was  a  great  admirer  of  Dr.  Taylor,  and  has 
ever  been  one  of  the  best  representatives  of  his  theological  system.  Mr. 
Gilbert  was  elected  a  member  of  the  corporation  of  Yale  college  in  1849; 
the  mantle  of  his  father-in-Jaw,  Rev.  Aaron  Dutton,  fell  most  worthily 
upon  him. 


REV.    EDWIN    R.    GILBERT.  2Q7 

als,  it  is  now  two  hundred  and  eighty-nine.  During  his 
ministry  a  new  church  edifice,  designed  to  seat  seven 
hundred  and  ten  persons,  has  been  erected  at  an  expense 
of  about  $40,000.  The  corner-stone  was  laid  June  16, 
1868,  and  it  was  dedicated  May  21,  1869. 


298  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 

THE  GREAT  AWAKENING.     REVIVALS. 

We  have  but  little  information  in  regard  to  the  general 
state  of  religion  in  the  churches  of  this  town  during  the 
earlier  periods  of  their  existence.  But  we  know  that 
from  the  year  1700  and  onward,  throughout  all  New 
England,  experimental  and  vital  godliness  had  very 
much  decayed.  The  doctrines  of  Christ  grew  more 
and  more  unpopular;  family  prayer,  and  all  the  duties 
of  the  gospel  were  less  regarded  ;  ungodliness  prevailed, 
and  infidelity  was  making  alarming  progress.  Out  of 
the  church,  was  to  be  seen  a  general  carelessness.  In 
it,  a  spirit  of  deep  slumber ;  a  want  of  discipline  ;  want 
of  active  brotherly  love;  want  of  everything,  almost, 
but  cold  profession.  As  the  good  people  who  planted 
the  town  died  and  the  new  generation  came  on,  there 
was  a  sensible  decline  as  to  the  life  and  power  of  godli- 
ness. The  generation  which  succeeded  were  not  in 
general  so  eminent  and  distinguished  in  their  zeal  and 
strictness  of  morals,  as  their  fathers.  The  third  and 
fourth  generations  became  still  more  generally  inatten- 
tive to  their  spiritual  concerns,  and  manifested  a  greater 
declension  from  the  purity  and  zeal  of  their  ancestors. 
This  is  not  the  place  to  enter  upon  a  discussion  or  even 
a  full  enumeration  of  the  causes  of  this  declension.  The 


GREAT    AWAKENING.  299 

"  half  way  covenant,"  the  numerous  and  almost  incessant 
wars  which  oppressed  and  harassed  the  people,  and  the 
fierce  political  agitations  of  the  day,  were,  no  doubt, 
among  these  causes. 

In  1715,  the  General  Association  said,  "that  there 
was  a  great  want  of  Bibles,  great  neglect  of  public  wor- 
ship on  the  Sabbath,"  and  complained  of  intemperance  and 
other  vices.  Trumbull  remarks,  "  that  there  was  little 
of  the  power  of  religion ;  that  professors  were  worldly 
and  lukewarm,  the  young  people  loose  and  vicious,  fami- 
ly prayer  was  neglected,  the  Sabbath  was  profaned, 
taverns  were  haunted,  intemperance  and  other  vices 
increased,  and  many  of  the  ministers  preached  a  cold 
and  lifeless  morality."1  Wallingford  did  not  differ  much 
in  these  respects  from  the  rest  of  New  England,  and 
in  our  town  as  elsewhere,  formality,  irreligion  and 
declension  prevailed  to  a  mournful  extent.  From  the 
records  we  find  that  year  after  year  not  more  than  one 
or  two  united  with  the  church  annually. 

In  1735  there  began  a  most  remarkable  religious 
awakening  under  the  preaching  of  the  celebrated  Jona- 
than Edwards,  at  Northampton,  which  was  the  cause  of 
the  greatest  revival  of  religion  ever  known  in  New  Eng- 
land. It  spread  throughout  Connecticut,  and  the  feeling 
and  interest  manifested  in  the  great  themes  of  religion 
were  intense  and  absorbing.  Childhood,  manhood,  old 
age,  the  learned  and  the  ignorant,  the  moralist  and  the 
skeptic,  men  of  wealth  and  the  highest  official  position, 
as  well  as  paupers  and  outcasts,  were  numbered  among 
its  converts.  Says  Trumbull,  "  Negroes  and  Indians,  on 
whom  before  no  impression  could  be  made,  were  heard 

I   Hist.  Conn.,  n.  137. 


3OO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

with  others  making  the  great  inquiry."1  In  some  places 
not  a  solitary  person  could  be  found  whose  mind  was  not 
concerned  for  his  soul's  interest.  In  1740  and  1741, 
various  towns  in  Connecticut  were  most  wonderfully 
affected.  People  flocked  together  on  all  days  of  the 
week  in  great  crowds  to  hear  the  word  of  God ;  they 
would  fill  the  houses  and  then  stand  clustered  around 
the  doors  and  windows,  pressing  eagerly  to  hear ;  they 
would  go  from  one  town  to  another  wherever  there  was 
public  worship. 

In  the  autumn  of  1740,  the  Rev.  George  Whitefield 
arrived  in  New  England  directly  from  Charleston,  and 
produced  an  excitement  never  before  known  in  our  re- 
ligious history.  His  itineracy,  like  the  blazing  cross  of 
the  Lady  of  the  Lake,  was  the  signal  for  an  uprising. 
Fired  by  his  passionate  oratory,  the  masses  revolted 
from  the  chill  formalism  of  a  dead  ministry.  He  sailed 
from  Charleston  to  Newport,  where  venerable  parson 
Clapp,  tottering  with  age,  welcomed  him  as  though  he 
had  been  an  angel  of  God.  All  classes  caught  the 
enthusiasm,  and  New  England  was  in  a  blaze  of  excite- 
ment. A  revival  such  as  modern  times  had  not  before 
witnessed  was  the  consequence.  There  was  great  in- 
tensity of  feeling,  and  great  diversity  of  sentiment  and 
angry  controversy  followed.  Those  who  favored  the  new 
doctrines  and  practices  were  called  New  Lights,  while 
those  who  chose  to  adhere  to  the  good  old  ways  of  their 
fathers,  discountenancing  innovation,  were  denominated 
Old  Lights.  The  clergy  were  divided,  "  while  the  mag- 
istrates and  principal  men  of  the  commonwealth  "  were 
on  the  side  of  the  Old  Lights. 

Notwithstanding  Whitefield  was  a  priest  of  the  Epis- 

i  Hist  Conn.,  n.  144. 


WHITEFIELD.  30 1 

copal  Church,  he  grew  more  bold  under  the  impulse  of 
his  successes  and  excited  feelings,  and  finally  threw  aside 
as  an  oppressive  yoke,  all  reverence  for  the  authority  and 
teaching  of  the  Church ;  and  thereupon  the  Congrega- 
tional ministers  opened  wide  their  arms  to  embrace  him, 
and  their  sanctuaries  to  admit  him,  that  he  might  be 
heard  by  the  vast  crowds  which  everywhere  crowded  to 
their  portals. 

He  preached  in  Wallingford  in  Mr.  Whittelsey's  church 
about  the  middle  of  October,  1 740,  and  also  in  Mr.  Hall's 
church  in  Meriden  parish.  Our  records  of  that  date  in- 
form us  of  considerable  accessions  to  the  church.  From 
Wallingford  Mr.  Whitefield  proceeded  to  New  Haven, 
and  shortly  after  preached  again  at  Wallingford,  taking 
for  his  text  the  eighth  verse  of  the  eightieth  Psalm : 
"  Thou  hast  brought  a  vine  out  of  Egypt,  thou  hast  cast 
out  the  heathen  and  planted  it."  While  in  Wallingford 
his  wife  joined  him,  having  come  from  Hartford.  Before 
leaving  the  town  he  preached  while  standing  in  his 
chariot  to  a  large  multitude,  and  soon  after  started  for 
New  Haven,  large  multitudes  following  him  several 
miles  on  foot  or  on  horses.  When  a  church  or  meeting- 
house could  not  be  obtained  he  preached  in  the  open  air, 
a  practice  which  he  had  inaugurated  in  England,  and 
justified  by  saying,  "  I  thought  it  might  be  doing  the 
service  of  my  Creator,  who  had  a  mountain  for  his 
pulpit  and  the  heavens  for  a  sounding-board,  and  who, 
when  his  gospel  was  refused  by  the  Jews,  sent  his 
servants  into  the  highways  and  hedges."  When  he  took 
his  leave  of  Boston,  it  was  supposed  that  twenty  thou- 
sand persons  assembled  to  listen  to  his  farewell  sermon. 
Late  in  October  he  reached  New  Haven,  and  was 
affectionately  welcomed  and  entertained  at  the  house  of 


3O2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Mr.  James  Pierrepont,  a  brother-in-law  of  Edwards,  and 
a  sympathizer  with  his  religious  views.  People  came  in 
from  the  country  a  distance  of  twenty  miles  to  hear 
him,  and  many  neighboring  ministers  also  sought  the 
opportunity  of  personal  intercourse  with  a  clergyman 
whose  zeal  and  eloquence  were  so  widely  known. 

Whitefield  seems  to  have  been  a  man  of  more  zeal 
than  judgment ;  better  fitted  to  rouse  and  agitate  than 
to  guide  and  instruct ;  and  in  the  few  years  between 
his  first  visit  and  his  second,  a  thick  growth  of  mischiev- 
ous enthusiasm  and  disorganizing  extravagances  had 
sprung  up  in  his  track,  and  were  unquestionably  the 
result  in  part  of  his  unbalanced  and  unguarded  teaching. 

In  1745  the  following  resolve  was  "come  into,"  by  the 
General  Association  of  the  State  : 

"  Whereas  there  has  of  late  years  been  many  errors  in  doc- 
trine, and  disorders  in  practice,  prevailing  in  the  churches  of 
this  land,  which  seems  to  have  a  threatening  aspect  upon 
these  churches ;  and  whereas  Mr.  George  Whitefield  has 
been  the  promoter,  or  at  least  the  faulty  occasion  of  many  of 
these  errors  and  disorders,  this  association  think  it  needful  for 
them  to  declare  that  if  the  sajd  Mr.  Whitefield  should  make 
his  progress  through  this  government,  it  would  by  no  means 
be  advisable  for  any  of  our  ministers  to  admit  him  into  their 
pulpits,  or  for  any  of  our  people  to  attend  upon  his  preach- 
ing and  administrations." 

But  after  all  we  honor  the  name  of  Whitefield.  Doubt- 
less 

"  The  tear 
That  fell  upon  his  Bible  was  sincere." 

He  was  no  doubt  a  true  evangelist,  earnest,  faithful, 
fervent,  self-sacrificing,  eloquent  as  if  gifted  with  a 
tongue  of  fire.  Whitefi eld's  power  was  comparable  to 


WHITEFIELD.  303 

the  supernatural ;  and  it  was  in  this  view  that  John  Foster, 
at  a  later  day,  found  the  only  solution  of  his  success. 
Says  a  writer,  "  In  the  pulpit  his  appearance  and  man- 
ners exceeded  the  dreams  of  apostolic  grace.  A  youth 
of  elegant  form,  with  voice  of  enchanting  melody, 
clear  blue  eyes,  endurance  which  knew  no  exhaustion,  a 
fancy  which  ranged  both  worlds,  were  all  fused  by  a 
burning  zeal  for  the  salvation  of  souls.  Such  was 
Whitefield  at  twenty-five,  and  as  such  he  was  worthy  of 
that  ovation  which  he  received  at  Boston  when  governor 
and  council  went  out  in  form  to  welcome  him.  The 
evangelist  bore  his  honors  meekly,  and  hospitality  did  not 
weaken  the  vials  of  wrath  which  he  poured  upon  the 
unfaithful.  He  found,  as  he  said,  in  New  England,  '  a 
darkness  which  might  be  felt.' "' 

A  great  many  itinerant  clergy  traversed  the  State. 
Among  the  most  efficient  and  zealous  laborers  in  the  work 
were  Tennant,  Bellamy,  Pomeroy,  Mills,  Davenport,  and 
others.  Many  of  the  clergy  of  the  colony  however,  strenu- 
ously opposed  the  measures  employed  and  the  effects  pro- 
duced, and  many  of  the  magistrates  and  other  leading  men 
joined  with  them  in  denouncing  the  "  itinerating  clergy" 
and  their  converts  as  enthusiasts,  new  lights,  and  ranters. 
On  the  24th  of  November,  a  grand  council  of  ministers 
and  messengers  delegated  from  all  parts  of  the  colony, 
rret  at  Killingworth,  as  directed  by  an  act  of  Assembly, 
to  discuss  the  whole  subject  of  traveling  ministers, 
the  disorders  occasioned  by  them,  the  odium  they 
brought  upon  settled  ministers,  and  the  countenance 
they  gave  to  separatists.  This  council  condemned  as 
disorderly  the  preaching  of  one  minister  within  the 

I  W.  Frothingham. 


304  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

parish  of  another  without  his  leave.  In  conformity  with 
this  ecclesiastical  decision  the  General  Court,  in  May, 
1742,  enacted  a  stringent  law  directed  chiefly  against 
irregular  ministers  and  exhorters,  entitled,  "  An  act  for 
regulating  abuses  and  correcting  disorders  in  ecclesiasti- 
cal affairs ;"  by  which, 

"  Any  person  not  an  ordained  or  settled  minister  who  should 
attempt  publicly  to  teach  or  exhort  without  the  express  desire 
and  invitation  of  the  pastor  or  a  major  part  of  the  church 
and  congregation,  should  be  bound  in  the  sum  of  one  hun- 
dred pounds  lawful  money  not  to  offend  again." 

Any  foreigner  or  stranger  not  an  inhabitant  of  the 
colony,  whether  ordained  or  not,  was  ordered  "to  be 
sent  as  a  vagrant  person  from  constable  to  constable, 
out  of  the  bounds  of  the  colony."  The  assembly  not 
only  passed  laws  against  these  alleged  irregularities,  but 
the  several  ecclesiastical  bodies  interposed  their  author- 
ity to  check  the  innovations  of  the  new  lights.  After 
numerous  attempts  to  discipline  the  refractory  preachers, 
the  consociations  and  associations  proceeded  to  suspend 
or  expel  all  the  new  light  pastors  in  the  colony.  In 
May,  1742,  the  General  Assembly  passed  an  act  very 
severe  on  itinerant  preachers.  This  act,  in  part  at  least, 
had  its  origin  in  the  consociation  of  New  Haven  county, 
as  appears  from  the  instructions  which  they  gave  to  their 
delegates  whom  they  sent  to  the  council,  which  were 
suggested  first  by  the  Rev.  Samuel  Whittelsey,  of  Wall- 
ingford,  who  had  in  the  beginning  received  Mr.  White- 
field  with  open  arms.  Trumbull  considers  this  act  of 
the  General  Assembly  as  an  "  outrage  to  every  principle 
of  justice." 

The  trial  of  Rev.  Philemon  Robbins  of  Branford  for 
preaching  to  the  Baptists  at  Wallingford  in  1742,  was 


REVIVALS.  3O5 

continued  till  1747,  and  resulted  in  his  deposition  from 
the  ministry.  In  1744  the  Rev.  Mr.  Pomeroy  was 
brought  before  the  assembly  in  consequence  of  a  bill  of 
indictment  filed  against  him  by  Elihu  Hall,  Esq.,  of 
Wallingford,  for  publicly  saying  that  the  late  laws  of  the 
colony,  made  concerning  ecclesiastical  affairs,  were  a 
great  foundation  to  encourage  persecution,  and  to  en- 
courage wicked  men  to  break  their  covenants  ;  and  that 
if  they  did  not,  it  was  no  thanks  to  the  court ;  and  that 
the  law  which  was  made  to  stop  ministers  from  going 
about  to  preach  in  other  towns,  was  made  without  reason, 
and  was  contrary  to  the  word  of  God.  He  was  found 
guilty,  and  ordered  to  pay  the  cost  of  prosecution,  which 
was  ^32  los.  8d.,  and  to  be  bound  to  his  peaceable  and 
good  behavior  in  a  bond  of  ^50. 

It  is  not  to  be  denied  that  many  gross  errors  and 
irregularities  followed  in  the  train  of  this  remarkable 
revival.  Many  of  the  most  enthusiastic  of  its  subjects  for- 
sook their  pastors  and  their  usual  places  of  worship,  and 
followed  the  "  itinerants  "  from  parish  to  parish  and  from 
town  to  town.  Some  of  the  preachers  and  exhorters 
encouraged  the  most  boisterous  manifestations  of  feel- 
ing during  the  public  worship  on  the  part  of  the  audi- 
ence, and  sought  to  arouse  them  by  raising  their  own 
voices  to  the  highest  key,  accompanied  by  violent  gest- 
ures and  the  most  unnatural  agitation  of  the  body.1  From 
that  period  there  appears  to  have  been  no  season  of 
revival  in  this  town  for  the  space  of  seventy-four  years. 
As  a  natural  consequence,  both  religion  and  the  church 
had  arrived  at  a  point  of  great  declension  and  feebleness. 
The  congregation  had  become  very  small,  and  was  daily 
becoming  weaker. 

i    Hollister,  i.  470. 
V 


3O6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

In  1814,  while  Rev.  Mr.  Ripley  was  in  the  pastoral 
office,  a  revival  occurred.  Previous  to  that  time,  the 
church  for  several  years  had  annually  diminished  by 
deaths  and  dismissions,  without  corresponding  additions. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year  a  few  of  the  brethren  in  connec- 
tion with  the  pastor  commenced  a  weekly  prayer 
meeting,  and  the  pastor  commenced  a  series  of  pastoral 
visits  to  all  the  families  of  the  congregation.  He  found 
with  equal  surprise  and  joy,  that  in  all  the  houses  at 
which  he  called,  one  or  more  persons  were  under  deep 
religious  impressions,  and  that  the  whole  community 
seemed  pervaded  by  divine  influence.  The  revival  soon 
developed  itself  in  the  increased  attendance  on  public 
worship,  in  the  deep  conviction  of  sin  evidently  produced 
on  the  minds  of  large  numbers,  and  probable  conversion 
of  many  individuals.  In  the  course  of  three  or  four 
months  it  is  thought  that  nearly  one  hundred  were  con- 
verted, and  about  eighty  of  them  subsequently  united 
with  the  church.  In  1822  eighty-one  families  were 
connected  with  the  church,  and  one  hundred  and  forty- 
nine  persons  constituted  its  members.  Another  revival 
occurred  in  1829,  during  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Mr.  Hins- 
dale,  resulting  in  fifty  persons  uniting  with  the  church. 
In  the  winter  of  1833-4,  while  Rev.  Wm.  McLean  was 
supplying  the  pulpit,  a  revival  occurred  in  which  seventy 
persons  united  with  the  church.  In  1837  about  forty 
were  converted  and  united  with  the  church.  In  the 
month  of  February,  1840,  during  the  ministry  of  Rev. 
Charles  Rich,  commenced  a  revival  more  extensive  and 
powerful  than  had  ever  before  been  witnessed  in  this 
place.  For  some  time  previous  Rev.  Dr.  Taylor  had 
preached  statedly  on  the  sabbath,  and  as  afterwards  ap- 
peared, his  powerful  and  solemn  discourses  had  prepared 


REVIVALS.  3O7 

the  minds  of  the  people  for  the  scenes  which  were  to 
follow.  About  one  hundred  and  thirty  were  converted, 
and  one  hundred  connected  with  the  church,  and  about 
as  many  more  with  the  other  churches  of  the  town.  The 
first  sabbath  school  was  commenced  in  1818  with  one 
hundred  and  thirty  pupils ;  it  was  kept  only  during  the 
warm  season  until  1830.  In  1831  it  contained  two  hun- 
dred and  thirty-one  members  ;  and  in  that  year  seventeen 
of  them  united  with  the  church.  In  1832  adult  classes 
became  connected  with  the  church.  In  1837  it  contained 
two  hundred  and  seventy-four  members.  In  1841  the 
school  contained  two  hundred  and  sixty-five  members, 
and  in  1847  five  hundred  and  seven. 


3O8  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 


CHAPTER  XV. 

SCHOOLS. 

IN  New  England,  ever  since  the  first  free  school  was 
established  amidst  the  woods  that  covered  the  peninsula 
of  Boston  in  1636,  the  schoolmaster  has  been  found  on 
the  border  line  between  savage  and  civilized  life,  often  in- 
deed with  the  axe  to  open  his  own  path,  but  always  looked 
up  to  with  respect,  and  always  carrying  with  him  a  valu- 
able and  preponderating  influence.  Next  to  the  minister, 
ruling  elder  and  magistrate,  he  was  regarded  with  the 
profoundest  respect  ;  and  when  he  walked  through  the 
village,  or  rambled  in  the  fields,  with  his  head  bowed 
down  in  meditation  upon  some  grave  moral  question, 
or  solving  some  ponderous  sum,  the  boys  dared  never 
pass  him  without  pulling  off  their  hats.  He  was 
among  the  few  who  received  the  title  of  "  Mr.,"  and  stood 
next  to  the  minister  in  the  minds  of  the  people  ;  just  as 
he  does  in  Goldsmith's  inimitable  description  in  "  The 
Deserted  Village." 

The  school-boy's  situation  at  that  day  was  no  sinecure. 
He  was  compelled  to  make  many  a  deep  indentation  in 
his  brain  with  the  sharp  points  of  sums  in  arithmetic 
not  easy  to  do,  and  with  sentences  not  readily  subjected 
to  the  rules  of  grammar,  and  long  words  difficult  to 
spell.  Tough  points  in  theology,  seasoned  with  texts  of 


SCHOOLS.  309 

scripture,  and  coupled  with  knotty  questions  of  election, 
of  faith,  of  works,  and  saving  grace,  formed  a  wholesome 
sauce  to  the  more  secular  learning.  Bits  of  practical 
philosophy,  maxims  that  had  been  tested  and  found  to 
be  solid  old  English  proverbs,  scraps  of  experience 
pickled  down  in  good  attic  salt ;  something  of  civil 
polity  and  political  economy,  reverence  of  gray  hairs, 
and  respectful  treatment  to  woman,  were  among  the 
things  that  he  was  obliged  to  learn.  Rough  he  might 
be  and  often  was,  but  stupid  he  could  not  be  ;  for  knowl- 
edge, and  that  of  a  kind  not  easily  digested,  was  beaten 
into  his  skull  as  if  by  blows  upon  an  anvil.  Gentle  or 
simple,  he  must  submit  to  the  same  dry  rules  of  appli- 
cation.1 

Connecticut  has  long  been  distinguished  for  her 
common  schools.  The  code  of  Laws  established  by  the 
General  Court  in  1650  recognized  their  importance. 

"  It  being  one  chiefe  project  of  that  old  deluder  Sathan  to 
keepe  men  from  a  knowledge  of  the  Scriptures,  as  in  former 
times  keeping  them  in  an  unknowne  tongue,  so  in  the  latter 
times  by  perswading  them  from  the  uce  of  Tongues,  so  that 
at  least  the  true  sence  and  meaning  of  the  originall  might  bee 
clouded  with  false  glosses  of  saint  seeming  deceivers,  and 
that  learning  may  not  bee  buried  in  the  grave  of  or  Fore- 
fathers, in  church  and  common  wealth,  the  Lord  assisting  our 
endeavors.  It  is  there  fore  ordered  by  this  Courte  that  every 
Townshipp  within  this  jurisdiction,  after  the  Lord  hath  in- 
creased them  to  the  number  of  fifty  householders,  shall 
appoint  one  within  their  town  to  teach  all  such  children  as 
shall  resort  to  him,  to  write  and  read,  whose  wages  shall  be 
paid  either  by  the  parents  or  masters  of  such  children,  or  by 
the  inhabitants  in  general."2 


1  Hollister. 

2  Trumbull's  Colonial  Records,  Vol.    i.   p.  554. 


3IO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

In  1677  a  fine  often  pounds  annually  was  imposed  upon 
any  county  town  that  should  "  neglect  to  keep  a  Latin 
School  according  to  order;"  and  upon  any  town  in  the 
colony  that  should  neglect  to  provide  a  school  for  more 
than  three  months  in  each  year  a  fine  of  five  pounds 
was  levied.  In  1690  the  schools  in  Hartford  and  New 
Haven  counties  were  made  free  schools.  The  ancient 
records  of  Wallingford  contain  no  allusion  to  the  matter 
of  public  schools  at  an  earlier  date  than  1678,  eight 
years  after  the  settlement  of  the  village.  On  the  twenty- 
seventh  of  November  in  that  year  it  was  voted  in  town 
meeting  that 

"  The  towne  complyed  with  what  ye  select  men  motioned  & 
consented  for  ye  incouragement  of  such  a  schoolemaster  as  y6 
select  men  shall  approve  of  to  alow  ten  pounds  a  yeare  and 
three  pence  a  weeke  for  all  schollers  males  or  females  from 
six  to  sixteene  years  ould  so  long  as  they  goe  to  schoole." 

It  is  quite  evident  that  schools  had  existed  long  before  ; 
probably  here  as  elsewhere,  the  school  and  the  church 
took  root  together,  and  grew  up  with  the  first  log  cabin 
in  the  forest.  For  in  Connecticut  the  schoolmaster  has 
not  been  far  off  when  the  minister  has  been  settled,  and 
the  school-house  has  been  side  by  side  with  the  church. 
Thus  did  our  predecessors,  like  all  the  other  founders  of 
New  England,  develop  a  far-sighted  religious  wisdom, 
and  a  profound  sagacity,  which  none  of  the  princes  and 
statesmen  of  this  world  knew.  For  all  possible  and 
conceivable  ends  had  the  power,  blood  and  wealth  of 
nations  been  squandered,  for  thousands  of  years,  except 
for  the  only  true  ends  of  the  state,  the  formation  and 
elevation  of  men.  The  fathers  of  New  England  designed 
to  raise  up  religious  and  intelligent  men.  They  alone 
ever  conceived,  or  at  least  actually  carried  out,  the 


SCHOOLS.  311 

scheme  of  educating  the  people.  In  this  point  of  view, 
the  everlasting  pyramids,  the  matchless  splendors  of 
Babylon,  the  great  masterpiece  of  architecture,  St. 
Peter's,  are  less  imposing  and  valuable  than  the  log 
school-houses  of  primitive  New  England. 

In  1680,  Elijah  Preston  agreed  to  teach  such  children 
as  should  be  sent  to  him  for  four  months  for  ten  pounds, 
and  he  "  to  find  house-room,  and  the  schollors  wood." 
In  1684,  the  town  granted  £10  to  the  teacher  out  of 
the  public  treasury,  and  required  the  pupils  to  pay  £$ 
in  addition.  In  1689,  the  town  voted  ^5  for  a  school, 
and  the  next  year  ^4.  In  1691,  the  town  voted  that 
all  the  money  for  schools  should  be  raised  by  those 
who  sent  children  to  school.  October  4,  1693,  the 
town  voted  to  give,  and  did  sequester  all  the  land 
lying  between  the  old  country  road  and  the  old  mill, 
including  the  mill-pond,  to  the  use  of  the  school.  De- 
cember 15,  1693,  John  Parker  and  Joseph  Thompson 
were  chosen  a  committee  with  instructions  to  employ 
a  teacher  ;  and  £6  were  appropriated  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  the  same,  part  in  winter,  and  part  in  summer. 
In  1694,  they  gave  £6  to  schools.  In  1695,  Eleazer 
Peck,  John  Parker,  and  John  Moss,  were  chosen  a 
school  committee,  and  £6  were  given  for  the  use  of 
schools.  The  same  year  the  town  authorized  the 
committee  to  employ  a  woman  to  teach  in  summer, 
and  a  man  in  the  winter.  The  next  year  £6  were 
appropriated  to  schools.  In  1697,  the  care  of  pro- 
curing a  school-teacher  was  given  to  the  selectmen 
to  procure  one  as  cheap  as  they  could,  and  to  enquire 
about  building  a  school-house.  The  town  also  decided 
that  the  school-house  should  stand  in  the  street  between 
John  Moss's  and  Joshua  Culver's.  The  same  year  they 


•?I2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

voted  to  forbear  building  the  school-house,  but  in 
December  following  they  decided  that  the  school-house 
should  be  twenty  feet  long  and  fourteen  feet  wide,  and 
to  be  built  at  the  expense  of  the  town.  In  1698,  it 
was  voted  that  each  pupil  should  pay  a  penny  a  week. 
In  1702,  it  was  voted  that  a  school-house  be  built,  they 
having  hitherto  hired  a  room  for  that  purpose.  The 
same  year  at  a  Court  of  Assembly  at  Hartford,  it  was 
ordered  that  the  respective  constables  of  the  towns  in 
the  colony  should  levy  the  sum  of  forty  shillings  upon 
a  thousand  pounds,  and  deliver  it  into  the  hands  of 
the  committee, 

"  Provided  the  said  committees  or  select  men  will  give 
them  certificate  under  their  hands  of  their  receit  of  said 
money  and  improvement  thereof  for  the  maintenance  of 
schools  in  their  townes  respectively  according  as  the  said  law 
directs,  which  the  said  committees  and  select-men  upon  receit 
thereof  are  hereby  required  to  doe." 

In  1711,  fifty  acres  of  land  and  money  were  voted  to 
schools.  In  September  of  the  same  year, 

"  Ye  town  voated  that  they  would  chous  a  commity  to  treet 
with  ye  Scool  Master  concerning  his  terms  in  order  to  a  set- 
tolment  &  bring  report  to  y6  town.  At  ye  same  Metting  Mr 
Henry  Bates  scool  Master  gave  the  following  proposals 
Namely. 

"Gontel  Men.  Upon  second  considerations  I  doe  hereby 
propose  that  if  ye  town  for  incoragment  will  be  pleased  for  to 
make  sure  and  conferme  to  me  fifty  acres  of  land  whar  I 
shall  care  to  take  it  up  whar  it  is  not  already  taken  up ;  &  let 
me  have  the  improvement  of  ye  old  Mill  pon  so  called  and 
all  other  Lands  that  belongs  to  the  scool  and  fifty  pounds  a 
year  for  ye  time  we  shall  agree  upon  the  town  appointing  a 
commity  to  agree  with  me  and  all  those  that  sends  chilldren 


SCHOOLS.  313 

to   cast  in  thar  mite  towards  purchaseing  a  horn  sted  and 
upon  condition  i  may  be  yours  to  serve, 

"  HENRY  BATES. 

"  Att  ye  same  meting  ye  town  voatted  thar  accepttans  of  ye 
above  sd  proposell,  and  chose  capt.  Merriman,  Sam11  Mun- 
son,  sr.  John  ives,  for  thair  comitte  to  agree  with  ye  sd  scool 
mastter.  December  24,  1713,  ye  town  voated  y4  the  money 
conserning  ye  scool  Respecting  chilldren  shall  be  raised  upon 
all  ye  children  that  live  within  a  mille  &  half  of  ye  scool 
hous,  from  six  year  old  to  teen,  Whether  they  go  to  scool 
or  nott." 

If  we  were  to  judge  by  some  of  these  records,  there 
were  among  these  teachers  some  who  were  but  poorly 
qualified  for  their  employments.  They  are  well  de- 
scribed by  John  Trumbull  in  his  "Progress  of  Dulness" 

"  He  tries,  with  ease  and  unconcern, 

To  teach  what  ne'er  himself  could  learn ; 

Gives  law  and  punishment  alone, 

Judge,  jury,  bailiff,  all  in  one  ; 

Holds  all  good  learning  must  depend 

Upon  the  rod's  extremes!  end, 

Whose  great  electric  touch  is  such, 

Each  genius  brightens  at  the  touch. 

With  threats  and  blows,  excitements  pressing, 

Drives  on  his  lads  to  learn  each  lesson  ; 

Thinks  flogging  cures  all  moral  ills, 

And  breaks  their  heads  to  break  their  wills." 

Female  instruction  must  have  been  greatly  neglected, 
when  the  daughters  of  men  who  occupied  important 
offices  in  the  town  and  church,  were  obliged  to  make  a 
mark  for  their  signature.  December  29,  1713,  it  was 
voted  that  all  children  between  the  ages  of  six  and  six- 
teen that  reside  within  a  mile  of  the  school  house, 
whether  they  go  to  school  or  not,  and  those  who  attend 


3  14  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

one  week  shall  pay  for  half  a  year.  And  John  Moss  and 
Samuel  Culver  were  appointed  to  see  that  the  teacher 
keeps  his  hours.  The  next  year  it  was  voted  that  all  the 
children  that  go  to  school  shall  pay  two  shillings  a  head, 
and  all  the  rest  to  be  paid  out  of  the  town  treasury.  To 
this  the  following  persons  dissented,  viz. : 

"JOHN  HODGKINS, 

BENJAMIN  BEACH, 

THOMAS  WILLSHINE, 

JOSEPH  PARKER, 

THOMAS  BROOKS,  V  West  side  of  the  river." 

JOSEPH  CLARK, 

NATHANIEL   ANDREWS, 

JOHN  PARKER, 

MATHER  BELLAMY." 

December  19,  1715,  the  following  petition  was  pre- 
sented at  town  meeting: 

"  The  farmers  residing  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  to  the 
town  of  Wallingford  humbly  show,  that  your  neighbors  have 
for  some  considerable  time  many  of  us  dwelt  remote  from  the 
town  and  under  great  disadvantage  as  to  the  great  duty  of 
educating  our  children,  and  the  time  allowed  we  wil  keep  a 
school  according  to  law,  and  the  bounds  we  desire  is  that 
West  of  the  River  as  high  as  Timothy  Tuttles  and  Timothy 
Beache's,  and  we  hope  that  you  will  grant  our  request,  in 
consideration  whereof  we  subscribe  friends  and  our  names, 
"JOHN  HOTCHKISS,  JACOB  JOHNSON, 

JOSEPH  PARKER,  JOHN  DOOLITTLE." 

The  request  was  granted,  and  the  town  was  divided 
into  two  school  districts  in  1715.  In  1719  they  voted  to 
have  three  schools,  one  over  the  river  two  months,  and 
in  the  north  part  near  Samuel  Andrews',  one  month.  In 
1720,  "every  scholar  that  enters  the  school  between  the 
twentieth  of  September  and  the  last  of  April,  shall  each 


SCHOOLS.  315 

bring  half  a  load  of  wood,  and  if  they  fail,  then  they 
shall  pay  a  fine  of  sixpence,  to  be  looked  out  for  by  the 
committee."  January  10,  1721,  the  town  gave  Mr.  Bates, 
the  schoolmaster,  liberty  to  sit  in  the  first  pew  in  the 
front  gallery  of  the  new  meeting-house.  April  25  of  the 
same  year,  "  the  farmers  on  the  west  side  6f  the  river, 
and  the  north  farmers  shall  have  the  proportion  of  our 
schools,  and  this  vote  shall  stand  until  the  town  see 
cause  to  alter  it ; "  and  a  committee  was  chosen  to  see 
that  it  was  carried  out.  December  n,  1722,  one  far- 
thing was  added  to  the  pound  for  the  benefit  of  teaching 
at  the  farms  such  as  could  not  comfortably  come  to  the 
town  to  the  school,  they  paying  poll  money,  the  same  as 
those  attending  in  town. 

About  this  time  the  management  of  schools  was 
transferred  to  school  society  committees,  by  an  act  of 
the  General  Assembly.  December  29,  1724,  it  was  deci- 
ded that  a  new  school-house  should  be  built  in  the  lane 
where  the  old  pound  was ;  to  be  twenty-five  feet  long 
and  twenty  feet  broad  ;  and  Lieutenant  Moss,  Sergeant 
Nathaniel  Curtis  and  Henry  Tnrhand  were  chosen  a 
committee  to  build  said  house. 

The  school-house  in  what  is  now  the  Yalesville  dis- 
trict was  originally  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  near 
the  residence  of  Elijah  Hough;  and  was  not 'removed 
from  there  until  about  the  year  1 800,  when  a  new  school- 
house  was  built,  and  the  bounds  of  the  district  changed 
and  enlarged.  The  present  school-house  is  the  second 
one  built  on  the  site  situated  on  the  west  side  of  the 
river. 

The  Union   Academy1   in  Wallingford  was  chartered 


I  The  term  "Academy,"  which  in  England  had  been  applied  to  semina- 
ries of  learning  established  by  non-conformists,  to  distinguish  them  from 


3l6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

in  1812,  upon  the  petition  of  Samuel  Cook,  and  for 
many  years  was  in  a  flourishing  condition.  The  academy 
building  stood  on  the  land  now  occupied  by  the  house  of 
Mrs.  Samuel  H.  Button.  In  1818,  there  were  forty-five 
pupils.  Our  elegant  Academies  and  highly  improved 
schools  are  but  the  developments  and  natural  growth  of 
the  early  schools  at  Wallingford. 

For  a  long  time  the  only  books  in  common  use  in 
district  schools,  were  the  " New  England  Primer'  and 
the  "  Psalter."  The  edition  most  commonly  used  was 
entitled,  "  The  New  England  Primer,  improved  for  the 
more  easy  attaining  of  true  reading  of  English.  To 
which  is  added  The  Assembly  of  Divines,  and  Mr. 
Cotton's  Chatechism.  Boston,  Printed  by  Edward  Draper 
at  his  Printing  Office  in  Newbury  street  and  Sold  by 
John  Boyle  in  Marlborough  street,  I777-"1  This  book 
contained  a  frontispiece  of  "The  Hon.  John  Hancock, 
Esq.,  President  of  the  American  Congress,"  and  a  pic- 
ture of  John  Rogers  in  the  flames,  and  his  wife  and  nine 
children  looking  on  ;  also  an  illustrated  alphabet  begin- 
ning with 

"  In  Adam's  Fall 

We  finned  all," 
and  ending  with, 

"  Zacheus  he 

Did  climb  the  Tree 

Our  Lord  to  fee." 


the  schools  and  colleges  of  the  Church  of  England,  seems  to  have  been 
applied,  very  naturally,  by  the  sons  of  the  Puritans  to  similar  institutions 
in  this  country  ;  and  though  not  confined  to  schools  founded  by  Congrega- 
tionalists,  was  generally  applied  to  such.  Some  of  these  institutions  ceased 
to  exist  after  a  few  years,  while  others  were  merged  in  the  higher  depart- 
ments of  common  schools  ;  but  many  of  them  were  incorporated  by  the 
General  Assembly,  and  became  permanent  educational  institutions. 

i  The  first  edition  was  printed  by  R.  Pierce  for  Benjamin  Harris  at  the 
London  Coffee  House  in  Boston,  1692. 


SCHOOLS.  317 

Arithmetic  was  taught  in  their  common  schools,  the 
teacher  only  having  a  book,  and  writing  the  sums  for 
the  pupils,  and  showing  them  how  to  do  them.  "  Dil- 
worth's  Spelling  Book,  or  New  Guide,"  was  introduced 
in  1740.  The  author  was  an  Englishman,  and  died  in 
England  in  1781.  His  book  was  for  a  time  in  common 
use.  Trumbull  alludes  to  it  thus,  in  1772  : 

"Our  master  says,  ( I'm  sure  he  is  right), 
There's  not  a  lad  in  town  so  bright, 
He'll  cypher  bravely,  write  and  read, 
And  say  his  catechism  and  creed, 
And  scorn  to  hesitate  or  falter, 
In  Primer,  Spelling  Book,  or  Psalter." 

Dilworth's  "  Schoolmaster s  Assistant"  or  arithmetic, 
was  published  after  his  spelling  book  had  been  well  re- 
ceived, in  1743.  It  was  much  used  in  Connecticut.1 

The  school  ma'am  taught  the  children  to  behave,  to 
ply  the  needle  through  all  the  mysteries  of  hemming, 
over-hand,  stitching  and  darning,  up  to  sampler  ;  and  to 
read  from  ABC  through  the  spelling-book  to  the 
Psalter.  Children  were  taught  to  be  mannerly  and  pay 

i  The  following  books  were  in  use  in  the  schools  of  Connecticut  at  the 
various  dates  :  Spelling  Books :  Dilworth's,  1740;  Dyche's,  1750;  Perry's, 
1780;  Webster's,  1802;  Murray's,  1819.  Arithmetics:  Jeak's,  1713; 
Hill's,  1752;  Pike's,  1786;  Adams',  1802;  Daboll's,  1814.  Readers: 
Webster's  Selections,  1785;  American  Preceptor,  1792;  Columbian  Ora- 
tor, 1800.  Geographies:  Gordon's,  1 708  ;  Guthrie's,  1785;  Morse's,  1 790  ; 
(Jamming's,  1813;  Adams',  1815.  English  Dictionaries :  Bailey's,  1745; 
Dyche's,  1750;  Johnson's,  1759;  Entick's,  1770;  Perry's,  1783;  Walker's, 
1806.  English  Grammars :  Salmon's,  1759;  Lilly's,  1761;  Webster's, 
1785;  Alexander's,  1797;  Murray's,  1806.  Latin  Grammars:  Garret- 
son's,  1704;  Burr's,  1757;  Adams',  1800;  Biglow's,  1809.  Latin  Diction- 
aries: Ainsworth's,  1736;  Cole's,  1743;  Young's,  1762;  Entick's  Tyro 
Thesaurus,  1808.  Greek  Grammars:  Vossius',  1700;  Wettenhall's,  1739; 
Milner's,  1761  ;  Valpy's,  1808.  Greek  Lexicon:  Schrevelius,  1700101774. 
Book- Keeping:  Snell's,  1710;  Perry's,  1777  ;  Booth's,  1 789 ;  Turner's,  1800. 


318  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

respect  to  their  elders,  especially  to  dignitaries.  In  the 
street  they  stood  aside  when  they  met  any  respectable 
person  or  stranger  and  saluted  them  with  a  bow  or  cour- 
tesy, stopping  modestly  till  they  had  passed.  This  was 
called  making  their  manners.  Peculiar  reverence  was 
paid  to  the  minister.  Bold  was  the  urchin  who  dared  to 
laugh  within  his  hearing.  That  reverend  personage  was 
accustomed  to  catechise  them  once  a  month  in  the 
meeting-house,  and  to  accompany  the  exercise  with 
many  a  stern  reproof  or  grave  admonition. 

The  early  schools  were  somewhat  rude,  and  we  may 
smile  at  their  evident  defects.  But  the  world  had  never 
yet  seen  such  men — so  poor  that  they  could  not  build  a 
hut  twenty-four  by  thirty  feet ;  so  harassed  and  perilled 
by  a  savage  war  that  they  .went  to  their  Sabbath  worship 
armed  with  muskets,  while  night  and  day  their  little  vil- 
lage was  guarded  by  block  houses  and  patrols  ;  and  yet 
in  that  deep  poverty  and  from  their  first  day  in  the  wil- 
derness nobly  sustaining  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel 
and  schools,  virtually  free  to  every  child  among  them. 
The  early  settlers  in  the  towns  which  composed  the  two 
original  colonies  of  Connecticut  and  New  Haven,  came 
with  their  families  and  all  the  family  relations  existing 
from  the  first.  They  came  with  all  the  elements  of  the 
state  combined  in  vigorous  action,  and  with  a  firm  pur- 
pose to  make  the  then  wilderness  their  permanent  home. 
They  came  with  earnest  religious  convictions,  made  more 
earnest  by  the  trials  of  persecution.  United  in  a  com- 
mon faith,  bound  together  by  strong  sympathies  and 
already  organized  in  churches  for  religious  improvement, 
it  was  in  harmony  with  their  circumstances  that  they 
should  seek  the  intellectual  and  moral  culture  of  their 
children. 


CHAPTER  XVI. 

WYOMING  AND  THE   SUSQUEHANNA  COMPANY. 

IN  the  year  1754  a  company  was  formed  in  Connecticut 
for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  a  large  tract  of  land  lying 
west  of  the  province  of  New  York,  on  the  Susquehanna 
river,  and  belonging  to  the  Six  Nations.  This  tract 
extended  about  seventy  miles  north  and  south,  and 
from  about  ten  miles  east  of  the  river  Susquehanna 
westward  two  degrees  of  longitude.  This  territory  was 
admitted,  by  the  best  lawyers  of  the  nation,  to  belong  to 
Connecticut  by  virtue  of  her  charter.  It  had  been 
conveyed  away  by  King  James  I.  in  the  most  ample  man- 
ner possible,  by  letters  patent  under  the  great  seal  of 
England,  bearing  date  November  3,  1620,  to  the  Duke 
of  Lenox,  the  Marquis  of  Buckingham,  the  Earls  of 
Arundel  and  Warwick,  with  divers  other  persons,  by 
the  name  of  the  council  established  at  Plymouth,  in  the 
county  of  Devon,  for  the  planting,  ruling,  ordering  and 
governing  of  New  England  in  America.  This  patent 
describes  the  bounds  of  Connecticut  as  extending 
"  throughout  the  main  lands,"  "from  the  western  ocean  to 
the  south  sea"  This  would  include  the  whole  of  New 
York,  and  the  principal  part  if  not  the  whole  of  Penn- 
sylvania. 


32O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  Susquehanna  company  consisted  at  first  of  eight 
hundred  and  forty  persons,  and  included  a  number  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Wallingford.  The  project  of  establishing 
a  colony  in  Wyoming  had  been  started  by  sundry  indi- 
viduals in  Connecticut  in  1753  ;  and  in  the  following 
year,  after  the  Susquehanna  company  was  formed,  a 
number  of  agents  were  commisioned  to  proceed  thither, 
explore  the  country  and  conciliate  the  good  will  of  the 
Indians.  A  purchase  was  made  which  included  the 
whole  valley  of  Wyoming  and  the  country  westward  to 
the  sources  of  the  Alleghany. 

Here  was  nature  in  unconcealed  loveliness.  The  mag- 
nificent forests,  the  luxuriant  fertility  of  the  soil  and 
the  climate  gave  promise  of  golden  harvests  and  pleas- 
ant homes  as  the  rewards  of  industry  and  enterprise. 
Game  of  every  sort  was  abundant.  The  quail  whistled 
in  the  meadow  ;  the  pheasant  rustled  in  its  leafy  covert ; 
the  wild  duck  reared  her  brood  and  bent  the  reed  in 
every  inlet ;  the  red  deer  fed  upon  the  hills  ;  while  in  the 
deep  forests,  within  a  few  hours'  walk,  was  found  the 
stately  elk.  Standing  upon  "  Prospect  Rock "  on  the 
Pokono  mountain  range,  and  looking  westwardly,  the 
entire  valley  can  be  surveyed  at  a  single  view,  forming 
one  of  the  richest  and  most  beautiful  landscapes  upon 
which  the  eye  of  man  ever  rested.  Through  the  center 
of  the  valley  flows  the  Susquehanna,  the  winding  course 
of  which  can  be  traced  the  whole  distance.  Several 
green  islands  slumber  sweetly  in  its  embrace,  while  the 
sight  revels  amidst  the  garniture  of  fields  and  wood- 
lands ;  and  to  complete  the  picture,  low  in  the  distance 
may  be  dimly  seen  the  borough  of  Wilkesbarre.1 

i  The  greatest  effort  of  Campbell's  genius  was  undoubtedly  his  "  Ger- 
trude of  Wyoming,"  a  poem  in  the  old  style  of  English  pathos  and  poetry, 


WYOMING.  321 

When  the  agents  returned  with  such  glowing  ac- 
counts, no  wonder  that  every  town  in  the  colony  was 
ready  to  furnish  emigrants  to  this  paradise ;  but  the  In- 
dian war  for  several  years  prevented  their  settlement.  In 
1763  a  number  of  emigrants  from  Connecticut  visited 
the  valley,  cleared  up  some  land,  sowed  their  grain,  and 
returned  home.  During  the  following  spring  they  went 
back  to  Wyoming  with  their  families,  with  the  determina- 
tion of  making  a  permanent  settlement ;  taking  with 
them  their  stock,  farming  utensils  and  household  furni- 
ture. Their  crops  had  proved  abundant,  they  were 
delighted  with  their  new  homes,  and  they  began  to  an- 
ticipate a  life  of  peace  and  plenty.  If  we  may  believe 
Campbell, 

"  The  happy  shepherd  swains  had  nought  to  do 
But  feed  their  flocks  on  green  declivities, 
Or  skim  perchance  the  lake  with  light  canoe, 
From  morn  till  evening's  sweeter  pastime  grew." 

But  on  the  1 5th  of  October  they  were  suddenly  startled 
by  the  sound  of  the  warwhoop,  which  was  followed  by  a 
fierce  attack  from  a  large  party  of  savages.  The  settlers 
were  entirely  unprepared  for  such  an  assault,  and  about 
twenty  men  were  killed  and  scalped.  The  remainder  of 
the  men,  women  and  children  fled  to  the  mountains,  and 
ultimately  found  their  way  back  to  Connecticut. 

In  1768  the  Susquehanna  company  determined  to 
renew  the  attempt  to  settle  the  lands  at  Wyoming.  Two 
hundred  pounds  Connecticut  currency  ($667,00),  was 

founded  upon  the  desolation  of  Wyoming  by  the  Indians  in  1778.  The 
Wyoming  of  Campbell  is  and  will  be  a  creation  lovely  to  the  heart  and 
imagination  of  mankind.  But  the  poet  has  given  to  the  world  a  creation 
that  is  only  imaginary.  The  "  lakes,"  the  "  flamingo,"  and  the  "  mock 
bird "  are  all  strangers  to  Wyoming,  and  the  historical  allusions  in  the 
poem  are  not  correct. 
W 


322  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

appropriated  to  provide  implements  of  husbandry,  pro- 
visions, arms  and  ammunition,  for  those  who  might 
require  assistance,  and  forty  persons  were  to  set  out 
forthwith,  and  two  hundred  others  were  to  follow  the 
succeeding  spring.  At  a  meeting  held  at  Hartford  it 
was  resolved  that  five  townships,  each  five  miles  square, 
should  be  surveyed  and  granted  each  to  forty  settlers, 
on  condition  that  those  settlers  should  remain  upon  the 
ground,  "  man  their  rights,"  and  defend  themselves  and 
each  other  from  the  incursions  of  all  rival  claimants.  By 
the  tenth  of  April  two  hundred  and  seventy  able  bodied 
men  had  left  their  homes  in  Connecticut  for  Wyoming. 

In  January,  1773,  the  General  Assembly  determined  to 
extend  their  jurisdiction  to  the  settlers,  and  incorporate 
them  into  a  town  by  the  name  of  Westmoreland,  with 
the  same  privileges  as  other  towns  in  the  colony  enjoyed. 
As  the  Susquehanna  company  had  its  opposers,  and  as 
many  imagined  that  the  claim  of  the  colony  was  un- 
founded, the  measures  which  the  Assembly  adopted, 
produced  considerable  excitement  in  the  colony.  A 
meeting  was  called  at  Middletown  to  take  the  subject 
into  consideration.  At  a  town  meeting  held  at  Walling- 
ford,  March  21,  1744,  the  selectmen  presented  the 
petition  of  a  great  number  of  the  inhabitants,  requesting 
a  legal  town  meeting  for  the  purpose  of  consulting- 
proper  measures  relative  to  the  affairs  of  the  Susque- 
hanna lands,  "  so  far  as  they  Judge  Conducive  to  the 
Interest  of  this  Colony." 

"  It  was  thereupon  motioned  by  a  Prop"  of  said  Purchase 
so  Called  that  a  peice  printed  and  Published  at  New  London 
addressed  to  the  candid  Publick  should  be  read  to  said 
Meeting  and  said  Motion  was  opposed,  and  that  a  peice 
Published  at  New  Haven  in  the  Connecticutt  Gazette,  Signed 


WYOMING.  323 

many,  Should  be  first  read  which  proposed  a  Convention  at 
Middletown  of  the  respective  Towns  in  this  Colony  by  their 
agents  or  Committee  to  Consult  Salutary  Measures  touching 
the  Matters  aforesaid,  and  the  same  was  agreed  to  be  read 
accordingly,  then  the  first  mentioned  peice  was  read  pur- 
porting an  answer  to  the  Same,  and  followed  with  peices 
Published  in  the  New  Haven  Gazette  with  the  State  of  the 
Case  of  said  Claim  with  the  opinion  of  the  attorney  General 
&c.,  and  others  Councel  Learned  in  the  Law,  also  Several 
Manuscripts  were  offered  and  read ;  particularly  the  Speach 
of  Govr  Fitch  on  the  Subject  matter  to  the  Deputies  of  the 
Six  Nations  in  General  assembly  of  this  Colony  may  1763, 
the  List  of  the  Colony  and  the  Proceeding  and  Votes  of  the 
Susquehanah  Company  at  Windham  on  the  9th  Instant,  and 
after  a  full  Debate  and  Consultation  thereon," 

The  question  was  put  whether  they  would  nominate 
and  choose  a  committee  to  represent  the  town  of  Wall- 
ingford  at  Middletown  on  the  last  Wednesday  of  March. 
It  was  voted  in  the  affirmative,  and  Col.  Elihu  Hall, 
Benjamin  Hall  and  Capt.  Thaddeus  Cook,  "were  Nomi- 
nated and  Chosen  a  Committee  in  behalf  of  said  Town 
to  attend  upon  and  Join  s'd  Convention."  At  this 
convention  twenty-three  towns  were  represented,  and  a 
petition  and  remonstrance  were  ordered  to  be  printed 
and  dispersed  through  all  the  towns  in  the  colony,  that 
the  general  sense  of  the  public  might  be  had  thereupon. 
This  petition  called  in  question  the  right  of  the  Assem- 
bly to  extend  its  jurisdiction  to  lands  west  of  the 
province  of  New  York : 

"  Measures  which  your  remonstrants  conceive  to  be  of 
a  very  dangerous  tendency,  and  pregnant  with  the  greatest 
mischief  to  them  and  their  posterity,  and  highly  derogatory 
to  the  honour  and  interest,  and  destructive  to  the  peace  of 
the  colony,  and  a  great  grievance." 


324  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

They  claimed  that  the  proprietors  of  the  Susquehanna 
company  were  members  of  the  last  General  Assembly, 
and  deeply  interested  in  the  questions  discussed,  and  did 
sit  and  act  in  the  Assembly  in  the  very  matters  in  which 
they  were  deeply  interested.  The  Assembly  were  re- 
quested to  suspend  the  Wyoming  settlers  from  interfering 
in  the  voting,  being  represented  or  otherwise  transacting 
in  the  affair  of  government. 

This  party  and  their  memorials  met  with  very  little 
countenance  by  the  people  in  general ;  by  many  they 
were  made  a  subject  of  banter  and  ridicule.  At  a  town- 
meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  Wallingford,  held  April 
1 1 ,  1 774,  the  committee  who  were  appointed  to  attend 
the  Middletown  Convention,  presented  the  "  Remon- 
stance,"  which  being  read,  a  stormy  debate  arose,  and 
papers  and  pamphlets  were  produced  on  both  sides  of 
the  question,  and  it  was  put  to  vote  whether  they  should 
be  read  in  the  meeting  ;  it  was  decided  in  the  negative, 
and  after  sundry  debates  the  question  was  put  whether 
the  town  would  accept  the  "  Doings  or  the  Remonstrance 
agreed  upon  by  the  Middletown  Convention." 

"The  Town  Voted  that  the  Moderator  of  said  Meeting 
ordered  the  Vote  to  be  recorded  that  they  Excepted  the 
Doings  of  said  Committee  at  the  Middletown  Convention." 

In  1775,  the  Wyoming  colony  had  become  so  nume- 
rous that  it  was  taken  under  the  protection  of  the  gov- 
ernment of  Connecticut,  and  organized  into  a  township 
as  a  part  of  Litchfield  county,  by  the  name  of  West- 
moreland. The  spirit  that  had  roused  the  people  of 
the  colonies  to  resist  the  oppressive  acts  of  the  mother 
country,  met  with  a  cordial  response  from  the  settlers  of 
Wyoming.  In  the  year  1776  the  militia  of  the  town- 


WYOMING.  325 

ship  were  formed  into  the  24th  regiment  of  Connecticut 
militia,  and  they  furnished  the  continental  army  with 
nearly  three  hundred  officers  and  soldiers  to  fight  the 
battles  of  the  country,  which  left  the  settlement  at 
Wyoming  weak  and  unguarded. 

Wyoming  was  a  part  of  Connecticut.  Her  sons  were 
there  with  their  good  English  names,  shrewd  sense, 
unostentatious  home-bred  tastes,  habits  of  economy, 
schools,  religion,  laws,  industry  and  valor.  Let  us  sup- 
pose that  we  too  are  there,  and  that  it  is  early  January 
of  the  eventful  year  1 778.  Hill  and  glade  smile  as  the 
morning  sun  glances  over  the  mountain,  to  woo  and 
melt  at  last  the  cold  unsullied  snow.  The  hale  cattle 
and  the  dainty  sheep  nipping  the  hay  that  lies  in  heaps 
around  the  stack  in  the  open  meadow,  while  the  farmer 
who  has  just  fed  them  stands  with  his  hands  in  his 
pockets,  regarding  their  growth  with  a  complacent  smile 
that  is  the  outward  sign  of  the  promise  that  his  heart 
has  made  to  itself  of  thrift  for  his  sons,  and  marriage 
portions  for  his  daughters,  are  additional  features  in  the 
picture.  Should  he  ask  you  to  accompany  him  home 
and  breakfast  with  him,  you  need  not  excuse  yourself  or 
hesitate  lest  his  busy  wife  and  pretty  daughters,  whose 
complexions  show  that  they  once  belonged  to  New 
Haven  county,  -should  blush  at  the  scantiness  of  the 
repast.  They  will  set  before  you  buckwheat  cakes  and 
venison,  or  it  may  be  salt  fish  and  the  nice  fragments  of 
the  wild  turkey  that  flanked  the  loin  of  beef  for  yester- 
day's dinner.1 

But  this  quiet  state  of  things  was  not  to  last  long.     It 


I   Hollister's  Hist,  II.  340.    Miner's  Hist.  Wyoming,  208  9.    Chapman's 
Hist.  Wyoming.    Stone's  Hist.  Wyoming. 


326  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

began  to  be  rumored  abroad  that  the  Indians  meditated 
an  attack  on  the  settlement.  The  settlers  began  to 
guard  themselves  with  increased  vigilance.  Regular 
garrison  duty  was  performed  in  the  several  fortifications 
by  classes  of  the  militia  in  successive  order.  Message 
after  message  was  sent  to  their  absent  husbands  in  the 
continental  army  by  the  now  thoroughly  frightened 
women,  begging  them  as  they  loved  them  and  their  ten- 
der babes,  to  come  home.  But  Congress  refused  to  let 
them  go  until  every  commissioned  officer  from  Wyoming 
except  two,  had  resigned  ;  and  many  privates  had  de- 
serted. But  they  reached  their  loved  ones  too  late.  A 
combined  British,  tory  and  Indian  force  had  spread 
devastation  and  waste  on  every  side.  A  terrible  battle 
was  fought  ;  and  a  massacre,  awful  in  its  details,  com- 
menced. About  one  hundred  and  sixty  of  the  Connecti- 
cut people  were  slain,  or  more  than  half  of  the  able 
men  in  the  valley.  The  valley  was  deserted,  and  nearly 
every  house  and  barn  were  burnt.  The  entire  region 
presented  a  scene  of  devastation  and  ruin. 

"  On  Susquehanna's  side,  fair  Wyoming ! 
Although  the  wild  flower  on  thy  ruined  wall, 
And  roofless  homes  a  sad  remembrance  bring 
Of  what  thy  gentle  people  did  befall ; 
Yet  thou  wert  once  the  loveliest  land  of  all 
That  see  the  Atlantic  wave  their  morn  restore." 

The  remainder  of  the  people  endeavored  to  seek  safety 
in  flight.  The  dense  forests  and  swamps  that  sur- 
rounded the  valley  of  the  Wyoming  were  teeming  with 
the  widowed  women  and  fatherless  children  of  the 
pioneers,  who  were  wending  their  way  back  towards 
Connecticut  with  blighted  hjpes  and  broken  hearts. 
Wyoming  was  a  home  to  them  no  longer. 


WYOMING.  327 

"Waste  were  those  pleasant  farms,  and  the  farmers  for- 
ever departed ! 

Scattered  like  dust  and  leaves,  when  the  mighty  blasts 
of  October 

Seize  them,  and  whirl  them  aloft,  and  sprinkle  them  far 
o'er  the  ocean." 

The  bodies  of  the  slain  lay  unburied  until  the  22d  of 
October,  when  a  military  guard  of  twenty-five  men, 
under  the  direction  of  a  lieutenant,  collected  their  re- 
mains, dug  a  large  hole  and  buried  them. 

The  New  England  spirit  of  enterprise  and  love  of 
adventure  were  soon  manifested  in  new  settlements  in 
the  Wyoming  valley ;  a  fort  was  built,  and  the  few 
families  who  returned  to  the  scene  of  their  troubles 
proceeded  to  cultivate  the  fields.  But  by  the  unjust 
decree  of  Trenton,  in  1782,  the  settlement  was  torn  from 
Connecticut,  and  subjected  to  the  authority  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, contrary  to  the  wishes,  and  without  the  consent 
of  the  inhabitants.  By  this  unrighteous  act,  Connec- 
ticut, which  had  held  rank  in  the  confederacy  of  1775, 
as  a  colony  of  the  first  magnitude,  and  had  been  literally 
the  keystone  State  of  the  confederacy  during  the 
revolutionary  struggle,  had  met  every  crisis  with  the 
greatest  promptitude  and  vigor,  and  had  made  such 
great  sacrifices  to  establish  the  cause  of  liberty  and  inde- 
pendence, underwent  the  mortification  of  seeing  the 
integrity  of  her  territory  violated,  her  size  diminished, 
her  laws  solemnly  enacted  nullified  without  her  consent, 
and  her  rank  in  the  Union  reduced.1  But  compromising 
and  confirming  laws  were  passed  by  the  legislature  of 
Pennsylvania,  under  which  the  Connecticut  settlers 
were  allowed  to  retain  their  farms. 


3  Hinman's  Connecticut  in  the  Revolution,  17. 


328  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER     XVII. 

THE  FIRST  CORN  MILL.     ORIGIN  OF  THE  NAME  OF 
YALESVILLE. 

THE  first  planters  of  Wallingford,  as  in  all  new  settle- 
ments, soon  discovered  the  importance  of  having  a  mill 
for  grinding  their  corn.  Consequently  they  were  not 
long  in  making  preparations  for  the  erection  of  one  on 
Wharton's  brook,  a  little  south  of  the  late  residence  of 
Joseph  Doolittle.  As  early  as  1673,  at  a  town  meeting 
on  the  3oth  day  of  January,  it  was  "ordered  that  Lieut. 
Fowler  be  invited  to  come  and  confer  with  the  towns- 
men about  building  a  mill  as  he  had  proposed,  so  that 
the  town  might  exactly  know  what  his  proposition  was, 
that  it  might  be  reported  to  the  town,  and  action  taken 
accordingly."  No  further  action  was  taken  on  the  subject 
until  February  24th  of  the  same  year,  when  Mr.  Moss, 
Lieut.  Merriman,  Thomas  Yale  and  Benjamin  Lewis 
were  chosen  to  confer  with  Lieut.  Fowler  concerning 
the  mill,  and  liberty  was  granted  them,  provided  Fowler 
would  not  agree  to  such  terms  as  they  might  propose, 
to  accept  of  his  ;  thus  showing  their  great  anxiety  for  the 
establishment  of  a  mill  in  the  town.  Nothing  appears 
to  have  been  accomplished,  as  the  committee  made  no 
report  of  their  doings. 

A  contract  was  however  made  by  the  committee  with 


FIRST    CORN    MILL.  329 

Lieut  Fowler,  and  the  work  of  building  a  mill  was  com- 
menced. On  the  fifth  day  of  the  fourth  month,  1674, 
John  Hall  Jr.,  Nathaniel  Royce,  Benjamin  Lewis  and 
Nathan  Andrews  were  chosen  to  look  after  the  interests 
of  the  mill,  and  to  cause  the  work  to  be  duly  accom- 
plished. A  vigorous  move  was  now  made  to  push  the 
work.  A  town  meeting  was  called  on  the  third  day  of 
July,  1674,  and  a  rate  of  sixteen  shillings  on  the  smallest 
lots,  and  twenty-four  shillings  on  the  middle  lots,  and 
thirty-two  shillings  on  the  largest  lots,  was  laid,  and 
ordered  to  be  paid  in  the  following  manner :  One-half 
of  a  third  part  in  wheat  and  peas  in  equal  proportion, 
and  the  remainder  in  Indian  or  other  corn  ;  the  wheat, 
if  winter  wheat,  at  five  shillings  per  bushel ;  summer 
wheat  at  five  shillings  eight  pence ;  peas  at  four  shillings, 
and  corn  at  three  shillings  and  sixpence,  to  defray  the 
expense  of  the  mill,  and  in  carrying  on  the  work  at  and 
about  the  same,  also  about  Mr.  Street's  house  then  being 
erected. 

The  great  difficulty  of  procuring  help  to  accomplish 
the  work  about  the  mill,  induced  the  town  at  a  meeting 
held  August  26,  1674,  to  order  and  direct  the  committee 
to  call  out  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  to  work  at  the 
mill.  The  committee  found  some  difficulty  in  carrying 
out  the  above  order  ;  therefore  on  the  twentieth  day  of 
October,  1674,  a  further  committee  was  appointed,  con- 
sisting of  Samuel  Andrews,  Thomas  Curtis  and  Thomas 
Hall,  to  assist  the  former  committee  in  prosecuting  the 
work  ;  and  if  on  call  any  should  refuse  to  work  at  the 
mill,  they  should  pay  a  fine  of  five  shillings.  As  this 
vote  was  the  last  one  passed  by  the  town  on  the  subject, 
it  is  supposed  that  the  committee  found  no  further  diffi- 
culty in  finishing  the  work  about  the  mill. 


33O  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

The  mill  having  been  completed,  a  meeting  of  the 
town  was  called,  and  held  December  12,  1674,  ordering 
the  inhabitants  to  bring  in  their  corn  to  the  mill,  that 
the  same  may  be  ground ;  and  that  Wednesday  and 
Thursday  in  each  week  be  set  apart  for  grinding  at  the 
mill.  As  no  record  can  be  found  of  the  contract  made 
with  Lieut.  Fowler  respecting  the  mill  or  his  interest 
therein,  that  part  of  its  history  must  forever  remain  in 
obscurity.  During  the  season  following,  the  mill-dam 
was  frequently  damaged  by  the  sudden  rise  of  water  in 
the  stream,  and  frequent  calls  were  made  on  the  people 
to  assist  in  making  repairs.  At  a  meeting  of  the  town 
held  September  23,  1675,  an  appropriation  of  forty  shil- 
lings was  made,  and  a  committee  appointed  to  cause  the 
mill-dam  to  be  kept  in  order.  April  6,  1675,  the  town 
gave  Lieutenant  Fowler  six  acres  of  land  upon  the  mill 
plain,  on  the  south  side  of  the  path  that  leads  to  the  mill, 
adjoining  Wharton's  brook.  April  27,  1675,  a  further 
grant  was  made  to  Lieut.  Fowler  of  sixty  acres  of  land 
on  the  east  side  of  Wharton's  brook,  east  of  the  mill, 
and  adjoining  said  brook.  The  selectmen  were  to  lay  it 
out  according  to  their  best  judgment,  and  for  convenience 
to  the  mill  and  people  of  the  town.  This  grant  is  very 
nearly,  if  not  exactly,  that  tract  of  land  which  was  the 
farm  of  the  late  Michael  Doolittle. 

On  account  of  some  difficulty  between  the  town  and 
Lieut.  Fowler,  in  carrying  out  his  contract  made  with 
the  committee,  he  not  being  willing  to  confer  further 
with  them,  sent  his  son  John  Fowler  to  act  in  his  be- 
half. At  a  meeting  of  the  town  September  16,  1676, 
John  Fowler  appeared  in  behalf  of  his  father,  as  his 
agent  respecting  all  former  contracts  of  his  father  about 
the  mill.  He  engaged  in  his  own  name,  and  drew  up 


FIRST    CORN    MILL.  331 

and  signed  a  contract  with  the  town  of  Wallingford, 
upon  condition  the  town  granted  the  sixty  acres  of  land 
as  promised,  situated  as  follows  : 

"  The  north  stake  ten  rods  northward  of  the  brook  common- 
ly called  Milking  Yard  brook  as  you  go  between  Wallingford 
and  Hartford  in  the  Middle  way  between  the  mouth  of  said 
brook  and  the  old  path,  and  to  run  in  a  strait  line  south- 
ward, so  as  to  cut  the  edges  of  the  red  bank  by  the  east 
river,  so  called,  at  the  utmost  eastward.  And  so  from  the 
norther  stake  westward  120  rods,  and  so  as  to  hold  his  depth 
on  the  south  side  paralell  and  the  river  southward  till  he 
have  the  full  complement  of  sixty  acres." 

What  action  the  town  took  in  relation  to  this  matter 
does  not  appear ;  but  the  following  vote,  passed  March 
5,  1676,  indicates  the  result : 

"Voted,  in  case  Lieut.  Fowler  dissented  from  his  former 
contract  with  the  town  about  the  mill,  and  it  falls  out  that  Jo. 
Lothrop  prove  to  be  the  man  that  takes  the  matter  in  hand  to 
procure  the  mill  to  be  built  anew,  and  kept  in  repair  for  the 
use  of  the  town,  the  town  will  give  him  twenty  pounds  for  his 
encouragement  in  the  work." 

Nathaniel  Royce  was  instructed  in  behalf  of  Jo.  Loth- 
rop to  call  out  men  to  work  at  the  mill,  every  man  accord- 
ing to  his  proportion  until  the  thirty  pounds  were  paid. 
Lieut.  Fowler's  management  and  the  location  of  the 
mill  were  not  satisfactory  to  the  people  of  the  town,  and 
as  he  could  not  give  further  assurances,  or  would  not 
fulfil  his  contract  with  them,  the  dam  and  race  had  been 
greatly  damaged  by  the  flood,  and  mill  gearing  often  out 
of  repair,  causing  much  trouble  and  annoyance;  and 
Mr.  Fowler  failing  to  perform  his  engagements,  it  was 
decided  that  the  mill  should  be  removed  to  a  place  that 


332  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

had   been   selected   previously  for  that  purpose  at  the 
first  falls  on  the  river,  (now  Yalesville). 

The  old  site  of  the  first  mill  was  on  Wharton's  brook 
a  little  south  of  the  hill  on  which  the  village  stands,  and 
a  little  below  the  late  residence  of  Joseph  Doolittle. 
Traces  of  the  old  dam  and  race  are  now  visible.  Before 
entering  upon  the  history  of  the  First  Falls  mill,  it  may 
not  be  out  of  place  to  give  some  of  the  town's  action 
relative  to  the  old  mill-site  flowing  ground,  which  being 
sequestered  was  rented  from  time  to  time  for  different 
purposes,  and  to  different  individuals.  November  14, 
1679,  the  land  where  the  mill  stood  was  given  to  Mercy 
Moss.  It  is  described  as  being  on  the  west  side  of  Long 
Hill,  near  the  south  end  of  Wharton's  brook.  March  13, 
1693,  the  townsmen  were  instructed  to  let  the  old  mill- 
pond  for  seven  years  to  John  Doolittle,  for  two  pounds 
and  two  shillings  per  year,  current  provision  pay,  he 
keeping  the  fences  in  good  repair,  and  to  leave  them  so. 
October  4,  1693,  the  old  mill-pond  was  by  a  vote  of  the 
town  sequestered,  with  all  the  land  between  the  country 
road  and  the  old  pond  place,  the  use  of  which  was  to  be 
applied  to  the  benefit  of  schools  ;  no  part  of  which  was 
to  be  disposed  of  or  sold,  without  the  consent  of  every 
individual  planter. 

The  site  of  the  mill  at  the  "  First  Falls"  was  examined 
at  an  early  date  and  selected  as  a  desirable  place  for  a 
mill  ;  therefore  it  was  decided  at  a  meeting  of  the  town 
on  the  fourth  day  of  June,  1677,  that  the  mill  should  be 
removed  there,  or  to  some  other  place  more  convenient 
if  it  could  be  found.  Nothing  further  was  done  until 
the  loth  of  September,  1677.  Some  three  months  after 
they  had  decided  on  the  removal,  the  town  voted  to 
send  for  Jo.  Lothrop  to  come  and  conclude  an  agree- 


FIRST    CORN    MILL.  333 

ment  with  them  about  the  mill.  It  appears  that  this 
vote  was  carried  into  immediate  effect ;  for  on  the  1 3th 
day  of  September,  1677,  three  days  only  intervening, 
the  town  voted  that  "  if  Jo.  Lothrop  go  on  with  all  speed 
and  complete  his  mill  which  he  had  begun,  leaving  all 
future  agreements  between  himself  and  the  town  for 
more  suitable  time,  then  the  town  grants  him  his  thirty 
acres  of  land  by  the  mill  as  he  desired,  as  a  part  of  his 
first  division  as  a  planter ;  that  is,  he  is  to  go  five  rods 
below  the  mill,  forty  rods  above  the  mill,  and  so  to  run 
back  southward  until  he  gets  his  thirty  acres."  The 
town  also  gave  him  forty-four  acres  of  land  peculiar  to 
his  mill ;  that  is,  four  acres  were  added  to  his  river  lot  of 
eight  acres,  making  it  twelve  acres  in  all,  and  this  to  be 
situated  as  follows  :  "forty  rods  by  the  river,  and  running 
back  eastward  until  he  can  find  twelve  acres  at  the  falls 
which  had  been  selected  as  a  site  for  the  mill ;  also  forty 
acres  of  upland  to  be  in  one  piece,  or  two,  as  he  may 
choose,  provided  he  does  not  come  within  half  a  mile  of 
the  river  commonly  called  New  Haven  east  river,  or 
within  two  miles  of  the  town,  or  interfere  with  any 
former  grants."  The  town  also  remitted  his  rates  levied 
for  the  purpose  of  paying  for  the  mill-dam  and  other  work 
about  the  mill  which  belonged  to  the  town  to  perform. 
The  town  also  agreed  "  that  the  first  thirty  pounds  and 
the  last  thirty  pounds  granted  and  to  be  levied  for  carry- 
ing on  the  work  of  the  mill  be  now  levied  according  to  the 
three  ranks  of  allotments  ;  that  is  to  say  the  highest  rank 
to  pay  twenty  shillings,  the  middle  rank  fifteen  shillings, 
and  the  lowest  rank  ten  shillings  ;  this  for  the  first  thirty 
pounds,  and  also  for  the  second  rate  levied.  Sergeant 
Abraham  Doolittle  was  chosen  and  authorised  to  call  out 
as  many  of  the  town  as  he  may  need  to  work  at  the  mill." 


334  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

By  the  action  of  the  town  it  appears  that  Mr.  Lothrop 
was  ahead  of  the  town  in  his  work,  and  that  the  town 
were  behind  in  theirs.  It  also  appears  that  the  town 
were  to  build  the  dam  and  race.  October  30,  1677,  the 
town  ordered  that  one  day's  work  more  be  added  to  each 
man  in  addition  to  what  was  previously  levied.  The 
town  ordered,  November  13,  1677,  every  planter  to  forth- 
with work  one  day  each  at  the  mill  ;  "  and  if  any  refuse, 
they  are  to  be  pressed  ;  and  should  any  be  behind  in  not 
paying  their  former  dues,  they  are  also  to  be  pressed." 
Liberty  was  given  to  Sergeant  Doolittle  to  take  men 
from  the  dam  work  to  help  goodman  Lothrop  about  his 
work  proper  to  the  mill,  the  said  Lothrop  paying  the 
town  for  the  same. 

Up  to  this  time  the  work  had  been  driven  with  energy 
both  by  the  town  and  Mr.  Lothrop,  each  performing  their 
part  to  the  full  satisfaction  of  the  other,  when  a  cloud 
came  over  them  in  the  destruction  of  their  dam,  which 
had  cost  them  much  labor  and  expense.  It  was  carried 
away  by  the  great  pressure  of  the  water  from  above. 
Notwithstanding  this  great  calamity  the  people  showed 
themselves  to  be  men  of  nerve,  and  resolved  to  go  ahead, 
and  at  once  sent  for  goodman  Miller,  a  man  of  experi- 
ence in  such  matters,  to  give  advice  as  to  the  best  way 
to  proceed  in  repairing  the  mill-dam.  Goodman  Thorp 
was  the  messenger  sent  to  Middletown  for  Mr.  Miller, 
carrying  a  letter  from  the  town  of  Wallingford  desiring 
him  to  come  and  advise  with  them.  What  advice  he 
gave  does  not  appear.  The  matter  rested  until  spring, 
when  on  the  twenty-third  day  of  April,  1678,  the  town 
decided  to  take  away  the  sluice  in  the  former  dam  be- 
fore building  a  new  one  ;  and  on  the  twenty-second  of 
May  the  work  of  repairing  the  dam  was  ordered  to  be 


FIRST    CORN    MILL.  335 

carried  on  forthwith.  The  training  day  for  May  was 
suspended,  and  each  man  was  to  work  at  the  mill  on 
that  day.  No  doubt  the  work  went  on  to  completion, 
for  we  find  no  reference  to  the  mill  or  mill-dam  until 
May  23,  1679,  when  the  miller  was  instructed  to  grind 
one  day  in  each  week,  and  that  on  Mondays.  On  the 
eighth  day  of  September,  1679,  a  committee  was  chosen 
to  look  after  the  affairs  of  the  mill,  and  it  was  ascertain- 
ed that  the  miller  could  not  do  the  grinding  necessary 
for  the  inhabitants  in  one  day.  It  was  therefore  ordered 
September  29,  that  two  days  be  set  apart  for  that  pur- 
pose, viz. :  Mondays  and  Thursdays. 

Thus  matters  went  on  until  Aug.  25,  1680,  when  the 
town  gave  the  whole  control  of  the  mill  into  the  hands 
of  the  committee  who  had  been  previously  appointed  to 
look  out  for  the  interest  of  the  mill  and  its  affairs  gen- 
erally. The  business  affairs  of  the  mill  had  by  this  time 
become  of  great  annoyance  and  trouble  between  the  town 
and  the  miller,  and  the  town  had  become  completely  tired 
of  the  trouble  arising  from  it ;  and  to  allay  further  trouble 
passed  the  following  order,  November  8,  1680:  "That 
the  miller  attend  and  perform  his  grinding  Mondays  and 
Thursdays,  and  continue  grinding  until  his  mill  be 
cleared,  if  the  water  holds  out ;  and  that  every  man  has 
his  turn  whether  he  is  there  himself  or  sends  one  of  his 
children  or  servants,  according  to  agreement  ;  that  is,  if 
he  brings  his  corn  first,  and  is  there  present  to  desire  it, 
or  not,  as  soon  as  the  hopper  is  clear ;  and  if  no  such 
case  occurs  then  he  shall  have  liberty  to  attend  to  the 
grinding  of  any  one  of  the  town  who  may  bring  his  corn, 
and  will  wait  until  it  is  ground  ;  and  that  the  miller  does 
not  grind  away  his  water  for  strangers  to  the  injury  of 
the  town's  inhabitants."  No  doubt  they  anticipated  that 


336  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

the  passage  of  this  order  would  be  the  means  of  giving 
satisfaction  to  the  people  of  the  town,  but  in  this  they 
were  greatly  mistaken;  and  we  find,  June  13,  1681,  the 
town  voting  to  give  the  whole  control  of  the  mill  into 
the  hands  of  the  miller,  provided  that  he  would  keep  the 
same  in  repair  and  grind  the  town's  corn  as  it  ought  to 
be.  October  14,  1681,  the  town  entered  into  a  contract 
with  John  Lothrop,  and  were  for  a  time  partially  relieved 
from  the  care  and  perplexity  of  the  mill,  and  no  more 
was  heard  about  it  until  September  27,  1686,  when  it 
was  found  that  it  needed  great  repairs. 

A  committee  was  chosen  to  fix  upon  a  site  for  a  mill 
on  the  river,  and  two  days  afterwards  an  order  was 
passed  ordering  its  removal.  Thus  it  would  appear  that 
a  site  a  little  further  down  the  stream  would  be  better 
than  the  one  originally  selected,  and  there  appears  to  be 
no  doubt  but  that  the  mill  was  removed  several  rods 
down  the  stream  ;  and  in  order  to  make  the  location 
sure  forever  as  a  mill-site,  the  people  of  the  town  in 
town  meeting  assembled,  October  3,  1687,  agreed  and 
voted  that  all  the  land  about  the  mill  and  that  on  which 
it  stands,  and  the  river,  shall  be  sequestered  as  town's 
commons,  not  any  part  thereof  or  parcel  of  the  same 
ever  to  be  sold  or  granted  to  any  person  or  persons  ex- 
cept by  the  consent  of  every  individual  planter  belonging 
to  the  town.  This  land  was  bounded  west  by  the 
entailed  land,  foreign  to  the  mill,  by  the  river  and  the 
highway  on  all  the  other  parts  (the  mill  being  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river) ;  and  as  there  was  no  means  of 
crossing  except  by  fording  the  river,  the  town  at  a  meet- 
ing held  December  27,  1687,  ordered  that  a  canoe  be 
procured  for  the  purpose  of  crossing  the  river  to  get  to 
the  mill  from  the  east. 


FIRST    CORN    MILL.  337 

The  work  of  removing  and  repairing  the  mill  having 
been  accomplished,  the  town,  at  a  meeting  held  January 
21,  1689,  passed  an  order  directing  how  the  affairs  rela- 
tive to  grinding  were  to  be  performed  at  the  mill,  and  thus 
assumed  the  entire  control  of  its  affairs.  December  17, 
1694,  the  people  having  become  dissatisfied  with  crossing 
the  river  in  a  canoe,  resolved  to  build  a  bridge,  so  that 
persons  could  get  to  the  mill  horseback.  This  was  a  great 
improvement  over  the  old  plan  of  crossing  the  river  in  a 
canoe.  January  22,  1695,  a  tax  of  one-half  penny  was 
levied  to  defray  the  expense  of  the  bridge  at  the  mill. 
The  bridge  was  no  doubt  built  almost  exactly  where  the 
bridge  now  is,  just  east  of  Parker's  factory,  and  on  the 
old  road  leading  to  Wallingford.  At  this  meeting  Samuel 
Lothrop,  a  son  of  John  Lothrop,  was  appointed  to  take 
charge  of  the  mill  for  two  months,  on  condition  that  he  per- 
formed his  work  well,  and  ground  every  man's  corn  well ; 
but  he  was  given  to  understand  that  he  could  not  stay 
in  the  mill  if  he  failed  to  perform  his  work  in  a  satisfac- 
tory manner.  He  appears  to  have  given  satisfaction,  as 
he  continued  in  charge  of  the  mill  until  1697,  when 
Thomas  Hall  was  chosen  miller.  December  31,  1700, 
it  was  ordered  that  the  miller  devote  four  days  to  grind- 
ing in  each  week  in  the  winter,  viz.,  December,  January 
and  February,  and  three  days  in  each  week  for  the 
remainder  of  the  year. 

On  or  about  the  ninth  day  of  March,  1704,  John 
Lothrop's  heirs  sold  to  Tyler  and  Stanley  all  of  their 
interest  in  the  mill,  and  in  1707  William  Tyler  made  a 
contract  with  the  town  concerning  it.  From  this  time 
the  town  seems  to  have  surrendered  all  control  over  the 
mill  and  miller,  the  mill  having  passed  into  the  hands  of 
Wm.  Tyler,  who  had  purchased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Stan- 
x 


338  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ley.  The  mill  and  all  of  the  privileges  connected  with 
it  remained  in  the  Tyler  family  nearly  a  hundred  years, 
until  the  decease  of  the  late  Samuel  Tyler,  who  left  it  to 
one  of  his  daughters,  and  it  was  sold  by  her  guardian, 
Nehemiah  Rice,  to  the  late  Charles  Yale,  who  made  ex- 
tensive repairs  and  alterations,  and  changed  the  name  of 
Tyler's  mills  to  Yalesville.  The  old  buildings  were  de- 
stroyed by  fire  a  few  years  ago. 


339 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 

SLAVERY.     SMALL  POX. 

SLAVERY  had  existed  in  Connecticut,  though  to  a  very 
limited  extent,  from  an  early  period.  There  were  a 
number  of  slaves  in  Wallingford  and  Meriden  who 
labored  on  farms  and  in  families.  These  slaves  were 
some  of  them  brought  directly  from  Africa,  or  quite  as 
often  from  the  West  Indies,  with  which  a  brisk  com- 
merce was  carried  on  by  the  people  of  Connecticut, 
they  often  sending  for  a  likely  young  negro  and  paying 
for  him  with  the  productions  of  their  farms.  In  1680 
thirty  slaves  were  brought  from  Barbadoes  and  sold  at 
an  average  price  of  £22  each.  In  a  letter  on  the  5th 
of  July,  1773,  his  Majesty's  secretary  inquired  of  the 
Governor  of  Connecticut  as  to  the  population  of  the 
colony.  The  answer  of  the  Governor  in  1774  was  that 
the  number  of  whites  was  191,372,  and  the  number  of 
blacks  6,464.  Nearly  all  the  blacks  were  slaves.  At 
an  early  period  some  Indians  or  Indian  families  who  had 
become  by  treachery  or  crime  peculiarly  obnoxious,  were 
sold  as  slaves.  In  1646  we  are  told  that  "  an  Indian 
woman  fled  from  her  master"  to  the  Dutch.1  We  find 

in  the   Connecticut  Gazette  for  January  5,  1764,  the  fol- 

_____ % 

I  This  took  place  at  Hartford,  near  which,  at  a  place  still  called  "  Dutch 
Point,"  the  Dutch  had  then  a  small  fort  and  garrison. 


34O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

lowing  advertisement:  "Just  imported  from  Dublin,  in 
the  brig  Darby,  a  parcel  of  Irish  servants  both  Men  and 
Women,  and  to  be  sold  cheap,  by  Israel  Boardman,  at 
Stamford." 

Joseph  De  Mink,  a  freeman,  born  in  Bravo,  one  of 
the  Cape  Verd  Islands,  with  the  consent  of  his  father 
went  to  Buena  Vista,  March,  1755 ;  and  being  desirous 
of  returning  home  met  with  Captain  Phineas  Cook 
of  Wallingford  who  promised  to  take  him  to  Bravo,' 
but  passed  by  that  Island  to  the  West  Indies,  brought 
him  to  Wallingford,  and  delivered  him  to  David  Cook, 
his  father,  who  sold  him  as  a  slave  to  Noah  Wadhams  of 
Goshen,  for  £52  los.  Wadhams  being  satisfied  that  he 
was  a  negro  and  a  freeman,  brought  action  against  Cook, 
who  compounded  with  him,  and  Joseph  was  returned. 
He  feared  Cook  might  again  dispose  of  him,  and  pe- 
titioned the  General  Assembly  for  relief.  A  number  of 
witnesses  were  brought  forward,  including  David  Bates, 
Moses  Ventres,  Titus  Tuttle,  Gad  Wells,  Levi  Comstock, 
Street  Hall  and  others,  who  testified  that  Joe  was  a 
thievish,  lazy  fellow,  and  it  was  not  safe  to  turn  him  loose 
on  the  community.  The  Assembly  appointed  Thomas 
Seymour  as  his  guardian,  and  declared  Joseph  a  free 
subject  of  the  king  of  Portugal,  and  ordered  Captain  Cook 
to  pay  him  ^15  damages  and  ^15  costs  into  the  treas- 
ury, and  ordered  Mr.  Seymour  to  take  care  of  Joe  and 
obtain  for  him  a  passage  home. 

Samuel  Tyler  of  Wallingford,  had  a  negro  girl,  Nellie, 
aged  nine  years,  who  was  entitled  to  freedom  at  eighteen 
years  of  age,  her  mother  being  a  free  Indian.  Tyler 
claimed  her  for  life,  and  brought  action  before  the  county 
Court,  April,  1746,  and  before  the  Suprerior  Court,  Feb- 
ruary, 1748,  and  judgment  was  rendered  against  him. 


SLAVERY.  341 

One  of  the  first  slaves  in  Wallingford  was  Caesar,  the 
property  of  the  late  Samuel  Cook,  whose  father  and 
grandfather  had  each  in  succession  been  his  owner,  from 
his  infancy.  He  died  about  the  year  1820  at  the  age  of 
eighty-two  years.  Colonel  Edward  Barker,  Elihu  Hall 
and  others  were  owners  of  slaves.  At  an  earlier  date 
Isaac  Brockett  owned  a  negro  boy  by  the  name  of 
Esau.  Cato  was  the  name  of  Col.  Barker's  negro.  He 
ranked  high  as  a  fiddler  in  the  community,  and  was 
generally  called  upon  to  furnish  the  music  for  balls  on 
the  nights  preceding  the  annual  thanksgiving,  and  other 
occasions  when  dancing  was  expected.  By  an  old 
colonial  law  white  men  were  sometimes  sold  into  slavery 
for  intemperance,  theft,  idleness,  etc.  Simon  Smith  and 
Daniel  Clark  were  frequently  sold  to  Samuel  Cook,  for 
a  small  annual  payment  to  the  town.  By  an  early 
statute  of  the  colony,  all  single  persons  who  lived  in 
idleness,  might  be  bound  out  to  service. 

Immediately  after  the  Revolution,  a  statute  was  made 
declaring  that  no  negro  or  mulatto  child  born  in  this 
State  after  March  i,  1784,  should  be  held  to  servitude 
after  he  or  she.  should  arrive  at  the  age  of  twenty-five 
years.  By  this  statute  any  negro,  mulatto,  or  Indian 
servant  found  wandering  beyond  the  bounds  of  the 
town  to  which  he  belonged,  without  a  pass  from  a  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  or  his  master,  might  be  arrested  by 
any  one  as  a  runaway.  If  a  slave  was  caught  out  at 
night,  after  nine  o'clock,  without  an  order  from  his 
master,  any  person  might  apprehend  and  bring  him 
before  a  justice  of  the  peace,  who  might  sentence  him 
to  be  publicly  whipped  on  the  naked  body.  In  1848 
the  Legislature  enacted  for  the  first  time  that  no  person 
should  be  held  in  slavery  in  this  State. 


342  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

When  slaves  were  married  it  was  done  only  with  the 
consent  of  their  masters,  just  as  children  in  their  minori- 
ty were  married  with  the  consent  of  their  parents.  This 
consent  was  carefully  recorded  by  the  minister  who 
married  them.  They  were  indeed  considered  as  mem- 
bers of  the  family  and  baptized  as  such  on  the  plan  of 
"  household  baptism."  For  we  meet  with  entries  on  the 
church  records  like  the  following: 

"March  i,  1741,  baptized  London,  servant  of  John  Webb." 
"Sep.  12,  1742,  baptized  Primus,  servant  of  Lazarus  Ives." 
"Sep.  6,  1747,  baptized  Champe,  a  negro  of  Lazarus  Ives." 
"April  24,  1748,  baptized  negro  child  of  John  Merriam." 

About  twenty  of  these  baptisms  are  recorded  within  a 
period  of  forty  years.  The  deaths  among  the  slaves 
were  also  recorded  no  less  carefully  than  the  decease  of 
the  whites,  though  in  somewhat  less  respectful  terms. 
Thus  in  the  register  of  burials  for  1736,  is  this  entry: 

"Aaron  Lyman's  negro."  "Nov.  15,  1737,  Theo.  Mix's 
negro  man."  "Feb.  25,  1745,  a  negro  man  of  Serg't. 
Jerom."  "  Feb.  28,  1748,  Serg't.  Jerom's  negro  child." 

Even  the  reverend  man  who  officiated  at  funerals 
met  with  losses  of  the  same  nature,  for  I  find  this  entry: 
"June  8,  1758,  my  negro  child,  Gin."  The  following  are 
copies  of  two  from  among  a  number  of  legal  instruments 
of  sale,  which  are  regularly  signed,  sealed  and  witnessed 
by  the  parties  respectively,  like  deeds  of  land.  The 
names  of  the  contracting  parties  are  omitted. 

"  Know  all   men  by  these  presents  that  I of  Meriden, 

Widow,   for   the     consideration    of    thirteen    pounds    Lawful 

money,  already  received  of of  s'd  Meriden,  do  sell  and 

make  over  unto  the  s'd his  Heirs  and  assigns  forever, 

all  my  Right  and  title  to  and   Interest  in  the  Negro  Girl 
named  time,  that  was  the  Estate  of  the  s'd  deceased,  and  that 


SLAVERY.  343 

was  let  out  to  me  for  the  settlement  of  s'd  estate,  and  do 
hereby  promise  to  warrant  the  same  against  all  claims  what- 
soever. In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  Hand 
and  Seal  this  Second, day  of  May,  Anno  Domini,  1760. 

« T    c 

t  j      kj* 

"  Signed,  Sealed  and  Delivered  in  presence  of 


"  Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I ,  of 

Wallingford,  the  County  of  New  Haven,  and  colony  of  Con- 
necticut in  New  england,  Have  Sold  and  Delivered  unto 

,  of  s'd  Wallingford,  one  negro  man  called  by  the  name 

of  Steep,  about  eighteen  years  old  who  is  in  perfect  health 
acording  to  the  best  of  my  knowliclg,  for  which  negro  I  have 

Received  of  s'd  — ,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and 

eighty  pounds,  old  tenor,1  to  my  full  satisfaction  and  do 
promise  to  warrant  and  defend  the  sale  of  the  above  s'd 
negro,  dureing  the  term  of  his  natureall  life  against  all  the 
lawfull  claims  of  any  person  whatsoever,  in  witness  whereof, 
I  have  set  my  hand  and  seal,  this  first  day  of  March,  A.  D. 
1743.  L.  S. 

"  Signed,  Sealed  and  Delivered  in  presence  of 


"  Middletown,  July  8,   1760. 

"  Received  of  Abel  Curtis  (of  Meriden)  Forty  Pounds,  In 
full  of  a  Negro  Boy  Called  Ben,  about  nine  years  old  which 
Sd  negro  Boy  I  Promis  to  warrant  and  Defend  against  all 
Lawful  Claims  &  demands  of  any  Person  whatsoever  as  wit- 
ness my  hand.  GEO.  PHILLIPS." 

At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Wallingford,  April  7,  1 766, 

I  This  "  old  tenor  "  money  consisted  of  bills  of  credit  issued  by  the 
State  in  the  terrible  embarassments  and  debts  consequent  on  the  English, 
French  and  Spanish  wars  ;  which  wars  always  involved  the  colonies  in 
great  danger  and  expense.  These  bills  at  one  time  became  so  depreciated 
that  they  were  received  as  ten  for  one,  and  even  twenty  for  one. 


344  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

"Voted,  with  regard  to  the  poor  of  the  town,  that  the 
selectmen  of  said  town,  shall  meet  at  the  dwelling  house  of 
Mr.  Philemon  Johnson,  in  said  town  on  the  third  Monday  of 
instant  April,  at  two  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon,  and  there 
expose  them  to  Public  Vendue  to  be  supported  by  those  that 
will  do  it  the  cheapest  by  the  week,  month,  or  year,  for  said 
town,  and  also  to  dispose  of  those  under  their  care  that  are 
able  to  do  some  service  for  their  support  in  the  same  manner." 

Chatham  Freeman  was  a  slave  of  Mr.  Noah  Yale. 
One  of  Mr.  Yale's  sons  was  drafted,  and  Mr.  Yale 
offered  Chatham  his  freedom  if  he  would  go  as  a  sub- 
stitute and  serve  seven  years.  Chatham  served  seven 
years,  then  returned  home  and  received  his  freedom. 
Mr.  Yale  had  a  female  slave  named  Rhea,  whom  Chat- 
ham desired  to  marry.  Mr.  Ya]e  told  Chatham  that  if 
he  would  work  for  him  seven  years  he  would  give  the 
girl  her  freedom  and  that  he  might  marry  her.  Chatham 
agreed  to  the  proposition  ;  served  seven  years  and  re- 
ceived his  reward.  A  descendant  of  this  sable  couple 
is  now  living  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  town.  Another 
descendant,  Robert  Prim,  will  be  remembered  by  our  old 
inhabitants,  as  Robert  and  his  violin  were  indispensable 
requisites  at  every  party  or  merry-making. 

SMALL  POX. 

Vaccination  was  introduced  into  this  country  by  Dr. 
Waterhouse  of  Boston,  who  first  vaccinated  his  son. 
The  introduction  of  varilous  inoculation  by  the  influ- 
ence and  patronage  of  Cotton  Mather,  was  a  subject  of 
much  speculation.  The  clergy  were  defenders  of  inocu- 
lation. The  conduct  of  the  medical  faculty,  who  exerted 
their  whole  force  to  annihilate  it,  was  "violent  and  out- 
rageous." A  sermon  against  the  dangerous  and  sinful 
practice  of  inoculation,  preached  in  London,  in  July,  1722, 


SMALL    POX.  345 

by  Edward  Massey,  was  reprinted  in  Boston.  Zabdiel 
Boylston  was  one  of  the  earliest  inoculators  for  small 
pox  in  this  country.  His  experiments  commenced  with 
his  son,  in  1720,  and  in  a  year  extended  the  disease  to 
two  hundred  and  forty-seven  persons,  of  whom  but  six 
died.  In  Wallingford,  on  the  3ist  of  March,  1777, 
it  was 

"  Voted  that  no  Person  belonging  to  any  other  Town  shall 
be  admitted  to  Come  into  this  Town  to  Innoculate  with  the 
Small  Pox."  "Voted  that  no  person  Shall  hereafter  be  allowed 
to  Innoculate  in  this  Town  with  the  Small  Pox."  "Voted 
that  the  Informing  officers  Enter  Complaint  against  the 
Leaders  of  Innoculation  in  this  Town  with  the  Small  Pox." 
"Voted  that  no  Person  who  have  been  Infected  with  the 
•Small  Pox  in  this  Town  shall  be  allowed  to  Go  abroad 
amongst  People  untill  they  have  been  out  and  Cleaned  up 
a  fortnight  on  Penalty  of  the  Law."  "Voted  that  any  Person 
Belonging  to  any  other  "Town  presuming  to  Come  into  this 
Town  to  Innoculate  with  the  Small  Pox  Shall  Suffer  the 
Penalty  of  the  Law."1 

At  a  Town  Meeting  held  at  Wallingford  December  18, 
1792,  the  petition  of  "William  B.  Hall,  physician  and 
surgeon,"  was  presented, 

"  Praying  liberty  to  erect  an  hospital  on  his  Fathers  farm 
quite  remote  from  the  publick  road  or  dwelling  house,  for 
the  purpose  of  innoculation  for  the  small  pox,  or  to  innocu- 
late  at  any  other  place  which  they  should  think  most  proper, 
under  the  immediate  inspection  and  direction  of  the  Civil 
Authority  and  selectmen  of  said  Town,  on  Condition  said 
Hall  be  under  bonds  to  pay  all  expences  that  the  Town  or 
any  of  its  Inhabitants  may  be  put  to  in  case  the  infection 
should  spread  thro  his  Carelessness  or  neglect,  and  in  every 

I  Wallingford  Records,  Book  I.  p.  15.  State  Records,  Liber  D,  Folio 
IIO-II. 


346  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

such  case  to  pay  into  the   Town  Treay  Forty  shillings  or  any 
other  sum  that  should  be  desired." 

This  petition  was  granted  by  the  town.  In  1793 
Aaron  Andrews,  Ensign  Hough,  and  Bilious  Kirtland, 
"all  of  said  Wallingford,  physicians,  and  surgeons,"  re- 
quested permission  to  inoculate  in  such  house  or  houses 
as  should  be  judged  safe,  convenient  and  proper.  Their 
petition  was  granted.  In  1801  Dr.  Ensign  Hough  and 
Dr.  Wm.  B.  Hall  wished  to  test  thekine  pox  vaccination, 
and  having  obtained  the  house  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Ira 
Preston  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  town  to  be  used  as  a 
pest-house,  prevailed  upon  Mr.  Samuel  Paddock  of  Meri- 
den  and  Mr.  Bradley  of  Middletown  to  become  the  first 
patients.  Dr.  Hough  attended  the  patients  one  day,  and 
Dr.  Hall  the  next.  Messrs  Paddock  and  Bradley  were 
each  vaccinated  three  times,  and  remained  sick  at  the 
pest-house  for  over  three  weeks. 


347 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

WALLINGFORD    AND    MERIDEN    IN    THE    WARS. 

VIRGIL,  as  he  commenced  his  world-renowned  epic, 
could  hardly  have  announced  a  grander  subject  than 
when  he  wrote,  "  Anna  virumque  cano."  Man  and  his 
weapons  of  warfare,  inseparable  in  their  close  connec- 
tion, in  their  mutual  interdependence,  how  much  have 
they  together  accomplished !  We  can  scarcely  separate 
one  from  the  other. 

The  fathers  of  our  country  were  early  conversant  with 
a  state  of  things  widely  different  from  what  now  exists. 
Driven  by  religious  oppression  to  seek  an  asylum  on 
this  side  the  ocean,  they  came  in  successive  feeble  bands, 
and  planted  themselves  on  a  sod,  until  then,  untrodden 
by  the  foot  of  civilized  man.  They  were  far  from  the 
influence  of  despotism,  and  no  servile  band  could  there 
burst  in  on  their  Sabbath-day  ministrations,  tear  their 
pastor  from  the  sacred  desk  and  immure  him  within  the 
walls  of  a  prison.  But  we  see  them  seated  with  their 
weapons  by  their  side  ready  at  any  moment  to  repel  the 
attacks  of  the  ferocious  Indians,  who  were  exasperated 
by  the  alleged  encroachments  on  their  rights.  Scarcely 
had  the  first  log  cabin  been  built  by  the  pioneers,  when 
the  Indians,  forecasting  the  growth  and  fruitfulness  of 
resources  incident  to  the  English  race,  began  to  devise 


348  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

means  for  their  destruction.  While  the  Indians  ap- 
peared friendly  to  the  new  settlers,  they  stole  their  cattle, 
they  shot  arrows  from  their  secret  lurking  places,  at  the 
farmer  when  he  went  into  his  field  in  the  morning,  or 
murdered  his  wife  and  children  when  they  were  left 
unprotected  at  home. 

At  the  time  Wallingford  was  settled  it  was  thought 
that  Philip,  chief  sachem  of  the  Wampanoags,  was  using 
all  his  address  to  incite  a  general  insurrection  of  the 
Indians  for  the  purpose  of  exterminating  the  English. 
Philip  was  a  sachem  whose  proud  spirit  of  independence, 
whose  heroism  and  whose  misfortunes,  have  rendered 
him  the  most  famous  of  all  the  New  England  aborigines. 
Philip  formed  no  general  league,  no  great  conspiracy 
against  the  English  ;  but  he  was  smarting  from  humilia- 
tions inflicted  upon  himself  and  his  brother  ;  and,  like 
most  of  his  race,  he  looked  with  anger  and  dismay  upon 
the  steady  progress  of  the  foreigners  in  spreading  over 
and  occupying  the  country.1  The  inhabitants  of  the 
newly  formed  settlement  of  Wallingford  were  greatly 
troubled  at  the  warlike  rumors  which  reached  them  every 
day,  and 

....       "  Short  of  succor,  and  in  deep  despair, 
Shook  at  the  dismal  prospect  of  the  war."2 

Houses  were  fortified,  sentinels  were  appointed,  and 
on  the  Sabbath  in  the  little  log  building  without  chimney 
or  steeple,  while  the  voice  of  Mr.  Street  is  engaged  in 
solemn  thanks  to  God  for  his  mercy  and  faithfulness  in 
bringing  them  to  their  land  of  promise,  the  armed  sen- 
tinels pace  backwards  and  forwards  in  the  narrow  space 


1  DeForest's  Hist,  of  the  Indians  of  Conn.,  p.  279. 

2  Multaque  dura suo  tristi  cum  corda  putabant.    Virgil's  ^Eneid,  vm.  522. 


INDIAN    WAR.  349 

which  they  call  a  street.  Every  man  has  a  loaded  mus- 
ket by  his  side,  and  powder-horn  and  shot-bag  slung 
around  his  neck  ;  for  the  savages  may  burst  like  thunder 
on  their  homes  and  let  loose  the  tomahawk  and  scalping- 
knife  on  their  families  at  any  moment. 

In  1673  the  General  Court  ordered  "That  five  hundred 
dragoons  be  forthwith  raysed,  to  be  ready  upon  one 
howers  warning  to  defend  any  place  in  this  colony,  as- 
saulted by  an  enemie."  The  proportion  for  Wallingford 
was  eight.  The  war  broke  out  in  the  summer  of  1675, 
just  about  a  century  before  the  commencement  of  our 
own  struggle  for  independence,  and  continued  with  unin- 
terrupted fury  until  the  autumn  of  1676.  Connecticut 
entered  with  spirit  into  the  struggle.  Her  sons  left  their 
husbandry  and  followed  Treat  and  Talcott  to  the  scene 
of  danger.  It  was  a  fierce  and  bloody  war,  in  which 
both  parties  aimed  at  extermination.  The  war  on  the 
part  of  the  Indians  was  a  war  for  freedom  and  existence, 
and  when  that  was  no  longer  possible  it  became  a  war 
for  revenge.  August  27,  1675,  Mr.  Street's  and  Lieut. 
Merriman's  houses  were  ordered  to  be  fortified.  At  the 
same  time, 

"  In  respect  to  the  present  doings  of  ye  Indians  itt  was 
ordered  that  the  inhabitants  secure  themselves  and  the  prin- 
cipall  of  theyr  goods  by  fortifiing  about  too  houses.  Also 
that  eveure  man  bring  his  armes  and  amunition  compleat  on 
the  Saboth  day  that  he  may  be  able  in  a  fitt  posture  to  doe 
service  if  need  Require."  "That  selectmen  gaurd  as  sentinells 
on  ye  Saboth,  and  ye  rest  of  tfe  town  ward  4  men  every 
Saboth  and  2  every  weeke  day  ;  that  they  begin  to  ward  when 
the  watch  breaks  up  and  hould  on  till  ye  watch  be  sett  again  ; 
that  they  begin  and  end,  at  the  dawning  and  shutting  in  of 
the  day."  "October  15,  1675,  Ordered  that  those  persons  at 
the  end  of  the  town  if  they  see  cause  to  fortifie  any  of  theyr 


35O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

houses  which  they  can  agree  upon  for  theyr  saftie  in  these 
times  of  dainger  what  theyr  full  charg  is  shall  be  defraied  out 
of  y6  town's  treasurey.  Also  that  any  that  are  willing  to  be 
asistant  to  make  too  flankers  att  Lef1  Merriman's  barne  shall 
have  due  recompens  out  of  ye  towne  treasurie." 

Their  mode  of  "  fortyfiing  a  house"  was  as  follows  : 
At  a  short  distance  from  the  house,  ten  feet  perhaps, 
and  all  around  it  a  log  wall  was  erected,  with  the  ends 
of  the  logs  dove-tailed  into  each  other  at  the  corners, 
and  carried  up  to  ten  or  twelve  feet  in  height,  with  such 
openings  as  might  suffice  for  pointing  muskets  at  an 
attacking  enemy.  The  "  Seymour  fort,"  which  stood  in 
Christian  Lane  just  back  and  south  of  the  residence  of 
the  late  Mr  John  Goodrich  of  Berlin,  was  made  of  pali- 
sades sixteen  feet  long,  sharp  at  the  top,  and  firmly  set 
in  the  ground  near  together.1  Such  erections  were 
ample  protection  against  any  strength  which  the  Indians 
were  able  to  exert.  Though  no  battle  was  fought  near 
them,  yet  the  inhabitants  were  kept  in  a  constant  state  of 
alarm  which  greatly  hindered  their  agricultural  operations, 
and  were  compelled  to  fortify  and  garrison  their  little 
village  as  if  actually  in  a  state  of  siege. 

In  fact  every  settlement  within  the  bounds  of  Con- 
necticut was  mercifully  preserved  from  the  presence  of 
the  enemy.  No  village  was  swept  away  by  the  storm  of 
war. .  No  rural  sanctuary  was  laid  in  ruins.  No  laborer 
shot  by  the  ambushed  savage,  fell  in  the  furrow.  No 

i  Within  this  fort  the  settlers  repaired  at  nightfall  for  safety  against  the 
Indians  and  for  quiet  rest.  The  well  at  which  they  quenched  their  thirst 
still  furnishes  the  best  water.  The  fort  was  built  about  1686.  Thomas 
North,  ancestor  of  the  North  families  of  New  Britain,  the  Seymours  and 
Gilberts  clustered  about  the  fort.  Dr.  Joseph  Steele,  the  Standleys,  Rootes, 
Harts,  Nortons,  Cowles,  Nehemiah  Porter,  Joseph  Lankton,  Newel,  Grid- 
ley,  Bronsons  and  others  were  located  south  of  the  fort. 


INDIAN    WAR.  351 

father  returning  to  his  house,  found  all  desolate — the  cal- 
cined bones  of  his  children  mingled  with  the  ashes  of 
his  dwelling.  No  mother  torn  from  her  sick  bed,  saw 
her  babe  dashed  in  pieces  against  her  own  hearth-stone. 
Such  things  there  were  in  other  parts  of  New  England, 
but  they  were  not  in  Connecticut.  Yet  here  were  alarms 
and  watchings ;  here  were  levies  of  soldiers ;  here  every 
store-house,  every  dwelling  yielded  its  supplies  to  feed 
the  army  ;  here  was  that  sad  sight — the  young,  the  brave, 
the  hope  of  gray-haired  sires,  the  strength  and  pride  of 
the  plantation,  marching  away  from  the  homes  that  looked 
to  them  for  protection.  Here  were  dreadful  tidings  from 
the  camp  and  the  battle.1  Although  there  were  no  bat- 
tles fought  in  Connecticut,  yet  five  men  at  least,  within 
her  limits,  were  sacrificed  by  sudden  shot  from  a  lurking 
foe.2 

April  28,  1674,  eight  persons  were  chosen  in  Walling- 
ford  as  a  guard  for  the  Sabbath.  In  1681  forts  were 
ordered  to  be  erected  in  the  town,  and  in  1690  a  fort  was 
built  around  the  meeting-house.  The  arms  of  private 
soldiers  were  pikes,  muskets  and  swords.  The  muskets 
had  matchlocks  or  firelocks,  and  to  each  one  there  was 
"  a  pair  of  bandoleers  or  pouches  for  powder  and  bullets," 
and  a  stick  called  a  rest,  for  use  in  taking  aim.  The 
pikes  were  ten  feet  in  length,  besides  the  spear  at  the 
end.  "  Ten  foot  in  length,  at  least,  is  the  wood."  A 
train-band  consisted  of  not  fewer  than  sixty-four  men, 


1  Bacon's  Hist.  Dis.,  p.  162. 

2  Josiah  Rockwell  and  John  Reynolds  of  Norwich  were  slain  January 
28,  1675-6,  on  the  east  side  of  Shetucket  river,  which  they  had  crossed  for 
the  purpose   of  spreading  flax.     John  Kirby  of  Middletown,  was  slain  be- 
tween Middletown  and  Wethersfield.      Edward  Elmore  or    Elmer,  was 
slain  in  East  Windsor.     Henry  Denslow  slain  in  Windsor.     William  Hill 
of  East  Hartford,  wounded  but  not  killed.    These  were  all  in  1676. 


352  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

and  not  more  than  two  hundred.  It  was  constituted  of 
twice  as  many  musketeers  as  pikemen  ;  the  latter  being 
selected  for  their  superior  stature.  The  officers  of  a 
band  were  a  Captain,  Lieutenant,  an  Ensign  and  four 
Sergeants. 

Wallingford  furnished  her  quota  of  troops  for  the 
French  and  Indian  wars  of  1690,  and  again  in  1694  for 
the  defense  of  Albany.  The  whole  amount  of  taxes 
paid  by  Wallingford  in  common  with  other  towns  for 
the  defense  of  New  York  and  Massachusetts,  amounted 
to  the  enormous  burden  of  about  twenty  pence  on  the 
pound ;  so  that  at  the  close  of  the  year  1695  the  colony 
had  drawn  from  the  pockets  of  the  people  and  paid  out 
seven  thousand  pounds.  We  cannot  but  admire  the 
self-sacrificing  spirit  of  the  citizens,  especially  when  we 
remember  that  they  submitted  to  this  heavy  drain  from 
their  resources  from  the  most  magnanimous  and  un- 
selfish motives  that  ever  actuated  a  people.1 

In  1691,  there  was  great  difficulty  and  disturbance  in 
Wallingford  in  regard  to  the  choice  of  military  officers ; 
and  there  being  but  little  majority  in  the  choice,  and 
dissatisfaction  growing  out  of  the  same,  it  was  carried 
to  the  General  Court,  who  could 

"  See  good  reason  not  to  confirm  the  choys,  and  order  that 
Lnt  Merriman  and  Ensign  Yale  shall  continue  to  be  the  com- 
ission  officers  of  the  traine  band  of  Wallingford  as  formerly, 
untill  this  Court  shall  order  otherwise,  or  the  Governor." 

This  did  not  seem  to  settle  the  difficulty,  for  in  Octo- 
ber, 1691,  we  find  that, 

"  Whereas  the  good  people  of  Wallingford,  by  reason  of 
some  variaty  of  apprehensions  that  hath  fallen  out  between 


I    In  1684,  there  were  sixty-one  taxable  persons  in  Wallingford.  Amount 
of  tax,  ,£2,967. 


INDIAN    WAR.  353 

them,  sit  uneasy,  and  their  seams  to  be  a  breach  made  of 
their  peace,  and  differences  seem  to  be  increasing  among 
them  ;  for  the  issue  of  all  matters  and  controversies  between 
them  that  are  not  for  the  present  stated  and  determined  by 
this  court  already,  this  court  doe  nominate  and  appoynt  Lnt 
Col.  Allyn,  Capt.  Sam.  Talcott,  Mr  Wm  Pitkin,  and  the  Rev. 
Mr  Sam11  Hooker,  and  Mr  Perrpoynt,  they  or  any  two  or  three 
of  them,  to  be  a  comittee  in  behalfe  of  this  court  to  hear  and 
determine  all  maters  of  controversie  that  have  arisen  between 
the  good  people  of  Wallingford  since  their  looking  towards  of 
military  officers,  and  the  good  people  of  Wallingford  to 
aquiesse  so  far  as  to  be  peaceable  under  the  same." 

In  1692,  it  was  ordered  that  Lieut.  Nath.  Merriman 
and  Ensign  Thomas  Yale  should  have  the  rule  and 
command  of  the  train-band,  until  the  court  should  order 
otherwise.  In  October  of  the  same  year, 

"This  court  having  heard  and  considered  the  matter  of 
Wallingford  in  respect  of  their  military  officers,  doe  declare 
that  they  cannot  see  reason  to  confirm  the  former  choyse  of 
military  officers  formerly,  but  do  order  and  appoynt  Lnt  Col. 
John  Allyn  and  capt.  Stanly  in  som  convenient  time  to 
appoynt  a  meeting  of  the  trayne  souldiers  in  Wallingford, 
and  to  lead  them  to  an  orderly  choyse  of  a  captain,  lieuten- 
ant, and  ensign,  and  sargts,  and  they  are  to  receive  blanck 
commissions  from  the  Govr,  and  upon  the  choys,  if  they  ap- 
prove of  the  said  choys,  they  are  to  deliver  such  as  shall  be 
chosen  commissions,  impowering  of  them  to  take  the  charge 
of  the  trayne  band  of  Wallingford  under  their  care  and  dis- 
cipline according  to  law." 

Whether  this  settled  the  matter,  history  or  tradition 
showeth  not.  In  1704  Lieutenant  Samuel  Hall  was 
appointed  Captain  of  the  train-band,  Sergt.  John  Merri- 
man Lieutenant,  and  Sergt.  Thomas  Curtis,  Ensign, 
"and  all  the  said  officers  are  to  be  commissionated 
respectively."  In  October,  1698,  the  General  Court 
Y 


354  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

granted  to  Sergt.  John  Merriman  of  Wallingford,  fifty 
acres  of  land,  in  consideration  of  his  father's  service  in 
the  Pequot  war,  to  be  taken  up  where  it  would  not 
prejudice  any  former  grant.  At  the  same  time  fifty 
acres  of  land  were  granted  to  Thomas  Hall  of  Walling- 
ford, in  consideration  of  his  father's  service  in  the  Pequot 
war.  Captain  Thomas  Yale,  and  Sergeant  John  Merri- 
man were  appointed  to  lay  out  these  grants.  In  1709, 
the  proportion  of  troops  for  Wallingford  was  twelve. 

REVOLUTIONARY    WAR. 

The  origin  of  the  Revolutionary  War  was  to  be  traced 
to  the  imperial  instincts  of  England.  The  colonies 
wished  for  their  freedom  ;  the  mother-country  was  not 
sufficiently  disinterested  to  grant  it ;  the  colonies  de- 
clared their  independence,  and  the  English  people  felt 
insulted,  and  determined  to  put  the  rebels  down.  But' 
the  capacity  to  do  so  did  not  wait  on  the  inclination, 
and  the  English  found  a  vigorous  resistance  from  a 
people  of  their  own  race,  whose  habits,  political  tra- 
ditions and  moral  courage  were  kindred  to  their  own. 
The  ideas  of  Lord  Chatham  towards  the  colonies  were 
those  of  a  great,  but  splendid  tyrant,  who  thought  more 
of  the  power  of  England  than  of  the  happiness  of 
America.  Only  one  man,  Edmund  Burke,  regarded 
the  whole  contest  with  a  philosophic  mind.  But  he 
had  no  social  influence  or  personal  authority  correspond- 
ing with  his  genius  and  ambition.  The  people  through 
the  whole  contest  were  uncertain  and  capricious,  neither 
ready  to  part  with  their  ambition  and  the  colonies,  nor 
desirous  of  the  expenditure  of  wealth  requisite  for 
carrying  on  an  internecine  contest  with  the  descendants 
of  the  outcast  Puritans. 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR.  355 

The  American  Colonies  were  inhabited  by  an  earnest 
yet  philanthropic  people.  They  had  sprung  from  the 
blood  of  the  better  order  of  England,  and  their  culture 
had  eminently  fitted  them  to  think  before  they  ventured 
to  act.  Historians  have  loved  to  eulogize  the  manners 
and  virtues,  the  glories  and  benefits  of  chivalry.  But 
what  have  the  Puritans  and  their  descendants  accom- 
plished? If  they  had  the  sectarian  crime  of  intolerance, 
chivalry  had  the  vices  of  dissoluteness.  The  knights 
were  brave  from  gallantry  of  spirit ;  the  Puritans  from 
the  fear  of  God.  The  knights  were  proud  of  loyalty  ; 
the  Puritans  of  liberty.  The  knights  did  homage  to 
monarchs  in  whose  smile  they  beheld  honor,  whose 
rebuke  was  the  wound  of  disgrace  ;  the  Puritans,  dis- 
daining ceremony,  would  not  bow  at  the  name  of  Jesus, 
nor  bend  the  knee  to  the  King  of  Kings.1 

On  the  22d  of  September,  1763,  three  men  high  in 
power,  held  an  interview  in  a  dingy  chamber  in  London, 
and  there  sketched  the  outline  of  a  plot  that  was  to  rob 
the  British  Empire  of  half  its  glory,  and  deluge  a  con- 
tinent in  blood.  The  result  of  the  meeting  was,  "  to 
write  to  the  commissioners  of  the  stamp  duties  to  pre- 
pare the  draft  of  a  bill  to  be  presented  to  the  parliament, 
for  extending  the  stamp  duties  in  the  colonies"  This  act 
required  that  all  paper  and  parchment  used  in  the 
transaction  of  business,  should  be  stamped,  for  which  a 
duty  should  be  paid ;  and  all  writing  on  unstamped 
materials  was  declared  null  and  void.  When  the  news 
of  the  passage  of  this  act  reached  Boston,  there  were 
visible  everywhere  tokens  of  astonishment  and  appre- 
hension. When  the  news  reached  Hartford,  the  General 


I  Bancroft's  History,  i.  468. 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Assembly  appointed  a  committee  to  assist  Governor 
Fitch  in  preparing  a  protest.  Such  was  the  exhibition 
of  popular  feeling  against  it,  that  the  law  was  repealed 
in  March,  1766.  At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Wallingford, 
January,  1776,  it  was  voted,  that 

"Whereas  it  appears  from  antient  Records  and  other 
Memorials  of  Incontestable  Validity,  that  our  Ancestors 
with  a  great  Sum  Purchased  said  Township,  at  their  only 
Expence  Planted,  with  great  Peril  possessed,  and  Defended 
the  Same,  we  are  Born  free  (having  never  been  in  bondage 
to  any)  an  Inheritance  of  Inestimable  Value.  Voted  and 
Agreed  that  if  any  of  said  Inhabitants,  shall  Introduce  Use 
or  Improve  any  Stampt  Vellum  Parchment  or  paper,  for 
which  tax  or  Tribute  is  or  may  be  Demandable,  such  Person 
or  Persons  shall  Incurr  the  Penaltie  of  2os  to  be  recovered 
by  the  Select  Men  of  said  Town  for  the  Time  being  for  the 
Use  of  the  Poor  of  said  Town." 

The  following  petition  was  sent  by  the  first  society, 
to  "  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Society  of  Wells  assembled 
in  Society  Meeting,  Dec.  ist,  Tuesday,  A.  D.  1766:" 

"  Gent" :  The  General  Assembly  of  this  Colony  have  set 
a  very  Laudable  Example  in  Disavowing  the  authority  of 
the  Parliment  of  Great  Brittain  in  regard  to  the  Late  Ameri- 
can Stamp  Act,  because  in  their  private  Judgment  the  same 
was  inconsistant  with  the  true  principals  of  the  freedom  of 
the  English  Constitution.  A  Noble  Spirit  of  LIBERTY  was 
roused  in  this  and  all  the  Colonies  through  this  Extended 
Continent  and  they  made  a  Bold  Stand  for  their  Liberty. 
When  Reasoned  humble  Petitions  decent  Remonstrances, 
prevailed  not  with  the  British  Parliment,  America  as  well 
as  this  Colony  like  bold  and  brave  Sons  of  persecuted 
Puritans,  Resisted,  and  the  great  and  renounded  Right 
Honorable  Comoner  Mr  Pitt,  declared  in  a  British  Senate 
speaking  of  the  Stamp  Act  and  of  the  Americans,  '  I  rejoice 
that  they  have  resisted.'  " 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR.  357 

The  repeal  of  the  Stamp  Act  was  followed  by  other 
oppressive  statutes  of  a  kindred  sort  ;  but  the  most 
prominent  and  immediate  cause  of  the  war  was  undoubt- 
edly the  Boston  Port  Bill.  This  act  of  the  British 
Parliament  to  destroy  the  trade  of  Boston,  excited  uni- 
versal sympathy  throughout  the  colonies.  Numerous 
town  meetings  were  held,  speeches  were  made,  and 
resolutions  were  passed,  many  of  which  found  their  way 
to  England  and  caused  the  ears  of  the  British  ministry 
to  tingle,  and  their  cheeks  to  redden  with  anger. 
Almost  every  town  sent  donations  to  Boston  for  the 
relief  of  the  poor  of  that  place.  At  a  town  meeting 
held  at  Wallingford  in  November,  1774, 

"In  consideration  of  the  sufferings  of  the  people  of  Boston 
in  the  Common  Cause  of  Liberty,  a  committee  were 
appointed  to  collect  subscriptions  for  their  relief,  and  it  was 
voted  that  the  Committee  send  to  the  selectmen  of  the  town 
of  Boston  such  donations  as  shall  be  received  by  them,  to  be 
disposed  of  at  the  discretion  of  said  selectmen  of  the  town  of 
Boston  for  the  benefit  of  the  indigent  sufferers  by  the  Port 
Bill." 

In  October,  1774,  the  General  Assembly  met  at  New 
Haven,  and  a  law  was  enacted  to  raise  one-fourth  of  the 
militia  for  the  special  defense  of  the  colony,  formed 
into  companies  of  one  hundred  men  each,  and  into  six 
regiments.  The  companies  from  Wallingford  were  com- 
manded by  Captains  Isaac  Cook  and  John  Couch.  In 
May,  1775,  Wallingford  received  by  order  of  the  General 
Assembly,  .£146  14^.  lod.  for  the  services  and  expenses 
of  the  men  of  that  town  in  the  Lexington  alarm  in 
April.  In  1776,  Wallingford,  in  connection  with 
Waterbury,  Cheshire  and  Durham,  formed  the  loth  regi- 
ment. On  the  I4th  of  June,  1776,  Governor  Trumbull 


358  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORIX 

convoked  by  his  special  order  a  General  Assembly  of 
"  the  Governor  and  company  of  the  English  Colony  of 
Connecticut,  in  New  England,  in  America."  Samuel 
Beach  and  Captain  Thaddeus  Cook  were  the  Represen- 
tatives from  Wallingford.  At  this  Assembly  it  was 

"  Resolved  unanimously,  that  the  delegates  of  this  colony  in 
General  Congress,  be  and  they  are  hearby  instructed  to  pro- 
pose to  that  respectable  body  to  declare  the  United  American 
Colonies  Free  and  Independent  States,  absolved  from  all 
allegiance  to  the  King  of  Great  Britain,  and  to  give  the 
assent  of  this  colony  to  such  declarations." 

While  the  members  of  the  Assembly  were  without  a 
dissenting  vote  promulgating  these  sentiments  to  the 
world,  the  committee  of  Congress,  composed  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,  John  Adams,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Roger  Sher- 
man and  Robert  R.  Livingston,  were  engaged  in  prepar- 
ing the  form  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  to 
which,  on  the  4th  of  July,  was  affixed  the  signature  of 
Lyman  Hall,  a  native  of  Wallingford,  who  was  chosen  a 
member  of  the  Continental  Congress  in  May,  1775,  from 
Georgia,  of  which  state  he  was  elected  Governor  in  1783. 
This  was  the  first  solemn  declaration  by  a  nation  of  the 
only  legitimate  foundation  of  civil  government.  In  the 
eloquent  words  of  Adams,  "it  was  the  corner-stone  of  a 
new  fabric,  destined  to  cover  the  surface  of  the  globe. 
It  demolished  at  a  stroke,  the  lawfulness  of  all  govern- 
ments founded  upon  conquest.  It  swept  away  all  the 
rubbish  of  accumulated  centuries  of  servitude.  It  an- 
nounced in  practical  form  to  the  world,  the  transcendent 
truth  of  the  inalienable  sovereignty  of  the  people."  Had 
we  remained  subject  to  England,  the  American  colonies 
would  have  been  without  doubt  what  we  see  to-day  in  the 
Australian  colonies — a  great  country  without  greatness  ; 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR.  359 

living  a  reflex  life  and  not  an  original  one  ;  without  art, 
without  literature,  without  originality,  an  instrument  of 
civilization  still  material  and  gross.  But  after  all 
England  is  dear  to  us.  There  are  the  graves  of  the 
ancestors  of  our  Carvers,  our  Brewsters,  our  Hancocks, 
and  our  Adamses ;  of  our  Henrys,  and  our  Pinckneys  ; 
of  Washington.  Its  language  is  ours.  Its  religion  is 
ours.  Its  history  is  ours.  We  delight  to  think  that 
Milton,  and  Cowper,  and  Shakspeare,  and  Newton,  and 
Bacon  are  no  more  theirs  than  ours. 

In  January,  1777,  it  was  voted  that  the  selectmen  of 
Wallingford  provide  tents  according  to  the  act  of  the 
General  Assembly  requiring  said  town  to  provide  tents. 
A  tax  of  two  pence  on  the  pound  was  levied  for  that 
purpose.  It  was  also  voted  that  the  selectmen  provide 
all  articles  necessary  for  the  comfort  of  the  army  in 
accordance  with  the  act  of  the  General  Assembly.  A 
two  pence  tax  was  laid  to  cover  such  expenses.  March 
31,  1777,  it  was  voted  that  the  town  would  give  a  bounty 
to  those  engaged  in  the  continental  service.  Also 
voted, 

"That  Each  Soldier  that  Engage  in  the  Continental  Service 
for  the  Quota  of  Wallingford  Shall  be  paid  by  the  Town  the 
Sum  of  five  pounds  Lawful  money  by  the  year  for  three 
years  unless  Sooner  Discharged,  to  be  paid  the  Beginning  of 
Each  year.  Voted  fourpence  halfpenny  on  the  pound  for  the 
aforesaid  Purpose."  "  December  16,  1777,  Voted  a  tax  of 
three-pence  on  the  pound  for  the  Benefit  of  the  Soldiers  and 
their  Familys  that  are  now  in  the  Continental  army." 

In  September,  1777,  Wallingford  was  appointed  a 
place  of  rendezvous  for  the  second  brigade.  The  same 
year  it  was  voted, 

"  That  the   Families   of    all    those  who    are    Convicted  of 


360  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Torieism  or  Inimical  to  the  States  of  America  and  the  heads 
of  all  the  Familys  that  have  absconded  to  Lord  How,  they 
and  their  Family  shall  be  removed  to  Lord  How."  "Voted 
that  the  Select-men  of  said  Town  Secure  the  Estates  of  all 
those  Persons  that  are  Inimical  to  the  States  of  America." 

At  the  General  Assembly  held  at  Hartford  August  13, 
1777,  James  Benham  of  Wallingford  stated  that  by  the 
influence  of  designing  men  he  was  induced  to  go  to 
Long  Island,  and  was  there  induced,  partly  by  threats 
and  partly  by  necessity,  to  enter  the  service  of  the 
enemy,  until  the  proclamation  offering  pardon  to  such  as 
should  leave  the  British  service  and  return  to  Connecti- 
cut was  issued  ;  but  by  sickness  was  detained  after  the 
ist  day  of  August,  1777  (the  time  limited  in  said  procla- 
mation); that  he  escaped  on  the  7th  day  of  August 
1777,  and  returned  home  with  the  determination  of  be- 
coming a  good  subject  of  the  State.  The  Assembly 
pardoned  him,  on  condition  of  his  taking  the  oath  of 
fidelity,  and  discharged  him  from  imprisonment,  upon 
his  paying  the  cost  of  apprehending  and  confining  him, 
to  the  time  of  his  discharge. 

Governor  Franklin  of  New  Jersey  (son  of  Dr.  Frank- 
lin), was  brought  to  Connecticut  in  1776  (taken  by  a 
convention  of  his  province,  as  a  virulent  enemy  of  the 
colonies),  to  be  confined  there  in  such  manner  and  place 
as  Congress  should  direct.  Governor  Trumbull  having 
taken  his  parole  informed  him  that  he  might  go  to  Wall- 
ingford ;  after  remaining  there  a  few  months  he  was 
permitted  to  go  to  Middletown.  While  in  Middletown 
he  wrote  several  letters  to  Governor  Trumbull,  more 
sharp  than  respectful,  and  he  was  finally  confined  with- 
out pen,  ink  or  paper,  and  sent  under  guard  to  the 
Litrhfield  jail.  In  1777,  Ralph  Isaacs  of  Durham  was 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR.  361 

supposed  to  be  inimical  to  the  State,  and  it  being  con- 
sidered dangerous  to  the  American  cause  to  suffer  him 
to  be  at  large  in  Durham,  he  was  arrested,  and  by  order 
of  the  Governor  and  Council,  sent  to  Wallingford  to  be 
under  the  civil  authority  and  selectmen,  and  kept  in  one 
of  the  societies  of  that  town.  Abiathar  Camp,  who  was 
a  noted  Tory,  resided  in  New  Haven,  but  also  had  a 
house  in  Wallingford.  He  was  arrested  at  New  Haven 
by  order  of  the  Assembly,  but  was  permitted  to  remove 
to  his  home  in  Wallingford.  But  it  seems  that  he  did 
not  conduct  himself  in  a  manner  agreeable  with  the  feel- 
ings of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town,  for  we  find  that  they 

"  Voted  that  Abiather  Camp  formerly  of  New  Haven  now 
being  in  the  town  of  Wallingford,  Shall  not  Dwell  in  said 
Town  nor  be  an  Inhabitant  of  Said  Town."  "Voted  that  the 
Selectmen  of  said  Town  Go  and  Warn  said  Camp  Abiather 
Immediately  to  Depart  said  Town." 

Mr.  Camp  went  to  Eastbury  and  shortly  after  applied 
to  the  Assembly  by  petition,  in  which  he  stated  that  he 
was  a  professor  and  member  of  the  Church  of  England  ; 
and  asked  to  be  indulged  in  a  free  exercise  of  his  religion 
in  attending  religious  worship  at  Middletown  on  Sab- 
bath-days, &c.,  which  was  the  nearest  church  of  England 
to  Eastbury.  The  petition  was  negatived.  Feb.  11, 
1777>  Col.  Hall  of  Wallingford  appeared  before  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Council  for  directions  concerning  the  tories  at 
Wallingford.  At  a  town  meeting  held  at  Wallingford 
January  14,  1778,  a  committee  of  nine  persons1  were 
chosen  to  consult  the  articles  of  Confederation  proposed 
by  Congress,  and  make  a  report  at  an  adjourned  meet- 

i  Caleb  Cooke,  Andrew  Andrews,  Deacon  Samuel  Street,  Deacon  Da- 
vid Hall,  Major  Reuben  Atwater,  Timothy  Hall,  Samuel  Beach,  Deacon 
Ebenezer  Cowles,  Deacon  John  Hough. 


362  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORIX 

ing.  The  committee  appointed,  reported  at  an  adjourned 
meeting  as  their  unanimous  opinion,  that  the  following 
instructions  be  immediately  forwarded  to  the  representa- 
tives of  the  town,  viz. : 

"  To  Col.  Street  Hall  and  Mr  David  Brooks,  representatives 
of  the  Town  of  Wallingford  in  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
State  of  Connecticut,  now  Setting  at  Hartford : 

"GENTLEMEN: — Your  Constituants  Confiding  in  your 
abilities,  &  public  Spirit  think  it  unnecessary  to  give  you 
direction  in  the  General  business  of  your  appointment,  but  as 
the  Important  Subject  of  acceding  to  the  'articles  of  Confed- 
eration and  perpetual  union  between  the  united  States  of 
America '  lies  before  the  General  Assembly,  we  shall  freely 
offer  you  our  sentiments  upon  it — these  articles  have  been 
considered  by  us  as  far  as  the  Time  would  allow,  with  a  de- 
liberation and  impartiality  due  to  so  interesting  a  subject.  We 
admire  and  applaud  the  wisdom  of  the  illustrious  patriots, 
representatives  of  the  united  States  in  General  Congress — 
the  liberality  of  their  Sentiments ;  their  mutual  Candor  and 
Condesention  ;  their  patient  attention  to  the  weighty  enquiry 
on  what  basis  an  independent,  free  and  permanent  empire 
may  be  erected  by  these  States.  an  Empire  which  may 
equally  secure  to  the  respective  States  their  distinct  preroga- 
tives, and  unite  their  Councils  against  a  Common  Enemy,  an 
empire  which  from  its  advantages  for  Commerce,  population 
and  extension  together  with  the  Singular  Circumstances  of 
the  present  Struggle  for  its  existance,  Promiseth  to  be  the 
most  stable  and  formidable  on  the  globe.  the  result  of  the 
deliberation  of  the  public  Council  of  these  States  on  this 
great  Subject  we  have  waited  for  with  much  expectation.  We 
are  Sensible  it  is  of  importance  that  a  Form  of  Government 
for  the  united  States  be  agreed  upon  as  soon  as  possible — it 
gives  us  great  pleasure  that  we  can  so  cordially  acquiesce  in 
much  the  greater  part  of  the  Articles  of  union  proposed  and 
thought  it  would  have  been  agreeable  to  our  own  inclination 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR.  363 

had  we  one  or  two  things  in  Several  of  the  Articles  been 
different  yet  we  would  not  be  so  illiberal  as  even  to  mention 
things  of  small  Comparative  moment. 

"  We  therefore  concur  with  the  Articles  in  every  particular, 
except  that  which  determines  the  proportion  of  each  State 
Shall  bear  of  the  public  expence,  according  to  the  value  of 
their  Lands,  buildings,  and  improvements  Respectively,  the 
mode  of  estimating  the  value  thereof  to  be  directed  and  ap- 
pointed from  time  to  time  by  Congress,  Art.  vin.  To  this 
you  are  directed  to  dissent  first,  because  the  mode  of  esti- 
mating Land  &c.  is  not  ascertained.  In  a  matter  which  so 
nearly  affects  us  and  our  posterity,  we  Cannot  place  an  im- 
plicit Confidence  even  in  the  wisest  and  greatest  of  men. 
Secondly,  Because  it  is  difficult  to  know  the  differences  of 
real  estate,  and  Still  more  so  to  find  people  that  are  not 
interested  in  mistaking  them.  In  addition  also  to  the  diffi- 
culty and  expence  which  must  attend  the  proposed  estimate, 
its  being  Subject  to  frequent  alterations  will  probably  excite 
jealousies  and  tumults  which  will  bear  an  unfriendly  aspect 
on  the  wished  for  union,  thirdly  and  especially,  because  lay- 
ing the  whole  of  Each  States  proportion  of  the  Common 
Expence  on  Land,  buildings,  and  Improvements  will  be 
unequal — buildings  are  a  perishing  Interest,  attended  with 
expences  not  profit.  In  the  northern  states  their  number, 
and  in  general  their  quality  much  exceed  the  proportion  in 
most  of  the  Southern  States,  this  mode  therefore  Subjects 
the  former  to  a  disproportionate  part  of  the  public  burthen  it 
moreover  lays  an  heavy  tax  on  the  necessaries  of  Life,  and 
tends  to  introduce  great  inequality  of  condition  both  which 
are  incompatible  with  a  Free  government.  Besides  the 
various  improvements  and  Profits  of  the  soil  in  the  different 
States,  the  Same  improvements  are  attended  with  very  dif- 
ferent expence,  in  the  Northern  and  Southern  States  ;  In  the 
former,  from  the  coldness  of  the  Climate  and  high  price  of 
Labor,  the  neat  profits  of  a  farm  Small,  it  is  often  observed 
that  after  a  deduction  of  the  Expences  the  owner  instead  of 


364  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Income  from  his  farm  is  involved  in  debt.  In  the  Latter 
from  the  plenty  of  Laborers  and  low  price  of  labor  added  to 
the  fertility  of  the  Soil,  the  Clear  profits  are  great  Rich  plan- 
tors  in  the  Southern  States  are  better  abel  to  Pay  the  public 
tax  on  their  polls,  than  the  greatest  part  of  the  husbandmen 
in  the  northern  States  on  their  Lands,  from  which  with  all 
their  diligence  and  discretion  they  get  but  a  Scanty  Subsis- 
tance  for  their  families,  the  Length  and  Severity  of  the  winter 
Consuming  all  that  is  gathered  in  Summer,  when  the  Inhab- 
itants of  a  State  are  all  free  Subjects,  taxes  says  the  great 
Montesquieu,  may  be  laid  either  on  persons,  on  Lands,  on 
Merchandise,  on  two  of  these  or  on  all  three  together,  the 
duties  felt  least  by  the  People  are  those  on  Merchandise. 
The  same  inimitable  writer  remarks  '  that  taxes  Should  not 
follow  the  proportion  of  peoples  property,  but  the  proportion 
of  their  wants  Every  man  is  entitled  to  an  equal  Share  of 
what  is  necessary  for  Nature ;  and  whatsoever  is  necessary 
for  Nature  ought  not  to  be  taxed,  if  the  Body  of  the  people 
in  any  State  are  permitted  to  enjoy  only  Just  what  is  neces- 
sary for  Subsistence  the  least  disproportion  in  the  tax  will  be 
of  the  greatest  Consequence.'  to  what  is  necessary  for 
nature,  Succeeds  the  usefull  which  ought  to  be  taxed,  but  less 
than  the  Superfluity  and  the  Largeness  of  the  Taxes  on  what 
is  Superfluous  prevents  Superfluity.  Such  were  the  Senti- 
ments of  the  Greatest  civilian  of  the  Present  age.  While 
you  are  to  dissent  from  the  8th  article  for  the  reasons  afore- 
said you  will  submit  it  to  Consideration,  whether  the  following 
mode  of  proportioning  the  part  each  State  Shall  Defray  of 
the  Common  expence  may  not  be  equal,  viz.,  one  third  of  the 
tax  to  be  laid  on  Land,  Provided  Some  mode  of  ascertaining 
the  Value  can  be  pointed  out,  one  third  on  the  polls — and 
the  other  third  on  exports — any  State  can  pay  taxes  according 
to  the  Number  of  Laborers  or  according  to  its  exports  so  far 
at  least  as  this  exceeds  the  import  of  necessary  articles.  We 
have  only  time  to  offer  hints  of  our  Sentiments  on  the  impor- 
tant subject,  corroborated  by  the  greatest  name  in  the 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR.  365 

Political  world,  your  own  Judgment  and  opportunity  will 
readily  suggest  many  things  coincident  herewith — you  will 
consider  gentlemen,  that  the  proposed  confederacy  is  to  be 
perpetual  that  it  will  when  once  established,  Collect  Strength 
Daily — that  if  there  are  any  material  objections  to  the  plan 
of  Confederation  before  you  now  is  the  only  opportunity  to 
State  them — that  it  is  of  the  last  moment  to  lay  the  founda- 
tion of  a  new  empire  right  in  every  Respect ;  especially  in 
a  point  so  essential  as  taxation,  which  thing  forced  these 
States  into  the  present  war  with  BRITAIN — that  the  State  of 
Generations  yet  unborn  depends  on  the  confederacy  now 
forming.  However  solicitous  we  are  to  have  a  Confederacy 
of  these  States  Speedily  accomplished,  we  had  rather  it  were 
Deferred  a  Little  longer,  than  that  any  wrong  principles 
Should  be  interwoven  with  it.  Should  an  inequitable  mode 
of  taxation  be  adopted  into  the  Constitution  of  the  confede- 
rate States,  we  could  not  even  apply  what  the  eminent  writer 
before  named  Says  of  the  Constitution  of  England,  his  words 
are,  it  is  not  my  business  to  Examine  whether  the  English 
actually  enjoy  Liberty,  or  not,  it  is  sufficient  to  my  purpose  to 
observe  that  it  is  established  by  their  Laws. 

"Voted  at  said  Meeting  to  accept  the  above  Report  of  the 
committee. 

"July,  1781,  voted  that  those  men  who  were  Draughted  for 
three  months  Tower  of  Duty  be  paid  by  the  Town  2o.v  a 
month  in  Silver  or  Equivalent  in  other  Money  while  in 
Service." 

The  struggle  which  succeeded  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence was  long  and  arduous,  and  nobly  was  it 
maintained.  One  spirit  seemed  to  animate  the  whole 
country,  that  of  resistance  to  oppression.  The  injuries 
inflicted,  the  battles  fought,  the  sacrifices  of  property 
and  life  endured,  and  the  final  victory  and  triumph,  are 
written  on  the  pages  of  history.  Wallingford  men  were 
to  be  found  in  many  a  hard  fought  battle ;  they  carried 


366  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

with  them  marks  of  honor  from  Bunker  Hill,  the  blazing 
lines  of  Saratoga  and  Yorktown,  the  blood-dyed  waters 
of  the  Brandywine,  the  dreary  snows  of  Valley  Forge, 
the  streets  of  Lexington  and  Concord,  from  Trenton 
and  Monmouth,  Camden,  Bennington,  and  other  hard 
fought  fields  of  battle.  Dr.  Dana  while  at  Wallingford, 
took  an  early  and  decided  position  in  favor  of  our  na- 
tional independence.  At  that  time,  while  the  revolution 
was  approaching,  public  sentiment  in  Connecticut  had 
by  no  means  become  unanimous  as  to  the  expediency 
of  attempting  to  stand  against  the  British  government, 
or  of  taking  any  measures  which  might  sever  the  tie 
between  the  colonies  and  the  parent  empire.  The  east- 
ern part  of  the  State  was  somewhat  in  advance  of  the 
western,  and  if  I  mistake  not,  the  "  new  lights,"  as  a 
body,  were  a  little  before  the  old  light  or  conservative 
party  as  a  body.  So  slow  was  Governor  Fitch  in  coming 
up  to  the  grand  movement  of  the  day,  and  consenting  to 
the  adoption  of  strong  measures,  that  during  the  agita- 
tions consequent  upon  the  stamp  act,  he  lost  the 
confidence  of  the  people  and  lost  his  office. 

It  was  not  far  from  this  time  that  Dr.  Dana,  then  a 
young  man,  was  invited  to  preach  for  Mr.  Whittelsey  in 
New  Haven,  on  one  occasion  while  the  Legislature  was 
in  session  in  that  place.  Many,  particularly  of  the 
eastern  members,  would  have  refused  to  hear  so  sus- 
pected a  preacher  if  they  had  not  understood  that  he 
was  strongly  on  their  side  in  politics.  Their  curiosity 
and  their  confidence  in  his  political  orthodoxy  overcame 
their  dislike  of  his  ecclesiastical  irregularity.  His 
audience  therefore  included  all  the  leading  political 
men  of  the  colony.  Expecting,  or  at  least  hoping  for 
such  an  audience,  he  had  prepared  himself  for  the  oc- 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR.  367 

casion.  His  text  was  Heb.  11:  24,  25.  "By  faith, 
Moses,  when  he  was  come  to  years,  refused  to  be  called 
the  son  of  Pharoah's  daughter,  choosing  rather  to  suffer 
affliction  with  the  people  of  God  than  to  enjoy  the 
pleasures  of  sin  for  a  season."  And  though  to  men  not 
in  the  habit  of  looking  for  a  double  sense,  the  sermon 
might  have  seemed  far  enough  from  having  any  politi- 
cal bearing,  there  were  few  in  that  audience  who  did  not 
see  the  meaning.  As  the  preacher  illustrated  and 
vindicated  the  conduct  of  Moses  "  when  he  had  come  to 
years,"  it  became  very  plain  that  Connecticut  having 
come  to  years  was  old  enough  to  act  for  herself,  and 
trusting  in  the  God  of  Israel,  to  refuse  to  be  any  longer 
dependent  upon  Pharaoh.1 

In  the  eloquent  language  of  Boutwell,2  "  the  American 
Revolution  was  a  clear  indication,  in  itself,  of  what  the 
colonies  had  been,  and  what  the  republic  was  destined 
to  be.  Had  the  Revolution  been  delayed,  no  history, 
however  minute,  could  have  given  to  the  world  so  accu- 
rate a  knowledge  of  the  colonists  from  1 770  to  1 780  as 
it  now  possesses.  It  was  the  full  development  of  all 
their  past  history  ;  it  was  the  concise",  vigorous,  intelli- 
gible introduction  to  their  future.  It  was  a  great  illus- 
tration of  preexisting  American  character.  Neither 
religious  nor  political  fanaticism  was  an  element  of  the 
American  Revolution.  It  was  altogether  defensive ; 
defensive  in  its  assertion  of  principles,  defensive  in  its 
warlike  operations." 

At  this  late  day  it  is  impossible  to  obtain  a  complete 
list  of  the  persons  who  served  in  the  war.  In  addition 

1  Bacon's   Hist.  Dis.,  p.  273.     This  incident  is  related  on  the  authority 
of  Judge  Chauncey,  one  of  the  hearers  of  the  sermon. 

2  Dedication  of  the  Davis  monument,  at  Acton,  Mass. 


368  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

to  those  who  as  militia  men  were  called  occasionally 
into  service,  the  persons  whose  names  are  annexed  were 
soldiers  in  the  regular  army  from  Wallingford,  including 
the  Meriden  parish.  The  greater  part  of  the  names 
were  found  in  contemporaneous  records,  manuscript  or 
printed,  and  a  very  few  have  been  added  on  the  tes- 
timony of  descendants  whose  account  the  author  deemed 
trustworthy.  Let  us  pay  to  their  memory  and  their 
virtues  the  most  respectful  and  acceptable  tribute,  by 
cultivating  a  love  of  the  principles  by  which  they  were 
actuated,  and  by  assiduously  striving  to  preserve  the 
blessings  which  they  won. 

COL.  THADDEUS  COOK,  CAPT.  ELIHU  YALE, 

CAPT.  JOHN  COUCH, i  CAPT.  ISAAC  COOK, 

LIEUT.  JOSEPH  SnAiLER,2  LEMUEL  COLLINS, 

LIEUT.  DIVAN  BERRY,  JOSEPH  TWIN, 

B.  REXFORD,  Jun.,  LAMBERTON  CLARK, 

ABNER  ANDREWS,.}  EDWARD  MERRIAM, 

DANIEL  ROBERTS,  SILAS  BELLAMY^ 

1  John  Couch  held  a  commission,  and  was  prisoner  for  several  years  on 
Long  Island. 

2  Joseph  Shailer  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  regiment  of  Col.  Meigs,  a  corps 
distinguished  for  its  gallantry  and  efficiency.     Subsequently  he  was  engaged 
in  the  frontier  war  with  the  Indian  tribes  in  the  year   1791.     Having  re- 
ceived a  Captain's  commission,  he  raised  a  company  of  soldiers  from  this 
town  and  vicinity,  and  joined  the  forces  of  General  St.  Clair  in  their  expedi- 
tion against  the  Indians  on  the  Miami.    At  the  time  of  St.  Clair's  disastrous 
defeat,  with  terrible  slaughter  of  his  troops,  Captain  Shailer  was  absent  as 
commander  of  some  garrisoned  fort  in  the  rear.     About  that  time  he  and 
his  son  venturing  to  hunt  a  short  distance  from  the  fort,  were  attacked  by 
Indians.     His  son  was  killed  and  scalped,  but  Capt.  Shailer  escaped.     He 
settled  in  Ohio  at  the  close  of  the  war  and  died  there.     I  find  the  following 
in  the  church   records  of  this  town  :     "  1789  Capt.   Joseph  Shailer  is  de- 
barred from  church  privileges  for  using  profane  language." 

3  Lost  the  use  of  one  arm  in  the  service. 

4  Died  of  yellow  fever. 


REVOLUTIONAY  WAR.  369 

JAMES  BALDWIN,  JOHN  IVES, 

CHATHAM    FREEMAN,'  ENOS  HALL, 

EPHRAIM  MERRIMAN,  AMBROSE  HOTCHKISS, 

OLIVER  COLLINS,  JOSIAH  MERRIMAN, 

BLACK  Boss,2  ASAHEL  MERRIAM, 

JOASH    HALL,3  DANIEL    CRANE,    • 

SERG'T.  LEVI  MuNSON,4         ISAAC  HULL,  Jun.,5 
RALPH  RICE,  GEORGE  HALL,6 

AARON  RICE,  ELDAD  PARKER.? 

1  A  slave  of  Mr.  Noah  Yale.      The  circumstances  of  his  enlistment  are 
related  elsewhere. 

2  Black  Boss  was  a  slave  of  Abel  Curtiss ;  and  like  his  colored  friend 
preferred  the  harsh  discipline  of  the  camp  and  the  perils  of  battle  even,  to 
that  very  mild  form  of  slavery  which  existed  in  Connecticut.     The  name 
here  given  is  a  nickname  ;  but  is  the  only  one  by  which  he  was  ever 
known,  according  to  the  information  of  those  elderly  people  who  remember 
him. 

3  Joash  Hall  rode  on  horseback  to  aid  the  troops  of  Connecticut  when 
they  pursued  the  British  troops  on  their  retreat  from  Danbury ;  he  rode 
within  half  a  mile  of  the  action  at  Compo,  there  left  his  horse  and  engaged 
the  enemy  for  some  time  ;  but  at  last  retreated  to  his  horse  and  mounted 
him ;  but  the  horse  was  soon  shot  under  him  by  the  enemy.     The  Assembly 
ordered  Mr.  Hall  to  be  paid  for  the  horse  the  sum  of  ^"19  lawful  money. 

4  I^vi  Munson  was  at  the  battle  of  Ticonderoga,  and  was  taken  prisoner 
with  Col.  Ethan  Allen  in  his  attempt  upon  Montreal,  and  was  confined 
with  others  in  a  room  at  Halifax,  among  felons,  thieves,  and  negroes. 

5  Isaac  Hull  Jun.  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  third  company,  first  regiment 
of  light  horse  in  this  State.     The  troops  were  ordered  by  an  act  of  1776  to 
the  western  part  of  the  State,  to  join  the  forces  under  General  Wooster — 
the  captain  of  the  company  being  at  the  time  sick — and  Hull  took  com- 
mand of  the  company  from  the  25th  day  of  October,    1776  to  the  last  day 
of  December,  1776,  for  which  service  neither  himself  or  his  company  re- 
ceived any  pay.     The  Assembly  in  October,  1773,  ordered  the  pay-table  to 
adjust  the  pay  roll  of  said  troop  of  light-horse,  by  the  rule  before  allowed 
by  Congress  to  the  troops  of  light-horse  in  this  State  while  in  service  of 
the  country  ;  and  "draw  on  the  Treasurer,  and  charge  the  same  to  the  Conti- 
nent." 

6  Killed  in  army  in  1791. 

7  Eldad  Parker  was  killed  with  twenty-six  others  during  the  attack  on 
West  Haven  by  the  British  in  the  summer  of  1779.     In  the  same  engage- 
ment Mr.  Atwater  and  a  negro  both  from  Wallingford,  were  wounded. 

Z 


3/O  HISTORY  OF  WALL1NGFORD. 

GOODRICH, !  MOSES  BALDWIN^ 

HoTCHKiss,2  SAMUEL  RiCE,4 

MOSES  HULL.S 

Robert  Rice  of  Wallingford  was  drafted  and  ordered 
to  join  the  continental  army,  but  by  lameness  of  his  feet 
for  years  he  was  unable  to  march  and  do  the  duty  of  a 
soldier,  and  was  therefore  dismissed  from  the  draft  and 
service  in  the  battalions  raised  in  this  State  for  the  con- 
tinental army.  At  the  alarm  in  Danbury,  Aaron  Ives  of 
Wallingford  volunteered  and  went  to  Compo,  and  was 
in  the  engagement  at  Compo  hill,  where  he  was  wounded 
in  his  leg,  by  which  misfortune,  when  he  was  helped  from 
the  battle-field  his  horse  was  missing,  with  his  saddle, 
bridle,  great-coat,  blanket,  and  a  bag  with  three  days' 
provisions.  His  horse  he  afterwards  found,  but  lost  the 
other  articles,  which  were  ordered  to  be  paid  for  by  the 
Assembly. 

In  1776,  the  following  persons  from  Wallingford  en- 
listed in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Colonel  Philip 
Burr  Bradley,  of  Ridgefield :  Jarius  Wilcox,  Francis 
Wilcox,  Samuel  Abby,  Thaddeus  Ford,  James  Francis, 

1  Killed  in  army  in  1791. 

2  Killed  in  army  in  1791. 

3  Moses  Baldwin  was  in  the  six   months  campaign  under   Capt.  Couch 
in  Colonel  Bradley's  regiment  in  1777,  and  received  from  the  State  £9  &•• 
6d.  for  sickness  and  losses  sustained  after  he  was  taken  prisoner  in  the 
above  campaign.     In  1778  he  received  £2  is.  on  account  of  loss  of  clothes 
at  Fort  Lee. 

4  Samuel   Rice  received  from  the  State  £6  $s.  for  sickness  and  losses 
sustained  while  a  prisoner  during  the  six  months  campaign. 

5  Moses  Hall  was  the  father  of  the  late  Chauncey  Hall  of  Meriden,  and 
was  in  Canada  at  the  surrender  of  Fort  St.  Johns.     He  was  also  at  New 
Haven,  Danbury,  New  London,  and  was  at  Albany  when  Burgoyne  sur- 
rendered. 


REVOLUTIONARY    WAR. 


371 


Jonathan  Hall,  jun.,  Asahel  Deming.  Each  of  the  above 
signed  the  following  document : 

"  I of  Wallingford,  do  hereby  acknowledge  myself 

inlisted  a  'Soldier  in  a  Regiment  now  raising  by  the  Colony 
of  Connecticut,  to  be  under  the  Command  of  Philip  Burr 
Bradley  Esq.,  subject  to  the  Orders  and  Regulations  of 
said  Regiment  and  entitled  to  their  Privileges,  until  the 
first  day  of  January,  1777,  unless  sooner  discharged  by  proper 
Authority.  In  Witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my 
Hand  this  26th  Day  of  June,  A.  D.  1776." 

The  following  persons  composed  the  company  raised 
by  Captain  John  Couch,  in  Meriden,  July,  1776 : 


LIEUT.  DIVAN  BERRY, 
CORP.  ASAHEL  DEMING, 
STREET  YALE, 
REUBEN  BELLAMY, 
JUSTIN  RICE, 
SAMUEL  JOHNSON,  Jun., 
WATE  RICE, 
ASAPH  MERRIAM, 
DANIEL  YALE, 
RUFUS  HALL, 
MOSES  BALDWIN, 
JOEL  HALL, 
THOMAS  IGGLESTON, 
JOEL  MARCHANT, 
MOSES  WARNER, 
JAMES  FRANCIS, 
CALEB  HALL, 
SAMUEL  ABBEY, 
EBENEZER  HOUGH, 
ENOS  Mix, 
CALEB  HOUGH, 
JARED  BENHAM, 


SERGT.  TIMOTHY  HALL, 
BENJ.  REXFORD, 
JONATHAN  HALL, 
SAMUEL  RICE, 
NATHANIEL  YALE, 
STEVEN  ATWATER, 
SAMUEL  JOHNSON, 
NATHANIEL  DOUGLASS, 
DAVID  HALL, 
GIDEON  IVES, 
AMOS  HALL, 
BENJ.  AUSTEN, 
EPHRAIM  MERRIAM,  Fifer, 
DANIEL  COLLINS, 
THADDEUS  AVERITT, 
FRANCIS  WILCOX, 
SERGT.  JARIUS  WILCOX, 
JESSE  COOK, 
AMASA  HALL, 
THOMAS  Mix, 
JOHN  ROBINSON, 
HOLT, 


JOSIAH  MERRIMAN. 


372  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

December  19,  1780,  Captain  Berry  received  orders 
from  Colonel  Thaddeus  Cook,  to  have  his  company  in 
readiness  to  march  at  short  notice  for  Horseneck.  Let 
us  honor  these  noble  men,  for  they  perilled  their  lives  in 
behalf  of  liberty  when 

"  T'was  treason  to  love  her,  and  death  to  defend." 

CIVIL    WAR. 

Events  of  unparalelled  magnitude  have  succeeded 
each  other  with  unprecedented  rapidity,  "  as  if,"  to  use 
the  language  of  an  eminent  Scotch  writer,  "  they  had 
come  under  the  influence  of  that  law  of  gravitation,  by 
which  falling  bodies  increase  in  speed  as  they  descend, 
according  to  the  distance."  Within  the  last  century, 
our  country  has  emerged  from  the  condition  of  a  weak 
and  dependent  colony,  has  passed  through  one  long  and 
bloody  war  to  achieve  a  national  existence,  and  a  ten-fold 
bloodier  one  to  preserve  that  existence  and  make  it  worth 
preserving;  and  having  extended  its  territory  from  the 
Atlantic  to  the  Pacific  and  increased  its  population  from 
less  than  three  millions  to  more  than  thirty-three,  it 
stands  to-day  equal  to  any  of  the  empires  of  the  other 
continent,  if  not  superior  to  the  greatest  of  them  in  all 
that  constitutes  true  greatness. 

During  the  last  few  years  we  have  passed  as  individu- 
als, and  as  a  nation,  through  the  greatest  and  darkest 
crisis  the  earth  has  ever  beheld ;  one  where  the  most 
gigantic  crime  that  can  be  committed  against  man,  strug- 
gled for  conquest  against  the  highest  blessings  he  can 
enjoy  ;  wherein  the  noblest  nation  upon  the  globe,  with 
agonized  exertions,  tried  to  save  its  bared  throat  from 
the  bloody  knife  in  the  hands  of  her  own  children — chil- 
dren nursed  from  her  own  bosom  and  reared  by  her  with 


CIVIL  WAR.  373 

excess  of  all  tenderness — while  others  of  her  children 
sought  to  pinion  her  hands  and  stifle  her  cries  that  the 
diabolic  deed  might  be  accomplished. 

Grand  providential  movements  sweep  in  a  wide  orbit. 
They  may  seem  intensely  destructive,  while  they  are 
the  needful  preparations  for  future  blessings.  The  little 
republic  of  Greece,  whose  heroic  history  has  filled  so 
large  a  space  in  the  world's  annals,  had  a  baptism  of  fire 
and  blood  many  times  repeated.  Marathon,  Thermopy- 
lae, Salamis,  Plataea,  crowned  names  in  the  legends  of 
civilization,  were  but  the  graveyards  of  her  heroes.  The 
fall  of  Rome  and  the  extinguishment  of  the  old  pagan 
civilization,  seemed  to  cover  the  world  with  the  starless 
night  of  settled  barbarism.  But  we  know  that  above 
the  wide  social  ruin  there  sprung  better  races,  better 
institutions  and  a  better  life,  personal  and  national, 
than  paganism  in  its  best  state  ever  produced.  Great 
Britain  had  her  full  share  of  perilous  crises  and  torturing 
trials.  From  the  bloody  meadow  of  Runnymede,  where 
Magna  Charta  was  wrung  from  the  infamous  John,  to 
the  Revolution  and  Declaration  of  Rights  under  William 
of  Orange,  for  four  and  a  half  troubled  centuries,  Eng- 
land's green  fields  were  crossed  and  re-crossed  by  the 
deadly  tramp  of  armies.  Yet  her  conflicts  have  made 
England  what  she  is.  The  wretched  dynasty  of  the 
Stuarts  in  England,  which  according  to  Macaulay, 
"  had  produced  seditions,  impeachments,  rebellions,  bat- 
tles, sieges,  proscriptions  and.judicial  massacres,"  seemed 
an  interminable  age  of  darkness  and  blood  to  both 
Puritans  and  Presbyterians.  But  we  have  lived  to  see 
that  it  cemented  the  English  Constitution  so  firmly, 
that  over  changeful  centuries  it  has  held  the  nation  to- 
gether, and  evoked  a  rare  civilization. 


374  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  fiery  and  frosty  trials  of  our  Puritan  ancestors  on 
both  sides  of  the  Atlantic — their  colonial  sufferings, 
their  Indian  wars  and  massacres,  and  especially  their 
terrible  struggle  for  independence — purified  and  elevated 
them,  burned  up  the  dross  of  their  characters  and  fitted 
them  for  their  great  career.  In  the  progress  of  nations, 
principles  have  survived  powers,  and  honest  hearts  have 
conquered  dishonest  hosts.  We  have  passed  through 
terrible  scenes  of  strife  and  bloodshed,  but  we  live  to  see 
one  Capital,  one  President,  one  Congress,  one  Govern- 
ment for  all  this  land.  And  one  flag,  the  same  whose 
stars  twinkled  cheeringly  in  the  dark  night  of  Revolu- 
tion, of  1812,  of  Mexican  struggles,  and  of  the  recent 
most  hideous  rebellion  ;  the  same  whose  stripes  twice 
drove  England  from  our  shores,  silenced  Mexican  hos- 
tility, and  crushed  the  most  monstrous  hydra-headed  in- 
surrection that  ever  arose  in  any  nation  ;  that  flag  we 
now  see  peacefully  waving  over  every  hamlet,  in  every 
state  and  territory  from  the  St.  Lawrence  to  the  Rio 
Grande,  from  the  rocky  headlands  of  Maine,  to  the 
golden  shores  of  the  Pacific. 

Nearly  every  battle-field  of  the  rebellion  had  its 
Meriden  representatives.  With  Grant  in  his  repeated 
and  telling  blows  against  the  main  army  of  the  rebel- 
lion ;  with  Sheridan  in  his  brilliant  movements  in  the 
Shenandoah  ;  with  Sherman  in  his  arduous  but  glorious 
march  through  the  "hollow  shell"  of  the  so-called 
Confederacy  ;  with  Hooker  "  above  the  clouds ; "  with 
Terry  at  Fort  Fisher,  and  wherever  call  has  been  made 
for  brave  and  valiant  work,  Meriden  sent  to  the  war 
the  flower  of  her  young  men.  Ardent  and  enthusiastic 
lovers  of  their  country,  they  freely  relinquished  the  allur- 
ing prospect  of  a  useful  and  in  many  instances  a  brilliant 


CIVIL  WAR.  375 

future,  to  encounter  the  mortal  dangers  of  the  field  and 
the  camp.  Enduring  and  indefatigable  on  the  march, 
cool  and  steadfast  in  action,  patient  under  privation  and 
ready  in  obedience,  they  offered  their  talents,  their  hopes, 
their  health  and  their  lives  on  the  altar  of  patriotism,  for 
the  safety  and  welfare  of  their  country. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  war,  the  Meriden  company, 
constructed  on  the  basis  of  a  militia  company,  was  the 
first  accepted  by  the  Governor.  An  immense  war  meet- 
ing was  held,  at  which  Charles  Parker  presided,  and 
speeches,  exhorting  to  action,  were  made  by  O.  H.  Platt, 
Dexter  R.  Wright,  Rev.  D.  Henry  Miller,  and  G.  W. 
Wilson,  afterward  captain.  A  company  was  immedi- 
ately raised,  and  a  Colt's  revolver  presented  to  each  man 
by  Charles  Parker.  The  sum  of  $5000  was  raised  for 
equipments.  It  would  be  interesting  to  follow  the 
history  of  each  company  that  went  from  Meriden,  but 
we  must  be  brief,  and  bear  in  mind  the  maxim  of  Cicero 
that  "there  is  nothing  in  history  more  delightful  than  a 
pure  and  perspicuous  consciseness."1 

While  we  are  now  writing,  the  first  chapters  of  this 
work  are  passing  through  the  press.  It  would  be  impos- 
sible in  the  brief  time  allotted  us,  to  make  this  chapter 
complete,  as  we  have  not  yet  been  able  to  make  a  com- 
plete list  of  the  men  who  served  in  the  war  from  Wall- 
ingford  and  Meriden.  It  is  the  author's  intention  to 
publish  soon  a  "  Soldier's  Memorial,"  giving  a  full  account 
of  the  part  borne  by  Meriden  and  Wallingford  during 
the  war ;  a  full  list  of  the  soldiers,  personal  incidents 
concerning  them,  the  battles  in  which  they  were  en- 
gaged, and  full  biographical  details.  We  can  only  add 
here  the  Meriden  Roll  of  Honor : 


I  Nihil  est  in  historia,  pura  et  illustri,  brevitate  clulcius.   Cicero  in  Bruto,  75. 


3/6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 


A  LIST  OF  THE  MERIDEN  SOLDIERS  WHO  HAVE  DIED 
IN  THE  DEFENCE  OF  THEIR  COUNTRY. 

Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster  Marshall  C.  Augur,  Henry 
Avery,  Henry  D' Angelist,  William  F.  Ackerman,  George  W. 
Andrus,  Alonzo  S.  Atkins,  Capt.  Julius  Bassett,  Oscar  M. 
Bailey,  Francis  D.  Baker,  Wallace  W.  Bates,  John  E.  Bar- 
low, A.  H.  Barr,  Lyman  A.  Beach,  Marshall  Belden,  George 
Blake,  John  C.  Brooks,  George  Burrows,  James  Butler, 
John  Byxbee,  Andrew  Carliu,  John  D.  Comstock,  James 
I.  Cook,  Daniel  Crowley,  Oscar  Crusius,  James  Cassada, 
William  Cassada,  Charles  Catlin,  Maurice  C.  Clark,  Silas 
Davis,  George  V.  Dagle,  John  K.  Doolittle,  James  Doran, 
Watson  W.  Davis,  David  Dunham,  Captain  and  Chaplain 
Jacob  Eaton,  James  8.  Ely,  James  M.  Ford,  Henry  Finken, 
James  M.  Foster,  Sergeant  Alfred  P.  Green,  James  Green- 
land, Charles  Ganglofi1,  George  M.  Garrelt,  Patrick  Green, 
Charles  F.  Green,  Julian  A.  Griffin,  Sylvanus  A.  Hall, 
Thomas  Harvey,  George  Harwood,  Andrew  B.  Hitchcock, 
Sylvanus  Hull,  Captain  William  H.  Johnson,  John  S. 
Jameson,  Alvin  Kenney,  Henry  W.  L.  Reach,  Lieutenant 
Henry  B.  Levi,  Harrison  Lamphear,  Madison  Lamphear, 
William  Lewis,  Charles  H.  Lewis,  George  H.  Lewis, 
Henry  A.  Lathrop,  George  W.  Lester,  Charles  P.  Lewis, 
Lieut.  Edwin  J.  Merriam,  Abraham  Miner,  Jas.  A.  Miller' 
Henry  W.  Miller,  Charles  T.  McWhinnie,  William  Masch- 
meyer,  Edward  Maschmeyer,  Michael  Mallory,  Michael 
Magee,  Charles  R  McCorney,  Jacob  Meyer,  Giles  Norton, 
Aaron  Johnson  Pratt,  Henry  A.  Plumb,  Edward  Parmelee, 
James  B.  Parker,  William  H.  Peterson,  Felix  Quinn,  John 
Quinn,  J.  G.  L.  Roberts,  Joseph  Rancorn,  Lawrence  Riley, 
A.  I.  Richards,  William  W.  Richardson,  I.  L.  Richmond, 
Derrick  A.  Roberts,  Cyrus  Root,  Chauncey  WT.  Roberts, 
Oliver  Sellew,  Selleck  Scott,  Benjamin  R.  Sherman,  John 
H.  Simmonds,  Lieut.  William  W.  Thompson,  F.  A.  Taylor, 
Elihu  Talmadge,  James  Thrall,  Edward  D.  Todd,  Thomas 
Waldron,  Joseph  H.  Walker,  John  E.  Warner,  Edmund  E. 
Westerhood,  Joel  Yale,  Henry  A.  Edgerton,  Henry  Butler. 
Total,  one  hundred  and  eight. 


CIVIL  WAR.  377 

Of  the  above,  the  following  are  interred  in  Meriden  : 

MERIDEN     CEMETERY. 

JAS.  S.  HULEY,  i5th  Conn.,      DAVID  DUNHAM,  i5th  Conn., 
OSCAR  BAILEY,  i5th  Conn.,      EDWARD   A.    PARMALEE,    i6th 
JOEL  YALE,  3d  Conn.,  Conn., 

GEO.  L.  ROBERTS,  151)1  Conn.,  CHARLES  F.  GREEN,  15111  Conn., 
Lieut.  WM.  H.  JOHNSON,  8th    Corp.WM.  G.  LEWIS,  8th  Conn., 

Conn.,  GILES  NEWTON,   i5th  Conn., 

CHAS.  H.  LEWIS,  8th  Conn.,     SILAS  DAVIS,  7th  Conn. 
GEO.  H.  LEWIS,  i5th  Conn.,    JAMES  GREENLAND,  i5th  Conn., 
MORRIS  C.  CLARK,  8th  Conn.,  JAMES  THRALL,  yth  Conn. 

WEST    MERIDEN    CEMETERY. 

JAMES  FOSTER,  ist  Conn.          CHARLES   CATLIN,  5th   Conn., 

Cavalry,  ALFRED  P.  GREEN,  7th  Conn., 

JOHN  C.  BROOKS,  i2th  Conn.,  Lieut.  HENRY    B.    LEVI,    i5th 
Lieut.  MARSHALL  C.  AUGUR,  Conn., 

i5th  Conn.,  JOSEPH  JONES,  Navy, 

HENRY  A.  LATHROP,  8th  Conn.,  HENRY  W.  BUTLER,  ist  Conn. 
Lieut.  EDWIN  MERRIAM,  yth  Artillery, 

Conn.,  HARRISON    LAMPHEAR,     Sea- 

MADISON  LAMPHEAR,  i4th  man, 

Conn.,  GEORGE  BLAKE,  yth  Conn., 

WM.  GIESCKE,  nth  CONN.,        EDMUND  D.  TODD,  2nd  Heavy 
HENRY  AVERY,  2nd  Conn.,  Artillery, 

LEWIS  OSBORNE,  42nd  Mass.,  N.  C.  JONAS,  8th  Conn. 

CATHOLIC    CEMETERY. 

FELIX  QUINN,  gth  Conn.,          JOSEPH  CASSADY,  gth  Conn., 
WM.  CASSADY,  ist  Conn.  JAMES  BUTLER,  gih  Conn., 

Artillery,  JOHN  RICHARDSON,  died  in  1870. 

"  Many  in  sad  faith  for  her, 
Many  with  crossed  hands  sighed  for  her ; 
But  these,  our  brothers,  fought  for  her, 
At  life's  dear  peril  wrought  for  her, 
So  loved  her  that  they  died  for  her." 


378  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  expenditure  of  Meriden  for  bounties,  premiums, 
commutations  and  support  of  families,  was  $91,3/1  33. 
The  estimated  amount  paid  by  individuals  for  bounties 
to  volunteers  and  substitutes  was  $10,715  53.  Grand 
List  for  1864,  $4,300,981.  In  Wallingford,  the  town  ex- 
penditures were  $40,750  oo.  Individual  expenditure, 
$6,200  oo.-  Grand  List,  $1,796,416.  The  following  is  a 


LIST  OF  THE  WALLINGFORD  SOLDIERS  WHO  DIED 
IN  THE  DEFENCE  OF  THEIR  COUNTRY. 


Col.  Arthur  Button,  2ist  Conn.  Vols.,  and  Capt. 
Engineer  Corps,  U.  S.  A. ;  buried  at  Baltimore.  Nehe- 
miah  Hough,  320!  Iowa  Vols.,  buried  at  Vicksburg. 

THE    FOLLOWING    ARE    BURIED    IN    WALLINGFORD  : 

Henry  T.  Hough,  i5th  Conn.  ;  Thomas  Lynch, 
i5th  Conn.;  Augustus  Morse,  i5th  Conn.;  Austin 
Phelps,  1 5th  Conn. ;  Delevan  W.  Ives,  1 5th  Conn.  ; 
Oliver  S.  Munson,  i5th  Conn.  ;  Gilbert  Clark,  i5th 
Conn. ;  James  Parker,  i5th  Conn. ;  John  Webb,  i"jth 
U.  S.  Reg. ;  Ralph  W.  Pomeroy,  i89th  N.  Y. ;  Der- 
rick S.  Pomeroy,  2Qth  N.  Y.  ;  Joel  Camp,  27th  Conn. ; 
Patrick  Condon,  27th  Conn.;  Timothy  Carral,  27th 
Conn. ;  John  Callahan,  i5th  Conn.  ;  John  Regan, 
i5th  Conn.;  Francis  Rourke,  2cl  Ky.  Rifles. 


379 


CHAPTER  XX. 

FUNERAL  CUSTOMS,  GRAVEYARDS,  &c. 

A  WELL  known  writer  has  said  that  nothing  is  more 
characteristic  of  the  early  state  of  New  England  than 
the  old  grave-yards  which  solemnize  her  ancient  towns. 
Their  monuments,  epitaphs  and  decorations  show  at 
once  the  prevalence  of  religion,  the  backwardness  of 
taste,  and  the  poverty  of  the  times.  The  number  of 
buried  octogenarians  attests  the  steady  habits  and  sa- 
lubrious clime,  while  the  superior  funeral  state  of  the 
ministers  and  deacons,  bears  witness  to  the  social  import- 
ance of  those  dignitaries  of  the  church.  The  ancient 
burial  grounds  chain  with  a  spell  of  which  the  modern 
cemetery  with  its  showy  marbles  knows  nothing !  We 
turn  from  the  fresh  mortality  which  chills  us  with  its 
recent  sorrows,  to  those  mossy  headstones  whose  faint 
inscriptions  tell  of  generations  long  since  freed  from  toil. 
Here  one  may  find  the  rude  monuments  of  those  who 
still  walk  the  earth  and  lead  its  progress,  and  here  the 
heart  may  run  over,  as  Byron  says, 

"  With  silent  worship,  of  the  great  of  old  ! 

The  dead  but  sceptered  sovereigns,  who  still  rule 

Our  spirits  from  their  urns." 


380  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORIX 

They  still  live,  though  their  bodies  have  been  mingled 
with  the  earth.  In  those  seasons  when  "  calling  shapes" 
walk  the  earth,  and  "  aery  tongues  syllable  men's  names," 
we  can,  by  the  united  aid  of  imagination  and  memory, 
see  them  singly,  or  in  gathered  groups,  like  a  cloud  of 
witnesses  looking  down  upon  us ;  we  can  hear  them 
utter  words  of  encouragement,  or  warning,  to  be  heeded 
by  the  living. 

One  of  the  earliest  records  in  relation  to  grave-diggers 
was  in  1677,  when  we  find  that  "Will.  Ebernatha's  price 
for  digging  graves  is  five  shillings  for  grown  persons  and 
two  shillings  and  sixpence  for  children."  It  was  the 
custom  when  a  person  died  during  the  night,  to  toll  the 
church  bell  at  sunrise  ;  if  the  death  occurred  in  the  day- 
time, the  bell  was  tolled  at  sunset.  Three  distinct 
strokes  were  given  for  a  male  adult,  two  for  a  female,  and 
one  for  a  child.  On  the  brow  of  a  large,  sloping  hill,  in 
the  southeastern  part  of  the  town,  peacefully  rest  the 
remains  of  some  of  the  first  settlers  of  Meriden.  Here 
the  frail  memorials, 

"With  uncouth  rhymes  and  shapeless  sculpture  decked, 
Implore  the  passing  tribute  of  a  sigh." 

Several  years  ago,  the  town  properly  determined  to 
perpetuate  the  memory  of  the  original  inhabitants  in  an 
appropriate  monument,  to  be  erected  in  the  early  burial 
ground.  This  monument,  which  is  surrounded  by  a  high 
iron  fence  sixty  feet  square,  is  of  freestone,  and  contains 
the  following  inscriptions  : 

On  the  south  side, 

Erected 

By  the  town  of  Meriden, 
1857- 


GRAVEYARDS.  381 

On  the  east  side, 

In  Memory  of  the  First  Settlers  of  the  Town  of  MERIDEN 

who  were  buried  within  and  near  this  enclosure,  and 

whose  names  so  far  as  known,  are  inscribed  on 

this  Monument. 

The  Meeting-House  in  which  they  worshiped,  and  the  first 

erected  in  the  town,  stood   about  50  rods  west  of 

this  memorial. 

On  the  north  side, 

Obituary.  Rev.  Theophtlus  Hall,  Pastor  of  the  First 
Church,  March  25,  1769,26.  62;  Mehitable  Hall,  Sept.  n, 
1767,  ae.  16;  Timothy  Jerome,  Feb.  23,  1757,  ae.  26  ;  Abigail 
Way,  Sept.  12, 1741,86.  12;  Daniel  Hough,  July  25,  1768,  ae.  49; 
Thos  Beech,  May  14,  1741,  ae.  83;  Phebe  Merriam,  Feb.  23, 
1753,  ae.  23  ;  Hannah  Ives,  Nov.  5,  1770,  ae.  70;  Capt.  Josiah 
Robinson,  Apr.  2,  1766,  ae.  67  ;  Theophilus  Mix,  July  3,  1750, 
ae.  53;  Rachael  Andrus,  Jan.  n,  1756,  ae.  33;  Timothy 
Andrews,  Nov.  25,  1743,  ae.  23  ;  Hannah  Royce,  Jan.  12, 
1761,  ae.  91  ;  Samuel  Johnson,  Mar.  2,  1777,  ae.  23. 

On  the  west  side, 

Obituary.  Benjamin Curtiss,  Oct.  29,  1754,  ae.  52;  Aaron 
Curtiss,  Dec.  18,1763,35.  20;  Rebekah  Lyman,  Nov.  8,  1748, 
ae.  44;  Joseph  Cowles,  Nov.  30,  1760,  ae.  83;  Mindwell 
Cowles,  April  17,  1770,  ae.  89;  Sarah  Bishop,  May  31,  1760, 
x.  43  ;  Elizabeth  Merriam,  June  n,  1767,  ae.  70  ;  Elizabeth 
Penfield,  Nov.  20,  1765,  ae.  18  ;  Deacon  Samuel  Royce,  May 

14,  1757,  ae.   85;  Ezekiel  Rice,   Esq.,   Sept,  4,  1765,  ae.    66; 
Ebenezer  Roys,  Jan.  20,  1759,  ae.  53  ;  Joseph   Merriam,  Aug. 
24,  1752,  ae.  49  ;  Deborah  Merriam,  August   12,  1761,  ae.  52  ; 
Ruth  Merriam,  Nov.  12,  1755,86.  72  ;    Mindwell   Rice,    June 

15,  1769,  ae.  27. 

Most  of  the  grave  stones  have  either  been  displaced 
or  broken,  and  many  are  entirely  unintelligible.  We 
copy  a  few  inscriptions  : 


382  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

In  Memory   of 
THEOPHILUS     HALL, 

Pastor  of  ye  Church,  who  having  for  37  years  difcharged  the 

duties    of  his    function    with    diftinguifhed    fidelity    and 

accomplifhed    Chriftian    life,    the    uniform  difciple 

of   Jefus     Chrift    deceafed    March    23,     1769, 

in  the  6oth  year  of  his  Age. 

They  that  be  wife  shall  shine  as  ye  brightnefs  of 
ye  firmament. 


In  Memory  of  Mrs.  Mehitable  Hall  Daughtr  of  the  Rev" 
M1'   Theophilus    &   Mdm   Hannah  Hall   died 

Septr  nth  1707  aged  16  years. 
Happy  ye  dying  youth  whofe  early  fteps  have  trod 
ye  Chriftian  road  of  pious  virtue  up  to  god. 

In    Memory  of  Mr  Chriftopher  Robinfon  died  Decbr  6"1 

1760  in  ye  26th  year  of  his  Age. 
as  you  are  now  fo  once  was  I, 
Prepare  for  death  for  you  muft  die. 


Here   lies   ye    Body   of  Oliver   Son   of  Mr  Ebenezer  & 
Abigail    Roys  he  died  Decbr  ye   6th   1753  in  ye 

7th  year  of  his  Age. 
These  forewarnings  Remember  Well 
Death  and  Judgment  heaven  &  hell. 


In  memory   of  Mr   Samuel  Johnfon   Junr  who  Departed 

this  life  March  2nd  A  D  1777,  in  ye  23rd  year  of  his  Age. 

Come   Blooming  youth  when  this  you  Read, 

O,  See  my  Fate. 


Dea"  Ezekiel  Rice  Esq.,  Aged  66  years  Departed  this 

Life  Sptr  4th  1765. 
To  God  and  Man  a  faithful  Friend  ; 
In  Serving  both  his  life  did  spend. 
His  Sun  is  set  his  work  is  done, 
Lies  here  beneath  this  Gloomy  Stone. 


GRAVEYARDS.  383 

So  Great  &  Good  both  High  &  Low 

To  Conquering  Death  their  knee  must  bow. 


In  Memory  of  Sarah  wife  of  Mr.  Yale  Bishop, 

died  May  31*'  1766  in  ye  43rd  year  of  her  Age  &  was  buried 

with  her  infant  on  her  arm. 

The  following  is  the  deed  of  the  old  burying-ground, 
corner  of  Broad  and  Olive  street : 

"  I,  John  Hubbard  of  Wallingford,  in  the  County  of  New 
Haven,  for  the  consideration  of  the  sum  of  nine  pounds 
lawful  money  received  to  my  full  satisfaction,  of  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  parish  of  Meriden,  do  give,  grant,  bargain,  sell 
and  confirm,  one  certain  piece  of  land  situate  and  being  in 
the  parish  of  Meriden,  containing  three  quarters  of  an  acre 
of  land,  off  from  the  northeast  corner  of  said  Hubbard 's 
land,  northward  of  said  Hubbard's  house,  beginning  at  the 
highway,  a  heap  of  stones  the  corner,  from  thence  running 
twelve  and  a  half  rods  westwardly  to  a  heap  of  stones,  from 
thence  running  nine  rods  southwardly  to  a  heap  of  stones, 
from  thence  running  eleven  rods  eastwardly  to  the  highway 
to  a  heap  of  stones,  from  thence  running  eleven  and  a  half 
rods  by  highway  to  the  first  lands,  and  is  bounded  north  upon 
Mary  Hall's  lands,  and  west  and  south  upon  said  Hubbard's 
land,  and  east  upon  the  highway.  To  have  and  to  hold  the 
above  granted  and  bargained  premises,  with  the  appurtenan- 
ces thereof,  unto  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Meriden, 
forever,  for  their  proper  use  and  behoof,  as  a  burying  place. 
[  Here  is  inserted  the  usual  form  of  guarantee.]  Given 
under  my  hand  and  seal  the  i5th  day  of  March,  in  the  nth 
year  of  the  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lord,  George  III,  of  Great 
Britain,  &c.  king,  annoque  Domini,  1771. 

"JOHN    HUBRARD." 

To  pay  for  the  land,  the  following  paper  was  drawn 
up  and  subscribed  : 

"Whereas  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Meriden,  did  in 


384  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

their  meeting  on  the  18  of  February  last,  agree  to  purchase  a 
piece  of  land  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hubbard,  for  a  burying 
yard,  we,  the  subscribers  being  desirous  of  a  speedy  accom- 
plishment of  said  affair,  do  herewith  our  names  subscribe  the 
several  sums  that  we  will  give  towards  purchasing  said  piece 
of  land,  and  do  promise  to  pay  them  to  the  parish  committee 
within  nine  months  after  said  committee  shall  procure  a  deed 
to  secure  the  same  to  the  use  of  the  parish  as  aforesaid. 
"Meriden  March  n,  1771. 

s.  d.  s.  d. 

"SAMUEL  LEAVITT,       3  HANNAH  HALL,  2 

NOAH  YALE,  5  ABEL  HAWLEY,    2 

EBENEZER  COWLES,      3    6         SAM'L  JOHNSON,  3 
EZEKIEL  RICE,  i    5          SOLOMON    RICE,  i 

DANIEL  HOWELL,         3   6          JOSEPH  COWLES,  3 
EBEN'R  COWLES,  Jr.,    i  WAIT  RICE,  i 

SAMUEL  WHITNEY,       i    6          BEZALEEL  IVES,    3 
JOHN  MILES,  Jr.,         i  TIMOTHY  COLLS,  i    6 

THEO.  HALL,  2  THOMAS  HOUGH,  i 

JOSIAH  MERRIMAN,      i  EZRA  RICE,  2 

TITUS  RICE,  i  4  AARON  HULL,      i 

THOMAS  MENHAUR,     i  6          MOSES  HALL,        i    3 
THOMAS  BERRY,  2  BENJAMIN  RICE,  2 

TIMOTHY  FOSTER,        3    4          AARON  LYMAN,    4 
ABIGAIL  RICE,  2    i          AMASA  RICE,        i." 

In  1842  the  question  was  agitated  in  Meriden  in  re- 
gard to  laying  out  a  burial  ground  a  few  rods  east  of  the 
town,  and  in  1 845  land  was  purchased  from  the  estate  of 
Wm.  Yale  deceased,  and  Lyman  Collins.  The  stone 
arch  over  the  entrance  was  built  in  1847. 

The  customs  at  funerals  in  different  parts  of  New 
England  were  for  many  years  somewhat  peculiar,  and 
were  long  since  modified  or  abandoned.  The  distribu- 
tion of  gloves,  rings  and  scarfs  at  funerals  prevailed  to 
such  an  extent,  that  in  1721,  the  Legislatures  of  Massa- 


GRAVEYARDS.  385 

chusetts  passed  a  law  against  the  usage.  Town 
authorities  complied  with  the  fashion  so  far,  that  they 
distributed  these  articles  at  the  burial  of  their  paupers, 
and  the  expense  was  charged  over  to  the  town.  At  the 
funeral  of  the  wife  of  Governor  Belcher  of  Massachusetts 
in  1736,  more  than  one  thousand  pairs  of  gloves  were 
distributed  among  the  attendants.1 

A  death  in  a  small  community  was  a  great  event. 
The  magistrate,  the  minister  and  the  fathers  of  the 
town  came  to  the  bed  of  the  dying  to  witness  his 
testament  and  gather  up  his  last  words.  It  was  soon 
known  to  every  individual  of  the  plantation  that  one 
of  their  number  had  been  cut  down.  All  were  eager 
to  gaze  once  more  upon  the  face  they  had  known  so 
well ;  they  flocked  to  the  funeral ;  the  near  neighbors 
and  coevals  of  the  dead  bore  him  on  their  shoulders  to 
the  grave ;  the  whole  community  with  solemn  step  and 
downcast  eyes  followed  him  to  his  long  home.  Riding 
at  funerals  was  not  then  in  vogue  ;  and  a  hearse  was 
unknown.  A  horse  litter  may  in  some  cases  have  been 
used  ;  but  the  usual  mode  of  carrying  the  dead  was  on  a 
shoulder  bier.  In  this  way  persons  were  sometimes 
brought  into  town  for  interment  even  from  a  distance 
of  five  or  six  miles.  Frequent  rests  or  halts  were 
made,  and  the  bearers  often  changed.  These  funeral 
customs  continued  down  to  the  period  of  the  Revolution.2 

There  was  no  spot  more  sacred  than  the  one  behind 
the  meeting-house,  marked  with  a  few  rude  monumental 
stones.  In  the  eloquent  language  of  Dr.  Holland  : 
"  There  swelled  the  first  mound  over  a  white  man's 
breast,  and  there,  one  by  one,  as  the  years  rolled  away, 

1  Hollister's  Hist,  of  Conn.,  I.  439. 

2  Miss  Caulkins'  Hist,  of  New  London,  p.  267. 

A  A 


386  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

rose  other  mounds.  The  rank  grass  waved  over  them, 
the  night-straying  cow  stumbled  among  them,  and  un- 
seemly shrubs  sprouted  between  them,  and  at  long  inter- 
vals, were  cut  away.  There,  one  after  another,  those 
whose  life  has  informed  these  pages  were  gathered,  and 
there  the  brown  sandstone,  roughly  finished,  and  quaint- 
ly carved  and  clumsily  inscribed,  was  placed  above  their 
heads.  There  they  lay  when  the  wintry  blast  was 
driving,  and  when  the  summer  sun  was  shining  ;  when 
the  trees  were  shedding  the  purple  of  autumn  and 
assuming  the  green  of  Spring.  Some  fell  by  the  red 
man's  arm,  and  were  borne  thither  in  fear,  and  buried  in 
the  presence  of  faithful  muskets  and  threats  of  ven- 
gence.  Some  were  borne  there  in  old  age,  an  old  age 
that  died  in  fear  after  a  life  of  fear.  Among  these  slept 
the  maiden  with  the  bloom  upon  her  cheek  and  life's 
discipline  all  untried,  and  the  sweet  infant  of  days,  and 
the  mother  parted  prematurely  from  the  children  of  her 
love,  and  the  man  just  risen  to  manhood.  Year  after 
year  the  frost  came  down  and  heaved  the  ground,  now 
this  way,  now  that,  till  the  mounds  settled  down  to  the 
level  around  them,  and  the  stones  sank  down  into  the 
mould,  or  leaned  in  indiscriminate  and  inharmonious 
angles,  or  fell  prone  along  the  graves,  face  to  face  with 
the  skeletons  whose  names  they  bore."1 

The  earliest  stones  in  the  burial  ground  at  Walling- 
ford  dating  from  about  1700  to  1750,  were  mostly  of 
slate  and  are  pretty  well  preserved,  though  the  inscrip- 
tions being  shallow  and  somewhat  lichen-covered,  are 
difficult  to  decipher.  Then  followed  a  period  of  about 
fifty  years  in  which  the  monuments  were  of  sandstone  ; 

I  Bay  Path,  p.  415. 


GRAVEYARDS.  387 

and  of  these,  most  of  the  earliest  are  so  far  corroded  by 
lichens  and  the  elements,  that  the  epitaphs  are  quite 
obliterated.  After  the  beginning  of  the  present  century, 
marble  prevails  ;  and  the  old  fashioned  letterings  and 
grotesque  carvings  of  faces  and  figures,  give  place  to  a 
more  modern  style. 

We  give  herewith  copies  of  some  of  the  inscriptions  : 

Here  lies  interred  the  remains  of  Mrs  Sarah  Hall  relict 
of  Mr  Joseph  Hall  who  departed  this  life  July 

8th  1796,  in  the  30  year  of  her  age. 
The  blast  which  nipt  my   youth  will   conquer  thee ; 
It  strikes  the  bud,  the  blossom  and  the  tree. 

Another  inscription  is  followed  by  the  quaint  lines : 

Lovely  companion  come  to  see 

The  clods  that  cover  me 

Look  at  my  right  hand  and  view 

The  clods  that  are  reserved  for  to  cover  thee. 


[Doctor  Isaac  Lewis,  1784.] 
As  I  am  now  gone  down  to  dust 
Five  of  my  children  came  here  first 
The  rest  may  se  as  they  pass  by 
That  we  are  now  before  them  gone. 

The  following  has  been  copied  from  the  original  stone 
on  to  a  new  monument : 

The  Reverent  Mr :  Street 
Departed:  This  Life:  len:  ye  16  1717  Agged :  82 

The  following  are  specimens  of  the  didactic  pendants 
following  the  name  and  date  of  some  of  the  departed : 

He  sleeps  no  longer  on  the  brink  of  fate, 

nor  leaves  one  loitering  wish  beneath  the  Starrs, 

Man  at  his  Best  State  is  Vanity. 


388  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Though  death  the  king  of  terrors  be 
And  nature  dread  the  awful  day 
Yet  Christ  the  King  of  Saints  we  see 
Hath  took  the  sting  away. 

Heaven  gives  friends  Why  should  we  complain 
If  Heaven  resume  Our  friends  again. 
Farewell  Vain  World,  Dust  Hast  thou  Been  to  me , 
Dust  and  the  Shadow,  I  do  leave  with  thee. 
Life  uncertain  ;  Death  is  sure  ; 
Sin  the  wound  &  Christ  the  cure. 

The  grave  is  honored  where  the  Christian  lies 
'Tis  but  the  ark  that  wafts  him  to  the  Skies. 
From  Death  we  see  no  age  is  free. 

At  an  adjourned  meeting  held  July  4th,  1741-2,  the 
following  resolutions  were  presented : 

"  Whereas  the  first  society  in  Wallingford  having  by  their 
vote  in  their  meeting,  Dec.  1740,  agreed  to  fence  their  bury- 
ing-ground  with  a  good  five  rail  fence,  and  chose  a  commit- 
tee for  that  purpose,  and  at  their  meeting  in  December  1741," 
upon  reconsideration,  voted  that  the  committee  chosen  for 
that  purpose  should  deposit  therein  until  the  society  order 
otherwise,  by  reason  of  some  ill  conveniency  in  stopping  up 
a  highway  as  it  must  if  they  take  in  all  the  graves,  in  said 
burying-ground,  for  which  reason  the  question  was  put  to  the 
town,  whether  the  proprietors  of  the  common  field  should 
have  liberty  to  fence  the  plains,  and  adjoin  it  to  the  rear  of 
the  home  lots  from  Capt.  Theophilus  Yale's  dwelling  house, 
down  to  Daniel  Doolittle  Jr's.  dwelling  house,  and  make  a 
good  gate  at  each  end,  and  make  a  good  gate  and  a  good 
fence  at  each  lane  which  will  accomodate  that  affair  in  fencing 
said  burying-yard  without  fencing  on  purpose  according  to 
former  note." 


CHAPTER   XXI. 

METHODIST    CHURCH. 

THE  first  seeds  of  Methodism  were  sown  in  Connecti- 
cut in  1789;'  and  that  year  the  Rev.  Jesse  Lee  preached 
in  Wallingford  and  other  places,  passing  three  months 
in  the  State.  In  1790,  when  the  circuits  of  New  Haven, 
Hartford  and  Litchfield  were  established,  there  were  but 
four  Methodist  ministers  in  New  England.  Yet  there 
were  more  ministers  than  classes,  and  scarcely  more 
than  two  members  to  each  preacher.  But  under  the 
earnest  and  devoted  labors  of  the  pioneers  of  Method- 
ism, the  doctrine  and  discipline  inculcated  by  Wesley 
gradually  extended  over  the  State. 

Quite  early  in  the  history  of  the  church  there  was  a 
class  of  five  persons  in  the  east  part  of  Meriden.  They 
had  no  meeting  but  in  private  houses,  and  were  visited 
by  a  circuit  preacher  once  in  two  weeks.  There  was 
also  a  small  class  of  four  or  five  which  met  in  the  west 
part  of  the  town.  Mr.  Charles  Baldwin,  on  his  decease, 
bequeathed  them  a  lot  which  was  sold,  and  the  money 
was  used  in  building  a  school-house  near  the  entrance  to 
the  cemetery.  It  was  burned  down  before  completion. 

I  This  is  the  date  given  by  Dr.  Bangs,  though  it  appears  from  the  "  Me- 
morials of  Methodism  "  by  Rev.  Abel  Stevens,  that  Rev.  Messrs.  Cook  and 
Black  had  preached  in  Connecticut  a  year  or  two  previously. 


39°  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

In  1838,  Rev.  John  Parker,  who  has  done  more  for  the 
Methodist  cause  in  this  town  than  any  other  person, 
applied  to  the  conference  to  supply  Meriden  with  preach- 
ers, and  Rev.  J.  E.  Searles  was  sent.  He  preached  in  a 
hall  at  West  Meriden,  owned  by  James  S.  Brooks.  Mr. 
Parker  afterward  applied  to  have  him  withdrawn,  and 
paid  back  to  the  society  all  they  had  paid  for  his 
support. 

In  1840  a  young  man  named  Collins,  who  was  filled 
with  a  conviction  that  the  world  was  coming  to  an  end, 
was  sent.  He  preached  earnestly  and  many  were  con- 
verted. From  this  nucleus  the  society  was  formed  and 
was  called  the  primitive  Methodist  society.  Alexander 
Miller  was  the  next  preacher.  He  preached  two  years, 
and  a  great  many  were  converted  under  his  preaching. 
After  him  came  William  Somersides. 

The  conference  was  to  have  sent  Philo  Hawkes  as 
the  next  preacher,  but  believing  that  the  world  was  to 
come  to  an  end  on  a  certain  date,  he  did  not  come. 
Rev.  John  Parker  then  called  a  meeting  and  formed 
them  into  a  church,  and  in  1844  the  presiding  elder  of 
the  district,  Nathan  Clark,  sent  Rev.  S.  Howland,  who 
had  then  been  but  three  weeks  in  the  university  at 
Middletown.  From  that  time  to  the  following  annual 
conference  he  received  eighteen  into  the  church. 
They  had  the  regular  class-meetings  and  prayer-meet- 
ings. In  1845  Rev.  George  A.  Hubbell  was  appointed 
by  the  New  York  conference  to  labor  in  Meriden ;  and 
in  1846  Rev.  J.  E.  Searles  was  sent.  During  these 
two  years  the  appointment  was  a  branch  of  the  Cheshire 
circuit,  but  in  1847  it  was  made  a  station,  and  Mr. 
Searles  was  appointed  preacher  in  charge. 

In  1848-9  Rev.  Albert  Nash  occupied  the  station ;  in 


METHODIST    CHURCH.  39 1 

1850  Rev.  P.  Chamberlain  ;  in  1851-2  Rev.  F.  Bottome  ; 
in  1853-4  Rev.  N.  Meade  ;  in  1855-6  Rev.  George  C. 
Creevy  ;  in  1857  Rev.  J.  L.  Peck  ;  in  1858-9  Rev.  Wm. 
McAlister;  in  1860-1  Rev.  George  A.  Hubbell,  for 
the  second  time;  in  1862  Rev.  C.  Kelsey  ;  in  1863-4 
Rev.  Charles  Fletcher  ;  in  1865-6  Rev.  Frederic  Brown  ; 
in  1867-8  Rev.  Francis  B.  Tower ;  in  1869  Rev.  John 
Pegg,  Jr.,  a  graduate  of  Wesleyan  university,  of  the  class 
of  1849.  During  the  pastorate  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Tower, 
two  hundred  and  fifty  persons  presented  themselves  at 
the  altar,  there  were  two  hundred  conversions,  and  the 
net  gain  to  the  church  was  one  hundred  and  fifty  mem- 
bers. In  1847  they  completed  and  occupied  their  new 
church.  It  was  built  at  an  expense  of  six  thousand 
dollars.  Its  dimensions  were  sixty  feet  long  and  forty 
feet  wide. 

The  corner-stone  of  the  new  Methodist  church  on 
Main  street,  was  laid  Wednesday,  October  31,  1866. 
The  ritual  service  was  read  by  Rev.  E.  E.  Griswold,  the 
presiding  elder,  followed  by  a  sermon  delivered  by  Rev. 
Moses  L.  Scudder.  The  following  clergy  were  present: 
Rev.  Messrs.  Heman  Bangs,  of  New  Haven  ;  F.  H. 
Newhall,  D.  D.,  of  Middletown  ;  Wm.  McAllister,  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  ;  T.  H.  Burch  ;  C.  E.  Glover ;  J.  E. 
Searles,  of  New  Haven  ;  A.  M.  Allen,  of  Southington ; 
W.  W.  Bowditch,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  ;  H.  B.  Elkins,  of 
Simsbury  ;  and  J.  M.  Buckley,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.1  The 


I  The  box  in  the  corner-stone  was  made  of  sheet-copper,  sealed  air- 
tight, and  was  twelve  inches  square  by  six  inches  deep.  The  contents  were 
as  follows:  I,  Bible;  2,  Methodist  Hymn-Book ;  3,  Discipline  of  the 
M.  E.  Church ;  4,  Methodist  Catechism  ;  5,  List  of  officers  and  members 
of  the  Meriden  M.  E.  Church  ;  6,  List  of  Building  Committee ;  7,  List  of 
Centenary  Committee  ;  8,  Architect's  card ;  9,  Photograph  of  new  church ; 
10,  Card  of  mason  builders,  Perkins  and  Lines  ;  n,  Christian  Advocate 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORI). 

society  were  mainly  indebted  to  the  Rev.  Francis  P. 
Tower  for  the  idea  of  erecting  the  edifice  in  the  year 
1 869,  it  having  been  suggested  by  him  that  it  be  built  as 
a  centenary  church,  in  commemoration  of  the  one- 
hundredth  anniversary  of  American  Methodism.  The 
church  cost  about  seventy-five  thousand  dollars.  The 


and  Journal;  12,  The  Methodist ;  13,  Zion's  Herald  and  Wesleyan  Advo- 
cate; 14,  Stevens'  Centenary  of  Methodism  ;  15,  Six  Centenary  Hymns 
by  Rev.  George  Lansing  Taylor;  16,  Corner-stone  hymn  by  Rev.  F.  P. 
Tower;  17.  Manual  of  ist  Cong.  Church  of  West  Meriden ;  18,  Manual 
of  Cent.  Cong,  church;  19,  List  of  members  of  West  Meriden  Baptist 
church ;  20,  List  of  officers  and  members  and  the  Confession  of  Faith,  of 
the  ist  Universalist  church  of  Meriden;  21,  List  of  members  of  the  Lu- 
theran Evangelical  St.  John's  church  of  Meriden ;  22,  List  of  the  number 
and  names  of  the  various  Churches  in  Meriden;  23,  List  of  the  officers, 
teachers,  and  scholars  of  the  Sunday  School  of  the  M.  E.  Church  of  Meri- 
den; 24,  A7".  Y.  Independent;  25,  The  Nation;  26,  Meriden  Recorder; 
27,  N.  Y.  Daily  Tribune;  28,  N.  Y.  Daily  Times ;  29,  N.  Y.  Daily 
Herald;  30,  N.  Y.  Daily  World;  31,  National  Temperance  Advocate ; 
32,  Conn.  State  Temperance  Journal ;  33,  U.  S.  fractional  Currency  of 
the  denomination  of  three,  five,  ten,  twenty-five,  and  fifty  cents  ;  34,  U.  S. 
coins  of  the  denomination  of  one,  two,  three,  and  five  cents  ;  35,  Three 
cent  U.  S.  Postage  stamp ;  36,  Price  List  of  articles  manufactured  by 
Charles  Parker  ;  37,  The  same  of  Edward  Miller  &  Co. ;  38,  The  same  of 
Bradley  &  Hubbard;  39,  The  same  of  Meriden  Britannia  Co;  40,  Pro- 
gramme of  Exercises  of  the  corner  stone  laying  and  the  centenary  cele- 
bration ;  41,  i4th  annual  report  of  the  State  Reform  School;  42,  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  22d  annual  session  of  the  Conn.  Grand  Division  of  the 
Sons  of  Temperance ;  43,  Constitution  of  grand  and  subordinate  lodges 
of  Good  Templars  in  Conn. ;  44,  Exposition  of  independent  order  of 
Good  Templars  ;  45,  Circular  of  J.  Wilcox  &  Co. ;  46,  List  of  officers  and 
members  of  the  Ladies'  centenary  association ;  47,  List  of  officers  and 
members  of  the  ist  Baptist  church  of  Meriden ;  48,  List  of  officers  and 
members,  and  constitution  and  by-laws  of  Meridian  Lodge,  No.  77,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons ;  49,  Same  of  Keystone  chapter,  No.  27,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  50,  Same  of  Hamilton  council,  No.  22,  Royal  and  Select  Mas- 
ters; 51,  Same  of  Center  Lodge,  No.  94,  F.  and  A.  Masons;  52,  List  of 
officers  and  members  of  Star  of  Hope  Lodge,  No.  26,  independent  order 
of  Good  Templars ;  53,  Card  and  samples  of  work  of  the  U.  S.  Screw 
Company. 


METHODIST    CHURCH.  393 

Messrs.  Charles  and  John  Parker  jointly  contributed 
between  thirty  and  forty  thousand  dollars.  Future 
generations  will  make  their  memory  fragrant  for  this 
generous,  noble-hearted  and  commendable  bequest.  The 
dimensions  of  the  church  are  sixty  feet  wide  within  but- 
tresses, and  one  hundred  and  twenty-one  feet  in  length, 
with  a  recess  in  the  rear  nineteen  feet  deep,  making  the 
entire  length  one  hundred  and  forty  feet.  The  organ 
cost  six  thousand  dollars. 


394  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

UNIVERSALIST  CHURCH. 

IN  the  year  1821,  the  first  sermon  in  Meriden  by  a  Uni- 
versalist  preacher  was  delivered  by  Rev.  Mr.  Brooks  of 
Massachusetts.  This  service  was  held  in  the  evening,  at 
the  residence  of  Noah  Pomeroy  in  the  eastern  part  of 
the  town.  From  twenty  to  thirty  persons  were  present, 
a  considerable  portion  of  them  doubtless  from  motives 
of  curiosity.  No  further  meeting  was  held  till  Decem- 
ber, 1823,  or  January,  1824,  when  Rev.  Nehemiah  Dodge, 
then  of  New  London,  preached  one  evening  in  Mr. 
Pomeroy's  house.  Mr.  Dodge  had  been  a  Baptist 
preacher  of  celebrity,  and  had  preached  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Baptist  denomination  in  all  this  vicinity. 
He  officiated  from  1816  to  1821  in  the  Baptist  church  in 
New  London,  and  remained  in  the  church  till  1823,  when 
he  was  excluded  on  the  ground  that  he  had  embraced 
Universalist  principles.  After  the  sermon  a  Baptist 
brother,  Deacon  John  Hall,  attacked  the  preacher's  sen- 
timents and  a  spirited  little  controversy  was  held. 

Some  six  years  elapsed,  when  next  in  order  came  Rev. 
John  Boyden,  then  a  very  young  man,  of  Berlin,  who 
preached  in  the  hall  of  the  old  tavern,  corner  of  Main 
and  Broad  streets,  and  also  in  the  north  center  school- 
house,  April  4,  1830,  February  26,  April  25,  and  Sep- 


UNIVERSALIST    CHURCH.  395 

tember  26,  1833.  The  average  attendance  on  Mr. 
Boyden's  ministry  here  was  about  twenty.  At  this  time 
the  avowed  Universalists  in  the  town  were  Noah 
Pomeroy,  Calvin  Coe,  Daniel  Yale,  Darling  Dayton  and 
Mrs.  Calvin  Coe.  But  very  few  ladies  attended  the 
meeting,  as  it  was  hardly  considered  respectable  for 
females  to  do  so.1  The  compensation  of  the  preacher 
was  ten  dollars  per  Sunday,  and  was  mostly  paid  by 
Messrs  Pomeroy  and  Coe.  Mr  Pomeroy,  being  with  his 
family,  an  attendant  at  the  Baptist  church,  and  a  liberal 
contributor  to  its  expenses,  asked  the  use  of  the  vestry 
of  that  church  for  Mr.  Boyden  to  preach  in,  but  was 
refused ;  whereupon  he  withdrew  his  attendance  and 
support. 

Soon  after,  late  in  1833  or  early  in  1834,  Rev.  Horace 
Smith,  then  the  successor  of  Mr.  Boyden  at  Berlin,  and 
who  had  formerly  been  a  Baptist  minister,  preached  three 
or  four  sermons  in  the  old  north  center  school-house. 
Early  in  1834,  there  preached  one  evening  in  Mr.  Pome- 
roy's  house,  Rev.  Stephen  R.  Smith,  then  probably  of  Al- 
bany, N.  Y.  Some  fifty  persons  were  present.  Not  far 
from  this  time,  Dr.  Luther  Parmelee  and  his  father  moved 
into  the  town  and  attended  the  meetings  ;  and  during  the 
latter  part  of  Mr.  Boyden's  ministry,  Hezekiah  Rice 
settled  here,  and  with  his  wife  joined  the  society.  Early 
in  the  same  year,  1834,  Rev.  Thomas  Miller,  of  Long 
Island,  but  a  native  of  Wallingford,  uncle  of  the  late 
Rev.  Harvey  Miller  of  this  town,  and  who  had  been  a 
Baptist  preacher,  preached  a  single  evening  in  Noah 


I  The  following  is  on  the  records  of  the  First  congregational  church  of 
this  town,  May  15,  1837  :  "Mr.  Alson  L.  Talmadge,  for  embracing  the  doc- 
trines of  universal  salvation,  be  no  longer  considered  a  member  of  this 
church." 


396  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

Pomeroy's  house.  Beginning  with  April,  1834,  and  ex- 
tending to  April,  1835,  Rev.  W.  A.  Stickney,  then  of 
Berlin,  lectured  here  in  the  tavern  hall  and  in  the  old 
north  center  school-house  the  fourth  Sunday  evening  in 
each  month,  making  in  all  twelve  discourses.  When  the 
Baptists  vacated  their  old  meeting  house  (the  present 
academy  building),  the  purchase  of  it  for  the  use  of  the 
Universalists  was  talked  of,  and  Messrs.  Pomeroy,  Coe 
and  H.  Rice  proposed  contributing  five  hundred  dollars 
each  for  that  purpose,  but  the  project  failed.  Scattered 
over  a  period  of  thirty-two  years,  viz.,  from  1821  to 
March,  1853,  there  were  delivered  in  the  town  about 
forty  sermons  and  lectures,  equal  to  twenty  Sundays 
labor,  by  seven  or  eight  different  clergymen. 

On  the  thirteenth  of  March,  1853,  Rev.  Abraham 
Norwood,  then  and  for  several  years  after  the  State  mis- 
sionary, preached  in  the  present  academy  hall,  having  in 
the  morning  sixty  hearers,  in  the  afternoon  eighty,  and 
the  same  number  in  the  evening.  After  the  close  of 
the  evening  service  he  found  written  on  the  blank  leaf 
of  a  conference  hymn-book  which  he  had  supplied  for 
the  singing,  the  words  of  this  invocation  :  "  May  the 
cuss  of  God  go  with  you."  Rev.  J.  J.  Twiss,  then  of 
Stamford,  preached  the  first  and  second  Sundays  of 
April,  1853.  On  the  evening  of  the  first  day  of  his 
ministry,  a  meeting  was  held,  and  a  committee  of  five 
appointed  to  see  how  much  could  be  raised  to  build  a 
place  of  worship.  January  15,  1854,  Rev.  Mr.  Nor- 
wood preached  to  fifty,  seventy,  and  sixty  hearers  ;  and 
the  next  evening  in  East  Meriden  to  thirty  listeners. 
March  5,  1854,  a  committee  reported  that  seven  hundred 
dollars  had  been  subscribed,  and  that  the  brethren  were 
ready  to  settle  any  minister  that  might  be  sent  them. 


UNIVERSALIST    CHURCH.  397 

On  the  twenty-third  and  thirtieth  of  the  following 
month  Rev.  James  Gallager,1  of  Easton,  Pa.,  preached  as 
a  candidate,  and  was  invited  to  become  the  pastor,  at  a 
salary  of  seven  hundred  dollars.  The  call  was  accepted, 
and  Mr.  Gallager  became  the  first  Universalist  pastor  of 
Meriden,  commencing  on  the  second  Sunday  in  June, 
1854.  On  the  3Oth  of  May,  1854,  a  constitution  was 
adopted,  and  the  following  names  attached  to  it,  viz.  : 
Noah  Pomeroy,  Calvin  Coe,  E.  E.  Smiley,  Wm.  H. 
Golden,  John  S.  Blake,  Moses  Waterman,  Isaac  C. 
Lewis,  J.  V.  Thayer,  B.  F.  Stevens,  Edwin  Dayton, 
Monroe  Barns,  John  L.  Ives,  B.  R.  Stevens,  H.  E. 
Welton,  James  T.  Pomeroy,  E.  R.  Aspinwall,  John  C. 

I  Rev.  James  Gallager  was  born  in  Philadephia  in  1813.  At  an  early 
age  he  learned  a  trade  ;  but  while  visiting  Bridgeton,  N.  J.,  he  met  with 
Rev.  Abel  C.  Thomas,  through  whose  influence  he  became  interested  in 
the  cause  of  Universalism,  and  was  induced  to  enter  the  ministry.  He 
removed  to  Philadelphia  shortly  after,  and  was  married  to  Miss  Frances  C. 
daughter  of  Rev.  David  Oliver.  At  the  same  time  he  continued  to  work 
at  his  trade  by  day,  pursuing  his  studies  with  great  perseverance  by  night 
under  Rev.  A.  C.  Thomas.  In  1837,  he  delivered  his  first  address  before 
the  Young  Men's  Institute  in  Philadelphia,  and  shortly  after  he  received  a 
call  from  the  Universalist  society  of  Pottsville,  Pa.,  where  he  labored  very 
successfully  for  five  years  ;  then  moved  to  Providence,  R.  I.,  where  he  re- 
mained but  a  short  time,  and  accepted  a  call  from  the  first  Universalist 
society  of  Newark,  N.  J.  The  society  prospered  under  his  care  during  his 
sojourn  of  five  years ;  but  he  met  with  a  sad  bereavement  in  the  death  of 
his  beloved  wife,  who  died  of  consumption,  leaving  four  motherless  chil- 
dren to  his  care.  In  1850,  he  became  pastor  of  the  church  in  Easton,  Pa., 
where  he  remained  six  years,  being  united  in  marriage  while  there,  to  Miss 
Jane  Brown,  of  Philadelphia.  In  June,  1854,  he  was  called  to  Meriden. 
In  1857,  he  removed  to  Hamilton,  Ohio.  After  supplying  the  pulpit  there 
for  three  months,  he  was  taken  suddenly  ill  one  Sunday  in  the  midst  of  his 
sermon,  and  was  removed  to  his  house,  where  he  lay  in  great  suffering  for 
three  weeks,  until  his  death,  July  n,  1857.  He  was  buried  on  Sunday, 
July  12,  from  the  Methodist  church,  it  being  larger  than  the  Universalist, 
their  minister  officiating  in  the  services.  His  remains  were  afterward  re- 
moved to  Newark,  N.  J. 


398  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Marvin,  J.  V.  Foster,  Charles  Pomeroy,  Norman  W. 
Pomeroy,  Philip  Sage  Pelton,  P.  S.  Bliss,  Jr.,  Silas 
Gladwin,  G.  E.  Leonard,  Aaron  Gardner,  and  Isaac 
P.  Lewis.  At  the  annual  meeting  held  in  April,  1855, 
a  year  later,  thirteen  new  names  were  added  to  the  soci- 
ety's list.  At  a  meeting  held  January  31,  1860,  it  was 
found  that  four  thousand  and  three  hundred  and  twenty 
dollars  had  been  subscribed  toward  the  building  of  a 
church,  and  that  six  hundred  and  eighty  dollars  in 
addition  were  required  before  further  progress  could  be 
made.  This  remaining  sum  was  subscribed  by  persons 
present.  The  church  was  dedicated  December  5,  1860. 
The  whole  expense  incurred  in  the  building  of  the 
church  and  adjoining  sheds,  not  including  carpets  and 
upholstery,  was  nine  thousand  two  hundred  and  fourteen 
dollars  and  eighteen  cents. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Gallager  remained  with  the  society  two 
years  and  a  half,  preaching  his  farewell  sermon  January 
25,  1857.  He  settled  in  Hamilton,  Ohio,  and  died  on 
the  i6th  of  the  following  July.  He  was  a  man  much 
loved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him  ;  and  the 
savor  of  his  Christian  life  and  influence  contributed 
toward  their  elevation  as  a  society  in  the  respect  of 
their  fellow  Christians.  Rev.  Abel  C.  Thomas,  in  a 
letter  to  the  author,  says,  "So  lived  and  died  one  of 
the  best  men  that  ever  lived." 

From  January  up  to  the  first  of  September,  1857, 
there  preached  as  candidates  for  settlement,  Rev.  J. 
Farrington,  C.  A.  Bradley,  J.  K.  Shepherd,  N.  C.  Hodg- 
don,  J.  G.  B.  Heath,  and  F..  E.  Hicks.  Mr.  Hicks  was 
invited  to  become  the  pastor,  and  entered  upon  his 
duties  August  I,  1857.  He  suffered  much  from  ill 
health,  and  his  ministry  terminated  about  the  middle 


UNIVERSALIST    CHURCH.  399 

of  the  following  May  (1858),  although  he  had  been 
unable  to  preach  for  some  two  months  previous.  He 
soon  removed  to  Dover,  N.  H.,  where,  as  is  believed,  he 
enjoyed  a  successful  ministry  of  some  three  or  four 
years.  From  this  place  he  went  to  western  New  York 
for  a  space,  and  then  accepted  a  call  from  the  second 
church  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he  preached  until  his 
death.1 

After  the  removal  of  Mr.  Hicks,  for  a  few  months 
sermons  were  read  and  the  liturgy  used  by  Norman  W. 
Pomeroy,  Andrew  Coe  and  Abraham  Norwood.  On 
the  1 2th  of  December,  1858,  Rev.  Calvin  Gardner  of 
Maine  preached  and  continued  to  do  so  for  three  months  ; 
not  as  desiring  to  be  the  pastor,  but  making  what  he 
termed  a  "  ministerial  visit."  He  died  very  suddenly 
of  heart  disease  at  Waterville,  Maine.  Next  came  for 
one  or  two  Sundays  each,  Revs.  A.  B.  Manley,  L.  L. 
Record,  Albert  Tyler,  G.  V.  Maxham,  N.  C.  Hodgdon, 
J.  Fisher,  and  perhaps  one  or  two  others.  Some  of 
these  were  candidates.  On  the  first  of  July,  1859,  Rev. 
Henry  Eaton  commenced  his  pastorate  with  the  society. 
His  health  was  very  poor  when  he  came,  and  bodily 
infirmities  increased  upon  him,  so  that  on  the  29th  of 
January,  1860,  he  tendered  his  resignation.  Removing 
to  Worcester,  Mass.,  he  lingered  a  year  or  two,  suffering 
much,  and  finally  died,  May  26,  i86i.2 


1  Rev.  F.  E.   Hicks  was  born  at  Bristol,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  4,   1831.     He 
studied  for  the  ministry  under  Rev.  J.  H.  Tuttle  ;  preached  his  first  sermon 
at  Fulton,  N.   Y.,  Sept.  18,  1853;  was  first  settled  at  Victor,  N.  Y.  ;  was 
settled  at  Meriden,  Oct.,  1857,  and  dismissed  Aug.,  1856.     Settled  at  Do- 
ver, N.  H.,  from  which  church  he  was  dismissed  Oct.,  1861.     Removed 
thence  to  Leroy,  N.  Y.,  and  afterwards  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he  died. 

2  Rev.  Henry  Eaton  was  born  at  South  Reading,  Mass.,  Nov.  27,  1825. 
He  was  the  youngest  of  seven  children.     In  early  life  he  removed  to 


4OO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

On  September  i,  1860,  Rev.  Frederick  Foster  became 
pastor  of  the  society.  His  connection  with  the  society 
was  terminated  March  3,  1861.  He  settled  at  Ware, 
N.  H.,  where  he  died  suddenly  of  heart  disease.  Mr. 
Foster  was  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College,  of  the 
class  of  1840,  and  was  an  excellent  classical  scholar. 
After  taking  his  degree,  he  pursued  his  classical  studies 
so  assiduously,  that  in  a  few  years  he  had  gone  through 
nearly  the  whole  range  of  Greek  authors,  with  a  digest 
of  their  contents.  His  classical  studies  led  to  a  dry, 
metaphysical  style  of  preaching,  and  his  ministry  in 
Meriden  was  not  successful.  After  the  removal  of  Mr. 
Foster,  the  pulpit  was  supplied  by  Revs.  Thomas  Bor- 
den,  Benjamin  Whittemore,  W.  A.  Stickney,  N.  C. 
Hodgdon  and  A.  Norwood,  one  or  more  Sundays  each, 
till  June  2,  1 86 1,  when  Rev.  Moses  Stoddard  became 
the  preacher,  and  continued  to  supply  the  pulpit  until 
February  i,  of  the  following  year.  From  this  period, 
February  i,  1862,  to  July  of  the  same  year,  Mr.  Nor- 
wood preached.  Rev.  J.  H.  Farnsworth  was  installed 
pastor  of  the  church  November  i,  1862,  and  remained 


North  Maiden,  now  Melrose,  Mass.  He  attended  the  public  schools  until 
he  was  sixteen  years  old,  when  he  entered  a  store  in  Boston  as  clerk,  where 
he  remained  two  years ;  then  with  his  brother  William  he  established  a 
shoe-store  ;  subsequently  he  set  up  for  himself  in  the  same  business  in 
Newburyport.  He  studied  for  the  ministry  under  his  brother  Rev.  Edwin 
A.  Eaton,  with  the  exception  of  a  brief  period  spent  at  the  theological 
school  at  Clinton,  N.  Y.  He  was  first  settled  at  Hanson,  Mass.,  where  he 
remained  about  a  year  ;  then  at  East  Bridgewater  nearly  the  same  length 
of  time  ;  then  at  Milford  for  seven  years ;  then  at  East  Cambridge  two 
years  ;  then  at  Waltham  two  years  ;  and  finally  at  Meriden.  After  his  re- 
moval to  Worcester  his  cough  became  very  bad,  and  his  bleeding  exhaust- 
ing. He  knew  that  his  pilgrimage  on  earth  must  ere  long  close,  and  de- 
liberately prepared  for  the  event.  He  died  at  Worcester,  early  Sabbath 
morning,  May  26,  1 86 1,  in  the  thirty-sixth  year  of  his  age. 


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4O2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER     XXIII. 

MANNERS   AND  CUSTOMS. 

WHEN  in  accordance  with  the  prevailing  usage  in  New 
England,  the  inhabitants  suspended  all  secular  toil  at 
the  going  down  of  the  sun  on  Saturday,1  and  began 
their  Sabbath  service  with  an  evening  prayer,  a  psalm 
and  a  season  of  solitary  self-examination,  it  was  with 
more  gladness  of  heart  than  that  which  Burns  ascribes 
to  the  "  Cotter's  "  children  on  coming  home,  after  the 
week's  drudgery  is  over,  to  exchange  salutations  around 
the  old  hearth  stone  and  receive  anew  the  paternal  bene- 


i  The  Puritans  did  not  all  commence  their  Sabbath  on  Saturday  eve- 
ning. Mr.  W.  Perkins,  in  his  "Cases  of  Conscience"  published  in  1806, 
argues  strongly  in  favor  of  beginning  the  Christian  Sabbath  "in  the  morn- 
ing and  so  to  continue  till  the  next  morning,  and  not  in  the  evening  till  the 
evening.  [Book  n.  ch.  16.]  The  views  of  Mr.  Robinson,  his  theologi- 
cal pupil,  are  nowhere  expressed,  unless  the  subsequent  usage  of  his 
ohurch  at  Plymouth  may  be  taken  as  such  an  expression  ;  which  is  quite 
as  likely  to  have  been  derived  from  John  Cotton,  whose  opinion  on  all 
such  points  was  well  nigh  supreme  in  the  New  England  churches.  This 
old  custom  of  keeping,  or  pretending  to  keep  Sabbath  evening  as  part  of 
holy  time,  which  in  many  families  was  continued  some  ways  into  the  present 
century,  has  nearly  or  quite  ceased ;  not  so  much,  it  is  hoped,  from  lax 
principles  of  Sabbath-keeping,  as  from  an  enlightened  persuasion  that,  in 
the  words  of  the  old  Puritan  above  cited,  "  the  Sabbath  is  to  begin  where 
other  ordinary  days  begin,  according  to  the  order  and  account  of  the  church 
wherein  we  live." 


CHURCH    MUSIC.  403 

diction.1  On  the  Sabbath,  with  no  more  labor  than  was 
barely  sufficient  to  supply  food  for  themselves  and  their 
cattle,  which  had  been  provided  as  far  as  might  be  on 
the  previous  day  ;  with  as  few  and  noiseless  steps  as 
possible,  both  in-doors  and  out ;  with  but  little  talking, 
and  that  in  a  subdued  voice,  they  entered  upon  a  round 
of  private  meditation,  family  devotion  and  public  wor- 
ship, which  engaged  their  delighted  and  unflagging  souls 
till  the  sun  went  down  ;  an  event  which  usually  found 
them  with  catechism  in  hand,  or  repeating  the  sermons 
of  the  day. 

For  eighty  or  ninety  years,  not  more  than  ten  differ- 
ent tunes  were  used  in  public  worship.  Few  congrega- 
tions could  sing  more  than  the  five  tunes  now  known  by 
the  names  of  York,  Hackney,  Windsor,  St.  Marys  and 
Martyrs.  All  who  were  present  in  the  church  were 
expected  to  unite  in  this  part  of  worship.  In  1731  the 
town  had  before  them  a  petition  of  certain  persons  for 
the  use  of  the  meeting-house,  that  they  might  there 
meet  and  learn  to  sing.  After  some  demur,  the  request 
was  granted.  Having  learned  to  sing,  the  singers 
naturally  wished  to  give  the  congregation  the  benefit  of 
their  new  acquisitions.  This  disturbed  some  old  habits, 
and  a  town  meeting  was  convened  to  hear  the  complaints 
of  those  who  could  not  endure  "  the  singing  in  the  new 

I  "  Wi'  joy  unfeign'd  brothers  and  sisters  meet, 
An'  each  for  other's  welfare  kindly  spiers  : 
The  social  hours,  swift-wing'd  unnotic'd  fleet ; 
Each  tells  the  uncos  that  he  sees  or  hears ; 
The  parents,  partial,  eye  their  hopeful  years ; 
Anticipation  forward  points  the  view. 
The  mother,  wi'  her  needle  an'  her  sheers, 
Gars  auld  does  look  amaist  as  weel's  the  new  ; 
The  father  mixes  a'  wi'  admonition  due." 

The  Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 


404  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

way,"  as  they  termed  it.  The  matter  could  not  be 
settled ;  dispute  arose,  and  the  meeting  adjourned. 
Another  meeting  was  called,  and  after  much  debate  the 
matter  was  compromised  by  voting, 

"That  this  Society  Desire  and  agree  to  Sing  in  ye  public 
assembly  on  ye  Saboth  half  ye  time  in  ye  new  and  half  in  y6 
old  way  for  six  Saboths ;  and  after  that  wholly  in  ye  new  way." 

The  Bay  Psalm  Book,  prepared  by  New  England 
divines,  of  whom  three  were  Welde  and  Eliot  of  Rox- 
bury,  and  Mather  of  Dorchester,  was  issued  from  the 
press  at  Cambridge  in  1640.  It  was  the  second  book 
printed  in  British  America,  and  went  through  seventy 
editions.  This  book  was  used  throughout  the  colony. 
The  following  two  stanzas  are  from  the  nineteenth 
Psalm,  which  is  rendered  by  Addison,  "  The  spacious  fir- 
mament on  high,"  &c. : 

"The  heavens  do  declare 

The  majesty  of  God  ; 
Also,  the  firmament  shows  forth 

His  handiwork  abroad. 
Day  speaks  to  day,  knowledge 

Night  hath  to  night  declared  ; 
There  neither  speech  nor  language  is, 

Where  their  voice  is  not  heard." 

Instrumental  music  was  absolutely  proscribed  ;  it  was 
thought  to  be  condemned  by  the  text,  "  I  will  not  hear 
the  melody  of  thy  viols"  (Amos  v.  23),  and  was  dis- 
paragingly compared  to  Nebuchadnezzar's  idolatrous 
concert  of  the  "  cornet,  flute,  dulcimer,  sackbut,  psaltery 
and  all  kinds  of  music." 

Preaching  with  notes  was  very  little  practised. 
Mather  says  that  Warham,  of  Dorchester,  afterward  of 
Windsor,  was  the  first  person  who  read  sermons  in  New 


CLERGY.  405 

England.1  The  approved  length  of  a  sermon  was  one 
hour,  measured  by  an  hour-glass  which  stood  upon  the 
pulpit.  The  reading  of  the  Bible  in  public  worship 
without  exposition  was  generally  disapproved.  Children 
were  baptized  in  the  meeting-house,  generally  on  the 
next  Sunday  after  their  birth  ;  sometimes  on  the  day  of 
their  birth  if  it  took  place  on  Sunday. 

The  New  England  preachers  were  of  a  character 
peculiarly  adapted  to  the  severe  exigences  of  their  day. 
They  stood  as  iron  men  in  an  iron  age.  However  rude 
in  other  social  features,  the  early  settlers,  as  they  worked 
their  way  to  the  frontier,  demanded  the  soothing  influ- 
ences of  pastoral  care ;  and  the  first  institution  reared 
in  the  forest  was  the  pulpit,  the  next  the  school-house. 
Were  Davenport  and  his  compeers  alive,  were  Street  and 
Whittelsey,  and  Dana  and  Noyes,  and  multitudes  of  the 
early  ministers  of  New  England  now  alive,  and  among  us, 
there  are  no  ministers  of  religion  now  living,  who,  for 
learning,  eloquence,  character,  or  anything  that  adorns 
humanity,  could  pretend  to  be  their  superiors.  The 
clergy  of  New  England  have  as  a  body,  been  dis- 
tinguished for  a  rare  union  of  the  speculative  and  the 
practical.  In  both  points  they  have  been  so  remarkable, 
that  in  observing  the  great  development  of  either  of 
these  qualities  by  itself  one  would  naturally  suppose 
that  there  was  no  room  for  the  other. 

Marriages  in  olden  times  were  celebrated  by  the 
governor,  assistants  or  commissioners.  Clergymen 
rarely  performed  the  ceremony  before  1700.  The  bride- 
groom who  went  to  a  neighboring  town  to  be  united 
with  a  partner  whom  he  hoped  to  find  a  "  help-meet  for 
him,"  whether  he  was  gentleman  or  yeoman,  rode  on 

i  Magnalia,  Book  in.    ch.  xvin. 


4O6  HISTORY    OF    WALLiNGFORD. 

horseback,  and  carried  her  home  on  a  pillion  behind  him. 
They  had  no  wheeled  carriages  or  wagons  until  the 
middle  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  very  few  until  the 
revolutionary  war  was  closed.  In  1789,  according  to 
Perkins,  the  first  wagon  was  brought  into  Meriden.  It 
was  owned  by  Mr.  Ezra  Rice,  and  was  of  a  very  rude 
construction,  being  simply  a  square  framed  box  placed 
on  four  wheels,  drawn  by  two  horses,  with  ropes  for 
traces,  and  cords  for  the  guiding  or  driving  lines.  Yet 
it  was  then  thought  to  be  a  very  elegant  establishment. 
Previous  to  that  time  there  had  never  been  owned  in  the 
town  but  three  two-wheeled  carriages,  being  very  rude, 
awkward  chaise  bodies  or  uncovered  seats  hung  on  two 
wheels  in  the  manner  of  our  modern  chaise.  A  gentle- 
man whose  business  led  him  at  various  times  into  every 
house  in  Meriden,  states  that  in  1802,  there  was  but 
one  carpet  in  the  whole  town. 

The  houses  at  first  were  constructed  of  logs,  with 
the  ground,  or  in  some  cases  if  the  soil  was  wet  or  the 
occupants  were  persons  of  taste  and  substance,  with 
split  logs,  for  a  floor.  They  were  "  good  and  substantial 
dwellings,  at  least  eighteen  feet  in  length,  and  sixteen 
feet  wide,  and  nine  foot  between  joynts,  with  a  good 
chimly,"  of 'stone  and  clay  mortar,  according  to  the 
requirements  of  the  subscribed  articles.  In  the  course 
of  time  framed  houses  came  into  use.  These  frames  were 
made  of  heavy  oak  timbers,  some  of  them  eighteen 
inches  in  diameter.  The  rafters  were  larger  than  the 
plates,  sills  and  beams  of  our  modern  country  houses,, 
and  supported  split  sticks  called  in  the  rude  architectural 
language  of  the  day,  "ribs,"  that  were  laid  across  them 
at  regular  distances,  and  to  which  long  rent  shingles  of 
cedar  were  fastened  with  tough  wrought  nails.  The  sides 


MANNERS    AND    CUSTOMS.  407 

of  the  building  were  covered  with  oak  clapboards  rent 
from  the  tree  and  smoothed  with  a  shaving-knife. 
Houses  were  palisaded  in  the  following  manner :  a  deep 
ditch  was  dug  around  the  house  ;  logs  were  then  placed 
perpendicularly  in  the  ditch  all  around  it,  leaving  a 
space  only  for  a  gate.  The  logs  were  sharpened  only 
at  the  top,  placed  close  together,  and  extended  eight,  ten 
or  twelve  feet  above  the  ground.  The  earth  was  then 
returned  and  beaten  around  the  logs,  till  they  stood 
firmly.  This  with  a  gate  well  secured,  was  a  pretty 
good  defence  against  a  sudden  attack. 

Cider  was  the  most  common  beverage  of  the  country. 
Some  beer  was  drank.  They  had  no  tea  nor  coffee,  and 
at  first  very  little  sugar  or  molasses.  Molasses  was 
often  distilled  after  importation.  Broth,  porridge,  hasty- 
pudding,  johnny-cake  and  samp,  were  articles  of  daily 
consumption.  They  had  no  potatoes,  but  beans  and 
pumpkins  in  great  abundance.  A  good  cow  was  wortl\ 
from  twenty-five  to  thirty  pounds,  and  a  pair  of  bulls  or 
oxen,  forty  pounds.  The  highest  price  for  men's  shoes 
was  six  shillings,  for  women's  three  shillings  and  eight 
pence.  Pattens  made  of  wood,  with  an  iron  ring  on 
the  sole  to  keep  the  feet  from  the  moist  ground,  were 
sold  for  about  fifteen  shillings  a  pair. 

In  1702  six  shillings  and  eight  pence  was  equal  to  an 
ounce  of  silver.  In  1 749,  the  period  when  bills  of  credit 
were  abolished  in  Massachusetts,  there  being  more  than 
seven  millions  of  dollars  in  paper  in  circulation,  fifty 
shillings  was  judged  only  equal  to  an  ounce  of  silver. 
In  1785  Connecticut  granted  exclusive  permission  to 
Samuel  Bishop,  Joseph  Hopkins,  James  Hillhouse  and 
John  Goodrich,  to  establish  a  mint  and  coin  money  for 
the  State.  The  grantees  subsequently  formed  a  copart- 


408  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

nership  with  Pierrepont  Edwards,  Jonathan  Ingersoll, 
Abel  Buel  and  Elias  Shipman  for  coining  coppers.  The 
amount  inspected  by  the  board  appointed  for  that  pur- 
pose, during  the  three  years  the  mint  was  in  operation, 
was  28,944  pounds  of  coined  copper.  One  hundred 
and  twenty  pieces  of  the  coin  were  turned  out  in  a  minute. 
There  were  twenty-nine  varieties  of  the  issue  of  1785  ; 
twenty-seven  of  the  issue  of  1786;  and  one  hundred 
and  sixty-four  of  the  issue  of  1787.'  In  Massachusetts, 
at  one  time,  the  scarcity  of  small  coin  was  so  great  that 
a  law  was  enacted,  declaring  that  bullets  should  pass  for 
farthings.  Very  naturally,  therefore,  it  was  common  in 
contracts  for  work,  salaries  and  taxes,  to  make  a  specific 
agreement  that  payments  might  be  made  in  various 
kinds  of  produce,  with  the  prices  attached.  From 
various  old  documents,  I  have  extracted  the  following 
list  of  prices  of  various  articles  in  Wallingford : 

-  In  1673  corn  was  3-f.  per  bushel.  In  1674  winter  wheat 
was  5-f.  6d.  ;  summer  wheat  5-r.  ;  peas  4^.  /  corn  $s.  In  1679 
winter  wheat  5^. ;  summer  wheat  4*.  6d. ;  peas  3-f.  6d.  ;  corn 
2s.  6d.;  pork  3  i-2d.  per.  Ib.  ;  beef  2d.  In  1710  wheat  $s.  .•  rye 
3-r.  6d. ;  corn  2s.  6d.  In  1755  wheat  4s.;  rye  2S.  6d. ;  corn  2s. 
In  1770  wheat  6s.  Se/.;  rye  4*.  6d. ;  corn  3  s.  6d.;  oats  2s.  2d ; 
pork  3  i-2d.  per  Ib. ;  beef  $d. ;  butter  is.  ,•  cheese  yd.  In  1641 
mechanics'  wages  were  is.  8d.  per  day  in  Massachusetts. 

The  first  stage  in  Connecticut  ran  through  Meriden 
on  the  old  colony  road,  in  1784.  When  the  first  stage 
went  through  Meriden  on  the  Hartford  and  New  Haven 
turnpike,  it  attracted  crowds  from  the  surrounding 
country,  as  did  the  first  train  of  cars.  As  has  been 
before  stated,  about  1 662  a  stone  building  was  erected 

i  It  was  supposed  by  some  that  the  bust  upon  some  of  these  coins  was 
originally  intended  to  represent  George  the  Third. 


TAVERNS.  409 

on  the  Belcher  farm,  and  permission  granted  to  Mr. 
Belcher  to  keep  a  tavern  there  forever.  In  1673,  in 
Wallingford,  Lieut.  Merriman  was  chosen 

''  To  keep  an  ordaynary  and  promised  to  make  trial  for 
one  year  provided  every  planter  resident,  provide  and  laye  in 
place  wheare  he  apoynts  20  good  sufficient  rails  for  fence  and 
4  posts  redy  morticed  by  the  middle  of  May  next." 

Amos  Hall  kept  the  great  tavern  in  Wallingford,  in 
the  time  of  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Ephraim  Johnson  of  Wallingford.  After 
his  death  she  married  Colonel  Isaac  Lee,  Oct.  9,  1783. 
She  died  Dec.  22,  1810,  aged  73.  Mr.  Porter  Cooke, 
who  died  in  1860,  left  the  following  document: 

"  I,  Porter  Cooke,  saw  General  Washington  in  Wallingford 
at  Jeremiah  Carrington's  tavern  over  night  October  18  and 
19,  1789.  The  General  took  a  walk  into  the  upper  street  as 
far  as  the  Wells  meeting-house  and  back,  the  citizens  follow- 
ing him." 

In  1790,  and  for  sometime  before,  when  the  whole 
population  of  the  town  was  not  more  than  nine  hundred, 
and  as  late  as  1812,  there  were  five  if  not  eight  taverns 
within  the  limits  of  Meriden.  As  these  taverns  always 
kept  ardent  spirits,  and  as  the  population  of  the  town 
was  small,  and  as  the  amount  of  travel  then  was  much 
less  than  it  is  now,  these  facts  would  indicate  a  low  state 
of  morals.  In  1647  ^ne  colony  ordered  that  no  person 
under  twenty  years  of  age  should  use  any  tobacco,  with- 
out a  certificate  from  a  physician  ;  and  no  others,  although 
addicted  to  its  use,  unless  they  were  ten  miles  from  any 
house,  and  then  not  more  than  once  a  day.  On  the  re- 
cords we  find  this  curious  entry  : 

"  It  is  ordered  that  there  shall  be  one  good  hogshead  of 
beer  for  the  captain  and  minister." 


4IO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

On  the  tenth  day  of  April,  1775,  a  vote  was  passed 
instructing  the  representatives  by  Capt.  Thaddeus  Cooke 
and  Deacon  Samuel  Beach,  to  ask  the  General  Assem- 
bly to  make  Wallingford,  with  a  part  of  Northford 
belonging  to  it,  a  probate  district.  Meriden  was  set  off 
from  the  Wallingford  probate  district  in  1838,  the  legis- 
lature of  that  year  constituting  the  town  of  Meriden  a 
probate  district  by  that  name.  The  first  record  was 
made  July  19,  1836.'  It  was  customary  in  early  times 
to  enter  on  the  town  records  the  sale  and  transfer  and 
description  of  personal  property,  and  particularly  animals 
of  all  kinds.  The  following  are  specimens  of  many 
thousands  : 

"  Branded  for  John  curtis  a  brown  hors  colt  coming  one 
year  old  with  some  white  hairs  in  ye  forehead  &  the  left  shoul- 
der." "Exchanged  by  David  cook  Junr  a  bay  hors  two  years 
old  to  John  beecher,  booth  of  Wallingford  with  a  star  in  ye 
forehead,  said  cook  gives  beecher  30  pounds  bute."  "The 
beginning  of  Janewary,  1706,  Sold  to  Sanuiell  Roys  to  me, 
Joseph  Whitin  of  harford,  a  bay  hors  about  5  year  old  sum 
whit  one  won  of  his  foore  feet  2  notchis,  one  the  back  sid  of 
Left  Ear  brandid  y  one  the  left  shoulder."  "The  5  of  March, 
1709,  for  sayd  hall,  a  Blackish  culered  mare  colt,  one  yeare 
coming  a  few  whit  hars  in  the  forhad  a  few  whit  hars  Below 
the  Eys  sum  whit  Beetwene  ye  Nostrils  Brandid  y  on  the 
Left  shoulder." 

The  following  was  the  Town  Clerk's  oath  : 

"  Whereas  you  A.  B.  are  chosen  and  appoynted  to  be  Town 


i  The  judges  of  the  court  have  been,  James  S.  Brooks,  from  1836  to 
1844;  Benajah  Andrews  from  1844  to  1846;  John  Parker  from  184610 
to  1847  ;  Benajah  Andrews  from  1847  to  1850;  James  S.  Brooks  from  1850 
to  1851 ;  Hiram  Hall  from  1851  to  1852  ;  Orville  H.  Platt  from  1852  to 
1857;  Hiram  Foster  from  1857  to  1860;  George  W.  Smith  from  1860  to 
1867  ;  Levi  E.  Coe  since  1867. 


MANNERS  AND  CUSTOMS.  411 

Clarke  or  Register  of  the  town  of  Wallingford,  you  doe 
sweare  by  the  great  and  dreadfull  name  of  the  everliving  God, 
that  you  will  faythfully  and  carefully  execute  the  place  and 
office  of  a  Town  Clarke  according  to  your  best  skill,  for  the 
town  of  Wallingford,  and  make  entery  of  all  such  grants, 
deeds  of  sale  or  mortgages  of  lands,  as  shall  be  compleated 
according  to  law,  and  all  marriages,  deaths,  births  and  other 
writings  as  shall  be  brought  to  you  and  you  desired  to  record  ; 
and  that  you  will  grant  and  deliver  necessary  coppyes  when 
required  of  you  and  pay  tendered  for  the  same.  So  help  you 
God,  in  our  Lord  Jesus." 

In  1678  Mr.  John  Moss  of  Wallingford  was 
"appoynted  and  impowered  by  this  Court  to  joyne  per- 
sons in  marriage  according  to  law,  to  administer  oaths  to 
persons  upon  necessary  occasions,  and  to  grant  war- 
rants and  take  testimonies."  As  in  every  new  country, 
wild  animals  were  numerous  and  troublesome.  The 
town  offered  a  bounty  for  killing  them.  As  early  as 
1678,  eight  years  after  the  town  was  settled,  we  find  it 
voted  that  "  2  shillings  more  be  added  to  the  bounty 
given  for  killing  each  wolf."  As  late  as  1702,  this  re- 
ward for  killing  wolves  was  still  continued,  and  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1713,  we  find  this  vote  : 

"  The  town  voatted  yl  they  would  alow  five  shillings  to  him 
that  tracks  a  wolf  or  woolfs  into  a  swamp,  and  then  giv 
notise  of  ye  same,  and  then  raises  a  company  of  men  so  that 
ye  wolf  or  woolfs  be  killed."  "January  12,  1676,  the  Towne 
Refused  to  alow  Tho.  yale  any  thing  of  the  young  wolfe  yl 
were  in  ye  beley  of  ye  woolfe  he  killed.1 

I  In  1815  a  wolf  was  killed  in  the  southwestern  part  of  Saybrook.  Two 
bears  were  killed  in  Haddam  in  1754  and  1767,  and  one  in  Bethany  in  1796. 
Deer  were  in  Middlesex  county  up  to  1765.  The  last  moose  seen  in  that 
part  of  the  State  is  believed  to  have  been  one  killed  in  1770  in  Saybrook. 
Wild  turkeys  were  found  as  late  as  1790.  A  panther  was  shot  in  Windsor 
in  1767. 


412  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Our  Puritan  Fathers  were  men.  We  freely  confess 
and  lament  that  they  fell  into  some  grievous  errors, 
which,  however,  were  not  so  peculiarly  theirs,  as  the 
common  errors  of  the  time.  Witches  were  hung  at  that 
day  in  Old  England  as  well  as  the  New.  James  I, 
James  II,  Queen  Elizabeth,  Lord  Bacon,  Lord  Coke,  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh  and  Lord  Mansfield,  all  believed  impli- 
citly in  witches.  If  the  Puritan  inhabitants  of  New  Eng- 
land executed  witches,  so  did  the  great  and  good  Sir 
Matthew  Hale  ;  yet  the  annals  of  human  judiciaries 
know  no  purer  name.  He  sentenced  more  than  one 
poor  wretch  to  death  for  familiarity  with  the  devil,  long 
after  our  fathers  had  abandoned  the  superstition.  A  law 
was  enacted  in  Connecticut,  that  "if  any  man  or  woman 
be  a  witch,  that  is,  hath  or  consulteth  with  a  familiar 
spirit,  they  shall  be  put  to  death."  The  records  of  the 
New  Haven  colony  do  not  show  that  there  ever  was  an 
execution  within  that  jurisdiction,  for  that  crime  ;  and  I 
am  inclined  to  think  that  the  last  trial  for  witchcraft  in 
the  State  took  place  in  Wallingford.  Captain  Daniel 
Clark,  as  "attorney  in  behalf  of  our  Sovereign  Lord  the 
king,"  arraigned 

"Winnifrett  Denham  Senr,  and  Winifrett  Denham  Jun1", 
both  of  Wallingford  for  having  familiarity  with  Sathan  the 
Enemy  of  God  and  mankind,  and  by  his  aid  doing  many  pre- 
ternaturall  arts  by  misteriously  hurting  the  bodies  and  Goods 
of  Sundry  persons,  viz.,  of  Jno.  Moss  Junr,  Joseph  Roys  and 
Ebenezer  Clark,  with  divers  others  to  the  Great  Damage  and 
Disturbance  of  the  Public  peace  &c." 

There  was  considerable  excitement  and  much  contro- 
versy over  the  trial,  and  the  Denhams,  father  and  son, 
were  acquitted.  The  grand  jury  returned  upon  the  bill 
of  charges, "  ignoramus?*  The  records  of  the  colony 

I    A  word  formerly  indorsed  by  a  grand  jury  on  a  bill  of  indictment,  in 


MANNERS  AND  CUSTOMS.  413 

show  strong  presumptive  evidence  that  the  courts  and 
the  public  sentiment  of  the  colony  were  not  favorable  to 
such  accusations  ;  and  while  our  fathers  were  hesitating 
and  doubting  if  such  a  crime  existed,  England,  Scotland, 
Germany  and  Massachusetts  were  sending  hundreds  of 
men  and  women  to  the  gallows.  Sir  William  Black- 
stone,  as  late  as  the  period  of  the  American  Revolution, 
embodied  the  remark  in  his  excellent  Commentaries 
upon  the  laws  of  England,  that  "  in  general  there  has 
been  such  a  thing  as  witchcraft.1 

In  early  times  rum  was  largely  consumed.  A  half- 
pint  of  it  was  given,  as  a  matter  of  course,  to  every  day 
laborer,  more  particularly  in  the  summer  season.  In 
all  families,  rich  or  poor,  it  was  offered  to  male  visitors, 
as  an  essential  point  of  hospitality  or  even  good  manners. 
Women  took  their  schnapps,  then  named  "  Hopkins' 
Elixir,"  which  was  the  most  delicious  and  seductive 
means  of  getting  tipsy  that  had  been  invented.  Crying 
babies  were  silenced  with  hot  toddy,  then  esteemed  an 
infallible  remedy  for  wind  on  the  stomach.  Every  man 
imbibed  his  morning  dram,  and  this  was  esteemed 
temperance.  There  is  a  story  of  a  preacher  who  thus 
lectured  his  parish  :  "  I  say  nothing,  my  beloved  breth- 
ren against  taking  a  little  bitters  before  breakfast, 
especially  if  you  are  used  to  it.  What  I  contend  against 
is  this  dramming,  dramming,  dramming,  at  all  hours  of 
the  day."  Tavern  haunting,  especially  in  winter,  when 
there  was  little  to  do,  was  common,  even  with  respecta- 
ble farmers.  Balls  at  the  tavern  were  frequented  by  the 

cases  in  which,  after  hearing  the  evidence,  they  deemed  the  accusation 
groundless:  equivalent  to  "not  found." 

i   B.  iv.  Cap.  4,  §vi.     See  also  Addison's  Spectator,  117. 


4H  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

young ;  the  children  of  ministers  and  deacons  attended 
though  the  parents  did  not. 

SABBATH-DAY  HOUSES. 

Until  a  period  within  the  memory  of  persons  now 
living,  it  was  not  the  custom  to  warm  houses  of  public 
worship.  Indeed,  some  would  have  deemed  it  an  inno- 
vation sadly  ominous  of  degeneracy,  if  not  of  actual 
profanation,  to  make  the  house  of  God  comfortable.  Of 
course  the  hearers,  in  cold  weather,  must  have  sat  in  an 
atmosphere  the  very  thought  of  which  makes  one  shiver. 
Those  who  had  traveled  several  miles  to  reach  the  place 
of  public  worship,  as  many  of  them  did,  entering  the  house 
half-frozen,  literally  found  "  cold  comfort."  The  meeting 
house  was  warmed  chiefly  by  the  sun,  for  a  chimney, 
stove  or  furnace  was  unknown.  It  is  related  of  the 
Rev.  Solomon  Williams  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  that  he 
used  to  preach  in  a  blue  great  coat,  with  a  bandanna 
handkerchief  about  his  neck,  and  woolen  mittens  on  his 
hands.  As  prayer  and  sermons  then  were  much  longer 
than  people  at  the  present  day  will  endure,  the  winter 
hearers  of  those  days  must  have  endured  a  species  of 
martyrdom.  It  is  said  that  sometimes  preachers  com- 
plained bitterly  that  their  voices  were  drowned  by  the 
noise  of  persons  stamping  or  knocking  their  feet  to- 
gether, in  the  attempt  to  get  up  a  little  warmth. 

As  a  partial  relief  to  such  suffering,  some  persons 
built  near  the  church,  what  are  often  mentioned  in  the 
old  records  as  "  Sabbath-day  houses."  These  "  Sabba- 
day  "  houses  as  they  were  called,  were  about  sixteen  feet 
square,  with  small  windows  on  three  sides,  and  a  chim- 
ney, built  of  stone  or  perhaps  part  brick,  on  the  outside, 
with  a  large  fire-place  attached.  This  room  was  furn- 


SABBATH-DAY    HOUSES.  415 

ished  with  rough  seats  ;  and  here  the  short  intermission 
between  the  services  was  spent  in  mutual  greetings, 
inquiries  after  health,  and  perhaps  comments  on  the 
morning  sermon.  It  is  a  curious  illustration  of  the 
tenacity  with  which  old  habits  are  cherished,  that  here 
as  elsewhere,  the  proposal  to  make  the  house  of  God 
comfortable  and  healthful  by  means  of  stoves,  was  met 
with  very  decided  opposition.  Even  in  1831,  when  the 
new  house  in  Meriden  was  built,  it  was  with  great  diffi- 
culty that  the  society  could  be  induced  to  allow  chimneys 
to  be  built,  though  they  were  to  be  erected  gratuitously. 
I  copy  the  following  from  a  number  of  similar  deeds  : 

"  To  all  People  to  whom  these  Presents  shall  come,  Greet- 
ing. Know  ye,  that  I  Jane  Hubbard,  of  Meriden  in  New 
Haven  County,  for  the  consideration  of  thirteen  Dollars  re- 
ceived to  my  full  satisfaction  of  Roswell  Cowles  of  Said  Town, 
County,  aforesaid,  Do  give,  grant,  bargain,  sell  and  confirm 
unto  the  said  Roswell  Cowles  his  Heirs  and  assigns  forever^ 
a  certain  ould  Sabbethday  Hous  formerly  owned  by  William 
Johnson  and  the  Heirs  of  Dec.  Isaac  Hubbard  late  of  Meri- 
den, Decesd,  and  Stood  Southerly  of  Said  Meriden  Meeting 
hous  on  the  West  Side  of  the  Road,  Runing  South  from  Said 
Meeting-house.  August,  24,  1808." 

This  building  stood  near  the  residence  of  Hiram 
Bradley. 

BEATING    THE    DRUM. 

One  of  the  early  customs  of  the  town  was  to  beat  a 
drum,  or  blow  a  conch  shell  when  occasion  required  the 
calling  of  a  public  meeting.  To  this  practice  the  poet 
alludes : 

"  New  England's  Sabbath  day 

Is  heaven  like,  still,  and  pure. 

Then  Israel  walks  the  way 

Up  to  the  temple's  door  : 


416  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  time  we  tell, 
When  there  to  come 
By  beat  of  drum 
Or  sounding  shell." 

We  find  in  the  old  records  frequent  mention  of  this 
curious  custom.  As  early  as  1673  is  the  following  vote  : 
"June  17,  1673,  Sam'll  Monson  shall  be  alowed  40^.  for 
maintaining  and  beating  the  Drum  in  good  order  for  the 
yeare  insuing."  In  1675  ^  was  voted,  "  that  Jeremiah 
How,  have  40^.  alowed  him  for  beating  the  drum,  Sab- 
bath days  and  other  days."  In  1676  £2  i6s.  were 
allowed  "  for  beating  the  drum  Sabbaths,  lecture  days, 
and  for  town  meetings."  Again  it  is  voted,  "for  beating 
drum,  sabbaths,  lecture  days,  trainings,  and  keeping  in 
repair,  2os."  In  1694  the  town  voted  three  pounds  to 
purchase  a  new  drum.  In  1696  the  drum  was  beaten 
through  the  main  street  of  Wallingford,  from  Daniel 
Mix's  to  Caleb  Merriman's  on  Thursday  night  or  Friday 
morning,  proclaiming  that  a  meeting  of  the  town  would 
be  held  on  the  next  Tuesday  at  eight  o'clock.  This  was 
considered  a  sufficient  notice  for  such  meetings.  The 
house  of  Mr.  Mix  stood  about  where  Mrs.  Edgar  At- 
water  now  lives,  and  Mr.  Merriman's  house  where  Mr. 
Peter  Whittelsey  now  lives,  so  that  the  drummer  had  to 
go  through  nearly  the  whole  settled  portion  of  the  vil- 
lage. With  an  increase  of  population  more  sound  was 
needed,  and  of  course  a  larger  drum.  We  find  there- 
fore, a  vote  for  the  purchase  of  the  instrument,  with  the 
order  to  sell  the  old  one:  "  December  25,  1705.  The 
town  sould  the  little  drum  to  Thomas  Hall  at  an  outcry 
of  fifteen  shilings  and  threepens  to  be  paid  this  yeare." 
In  December,  1713,  it  was  voted  that  "ye  towns  Men 
shall  take  care  that  thare  be  sum  sutable  person  agred 


THE    OLD    ELM.  417 

with  for  betting  the  Drum  upon  ye  Lords  Days."  We 
find  this  practice  continued  in  1714.  It  was  probably 
kept  up  until  a  bell  was  purchased  in  1727,  when  the 
town  voted  to  build  a  belfry,  and  we  may  suppose  that 
they  then  purchased  a  bell,  and  gave  up  the  drum  after 
it  had  done  service  about  sixty  years. 

THE    OLD    ELM. 

The  old  tree  at  the  head  of  Colony  street,  Meriden, 
which  was  cut  down  on  the  26th  of  August,  1868,  was 
planted  at  the  suggestion  of  Dr.  Isaac  Hough  in  the 
early  part  of  November,  1834,  by  Mr.  William  J.  Screen, 
who  was  living  at  Binghampton,  N.  Y.,  in  .  1868.  He 
procured  the  tree,  a  white  elm  about  seven  inches  in 
diameter,  in  the  gap  known  as  the  Notch  road.  After 
he  had  dug  the  hole,  the  tree  was  trimmed  by  Dr.  Hough, 
who,  during  his  life,  watched  it  with  great  care,  and 
were  he  alive,  it  would  no  doubt  be  standing  to-day. 
The  planting  was  an  affair  of  general  interest,  and  was 
participated  in  by  Major  Cowles,  Judge  Brooks,  Howell 
Merriman,  Isaac  I.  Tibbals,  Lewis  S.  Green,  Henry  C. 
Butler,  and  others.  The  tree  was  planted  and  grew,  as 
the  city  grew  and  throve ;  and  as  its  manufactories  arose, 
so  did  the  elm  spread  forth  its  branches  and  increase  in 
beauty  and  in  strength.  Under  its  ample  shade  stump 
speakers  have  orated,  lecturers  have  lectured,  divines 
have  held  forth,  and  quacks  have  gulled  the  public  and 
carried  thousands  of  dollars  from  the  town.  When  the 
peddlers  of  the  future  flock  to  the  usual  trysting  place 
they  will  find  it  no  more.  Ichabod !  their  profit  as  well 
as  its  glory  has  departed. 

No  vandal  would  have  dared  to  suggest  the  idea  of 
applying  the  axe  to  the  roots  of  the  old  tree,  had  not 
an  accident  precipitated  such  a  consummation.  On  the 
c  c 


41 8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

gth  of  March,  1863,  a  terrific  fire  destroyed  the  whole 
block  of  buildings  from  the  depot,  including  the  depot 
itself,  the  post-office,  and  all  buildings  as  far  as  the 
corner  of  Main  street.  Here  the  fire  exhausted  itself, 
but  the  heat  was  so  intense  that  it  destroyed  one-half 
of  the  elm  tree,  damaged  its  foliage,  burnt  up  its  boughs 
and  blackened  one-half  of  its  entire  trunk.  But  it  sur- 
vived the  shock,  and  as  the  buildings  arose  on  the 
blackened  ruins,  so  it  put  forth  its  green  boughs  and 
bright  leaves,  and  the  second  spring  from  the  con- 
flagration saw  it  as  luxuriant  and  beautiful  as  ever. 
Like  the  town  it  was  progressive,  and  always  a  sign 
of  hope  to  the  dispirited  and  a  triumph  to  the  suc- 
cessful. But  many  of  the  eyes  that  saw  the  old  tree 
planted,  are  now  closed  in  death,  and  the  tree  itself 
having  seen  the  city  at  its  feet  grow  up  strong  and 
healthy,  and  likely  to  outrival  any  of  its  neighbors, 
could  not  close  its  existence  at  a  better  time. 

In  the  year  1868  a  large  fissure  was  discovered  on  the 
east  side  of  the  trunk  about  ten  feet  from  the  ground. 
During  the  month  of  August  a  strong  east  wind  in- 
creased the  fissure  so  that  every  time  the  tree  swayed 
it  suggested  uncomfortable  reflections  that  it  would 
fall,  and  the  Street  Commissioner,  Mr.  Boardman,  after 
consultation  with  the  proper  authorities,  decided  it 
should  be  razed.  Consequently  the  axe  was  applied  to 
the  roots  by  the  commissioner  in  person.  And  after 
two  and  a  half  hours'  hard  work,  ex-constable  Pratt 
put  on  the  finshing  stroke,  and  as  the  gongs  rang  out 
the  hour  of  noon,  the  old  tree  fell  as  the  sun  dies  in 
the  west.1 

I  Obit,  in  Republican. 


NEWSPAPERS.  419 

MERIDEN      NEWSPAPERS. 

The  first  paper  printed  in  Meriden  was  issued  in  Sep- 
tember, 1844.  It  was  edited  by  Mr.  O.  G.  Wilson,  and 
published  by  Wilson  and  Van  Duzer,  at  "$i  50  per 
annum,  in  advance."  It  was  called  the  Northern  Literary 
Messenger,  and  was  published  in  quarto  form,  five  wide 
columns  to  a  page,  and  was  afterward  enlarged  to  folio 
size.  It  was  mainly  devoted  to  miscellaneous  reading, 
with  but  very  little  of  a  local  nature.  The  paper  was 
originally  published  at  New  Haven,  but  afterwards  re- 
moved to  this  place.  The  office  was  in  a  building  occu- 
pied by  the  Odd  Fellows  up  town,  which  then  stood  on 
the  site  where  Rebstock's  saloon  now  stands.  The 
building  was  burned  down.  Messrs.  Wilson  and  Van 
Duzer  published  the  Messenger  about  three  years,  when 
Van  Duzer  retired  from  the  firm,  and  a  new  series  of  the 
paper  was  commenced  in  quarto  form,  devoted  to  litera- 
ture and  the  arts,  edited  by  an  association  of  gentlemen, 
and  published  by  Wilson  and  Bailey  in  the  old  Academy 
building  up  town,  at  $i  25  per  annum.  The  office  was 
composed  of  a  lot  of  old  material,  and  the  paper  lived 
about  a  year,  when  its  funeral  obsequies  were  per- 
formed. Mr.  Wilson  removed  to  Saybrook  and  there 
died. 

In  1852  Mr.  F.  E.  Hinman,  who,  five  years  previous 
had  set  up  a  job  office,  issued  the  prospectus  of  a  pro- 
posed newspaper,  of  which  the  Hon.  O.  H.  Platt  was  to 
be  editor.  It  was  called  the  Connecticut  Organ,  "A 
Family  Journal  and  Business  Newspaper,  Devoted  to 
the  Interests  of  its  Patrons."  Mr.  Hinman,  after  issuing 
the  paper  about  a  year,  disposed  of  his  right  and  title  to 
Mr.  James  N.  Phelps,  of  New  Haven,  when  to  its  name 
was  added  that  of  New  Britain  Journal,  and  it  became 


42O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

"A  Family  Paper,  devoted  to  Temperance,  Literature, 
Science,  Mechanic  Arts,  Morals,  Education,  Agriculture, 
General  Intelligence,  Latest  News,  and  containing  a 
compound  of  all  the  intelligence  proper  to  be  inserted 
in  a  Family  Journal."  Its  pages  contained  very  few 
advertisements,  and  the  amount  of  original  matter  re- 
quired to  be  set  each  week,  soon  ate  the  concern  out  of 
house  and  home. 

Mr.  Phelps  sold  out  to  Mr.  James  Lewis,  who  pub- 
lished the  Whig,  which  was  the  largest  paper  ever 
published  in  Meriden.  The  Whig  ran  for  about  three 
years.  With  Mr.  Lewis  were  associated  as  editors  Hon. 
O.  H.  Platt  and  George  W.  Rogers. 

In  July,  1850,  the  Meriden  Transcript  was  established 
by  Lysander  R  Webb  and  Co.,  and  was  continued  until 
August,  1856.  The  Transcript  was  considered  one  of 
the  best  and  most  ably  conducted  papers  in  the  State. 
It  was  published  at  one  dollar  and  a  half  per  year.  Mr. 
Webb  at  last  concluded  to  go  west,  and  Mr.  Platt,  hav- 
ing in  a  measure  tired  of  editorial  duties,  and  desiring  to 
devote  his  time  and  energies  exclusively  to  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  the  publication  of  the  Transcript  was 
relinquished. 

In  November,  1856,  Robert  Win  ton,  a  Canadian, 
who  had  formerly  been  connected  with  a  newspaper,  as 
editor,  in  North  Adams,  Mass.,  came  to  Meriden  and 
being  encouraged  thereto,  and  pecuniarily  aided  by  a 
few  of  our  leading  manufacturing  firms,  took  possession 
of  the  printing  establishment  and  issued  the  first  num- 
ber of  the  Meriden  Chronicle.  Mr.  Winton  published 
the  Chronicle  about  two  years  and  a  half,  when  it  was 
suspended. 

About  a  year  after  this,  a  gentleman  by  the  name  of 


MERIDEN    NEWSPAPERS.  421 

Stillman,  from  Midletown,  established  the  Banner.  He 
bought  out  Robert  Win  ton  for  1800  dollars,  giving  him 
his  note.  The  Banner  waved  but  a  short  time,  and  then 
died.  The  paper  was  published  in  the  interest  of  the 
Democratic  party.  Mr.  Stillman  enlisted  in  the  service 
of  his  country. 

On  the  29th  of  August,  1863,  the  Meriden  Recorder, 
"  A  Paper  for  the  Million,  Independent  in  Everything, 
Neutral  in  Nothing ;  Devoted  to  Matters  and  Things  in 
General,  to  the  Pure,  the  Good,  the  True  and  the  Beauti- 
ful, in  Particular,"  was  published  by  Messrs.  Riggs  and 
Dorman  "at  their  office  in  Smith's  New  Building,  West 
Meriden,  Conn."  These  gentlemen  had  purchased  the 
material  of  Mr.  Storer's  office  in  New  Haven.  Mr. 
Riggs  had  served  in  the  war,  and  commenced  with  a 
good  list  of  soldier  subscriptions.  He  also  established 
a  job  printing  office.  The  paper  was  enlarged  with  its 
twenty-seventh  number,  and  has  made  several  additions 
to  its  size  since.  Mr.  Dorman's  connection  with  the 
paper  ceased  with  the  close  of  the  first  volume. 

On  the  2  ist  of  March,  1867,  the  Meriden  Weekly 
Visitor  was  started  under  the  editorship  of  Mr.  Marson 
Monroe  Eaton,  formerly  of  the  Waterbury  -Chronicle 
and  of  the  Hartford  Post.  On  the  first  of  January,  its 
editor  commenced  the  Daily  Visitor,  which,  in  a  place 
no  larger  than  Meriden,  was  a  bold  speculation.  On  the 
9th  of  March,  1868,  the  Visitor  was  merged  into  the 
Daily  and  Weekly  Republican;  and  edited  by  Messrs. 
Marcus  Delavan  and  George  Gibbons.  The  name  of 
the  Weekly  was  afterwards  changed  to  the  State  Tem- 
perance Journal.  In  1869  Mr.  Luther  G.  Riggs  com- 
menced the  publication  of  the  Daily  News,  being  a  daily 
edition  of  the  Meriden  Recorder. 


422  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 

STATISTICS. 

THE  population  of  Connecticut  in  1701  was  30,000; 
1749,  100,000;  1756,  white,  128,212;  black,  3587; 
1774,  white,  191,392;  black,  6,464;  1775,  133,000  51790, 
free  whites,  232,374 ;  other  free  persons,  2,808  ;  slaves, 
2,764;  total,  237,946;  1800,  slaves,  951  ;  total,  251,002; 
1810,  slaves,  310;  total,  261,942  ;  1820,  275,248. 

The  following  table  shows  the  progress  of  Walling- 
ford  in  population  and  property  during  26  years  of  its 
early  history : 

Year.  No.  of  Planters.    Val.  of  Estates.  Year.    No.  of  Planters.    Val.  of  Estates. 


1678, 

49, 

£2346. 

1693, 

83, 

£3966. 

1679, 

•5i, 

2419. 

1694, 

60, 

4226. 

1680, 

5°, 

2466. 

!695, 

95, 

4227. 

1681, 

52, 

2652. 

1696, 

75, 

4298. 

1682, 

55, 

2645, 

1697, 

75, 

4464. 

1683, 

52, 

2718. 

1698, 

80, 

4862. 

1684, 

61, 

2967. 

1699, 

88, 

5057- 

1685, 

63, 

3072. 

1700, 

1  20, 

5492. 

1686, 

69, 

3366. 

1701, 

TOO, 

6096. 

1687, 

72, 

3546. 

1702, 

122, 

6216. 

1689, 

73, 

3698. 

i703, 

118, 

6522. 

1691, 

76, 

3959- 

1704, 

I2O, 

6662. 

1692, 

80, 

3827. 

1705, 

100, 

6868. 

STATISTICS.  423 

In  1723  the  number  of  inhabitants  was  1 100.  In 
1 700  there  had  been  three  hundred  and  sixty-nine  births 
in  the  town,  and  from  that  time  to  1723,  when  a  new 
parish  was  made,  eight  hundred  and  ninety-four ;  in  all 
1263  in  fifty-two  years.  The  deaths  were  about  four 
hundred  from  the  beginning  of  the  town  to  the  founda- 
tion of  the  first  parish  out  of  it. 

"  The  following  is  an  account  of  the  Number  of  the  Inhab- 
itants of  the  Town  of  Wallingford  on  the  first  Day  of  Janu- 
ary, 1774.  The  orders  for  Numbering  the  People  came  from 
the  King  and  Council. 

"The  Sum  of  the  Old  Society,  2130, 

The  Sum  of  the  New  Cheshire  Parish,       1933, 
The  Sum  of  the  Meriden  Parish,  852, 

49J5- 

The  Sum  Total  of  all  the  whites,  4777? 

The  Sum  Total  of  all  the  blacks,  138, 


4915." 

Population  of  Wallingford  in  1790,  3375  ;  1800,  3214; 
1810,  2325  ;  1820,  2237  ;  1830,  2418  ;  1840,  2204  ;  1850; 
2595- 

Population  of  Meriden  in  1810,  1249:  1820,  1309; 
1830,  1708;  1840,  1880;  1850,  3559.  The  census  of 
1860  gives  to  Meriden  a  white  male  population  of 
3904;  white  female,  3481  ;  total  white,  7385  ;  colored 
male,  30;  colored  female  11  ;  total  colored,  41  ;  aggre- 
gate, 7426. 

In  the  first  forty-five  years  from  the  formation  of  the 
parish  of  Meriden,  there  were  1 100  births,  846  baptisms, 
288  admissions  to  communion,  and  368  deaths. 

The  following  persons  were  in  Meriden  in  1770:  John 
Ives,  Jedediah  Norton,  Samuel  Penfield,  Thomas  Mix,  Jr., 
Jonathan  Yale,  Samuel  Scovill,  Edward  Collins,  Amos 


424  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Camp,  Jr.,  Aaron  Dunbar,  Noah  Yale,  Jr ,  Elisha  Sco- 
vill,  Stephen  Perkins,  Brenton  Hall,  Daniel  Collins,  Na- 
than Scovill,  Jacob  Webster,  Daniel  Scovill  (1779),  Amos 
Camp,  Moses  Yale,  Isaac  Hall,  John  Berry,  Levi  Yale, 
Noah  Yale,  John  Hall,  Abel  Yale,  Divan  Berry,  Yale 
Bishop,  John  Morgan,  Reynold  Beckwith,  Jr.,  Gideon 
Ives,  Nathaniel  Penfield,  Amasa  Ives,  Jr.,  Aaron  Hors- 
ford,  Joseph  Higby,  James  Scoffield,  Jonathan  Collins, 
Peter  Penfield,  John  Yale,  Jr.,  Reynold  Beckwith,  Rufus 
Hall  (1775),  Moses  Mitchel,  Miles  Hall,  Jr.,  Daniel  Yale 
(177S)> Mitchel,  Elijah  Scovill. 

In  1815  Jesse  Ives  bought  of  Benjamin  Merriman  six 
acres  of  land  running  north  and  west  from  the  corner  of 
Colony  and  Main  streets,  where  the  Meriden  House  now 
stands,  for  six  hundred  dollars  ;  and  it  was  considered  as 
money  thrown  away.  About  the  same  time  twelve 
acres  running  south  from  where  the  second  Baptist 
church  now  stands,  were  mortgaged  for  eight  hundred 
dollars,  the  interest  being  forty-eight  dollars  a  year; 
this  the  owner  was  unable  to  pay,  and  he  offered  to  give 
the  land  for  the  note,  but  the  person  from  whom  the 
money  was  borrowed  refused  to  take  the  land,  not  con- 
sidering it  worth  the  money. 

Deputies  to  the  General  Court  at  Hartford,  from 
Wallingford : 

1678.  1679.  1680. 

John  Brockett,  Abram  Doolittle,       Lieut.   N.  Merriman, 

Lieut.  N.  Merriman.  Eliasaph  Preston,      John  Brockett. 

Lieut.  Nath.  Merriman. 

1681.  1682.  1683. 

Lieut.  N.  Merriman,  John  Moss,  Abram  Doolittle, 

John  Brockett.  John  Brockett.  John  Moss, 

Lieut.  N.  Merriman. 


DEPUTIES. 


425 


Abram  Doolittle, 
John  Moss, 
Thomas  Yeale. 

1687. 

Ens.  Thos.  Yale, 
Dea.  John  Hall, 
John  Moss. 

1690. 

Mr.  Thomas  Yale, 
Dea.  John  Hall. 

1693. 

Thomas  Yale, 
Ens.  Nath.  Royce. 


1685.  1686. 

John  Brockett,  Thomas  Yeale, 

Lieut.  N.  Merriman.  John  Moss. 


1688. 

Dea.  John  Hall, 
Ens.  Thos.  Yale. 

1691. 
Dea.  John  Hall, 


1689. 

Mr.  Thos.  Curtice, 
Ens.  Thos.  Yeale. 


1692. 
Thomas  Yale. 


Mr.  Eliasaph  Preston. 
1694. 


1695. 


1696. 

Capt.  Yale, 
Eliasaph  Preston, 
John  Hall. 


Dea.  John  Hall, 
Capt.  Thos.  Yale. 

1698. 

Sergt.  Jno.  Merriman, 
Sergt.  Thos.  Hall. 


1700. 
Lieut.  Sam.  Hall, 


1701. 
Sergt.  Jno.  Merriman, 


Capt.  Thos.  Yale, 

Dea.  John  Hall, 

Ens.  Nath.  Royce. 
1697. 

Capt.  Thos.  Yale, 

Dea.  Hall, 

Jno.  Merriman, 

Sergt.  Thos.  Hall. 
1699. 

Thomas  Hall, 
Nathaniel  Rice, 
Lieut.  Sam.  Hall 
Sergt.  Jno.  Merriman. 

1702.  1703. 

Ens.  Nath'l  Royce,  John  Merriman, 
David  Hall,  Sergt.  John  Hall, 

Capt.  Thos.  Yale.     Samuel  Hall. 

1705- 
Capt.  Samuel  Hall,  Lieut.  Jno.  Merriman. 

Commissioners  from  Wallingford  : 

1678.  1680.  1681. 

Mr.  Moss,  John  Moss,  Sen.        John  Moss, 

Lieut.  Merriman.  John  Brockett. 


Sergt.  Jno.  Merriman,  John  Hall, 
Sergt.  Thos.  Hall.       Lieut.  Sam.  Hall. 


1704. 

Capt.  Thos.  Yale, 
Ens.  Nath'l  Royce. 


426  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1682.  1684.  1686. 

John  Moss.                John  Moss.  John  Moss. 

1687.                           1689.  1690. 

John  Moss.                 Thos.  Yale.  Capt.  John  Beard. 

1691.                            1692.  J693- 

John  Morse.               John  Reynolds,  Capt.  Thos.  Yale, 

Mr.  Morse,  John  Morse. 
Mr.  Yale. 

1694.                            1695.  1696. 

Mr.  Morse,                 Mr.  Morse,  John  Morse. 
Capt.  Yale.                 Capt.  Yale. 

1697. 

John  Morse,              Capt.  Thos.  Yale. 

In  1788  Messrs.  Street  Hall  and  Samuel  Whiting  of 
Wallingford  were  appointed  delegates  to  the  convention 
at  Hartford  which  ratified  the  constitution  of  the  United 
States.  In  1818  the  convention  which  formed  the  State 
Constitution,  was  holden  at  Hartford,  and  the  following 
were  appointed  delegates  :  from  Meriden,  Patrick  Clark  ; 
from  Wallingford,  John  Andrews  and  William  Marks. 
The  assistants  or  magistrates  who  constituted  the  Upper 
House  of  the  Assembly,  and  in  early  times  were  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  State,  were  the  leading  men  of 
their  times.  The  following  were  appointed  from  Wall- 
ingford : 

John  Hall,  nominated  1719;  elected  1722  ;  retired  1730. 

Benjamin  Hall,     "        1749;       "         I75I'>       "        1766. 

In  1864  the  following  persons  in  Meriden  were  over 
seventy  years  of  age :  Benj.  Atkins,  Asahel  Baldwin, 
Elias  Baldwin,  Ransom  Baldwin,  Warren  Beach,  Ger- 
shom  Bennett,  Gershom  Birdsey,  Walter  Booth,  Fenner 
Bush,  Elah  Camp,  Abel  D.  Clarfe,  Asahel  Curtis,  John 
W.  Hall,  Samuel  I.  Hart,  Phineas  T.  Ives  (83),  Simeon 


MERIDEN     CITY.  427 

Hovey,  Lauren  Merriam,  Samuel  Paddock,  Noah  Pomeroy, 
Julius  Pratt,  Chester  Rice,  Henry  Stiles  (80),  Benj. 
Upson,  Jacob  F.  Whitmore,  Jeremiah  Wilcox,  Julius 
Yale,  Levi  Yale,  Noah  Hall.1 

Meriden  was  incorporated  as  a  city  by  the  Legislature 
in  July,  1867.  The  first  city  meeting  was  held  at  the 
Town  House,  August  12,  1867,  and  Henry  C.  Butler 
chosen  moderator.  The  following  officers  were  chosen 
by  ballot : 

Mayor,  CHARLES  PARKER. 
Clerk,  JOHN  H.  BARIO. 

Aldermen, 

WILLIAM  J.   IVES,  GEORGE  W.  LYON, 

HIRAM  BUTLER,  JEDEDIAH  WILCOX. 

Councilman, 

LEMUEL  J.  CURTISS,  AARON  L.  COLLINS, 

OWEN  B.  ARNOLD,  ISAAC  C.  LEWIS, 

CHARLES  L.  UPHAM,  JARED.   R.  COOK, 

CHARLES  A.  ROBERTS,  JARED  LEWIS, 

HEZEKIAH  H.  MILLER,          HORACE  C.  WILCOX, 
ELI  IVES,  DENNIS  C.  WILCOX, 

AUGUSTUS  C.  MARKHAM,      JOHN  C.  BYXBEE, 
ELI  BUTLER,  WALTER  HUBBARD. 

City  Sheriffs,  PATRICK  GARVEY,  JAMES  BELDEN.  Treas- 
urer, ASAHEL  H.  CURTISS.  Collector,  SAMUEL  O.  CHURCH. 
Auditor,  JOEL  H.  GUY. 

Andrew  J.  Coe  was  first  judge  of  the  city  court.  In 
1868  Ratcliffe  Hicks  was  chosen  City  Attorney.  In 
1868  Charles  Parker  was  re-elected  Mayor.  In  1869 
Russell  S.  Gladwin  was  elected  Mayor.  In  1870  Isaac 
C.  Lewis  was  elected  Mayor. 

In  1840  the  votes  in  Meriden  for  presidential  electors 

i  Those  in  italics  have  since  died. 


428  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

were  as  follows  :  Democratic  216,  Whig  177,  Abolition 
14.  In  1844  Democratic  248,  Whig  206,  Abolition  38, 
Scattering  i.  In  1856  Fillmore  19,  Buchanan  424, 
Fremont  604.  In  1860,  Lincoln  and  Hamlin  687, 
Douglass  and  Johnson  293,  Bell  and  Everett  10. 

HIGHWAYS    IN    MERIDEN. 

1806,  Dec.  i,  road  from  Asahel  Rice's  across  to  or 
near  Patrick  Clark's.  1813,  Nov.  9,  road  from  Simeon 
Perkins's  shop  to  turnpike.  1817,  road  from  foot  of 
high  hill.  1820,  road  from  the  house  of  the  late  Samuel 
Leavit,  to  house  of  Liberty  Perkins.  1820,  road  from 
bottom  of  hill  near  Enos  Hall's,  across  to  Nehemiah 
Rice's.  1820,  road  from  John  Yeoman's  to  or  near 
Samuel  Way's.  1825,  road  near  Amos  Austen's.  1828, 
the  "Corn  well  road  "-laid  out.  1829,  road  laid  to  con- 
nect with  the  road  west  of  Matthew  Foster's,  with  the 
Cat-hole  road.  1832,  road  from  Calvin  Coe's  to  Deni- 
son  Parker's.  1836,  road  from  Noah  Pomeroy's  to  New 
road.  1839,  road  near  Charles  Paddock's.  1839,  road 
near  Noah  Pomeroy's,  Watson  Ives's  and  John  L.  Blake's. 

1845,  roa<^  from  Julius  Pratt's  comb  factory,  to  Railroad 
depot.  1845,  road  from  Stephen  Atkins's  to  Samuel 
Yale's  land  northerly.  1845,  road  from  Harry  Gris- 
wold's  to  or  near  Hough's  mills.  1846,  road  from  Ivah 
Curtis's  to  Yalesville.  1846,  road  from  Ivah  Curtis's 
southwest  through  Othniel  Ives's  lands.  1846,  road 
from  Samuel  Baldwin's  to  Noah  Pomeroy's.  1847, 
road  from  Episcopal  Church  to  Caleb  Austen's.  1848, 
road  from  Episcopal  Church  to  Lucas  C.  Hotchkiss's. 

1850,  road   from    Catholic    Church    to    Samuel    Gear's. 

1850,  road    from    burying-ground    to  Andrew    Mills's. 

1851,  road   from    Noah   A.   Linsley's   to  Moses  Burr's. 

1852,  Hobert  street  laid  out. 


PROBATE   JUDGES.  429 

JUDGES    OF    THE    PROBATE  COURT    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Wallingford  was  made  a  Probate  District  in  1776,  in- 
cluding Meriden,  Cheshire  and  Columbia,  now  Prospect. 
The  following  have  been  Judges  of  the  District : 

Caleb  Hall,       1776,    8  years,  E.  H.  Ives,       1844,  2  years, 

Oliver  Stanley,  1784,  25      "  J.  R.  Merriam,  1846,  i  year, 

G.  W.  Stanley,  1809,    9      "  E.  H.  Ives,       1847,  3  years, 

J.  P.  Kirtland,  1818,     i  year,  Augustus  Hall,  1850,  i  year, 

R.  Hitchcock,    1819,  10  years,  E.  H.  Ives,       1851,  2  years, 

J.  D.  Reynolds,  1829,    9      "  Ebe.  S.  Ives,     1852,16      " 

E.  M.  Pomeroy,i838,    4      "  Ira  Tuttle,         1868,  i  year, 

Augustus  Hall,  1842,     2       "  Franklin  Platt,  1869,  is     the 

present  Judge. 

Judges  in  Cheshire  Probate  district  have  been  : 

Silas  Hitchcock,  Asa  J.  Driggs,       Edward  A.  Cornwall, 

Wm.  L.  Foot,  Wm.  T.  Peters,      Wm.  T.   Peters,  just 

Elihu  Yale,  Wm.  L.  Hinman,  elected. 

GRAND    LIST    OF    WALLINGFORD    FOR    1 70 1 . 

£  £  £ 

John  Ives,           74,  Mathew  Bellamy,  22,  Simon  Tuttle,     79, 

Wid.  Merriman,  14,  Henry  Cook,         118,  John  Peck,         69, 

Tho.  Matthews,  28,  Tho.  Hall,  Jun.,     23,  Sam'l  Munson,  69, 

Joseph  Ives,        40,  Jonathan  Hall,       22,  Eben.  Clark,      90, 

Samuel  How,      27,  E.  Royce&  serv't,i2i,  J.  Hitchcock,     98, 

Zachariah  How,  33,  Mill,                         10,  Lieut.  Hall,        99, 

Mathew  How,     32,  Francis  Kendrick,  32,  Dr.  John  Hull,  115, 

John  Brocket,     87,  R.  Royce,  Jun.,      43,  Deacon  Hall,     74, 

Z.  How,  senr.,    53,  Serg1.  Thorp  &  ap  102,  Thomas  Hall,  112, 

Gideon  Ives,       36,  David  Hall,            66,  Theo.  Doolittle,  45, 

Walter  Johnson,  46,  John  Austen,          33,  Samuel  Street,   59, 

Nicholas  Street, 43,  Nathaniel  Ives,       26,  John  Beach,        50, 

Nath'l  Hall,        29,  Capt.  Tho.  Yale,  168,  Dan'l  Doolittle,  34, 

Samuel  Royce,  48,  Ebenezer  Lewis,    52,  J.  Merriman,    137, 

Joshua  Culver,  120,  Nath'l  How,            66,  Wm.  Hendrick,  49, 


43O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

£  £  £ 

Eleazer  Peck,  101,  Sam'l  Cook,  Jun.,  64,  J.  Munson,  50, 
Ens.  Andrews,  64,  Sam'l  Cook,  sen.,  in,  Wid.  Merriman,n, 
David  Hall,  41,  Nath'l  Andrews,  25,  Tho.  Beach,  79, 
John  Moss,  153,  Josiah  Doolittle,  40,  Benj.  Beach,  32, 
Nath'l  Curtiss,  24,  Tho.  Richardson,  27,  Sam'l  Brockett,  82, 
John  Cook,  39,  James  Ailing,  28,  Benj.  Royce,  29, 
Dea.  Preston,  96,  J.  Royce  &  i  ap.  78,  Wm.  Kendrick,  22, 
Wm.  Andrews,  48,  Wm.  Abernatha,  28,  C.  Merriman,  75, 
Edward  Fenn,  60,  Joseph  Parker,  24,  A.  Doolittle,  109, 
John  Tyler,  51,  Benjamin  Hall,  50,  John  Atwater,  113, 
John  Hull,  79,  Richard  Wood,  41,  Daniel  Mix,  116, 
John  Parker,  27,  Ebenezer  Hull,  25,  N.  Royce,  100, 
Isaac  Curtiss,  93,  Thomas  Curtiss,  80,  Elijah  How,  20, 
Sam'l  Royce,  102,  John  Doolittle,  45,  Nath'l  Tuttle,  28, 
J.  Westwood,  28,  Samuel  Lathrop,  36,  Wm.  Abernatha,  64, 
Joseph  Cook,  30,  Hugh  Chappel,  18,  E.  Doolittle,  39, 
Daniel  How,  40,  John  Lathrop,  18,  John  Parker,  74, 
Jacob  Johnson,  46,  Minor  Phillips,  18,  Roger  Tyler,  36, 
John  Peck,  40,  Joseph  Thompson,  73,  Sam'l  Curtiss,  21, 
Robert  Roys,  60,  James  Benham,  26,  J.  How,  senr.,  47, 
Wm.  Tyler,  57,  J.  How,  jun.,  34,  Wid.  Holt,  33. 

Total,   £6261. 

REPRESENTATIVES    FROM    MERIDEN. 

1820,  Levi  Yale ;  1824,  Arnos  Curtin ;  1825,  Wm.  Yale; 
1829,  Walter  Booth ;  1830,  Titus  Ives;  1831,  Ashabel  Gris- 
wold ;  1832,  Noah  Pomeroy ;  1833,  Enos  H.  Curtis;  1834, 
Eli  C.  Birdsey;  1836,  Asahel  Curtis;  1837,  Horace  B.  Red- 
field  ;  1838,  Walter  Booth;  1839,  James  S.  Brooks  ;  1840,  Eli 
C.  Birdsey ;  1842,  Ira  Couch ;  1843,  Henry  Stedman ;  1844, 
James  S.  Brooks  ;  1846,  Elias  Howell  ;  1847,  Ashabel  Gris- 
wold ;  1848,  Isaac  C.  Lewis  ;  1849,  James  A.  Tracy  ;  1850, 
Wm.  S.  Ives;  1851,  Hiram  Hall;  1855,  James  S.  Brooks; 
1856,  Levi  Yale ;  1857,  James  S.  Brooks;  1858,  Asahel  H. 
Curtiss  ;  1859,  Wm.  W.  Lyman  ;  1860,  Andrew  J.  Coe  ;  1861, 


TOWN    CLERKS.  431 

Owen  B.  Arnold ;  1862,  Isaac  C.  Lewis ;  1864,  Orville  H. 
Platt;  1865,  Oliver  S.  Williams;  1866,  Isaac  C.  Lewis; 
1867,  Andrew  J.  Coe  ;  1869,  Orville  H.  Platt;  1870,  John 
Parker. 

TOWN    CLERKS    OF    MERIDEN. 

June,  1806,  Amos  White ;  Nov.,  1806,  Isaac  Lewis;  1823, 
Patrick  Lewis;  1826,  Amos  Curtis;  1830,  Patrick  Lewis; 
Feb.,  1834,  Albert  R.  Potter;  Oct.,  1834,  Eli  C.  Birdsey; 
1843,  James  S.  Brooks;  1844,  Joel  Miller;  1845,  Lyman 
Butler;  1849,  Hiram  Hall;  1854,  Linus  Birdsey;  1854, 
Johnlves;  1857,  Russell  J.  Ives,  assistant;  1860,  Chas.  L. 
Upham,  assistant;  1865,  Levi  E.  Coe;  1866,  John  N.  Bario. 

From  Report  of  the  Committee  of  the  Pay  Table 
Office,  May  15,  1783  : 

"  Amount  of  balances  due  from  the  several  Towns  in  this 
State  on  account  of  State  Taxes  for  which  Execution  has 
been  granted  by  the  Treasurer.  Wallingford : 

Continental  Currency.  State  Currency.      Specie. 

Bal.      i2s.  Tax,  1780,^8451  13^.  nd. 
"  Nov.  "       "          "       14923    3      8 
"Dec.  245.  "         "       63393  I2       8 
"Feb.  \2d.  "      1781,  £119  $s.6d. 

"Mar.  24*.  "         "         3447     5       8 

"July  »</.«.«  £127   6s.  6f/. 

"Dec.  2d.    "         "  132   6     9 

"      2S.6J.    "         "  94719     8 

"Mar.  g//.    "       1782,  22610  n 

"Apr.  3//.    "  7615     2 

"July  \2d.  "         "  8n  17    4 

"Sept.  2d.  "  131  10    3 

£90221  15  ii   £119  4  6  £1480  16   7." 


432  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 


CHAPTER  XXV. 

MERIDEN  DEED. 

"  At  a  general  assembly  of  the  State  of  Connecticut  holden 
at  Hartford  on  the  second  Thursday,  in  May,  1806,  upon 
the  petition  of  Phinehas  Lyman  and  others,  Inhabitants  of 
the  Town  of  Wallingford  in  the  County  of  Newhaven  shewing 
to  this  Assembly,  that  the  Parish  of  Meriden  in  said  Town 
constitutes  in  extent,  population  and  Property,  more  than  one- 
third  part  of  said  Town,  and  that  they  do  not  in  their  present 
situation  enjoy  their  just  rights  to  which  they  are  entitled  in 
common  with  their  fellow  citizens  ;  praying  that  said  Parish 
may  be  incorporated  with  the  ordinary  rights,  privileges,  and 
immunities  which  are  enjoyed  by  other  Towns  in  this  State 
by  Petition  on  File  dated  February  i4th,  A.  D.,  1804.  This 
Petition  was  preferred  to  this  Assembly  at  their  Session 
holden  at  Hartford  on  the  second  Thursday  in  May,  1804, 
and  was  legally  served  on  the  Inhabitants  of  said  Town,  and 
returned,  and  by  legal  continuances  came  to  this  session  of 
said  Assembly,  when  the  said  Inhabitants  were  three  times 
publicly  called  and  made  default  of  appearance.  The  Peti- 
tioners were  heard  and  the  facts  stated  in  said  petition  were 
fully  proved  to  be  true.  Resolved,  by  this  Assembly,  that  the 
Inhabitants  living  within  the  limits  of  said  Parish  of  Meriden 
be  and  they  are  hereby  incorporated  into  and  made  a  Town 
by  the  name  of  Meriden,  and  that  they  and  their  Successors 
Inhabitants  living  within  said  limits  are  and  shall  forever  be 
and  remain  a  Town  and  body  politic  with  the  ordinary  rights, 


MERIDEN    DEED.  433 

privileges  and  immunities  which  are  enjoyed  by  other  Towns 
in  this  State  by  virtue  of  their  respective  incorporation,  and 
the  right  to  elect  and  send  one  Representative  only  to  the 
General  Assembly  until  by  law  they  shall  be  entitled  to  elect 
and  send  two.  That  the  dividing  line  between  the  first 
Society  in  said  Wallingford  and  said  Parish  of  Meriden  be 
and  remain  the  dividing  line  ;  That  all  Persons  who  shall  be 
resident  in  said  Town  including  said  Parish  and  supported  in 
whole  or  in  part  by  said  Town  and  Parish  at  the  rising  of  this 
Assembly,  and  also  all  Inhabitants  of  said  Town  and  Parish 
who  shall  then  be  without  the  limits  of  said  Town  and  Parish, 
and  afterwards  return  and  become  chargeable  with  all  charges 
and  expenses  which  shall  arise  by  reason  of  any  such  person 
or  persons,  shall  be  apportioned  between  said  Town  of  Wall- 
ingford and  said  Town  of  Meriden  according  to  the  amount 
of  their  respective  Lists  for  August  2oth  1804  as  completed 
and  returned  to  the  Town  Clerk's  Office ;  said  division  and 
apportionment  in  case  said  Towns  shall  not  agree,  to  be  made 
by  three  disinterested  Persons  of  whom  two  shall  be  chosen 
by  said  Town  of  Wallingford  and  one  by  said  Town  of  Meri- 
den; and  with  a  just  reference  to  the  number  and  expense 
necessary  for  the  support  of  such  chargeable  Persons ;  That 
all  Debts  which  shall  be  due  to  said  Town  at  said  date  shall 
be  divided  and  apportioned  between  said  Towns  according  to 
the  Lists  and  in  the  manner  herein  before  prescribed  relating 
to  chargeable  Persons ;  That  the  said  Town  of  Meriden  shall 
repair  and  when  necessary  build  the  Bridge  of  which  one-half 
is  within  the  limits  of  said  Town  of  Wallingford,  across  Wall- 
ingford River  so  called,  known  and  called  by  the  name  of 
Falls  plains  bridge,  at  the  cost  and  expense  of  said  Town  of 
Meriden ;  That  all  Collectors  of  Taxes  granted  or  which  shall 
be  granted  before  said  time,  shall  have  power  to  collect  the 
same  as  fully  as  if  the  Resolve  had  not  passed ;  That  said 
Town  of  Meriden  shall  hold  their  first  Town  meeting  at  the 
meeting-house  in  said  Meriden  on  the  third  Monday  in  June 
next  at  one  o'  clock  afternoon,  and  proceed  to  the  choice  of 
D  D 


434  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

all  Town  Officers.  The  Moderator  of  said  meeting  shall  be 
named  by  Warrant  signed  by  George  W.  Stanley  Esquire  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace  for  New  Haven  County,  and  Posted  on  the 
Public  Sign  post  in  said  Meriden  at  least  ten  days  previous 
to  said  third  Monday,  and  said  George  W.  Stanley  Esquire 
shall  be  Moderator  of  said  Meeting;  and  in  case  of  the 
absence  of  said  Justice,  Ephraim  Cook  Esquire  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace  for  said  County  is  hereby  informed  to  sign  such 
Warrant  and  preside  in  said  Meeting." 

"Meriden,  June  24th,  1806.  A  true  Copy  of  Record, 

"  Examined  by  SAMUEL  WVLLYS,  Secretary." 

"AMOS  WHITE,  Town  Clerk." 


435 


CHAPTER   XXVI. 

THE    CELEBRATION    AT    WALLINGFORD    IN    1858. 

THE  ceremonies  connected  with  the  erection  of  a  monu- 
ment at  Wallingford  to  the  memory  of  Hon.  Lyman 
Hall,  took  place  Monday,  July  5,  1858,  the  day  after  the 
Aniversary  of  our  National  birthday.  The  ceremonies 
attracted  a  large  number  of  visitors  to  Wallingford, 
mostly  from  New  Haven  and  Meriden,  though  nearly  all 
the  surrounding  towns  were  well  represented.  The  day 
was  an  unusally  fine  one  ;  a  pleasant  breeze  contributed 
to  render  the  temperature  endurable,  and  although  the 
sky  was  cloudless,  and  the  sun  poured  down  its  fiercest 
rays,  there  were  none  of  the  usual  complaints  of  op- 
pressive heat. 

At  sunrise  the  ringing  of  bells  and  a  national  salute, 
announced  the  coming  ceremonies  of  the  day.  The  ar- 
rival of  the  cars,  from  9  to  1-2  past  9  o'clock,  brought  in 
a  large  number  of  visitors  from  abroad,  who  were 
received  at  Masonic  Hall  and  the  Town  Hall,  where 
was  a  bountiful  supply  of  fruit,  cake,  confectionery,  &c., 
prepared  by  the  ladies  of  Wallingford. 

The  following  gentlemen  were  the  OFFICERS  OF  THE 
DAY  :  President,  Roderick  Curtiss,  of  Wallingford. 
Vice  Presidents,  Ira  Tuttle,  Wm.  Francis,  of  Wall- 
ingford ;  Charles  Parker,  of  Meriden  ;  E.  A.  Cornwall, 


436  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

of  Cheshire,  and  David  M.  Hotchkiss,  of  Prospect. 
Tablet  Bearers ;  Wallingford,  Col.  Ward  Johnson,  Calvin 
Harrison,  Joel  Hall,  Jesse  Tuttle,  Sam'l  C.  Ford. 
Meriden,  Gen.  Walter  Booth,  Ira  Twiss,  Almeron  Miles. 
Cheshire,  Benjaman  Ives,  Dr.  Wm.  T.  Peters,  T.  H. 
Brooks.  Prospect,  David  M.  Hotchkiss,  Capt.  Wm. 
Mix.  Each  of  the  above  named  Bearers  wore  the  three 
cornered  hat  of  Revolutionary  times,  and  their  antique 
appearance  commanded  much  attention. 

The  line  formed  in  front  of  the  Town  Hall,  under  the 
direction  of  ex  Sheriff  Parmelee,  the  Marshal  of  the 
Day,  assisted  by  the  following  Aids-de-camps :  Col. 
Dwight  Hall,  Col.  Hezekiah  Hall,  Major  O.  I.  Martin, 
Turhan  Cooke  and  Samuel  Cooke,  Esqs. 

The  procession,  under  the  escort  of  the  National 
Blues,  with  the  New  Haven  and  Wallingford  Bands, 
proceeded  on  its  march  to  the  Congregational  church. 
The  procession  passed  into  the  church  in  due  form,  the 
Orator  of  the  day,  Thomas  Yeatman,  Esq.,  the  officiating 
Pastor  of  the  Church,  Rev.  Mr.  Gilbert,  and  the  Presi- 
dent ascending  to  the  Pulpit.  The  choir  then  sung  with 
excellent  effect,  accompanied  by  the  organ,  the  words  : 
"My  country — 'tis  of  thee,"  &c. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Gilbert  then  read  the  looth  Psalm,  and 
offered  an  appropriate  prayer,  after  which  the  President 
announced  the  Orator,  Thomas  Yeatman,  Esq.,  of  New 
Haven.  Mr.  Yeatman,  in  the  course  of  his  oration 
which  was  compact  and  brilliant,  gave  some  details  of 
the  life  and  character  of  Mr.  Hall,  and  of  his  service  to 
his  country  at  a  period  when  the  possibility  of  her 
national  independence  was  surrounded  with  doubts  and 
difficulties  which  required  unwearying  effort  and  perse- 
verance to  overcome.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  oration 


CELEBRATION    AT    WALLINGFORD.  437 

the  procession  was  again  formed,  and  after  a  march 
through  the  principal  avenues  of  the  town,  reached  the 
Depot,  where  the  marble  tablet  was  received  and  was 
conveyed  in  the  line  to  the  Burying  Ground,  near  the 
centre  of  which  was  the  monument  on  which  the  slab 
was  to  be  placed.  Around  it  the  military  formed  a 
square,  within  which  Gov.  Holley  took  his  position,  and 
delivered  an  eloquent  address.  Three  guns  were  then 
fired  in  honor  of  LYMAN  HALL,  and  his  associate  signers 
of  the  Declaration  in  Georgia. 

The  Declaration  of  Independence  was  then  read  from 
the  monument  by  Henry  Lyman  Hall,  a  grand-nephew 
of  Dr.  Lyman  Hall.  The  band  then  played  a  dirge  and 
the  procession  took  up  its  line  of  march  for  dinner.  Be- 
fore leaving  the  cemetery  we  will  describe  the  monu- 
ment. Upon  a  mound  of  earth,  handsomely  turfed,  is  a 
large  flat  freestone,  which  is  nearly  nine  feet  long  by  six 
feet  wide.  Upon  this  rests  a  very  large  block  of  free- 
stone, nearly  three  feet  high,  with  rounded  corners  and 
handsome  mouldings,  on  the  fourth  side  of  which  is  this 
inscription : 

"  The  State  of  Georgia  having  removed  to  Augusta  the  re- 
mains of  LYMAN  HALL,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, and  there  erected  a  monument  to  his  memory,  the 
tablet  originally  covering  his  grave  was  in  1857  presented  by 
Wm.  D'Antignac  to  this  State,  by  whose  order  it  is  deposited 
in  his  native  town." 

Upon  the  tablet,  which  is  of  white  marble  of  nearly 
three  inches  thickness,  is  the  following  inscription  : 

"  Beneath  this  stone  rest  the  remains  of  the  Hon.  LYMAN 
HALL,  formerly  Governor  of  this  State,  who  departed  this 
life  the  igth  of  October,  1790,  in  the  67th  year  of  his  age. 
In  the  cause  of  America,  he  was  uniformly  a  Patriot.  In  the 


438  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFQRD. 

incumbent  duties  of  a  husband  and  a  father,   he  acquitted 
himself  with  affection  and  tenderness. 

"But  reader,  above  all,  know,  from  this  inscription,  that  he 
left  this  probationary  scene  as  a  true  Christian  and  an  honest 
man. 

"  To  those  so  mourned  in  death,  so  loved  in  life, 
The  childless  parent,  and  the  widowed  wife, 
With  tears  inscribes  this  monumental  stone, 
That  holds  his  ashes,  and  expects  her  own." 
Arriving  at  the  pavilion,  the  company  were  soon  seat- 
ed at  the  tables,  which  were  spread  for  a  thousand  per- 
sons, and  every  seat  was  occupied.     These  tables  were 
protected  from  the  sun  by  the  shade  of  the  trees  and  a 
cloth  awning.     They  were  bountifully  spread  and  care- 
fully attended  by  the  ladies  of  Wallingford.     The  Presi- 
dent called  the  company  to  order,  after  which  the  divine 
blessing  was   invoked  by  the   Rev.   David   Root.     The 
wants  of   the  appetite  having  been  satisfied,  patriotic 
toasts  and  speeches  followed.  The  following  were  among 
the  sentiments  offered : 

ist.  The  day  we  celebrate  —  the  glorious  birthday  of  a 
nation.  It  was  immortalized  in  1776  by  the  act  of  dele- 
gates from  13  States ;  it  is  celebrated  to-day  by  thirty 
millions  of  freemen. 

2nd.  The  memory  of  Washington.  It  is  enshrined  in  the 
hearts  of  a  grateful  people. 

3d.  The  memory  of  the  fifty-six  signers  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  They  inscribed  their  names  with  their 
own  hands  on  the  tablet  of  immortality. 

4th.  Lyman  Hall,  the  friend  of  human  rights,  the  advocate 
of  freedom  —  a  signer  of  the  immortal  Declaration.  His 
fame  is  embalmed  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  who  commemo- 
rate this  occasion  by  placing  his  tomb-stone  among  the  graves 
of  his  ancestors. 

5th.  The  President  of  the  United  States. 


CELEBRATION    AT   WALLINGFORD.  439 

6th.  The  Governor  of  Connecticut. 

7th.  The  heroes  and  statesmen  of  the  Revolution.  The 
fruits  of  their  glorious  deeds  increased  with  each  returning 
year. 

8th.  The  press  —  a  pioneer  in  the  cause  of  American 
freedom.  May  it  be  as  true  to  the  principles  our  Fathers 
established,  as  it  was  quick  to  give  the  signal  to  strike  down 
the  oppressor. 

9th.  Connecticut  as  she  is  now.  She  now  exports  men 
to  every  State  in  the  Union. 

roth.  State  courtesies.  To  Georgia  Connecticut  sends 
grateful  thanks,  for  honor  paid  the  memory  of  a  patriotic  son; 
his  monument  in  his  adopted  State,  and  his  tomb-stone  in  his 
native  State  are  memorials  of  lasting  friendships  between 
sister  states. 

nth.  North,  South,  East  and  West.  "What  God  hath 
joined  together,  let  not  man  put  asunder." 

1 2th.  Our  free  schools.  The  index  of  the  enlarged  and 
intellectual  views  of  the  citizens  of  our  commonwealth — the 
foundation  for  permanancy  and  prosperity  in  our  civil 
institutions. 

i3th.  The  fair,  the  mother,  sister,  wife  and  daughter.  The 
tenderest  ties  which  bind  us  to  life.  Our  salvation  and  hope 
in  youth  —  our  bliss  in  manhood — our  solace  in  old  age. 
How  unfortunate  the  man  destitute  of  her  influence  in  either 
relation. 

The  company  dispersed  in  season  for  an  early  tea, 
after  which  the  festivities  were  further  continued  by  a 
splendid  display  of  fireworks.  The  day  and  its  associa- 
tions will  be  long  remembered  by  those  who  participated 
in  them.  The  whole  arrangements  were  highly  credit- 
able to  the  citizens  of  Wallingford,  and  none  deserve 
more  praise  than  the  ladies,  who  spared  no  pains  to 
make  the  occasion  one  of  happy  memories. 


44O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER     XXVII. 

CHESHIRE. 

CHESHIRE  was  originally  a  part  of  Wallingford,  and 
was  made  a  society  in  1723,  consisting  of  about  thirty- 
five  families.  In  1718  Homer  Brooks,  Stephen  Hotch- 
kiss  and  Mathew  Bellamy,  complained  to  the  General 
Assembly  that 

— "  By  reason  of  the  distance  from  the  town  and  difficulty 
in  the  way,  we  are  under  great  disadvantage  to  appear  on  the 
public  worship  of  God  and  also  for  Edicatmg  our  Children," — 

and  petitioned  that  they  might  have  the  privilege  of 
setting  up  worship  for  themselves,  and  be  constituted 
a  parish.  Messrs.  James  Wadsworth,  Nathaniel  Yale, 
and  Samuel  Bishop,  were  appointed  by  the  Assembly 
to  examine  into  the  affairs  of  the  "  West  Farmers," 
as  they  were  called.  They  found  the  number  of  fam- 
ilies to  be  about  forty-five,  "  including  in  ye  numb'r 
sum  few  new  beginners  that  have  not  famelys,"  and 
the  value  of  estates  to  be  about  two  thousand  pounds, 
and  thought  best  that  they  still  remain  with  the  town  of 
Wallingford.  But  the  question  of  separation  was  still 
agitated,  and  in  1723  the  district  was  constituted  a 
society.  The  west  society  had  considerable  trouble  to 
fix  a  situation  for  their  meeting-house,  so  they  petitioned 
the  General  Assembly, 


CHESHIRE.  441 

"  That  having  made  some  essays  to  fix  the  place  for  the 
Setting  the  first  meeting  House  for  Sd  worship  and  finding 
our  endeavors  of  that  kind  to  be  attended  with  some  difficul- 
ties and  dissatisfaction  among  ourselves,  we  have  unanimously 
agreed  to  address  the  Honble  assembly  and  do  accordingly 
thereby  pray  that  a  Committee  Chosen  be  appointed  by  this 
assembly  may  fix  and  determine  the  place  for  building  the 
first  meeting-house  in  our  society.  Signed, 

"THOMAS  BROOKS, 
JOHN  HITCHCOCK, 
NATH11  BUNNELL." 

A  committee  of  three  was  appointed,  the  ground  se- 
lected, and  the  first  church  built  in  1724.  The  second 
church  was  built  in  1738,  on  the  public  common,  and  the 
present  one  was  built  in  1 826.  The  following  have  been 
pastors : 

SAMUEL  HALL,T  Dec.,  1724,  died  Feb.,  1776. 

JOHN  Foox,2  Mar.,  1767,  "  Aug.,  1813. 

HUMPHREY  H.  PERRINE,  June,   1813,  dismissed  Apr.,  1816. 

JEREMIAH  ATWATER,  D.  D.,  Apr.,  1816,  "  July,  1817, 

died  July,  1858. 

M.  KELLOGG,  Nov.,  1818,  "  Nov.,  1819. 

ROGER  HITCHCOCK,  Sept.,  1820,  died  Jan ,  1823. 

LUKE  WOOD,  Dec.,  1824,  dismissed  1826. 

JOSEPH  WHITING,  Oct.,   1827,  "  Dec.,  1836. 

ERASTUS  COLTON,  Jan.,    1838,  "  July,  1843. 

DANIEL  MARCH,  Apr.,  1845,  "  Nov.,  1848. 

DANIEL  S.  RODMAN,  Oct.,    1849,  "  Dec.,  1854. 

C.  W.  CLAPP,  May,    1855,  "  May,  1857. 

1  Rev.  Samuel  Hall  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1716,  where  he 
was  a  tutor  from   1716  to  1718;  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  church  in 
Cheshire  in  Dec.,  1724,  and  died  in  1776.     He  preached  the  Election  Ser- 
mon in  1746,  which  was  published.      His   daughter  Ann,  married  Nov 
13,  1752,  Warham,  second  son  of  Rev.  Stephen  Williams. 

2  Mr.  Foot  was  ordained  colleague  pastor  with  Mr.  Hall. 


442  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

DAVID  ROOT,  Oct.,    1857,    dismissed  April,  1859. 

J.  S.  C.  ABBOTT,  April,  1860. 

The  number  of  male  members  of  the  church  at  first 
was  eleven.  In  1770  it  had  three  hundred  male  and 
female  members,  and  at  that  time  Mr.  Hall  had  baptized 
2013.  The  number  of  births  in  forty-seven  years  was 
2500  ;  deaths  700.  The  first  deacons  of  the  church  were 
Stephen  Hotchkiss  and  Joseph  Ives.  On  the  resigna- 
tion of  the  latter,  Timothy  Tuttle  was  chosen,  and  on 
the  death  of  Deacon  Hotchkiss  ( Deacon  Tuttle  resign- 
ing) Edward  Parker  and  Stephen  Hotchkiss  (son  of  the 
first  of  that  name)  succeeded. 

Mr.  Foot  received  into  the  church  603,  baptized  1767, 
and  buried  1 109.  Mr.  Whiting  received  into  the  church 
241,  baptized  165  ;  Mr.  Colton  received  into  the  church 
139,  and  baptized  61.  Mr.  Hitchcock  had  been  a  dea- 
con of  the  church,  and  stipulated  that  one-fifth  of  his 
salary  of  five  hundred  dollars  should  be  reserved  by  the 
society  annually,  and  put  at  interest  for  the  future  sup- 
port of  the  ministry.  He  was  taken  sick  one  year  after 
his  settlement,  and  was  never  afterwards  able  to  preach. 
Calls  were  extended  (not  accepted)  to  Revs.  John 
March,  in  1817,  Cornelius  Tuthill,  in  1818,  Handel  Nott, 
in  1826,  Judson  A.  Root  in  1827,  and  Dwight  M.  Seward 
in  1842.  There  was  a  continuous  revival  under  Mr. 
Whiting's  ministry,  also  in  1838  and  1858,  which  added 
88  and  104  to  the  church. 

In  1751  Rev.  Ichabod  Camp  formed  an  Episcopal 
Society  in  Cheshire,  and  for  a  time  services  were  read 
by  a  layman  named  Moss.  In  1760  a  church  was  built, 
and  Mr.  Camp  again  preached  for  the  society.  In  1761 
the  society  was  supplied  by  Rev.  Samuel  Andrews,  and 
in  1770  a  larger  church  was  built.  In  1786  Mr.  An- 


CHESHIRE. 


443 


drews  went  to  Nova  Scotia.     The  church  was  afterwards 
supplied  by  the  following  clergy : 

In  1788,  Reuben  Ives ;  1820,  Dr.  Bronson  and  Rev.  Mr. 
Cornwall,  principal  and  assistant  of  the  academy,  preached  ; 
1825,  Mr.  Cornwall ;  1828,  Henry  M.  Mason,  C.  F.  Cruse, 
Rev.  Dr.  Judd ;  1835,  E.  E.  Beardsley;  1840,  new  church 
erected]  1841,  Wm.  F.  Morgan;  1841,  Frederick  Miller; 
1843,  E.  E.  Beardsley;  1848,  Joseph  H.  Nichols;  1852, 
Hilliard  Bryant ;  1865,  Julius  H.  Ward ;  1868,  E.  M.  Pecke. 


00 
CA> 

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In  1869,  83  families  were  connected  with  the  society  ; 
127  communicants,  and  66  scholars  in  Sunday-school. 


444  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

EPISCOPAL    ACADEMY. 

The  project  of  establishing  an  Episcopal  Academy  in 
the  Diocese  of  Connecticut,  was  formed  soon  after  the 
consecration  of  Dr.  Seabury  to  the  Episcopate.  He,  in 
common  with  his  brethren  of  the  clergy,  felt  most  keenly 
the  want  of  some  literary  institution  where  the  sons  of 
the  church  might  receive  a  thorough  classical  education 
without  endangering  the  religious  predilections  of  their 
childhood. 

It  was  a  period  of  strong  prejudice,  and  no  little 
intolerance.  The  war  of  the  Revolution  had  just  closed, 
and  the  favor  which  the  Episcopal  clergy  and  their 
people  had  generally  shown  toward  the  mother-country 
in  that  struggle,  was  calculated  to  strengthen  the  preju- 
dice of  the  dominant  sects  in  the  land.  The  ministers 
of  the  church  were  missionaries  of  the  "  venerable 
society  for  the  propagation  of  the  gospel  in  foreign 
parts,"  and  the  oath  of  allegiance  which  they  were  re- 
quired to  take  previous  to  their  ordination,  and  the 
peculiar  relations  in  which  they  stood  to  the  Bishop  of 
London,  made  it  in  their  view,  as  unnatural  for  them  to 
resist  the  pretentions  of  the  crown  of  England  as  for  a 
child  to  oppose  the  wishes  of  its  parents.  If  this  were 
not  a  sufficient  excuse  for  their  loyalty,  it  should  have 
palliated  in  some  degree  the  heinousness  of  the  offence, 
and  spared  the  church  from  subsequent  hostility  on  their 
account.  The  bishop  and  clergy  might  have  been  urged 
to  the  establishment  of  an  institution  of  their  own,  by 
the  illiberal  policy  of  Yale  college  at  that  time. 

The  first  record  relating  to  the  establishment  of  the 
Episcopal  Academy  was  made  in  1792.  At  a  conven- 
tion of  the  clergy  holden  at  East  Haddam,  on  the  i5th  of 


EPISCOPAL   ACADEMY.  445 

Feb.  of  that  year,  it  was  voted,  "  that  the  several  clergy 
make  inquiry  of  their  neighboring  towns  and  see  what 
can  be  done  toward  erecting  an  Episcopal  Academy, 
and  report  at  the  next  convention."  This  resolution 
received  only  a  verbal  response,  for  nothing  is  found  re- 
corded until  the  year  1 794,  when  the  convention  taking 
hold  of  the  matter  went  earnestly  to  work,  appointed  a 
committee  to  prepare  an  address  to  the  members  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  this  state,  pointing  out 
the  importance  of  establishing  an  Episcopal  Academy  ; 
at  the  same  time  instructing  them  to  provide  subscrip- 
tion papers  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  the  necessary 
funds  to  support  such  an  establishment.  This  commit- 
tee were  required  to  report  the  next  morning ;  and  they 
reported  that  they  had  attended  to  the  business  assigned 
them,  and  recommended  that  a  standing  committee  be 
appointed  to  prepare  an  address  to  be  sent  out  among 
the  people,  pointing  out  the  importance  of  such  an 
institution,  and  to  present  a  plan  of  the  Academy,  with 
subscription  papers  for  raising  funds  for  it.  The  Rev. 
Doctor  Mansfield  of  Derby  was  chairman  of  this  com- 
mittee, and  at  the  next  annual  convention  held  at 
Stratford,  June  3,  1/95,  subscriptions  from  Wallingford 
and  Cheshire  were  returned  which  were  so  favorable, 
that  it  was  resolved  to  go  on  with  this  work  at  once  and 
establish  an  Episcopal  Academy. 

A  subsequent  committee  was  appointed  to  receive 
proposals  from  the  towns  of  Wallingford,  Cheshire  and 
Stratford  only,  until  the  first  day  of  July,  at  which 
time  they  were  to  meet  at  Major  Bellamy's  tavern  in 
Hamden,  and  locate  the  institution  in  that  town  which 
they  should  consider  the  most  eligible.  At  the  same 
convention  the  Rev.  John  Bowden,  Rev.  Ashbell  Bal- 


446 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


dow  and  S.  W.  Johnson,  Esq.,  were  appointed  to  draft  a 
code  of  by-laws  for  the  temporary  government  of  the 
institution  till  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  conven- 
tion, and  also  to  form  a  constitution  upon  the  most 
liberal  and  beneficial  plan,  together  with  a  code  of  by- 
laws for  the  future  government  of  the  Academy,  all  to  be 
submitted  to  the  next  general  convention  for  considera- 
tion and  approbation. 


EPISCOPAL    ACADEMY,    CHESHIRE,    1840. 

At  the  annual  convention  held  at  Cheshire,  June  i, 
1796,  the  subject  of  the  Academy  was  brought  out  and 
discussed,  and  a  board  of  twenty  trustees  appointed. 
The  latter  proceeded  to  ballot  for  a  principal  of  the 
Academy,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Bowden  was  unani- 
mously elected.  He  accepted  the  call  and  entered  on  his 
duties  as  soon  as  the  building  was  ready.  The  corner 
stone  was  laid  with  masonic  honors,  on  the  28th  day  of 
April,  1 796.  On  that  occasion  the  late  Rev.  Reuben  Ives, 
through  whose  influence  more  than  to  any  other  one 
man  the  Academy  was  established  at  Cheshire,  delivered 


EPISCOPAL    ACADEMY.  447 

an  address,  and  was  followed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Tillotson 
Bronson. 

The  building  was  completed  in  1796,  at  a  cost  of 
^702  lawful  money.  The  principal  was  required  to 
teach  or  cause  to  be  taught  the  English  language, 
Philosophy,  Mathematics,  and  every  science  usually 
taught  at  colleges ;  likewise  the  dead  languages,  such 
as  Greek  and  Latin,  and  then  French  was  to  be 
taught  whenever  the  funds  became  sufficient ;  also  a 
library  was  to  be  purchased  and  a  philosophical  appara- 
tus as  soon  as  the  funds  would  justify  the  expense. 
The  principal  had  liberty  to  employ  at  any  time  with 
the  advice  of  the  trustees  any  gentlemen  eminent  in 
Divinity,  Law,  or  Physics,  to  read  lectures  in  these 
branches  provided  a  fund  be  procured  for  that  purpose. 
It  was  no  doubt  the  intention  of  the  founders  to  erect 
it  into  a  college,  and  many  of  the  donations  were  made 
upon  this  supposition,  and  some  of  the  books  now  in 
the  Library  —  the  gift  of  private  benevolence  —  are  la- 
belled, "  Seabury  College  in  Connecticut." 

The  first  legitimate  attempt  made  toward  raising  a 
fund  for  the  endowment  of  the  institution  was  in  1797-8. 
In  the  latter  year  a  committee  was  appointed  by  the 
convention  to  ascertain  the  grand  levy  of  the  church  in 
Connecticut,  and  a  treasurer  to  receive  all  donations  that 
might  be  procured.  By  a  formal  vote  the  convention 
appropriated  to  the  benefit  of  the  Episcopal  Academy 
the  money  that  had  been  previously  collected  for  the 
purpose  of  sending  Missionaries  to  the  frontiers  of  the 
States.  The  next  year,  Bishop  Jarvis  alluded  to  the 
subject  in  his  annual  address,  and  measures  were  adopt- 
ed to  solicit  aid,  generally  from  the  churchmen  of  the 
diocese,  and  to  send  an  agent  to  Europe  with  a  similar 


448  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

object  in  view  was  recommended  to  the  trustees  as 
soon  as  they  have  the  means.  The  agency  to  Europe 
was  never  accomplished. 

On  the  1 4th  day  of  April,  1801,  the  trustees  met  at 
Cheshire  and  resolved  to  petition  the  first  Assembly 
then  about  to  convene  at  Hartford,  praying  that  they 
might  be  made  and  constituted  a  body  politic,  and  cor- 
porate, by  the  name  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Episcopal 
Academy  of  Connecticut  ;  Dr.  Bowden  stating  that 
since  the  month  of  June  of  the  year  1796  it  had  been 
open  for  the  reception  of  students,  and  had  generally  in 
the  course,  sixty  students.  The  funds  amounted  at  this 
time  to  about  three  thousand  dollars.  The  act  of  incor- 
poration was  passed,  and  the  number  of  students  was 
increased.  Every  thing  was  now  prosperous  and  favor- 
able to  the  success  of  the  Academy.  But  a  shock  was 
given,  when  Dr.  Bowden  intimated  that  he  should  resign 
his  office  of  principal,  and  accept  the  more  compatible 
station  of  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  and  Belles- 
Lettres  in  Columbia  College,  New  York.  This  was  in 
the  beginning  of  1802 ;  and  at  a  special  convention  held 
at  Cheshire,  April  12,  of  the  same  year,  his  resignation 
was  accepted,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  Smith  was  unani- 
miously  elected  to  supply  his  place.  He  entered  at 
once  upon  his  duties. 

Dr.  Bowden  was  the  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Bowden,  a 
Major  in  his  Brittanic  Majesty's  46th  regiment  of  Foot. 
His  early  life  was  full  of  incident,  as  his  middle  age  was 
of  trial.  At  the  time  of  his  birth,  Jan.  7,  1751,  his 
father's  regiment  was  stationed  in  Ireland.  On  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Old  French  War  the  major  came  to 
this  country  and  made  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  his  head- 
quarters. His  son  John  soon  after  followed  him,  under 


EPISCOPAL    ACADEMY.  449 

the  charge  of  a  clergyman  of  the  church  of  England. 
He  entered  the  college  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  where  he 
remained  two  years.  The  fortunes  of  his  father  called 
him  to  return  home  (to  England).  In  1770  at  the  age  of 
nineteen  he  again  crossed  the  Atlantic  and  immediately 
entered  King's  college,  now  Columbia,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  1772.  He  was  ordained  in  1774  deacon,  and  was 
elected  assistant  minister  in  Trinity  church,  N.  Y.  Upon 
the  breaking  out  of  the  revolutionary  war  the  city 
churches  were  closed  and  the  clergy  scattered,  and  Dr. 
Bowden  retired  to  Norwalk,  Ct.  He  continued  in  the 
office  of  Professor  until  his  death,  July  31,  1817,  at  Ball- 
ston  Springs. 

Dr.  William  Smith  entered  upon  his  duties  as  princi- 
pal of  the  Academy  in  the  spring  of  1802.  The  institu- 
tion was  in  a  flourishing  condition.  Efforts  had  been 
made  to  increase  the  funds,  and  regarding  then  the 
procedure  as  perfectly  consistent  with  the  dictates  of 
Christian  morality,  a  resolution  was  taken  in  April,  1801, 
to  prefer  a  petition  to  the  General  Assembly  for  a  lottery 
to  raise  the  sum  of  four  thousand  pounds,  to  enable  the 
trustees  to  purchase  a  library  and  a  philosophical  appa- 
ratus, and  support  assistant  instruction.  This  application 
was  unsuccessful,  as  was  also  another  the  next  year,  to 
obtain  a  lottery  to  raise  a  larger  amount  —  the  sum  of 
twenty-eight  thousand  dollars.  But  during  the  October 
session  of  the  Legislature  of  1802,  the  matter  was  more 
judiciously  prepared,  and  the  act  was  finally  passed, 
granting  a  lottery  to  raise  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand 
dollars.  After  considerable  delay  and  perplexity,  and  no 
little  loss  in  the  sale  of  tickets,  the  managers  closed 
their  drawings,  and  the  net  proceeds  amounted  to  twelve 
thousand  dollars. 
E  E 


45O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

The  financial  affairs  of  the  institution  being  thus  im- 
proved, its  friends  began  to  turn  their  attention  to  the 
original  design  of  erecting  it  into  a  college.  In  1804, 
obedient  to  a  vote  of  the  convention,  the  board  of  trus- 
tees resolved  to  petition  the  General  Assembly  for  a 
charter  empowering  them  to  confer  degrees  in  the  arts, 
divinity  and  law,  and  to  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  a  col- 
lege. This  application  failed,  and  was  not  again  renewed 
during  the  administration  of  Dr.  Smith.  Though  a  man 
of  learning,  he  seems  not  to  have  had  the  requisite 
qualifications  of  a  teacher.  The  institution  gradually 
languished  under  his  care,  and  losing  the  confidence  of 
the  public,  the  annual  convention  in  1805  appointed  a 
committee  to  inquire  into  the  present  condition,  and 
make  an  immediate  report ;  this  report  is  spread  at  large 
upon  the  journals  of  that  year.  On  the  5th  day  of  June, 
Dr.  Smith  resigned  ;  his  resignation  was  accepted,  and 
the  convention,  without  appointing  a  successor,  adjourned 
to  meet  at  Newtown  the  eighth  day  of  October.  The 
missives  that  passed  between  Dr.  Smith  and  the  Trus- 
tees were  not,  as  may  be  inferred  from  the  tenor  of  his 
letter,  altogether  of  a  pleasant  nature.  Dr.  Smith  was 
a  Scotchman,  and  received  his  education  at  one  of  the 
Universities  of  his  native  country.  He  left  College  with 
a  good  reputation  as  a  classical  scholar.  He  came  to 
this  country  in  1787,  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of 
Rector  of  St.  Paul's  church  and  congregation,  at  Narra- 
gansett,  R.  I.,  where  he  continued  three  years.  After 
leaving  Cheshire  he  returned  to  New  York,  and  the 
remainder  of  his  days  were  passed  between  that  city 
and  Connecticut 

The  Rev.  Tillotson  Bronson  was  appointed  to  the 
Academy,  and  for  the  first  fifteen  years  of  his  adminis- 


EPISCOPAL    ACADEMY.  451 

tration  the  institution  flourished  and  enjoyed  a  large 
share  of  the  public  confidence  and  patronage.  In  1810 
another  petition  was  made  for  college  privileges,  but 
failed  of  success.  It  was  again  renewed  and  passed  the 
house,  but  failed  in  the  Senate.  Dr.  Bronson  was  born 
in  1762.  He  graduated  in  1786.  Ordained  by  Bishop 
Seabury  1786,  and  Priest  Feb.  24th,  1788.  Christian  F. 
Cruse  was  elected  to  the  Academy  in  1831.  In  1832 
Rev.  Dr.  Judd  was  elected  principal.  He  resigned  in 
1835- 

In  1836  the  Rev.  Allen  C.  Morgan  was  elected  prin- 
cipal, under  whose  administration  the  Academy  flourish- 
ed. He  died  suddenly  in  New  York,  on  the  7th  of 
Nov.,  1838.  The  Rev.  Ebenezer  E.  Beardsley  was  next 
appointed  to  the  charge.  After  him  came  the  Rev.  Seth 
B.  Paddock ;  then  the  Rev.  Hillyard  Bryant  ;  then  Rev. 
Mr.  Ballard,  who  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Horton, 
under  whose  administration  the  institution  has  flourished 
and  been  greatly  enlarged  by  additional  new  buildings. 
Dr.  Horton  is  now  (  1870),  the  principal  of  the  Acad- 
emy, which  is  in  a  highly  prosperous  and  flourishing 
condition. 


452  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORU. 


CHAPTER   XXVIII. 

STATE  REFORM  SCHOOL. 

THE  Connecticut  State  Reform  School,  situated  in 
Meriden,  New  Haven  County,  was  authorized  by  the 
Legislature  of  1851,  and  an  appropriation  of  ten 
thousand  dollars  made  for  it  on  the  condition  that  the 
people  of  the  State  donate  an  equal  sum  to  establish 
and  build  the  same.  The  location  of  the  school  was 
fixed  in  Meriden  in  1852,  and  the  building  erected  in 
1853.  The  amount  of  land  purchased  was  about  150 
acres,  of  various  parties,  but-  principally  of  Salmon 
Merriam.  The  buildings  are  situated  on  a  commanding 
eminence,  one  half  mile  north  from  the  depot  in  Meriden, 
in  full  view  of  the  Hartford  and  New  Haven  rail-road, 
overlooking  the  city  and  the  surrounding  country,  and 
presenting  one  of  the  finest  landscape  views  to  be  seen 
in  the  vicinity.  In  the  front  lies  Mount  Lamentation, 
with  its  precipitous  caps  and  peaks,  stretching  in  a  lower 
range  to  the  south  below  Black  Pond,  and  gradually 
terminating  in  a  succession  of  bluffs  near  Long  Island 
Sound. 

In  the  rear  are  the  Cold  Spring  and  the  Hanging  Hills 
Peaks.     Between  these,  or  in  the  interval,  lies  the  farm, 


REFORM    SCHOOL.  453 

delightfully  situated,  highly  cultivated,  and  the  pride  and 
admiration  of  all  who  behold  it 

The  administration  of  the  school  on  the  part  of  the 
State  is  vested  in  a  board  of  eight  Trustees,  one  from 
each  county  in  the  state,  elected  for  four  years.  Two 
of  them  are  retired  each  year  and  their  places  are  filled 
by  the  Senate  in  executive  session.  The  Trustees 
elect  Superintendent  and  other  officers.  The  first  Su- 
perintendent was  Philemon  Hoadley,  elected  in  1853. 
The  second,  Roswell  Hawley,  M.  D.,  elected  1855  ;  the 
next  and  present  one,  E.  W.  Hatch,  M.  D.  The  long 
continuance  of  Dr.  Hatch  in  the  position,  is  proof  con- 
clusive that  the  people  of  the  state  are  satisfied  with  his 
administration ;  in  effective  management,  economy,  and 
progress,  the  institution  ranks  second  to  none  in  the 
country. 

Mr.  Saxton  B.  Little  was  elected  Assistant  Superin- 
tendent in  1854,  and  was  the  first  elected  to  that  office, 
and  still  holds  the  position.  He  has  proved  himself  one 
of  the  most  successful  educators  of  the  age.  With  the 
class  of  boys  that  he  has  had  no  one  could  have  done 
better,  and  the  teachers  are  rare  that  could  have  done  so 
well.  Mr.  Lucius  P.  Chamberlain  was  appointed  farmer 
in  1857,  and  right  well  has  he  filled  the  position.  He 
believes  in  progress,  and  acts  up  to  his  belief  in  his  prac- 
tice. He  is  one  of  the  neatest,  best,  and  most  successful 
farmers  in  the  state.  His  work  on  the  state  farm  shows 
it,  and  any  one  can  have  an  ocular  demonstration  of  the 
fact,  by  visiting  the  farm.  Mr.  John  B.  Porter  as  an  officer 
has  been  connected  with  the  school  for  the  last  thirteen 
years,  and  has  proved  himself  a  valuable  assistant  and 
a  good  efficient  worker  in  the  cause  of  reform.  The 
above  are  worthy  of  mention  as  having  held  their  posi- 


454  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

tions  for  a  long  time,  and  discharged  their  duties 
faithfully.  The  other  officers  are  capable  and  efficient, 
and  doing  a  noble  work  for  the  State. 

The  first  boys  were  received  in  1854;  and  up  to  April 
i,  1870,  1515  had  been  received.  They  are  many  of 
them  filling  situations  now  as  valuable  citizens  in  almost 
every  State  of  the  union.  The  boys  are  taught  in  all  of 
the  branches  usually  taught  in  the  common  schools. 
The  classes  will  compare  favorably  with  the  classes  in 
any  of  the  schools  of  the  State. 

The  citizens  of  the  State  may  well  be  proud  of  this 
noble  Institution.  It  is  one  of  its  noblest  chanties  ;  no 
effort  which  the  State  can  make  in  the  right  direction  to 
improve  its  citizens  can  be  wasted  ;  and  to  take  vicious 
boys  and  educate  them  to  be  good  citizens,  is  worthy 
the  best  efforts  of  the  State. 


455 


CHAPTER  XXIX. 

PHYSICIANS. 

THE  first  settlers  of  Connecticut  came  with  but  slender 
provision  for  the  ills  that  awaited  them.  The  pastor  of 
the  flock  was  the  chief  shepherd  to  whom  they  all  looked 
for  protection,  and  the  teacher  upon  whose  instruction, 
in  sickness  and  in  health,  they  mainly  looked  for  guid- 
ance. In  the  year  1652  the  General  Court  granted  the 
first  medical  license,  by  which  Thomas  Lord  was  author- 
ized to  practice  physic  and  surgery  in  Hartford  and 
adjoining  towns.  Fifteen  pounds  was  to  be  his  annual 
salary  so  long  as  he  devoted  his  time  and  attention  to 
the  sick  and  suffering  members  of  the  colony.  The  fee- 
table  of  Dr.  Lord  as  established  by  the  General  Assem- 
bly, he  having  promised  to  charge  no  more,  deserves  to 
be  transcribed : 

"  Thos.  Lord  having  engaged  to  this  court  to  continue  his 
abode  in  Hartford  for  the  next  ensuing  year,  and  to  improve 
his  best  skill  among  the  inhabitants  of  the  towns  upon  the 
river,  within  his  jurisdiction,  both  for  setting  of  bones  and 
otherwise,  as  at  all  times,  occasions  and  necessities  may  re-k 
quire.  This  court  doth  grant,  that  he  shall  be  paid  by  the 
country  the  sum  of  fifteen  pounds  for  the  said  ensuing  year, 
and  they  also  declare  that  for  every  visit  or  journey,  that  he 
shall  take  or  make,  being  sent  for,  to  any  house  in  Hartford 


456  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

12  pence  is  reasonable;  to  any  house  in  Windsor,  five  shil- 
lings ;  to  any  house  in  Wethersfield,  three  shillings  ;  to  any 
house  in  Farmington,  six  shillings  ;  to  any  house  in  Matta- 
besock  or  Middletown,  eight  shillings,  (he  having  promised 
that  he  will  require  no  more,)  and  that  he  shall  be  freed,  for 
the  time  aforesaid,  from  watching,  warding  and  training,  but 
not  from  finding  arms  according  to  law !" 

Dr.  Lord  died  in  1662.  He  came  to  Wallingford  often 
on  professional  business,  and  was  also  called  to  New 
Haven.  Rev.  Gershom  Bulkley  of  Wethersfield,  who 
was  quite  noted  as  a  physician,  and  for  a  time  was  sur- 
geon in  a  company  raised  to  resist  the  aggression  of 
their  Indian  neighbors,  attended  to  the  sick  in  Walling- 
ford and  vicinity.  It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  the  first 
case  of  medical  jurisprudence  in  the  colony,  perhaps  the 
first  in  the  country,  was  referred  to  him  for  an  opinion. 
Mary  Brown  of  Wallingford  was  brought  to  trial  for  the 
murder  of  her  son.  As  it  was  known  that  she  had  been 
subject  to  paroxysms  of  insanity,  the  court  and  the  jury 
were  in  some  perplexity  relative  to  their  own  course  of 
proceeding.  To  relieve  themselves  from  this  embarras- 
sing position  the  court  granted  leave  to  the  jurors  to 
consult  the  most  learned  men  in  the  colony  and  obtain 
their  advice.  They  applied  to  Dr.  Bulkley,  whose  char- 
acter as  a  divine,  whose  opinion  as  a  physician,  and 
whose  judgment  as  a  magistrate  were  all  held  in  high 
estimation.  The  following  is  the  summary  of  his 
opinion : 

"  If  she  were  not  compos  mentis  at  the  time  of  the  fact  it  is 
no  felony,  and  consequently  no  wilful  or  malicious  murder  ; 
and  if  she  be  known  to  be  a  lunatic,  though  she  have  her 
lucid  intervals,  there  had  need  be  very  good  and  satisfactory 
proof  that  she  was  compos  mentis  at  the  time  of  the  fact  com- 
mitted, for  the  law  favors  life." 


PHYSICIANS.  457 

The  legal  opinion  from  which  the  above  extract  was 
taken  was  in  advance  of  the  age,  and  probably  averted 
the  doom  of  the  unhappy  woman  who  was  on  her  trial 
for  the  murder  of  her  child.1  Dr.  Bulkley  died  at  Glas- 
tenbury  in  the  year  1713,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight. 
From  an  inscription  upon  his  "  obscure  and  modest 
grave-stone"  in  the  church-yard  at  Wethersfield,  it  ap- 
pears that  he  was  regarded  as  a  man  of  rare  abilities  and 
extraordinary  industry,  excellent  in  learning,  master  of 
many  languages,  exquisite  in  his  skill  in  divinity,  physic' 
and  law,  and  of  a  most  exemplary  and  Christian  life. 

Dr  James  Hurlburt  of  Berlin,  who  was  born  in  the 
year  1717  and  had  his  office  in  Berlin  near  the  line  of 
the  Hartford  and  New  Haven  Rail-road,  had  nearly  all 
of  the  practice  in  the  surrounding  twenty  miles.  Dr. 
Jared  Potter  of  Wallingford  was  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished physicians  in  the  State,  and  the  teacher  from 
whom  many  eminent  members  of  the  medical  profession 
received  instruction.2  He  was  a  speculating  theologian, 
and  his  speculations  were  of  an  infidel  character ;  and 
it  is  said  that  his  pupils,  whatever  progress  they  made 
in  medical  studies,  generally  left  Dr.  Potter's  office  with 
minds  tinged  with  skeptical  notions.  In  1775  he  was 
chosen  surgeon  of  the  first  regiment  of  Connecticut 
forces,  from  whence  it  may  be  inferred  that  he  was  dis- 
tinguished as  a  surgeon  as  well  as  a  physician.  His 
memory  at  this  time  is  more  associated  with  one  of  his 
own  favorite  remedies.  Potter's  powder  has  been  for  sixty 
years  and  over,  a  popular  remedy  with  the  physicians  of 


1  Dr.  Summer's  Address  at  the  49th  Annual  Convention  of  the  Conn. 
Med.  Soc. 

2  One  of  Dr.   Potter's  students  was  Lyman  Norton,  who  commenced 
practice  in  Durham  in  1797. 


HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Connecticut,  but  as  employed  in  former  days,  it  con- 
tained charcoal  as  well  as  the  three  ingredients,  camphor, 
ammonia  and  chalk.  By  this  combination  he  acquired 
the  same  reputation  which  adheres  all  the  world  over,  to 
the  combination  of  Dr.  Dover.  He  was  instrumental  in 
forming  the  New  Haven  Co.  Medical  Society  in  1784, 
and  also  the  State  Medical  Society.1 

In  October,  1717,  Dr.  Benjamin  Hull2  petitioned  the 
General  Court  as  follows:  "Yepetishion  of  Benjamin 
Hull  of  Wallingford  sheweth  yi  your  petishioner  having 
for  some  time  practiced  phisisik,"  requests  the  assembly 
to  grant  him  permission  to  practice  in  Wallingford. 
Previous  to  1800  there  were  in  Wallingford  Drs.  Isaac 
Lewis,  Isaac  Bull,  Isaac  Hall,  Gad  Pond,  Ebenezer 
Bardsley,  Wm.  B.  Hall,  Bilious  Kirtland  and  James 
Porter.  Dr.  John  Dickinson,  son  of  Rev.  Moses 
Dickinson  of  Norwalk,  began  practice  in  Wallingford, 
but  soon  removed  to  Middletown,  from  which  town  he 
was  sent  Representative  to  the  Legislature  in  the  time 
of  the  Revolution.  He  died  in  1811,  aged  eighty-two 
years.  Dr.  Wm.  Brenton  Hall,  a  native  of  Wallingford, 
graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1786,  and  commenced 
practice  in  his  native  town,  but  removed  to  Middletown 
where  he  died  in  1809. 

Dr.  Aaron  Andrews  was  a  son  of  Denizen  Andrews 
and  was  born  in  the  Meriden  society.  He  settled  as  a 
physician  in  Wallingford,  and  built  the  house  where  he 
resided  and  which  was  afterwards  occupied  by  his  son 
Drake  Andrews,  and  Leander  Parmalee,  and  which  is 
now  owned  and  occupied  by  Samuel  B.  Parmalee.  Dr. 


1  See  Biographical  Sketches  in  this  volume. 

2  John   Hull   came  from  Derby  with   two  sons  in  1686.     He  located 
himself  on  the  top  of  Town  Hill. 


PHYSICIANS.  459 

Andrews  was  considered  a  very  skillful  physician,  and 
as  such  was  highly  respected.1  His  son,  Dr.  John  An- 
drews, was  for  many  years  a  very  successful  physician 
in  Wallingford.  He  married  Abigail  Atwater,  and  for 
many  years  resided  in  the  house  now  remodelled  and 
occupied  by  Roderick  Curtiss.  After  the  death  of  his 
wife,  he  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Rev.  James  Noyes. 
After  her  decease  he  went  in  his  old  age  to  Ohio  and 
lived  with  his  son  William,  where  he  died  in  his  eighty- 
sixth  year.  He  was  buried  in  Wallingford,  as  he  had 
requested.2  Dr.  Jared  P.  Kirtland  came  to  Wallingford 
in  1814  and  remained  about  three  years.3 

Dr.  Ambrose  Ives  was  born  in  Wallingford,  Dec.  30, 
1786.  He  was  the  son  of  Abijah  Ives,  a  respectable 
farmer,  and  the  grandson  of  Abraham  Ives.  Dr.  Ives 
was  favored  with  fair  advantages  for  a  good  English 
and  sufficient  classical  education.  He  pursued  the 
higher  branches  at  the  celebrated  academy  located  in 
Cheshire.  After  finishing  his  preliminary  course,  he 
commenced  the  study  of  medicine  under  the  tuition  of 
the  late  Dr.  Cornwall  of  the  same  town.  From  a  class- 
mate of  Dr.  Ives,  we  have  learned  that  he  was  a  labori- 
ous student,  thorough  in  all  the  branches  of  professional 
reading  in  which  he  was  engaged.  He  was,  as  in  after 
life,  extremely  frugal  of  his  time,  and  being  favored  with 
a  retentive  memory,  he  made  excellent  progress  in  his 
studies.  In  the  year  1808,  after  completing  his  medical 
pupilage,  he  was  licensed  to  practice  medicine  and  sur- 
gery, and  then  located  in  the  town  of  Wolcott,  where  he 
diligently  applied  himself  to  his  professional  duties  dur- 


1  See  biographical  Sketches  in  this  volume. 

2  See  Biographical  Sketches  in  this  volume. 

3  See  Biographical  Sketches  in  this  volume. 


460  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ing  a  period  of  nineteen  years.  He  removed  from 
Wolcott  to  Wallingford  in  the  year  1827,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  settling  up  his  deceased  father's  estate.  Here 
he  remained  two  years,  at  the  expiration  of  which  time, 
he  removed  to  Plymouth,  Litchfield  county,  where  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  medicine.  In  the  last  named 
place  he  soon  acquired  a  large  practice,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued until  the  year  1834.  At  this  time  he  relinquished 
his  practice  entirely  and  removed  to  Waterville,  and  be- 
came interested  in  the  manufacture  of  gilt  buttons,  and 
took  charge  of  the  business.  In  1837  he  removed  to 
Waterbury,  and  in  1839  so^  out  hi8  interest  in  Water- 
ville. Soon  after  he  bought  into  the  company  of  Brown 
and  Elton,  and  continued,  in  this  connection  till  his  de- 
cease, but  without  himself  engaging  in  the  management 
of  the  business.  In  the  last  year  of  his  life  he  was 
afflicted  with  paralysis.  He  died  in  the  year  1852,  at 
the  age  of  66. 

Dr.  Ives  was  a  man  of  medium  height,  not  tall,  but 
stout,  and  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life  became  somewhat 
corpulent.  He  was  an  efficient  town  officer,  serving  his 
townsmen  in  different  capacities.  Several  times  he 
represented  the  inhabitants  of  Wolcott  in  the  Legislature 
of  the  State.  In  the  year  1818  he  was  a  member  of  the 
convention  for  the  formation  of  the  constitution  of  this 
State.  As  a  physician,  Dr.  Ives  was  sound,  discriminat- 
ing and  skillful,  the  result  of  thoroughness  and  precision, 
the  leading  characteristics  of  his  mind,  made  manifest 
in  all  his  avocations.  No  practitioner  in  the  vicinity  in 
which  he  lived,  was  more  deservedly  esteemed  for  strong 
common  sense  and  matured  judgment.  As  a  business 
man  he  was  enlightened,  sagacious  and  stable.  Few 
men  understood  human  nature  more  perfectly,  or  could 


PHYSICIANS.  461 

see  farther  into  the  course  of  events  depending  on  the 
human  will.  By  able  management  and  financial  skill 
he  succeeded  in  acquiring  a  large  property.  In  con- 
versation he  was  shrewd,  intelligent  and  facetious. 
He  had  a  fund  of  anecdote  and  illustration,  and 
abounded  in  witty  and  humorous  remarks.  Few  were 
more  companionable  or  instructive.  He  was  married 
in  the  year  1817  to  Miss  Wealthy  V.  Upson  of 
Wolcott.1 

Dr.  Moses  Gaylord  was  an  eminent  surgeon  in 
Wallingford,  for  many  years  devoting  his  whole  time 
to  that  branch  of  his  profession.  Dr.  Gaylord  was  tall 
and  rather  spare  looking,  with  thin  face  and  large  nose, 
and  when  riding  horseback  as  was  his  habit,  or  when 
walking,  was  bent  forward.  He  was  a  student  of  Dr. 
Jesse  Cole  of  Durham.2  Dr.  Gaylord  died  of  a  cancer 
on  his  face,  and  was  quite  advanced  in  years. 

Dr.  Friend  Cook  was  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
Cook  of  Wallingford.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Wallingford  and  Cheshire  academies,  where  he  ranked 
high  as  a  scholar,  and  entered  Union  College,  Schenec- 
tady,  N.  Y.  After  he  had  graduated,  he  entered  the 
Medical  department  of  Yale  College,  and  was  a  pupil  of 
the  late  Dr.  Nathan  Smith.  After  having  received  his 
degree  of  M.  D.  in  1821,  he  located  himself  at  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  where  he  soon  had  a  successful  practice, 
which  he  was  compelled  to  surrender  on  account  of  his 

1  Proceedings  of  Conn.,  Med.  Soc.,  1860,  p.   67.     Bronson's  History  of 
Waterbury. 

2  Dr.  Gaylord  was  probably  of  the  Plymouth  branch  of  Gaylords.     He 
married  Jemima  Tyler   of  Wallingford,  and  had  Tyler,  who  died  in  the 
state  of  New  York ;  Harriet,  who  m.    Noah  Lindsley  of  Meriden,  and 
Nancy,  who  m.  Israel  Harrison. 


462  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

health.  After  spending  some  time  at  the  South,  he  re- 
turned to  his  native  town,  and  again  commenced  prac- 
tice. But  in  a  few  years  his  failing  health  compelled 
him  to  relinquish  his  practice,  and  he  removed  to 
Atwater,  Ohio.  Here  he  practiced  his  profession  for 
some  time,  but  finally  had  to  give  it  up.  After  a  long 
illness  he  died  February  8,  1857,  aged  sixty  years,  of 
cancer  of  the  stomach.  He  married  Abigail,  daughter 
of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  Atwater. 


13.    F.    HARRISON,    M.    D. 

Benjamin  F.  Harrison,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  what 
was  then  the  town  of  Bran  ford,  and  the  parish  of 
Northford,  in  the  year  181 1.  His  father  Elizur  Harrison, 
and  his  mother  Rebecca  Bartholomew  were  also  natives 
of  the  same  place.  His  father  was  a  farmer,  and  he 
was  occupied  on  the  farm  until  his  eighteenth  year,  after 
which  he  was  occupied  with  studies  and  teaching  until 
the  first  of  March,  1836,  when  he  was  graduated  at  the 
medical  school  in  New  Haven.  Soon  after  he  went  to 
New  York  to  continue  his  studies  for  a  time,  -but  in 
June  he  went  to  Old  Milford  where  he  commenced 
practice  with  Dr.  French,  but  was  induced  to  leave 


PHYSICIANS.  463 

there  and  come  to  Wallingford  in  September  of  the  same 
year,  viz.,  1836.  Here  he  remained  extensively  engaged 
in  his  profession  for  ten  years,  when  in  September,  1846, 
he  sold  his  residence  and  left  his  business  to  Dr.  William 
Atwater,  a  former  pupil,  and  early  the  next  month  sailed 
from  New  York  for  Havre,  where  he  arrived  November  i , 
and  proceeded  directly  to  Paris,  where  were  still  living 
most  of  the  eminent  physicians  and  surgeons  of  that 
country  who  had  distinguished  themselves  by  their  works 
and  writings  during  the  early  part  of  this  century.  In 
the  schools  and  hospitals  of  Paris  he  pursued  his  pro- 
fessional studies  with  more  assiduity  than  ever  until 
May,  1847,  when  he  left  France  and  visited  most  of 
what  were  then  the  small  states  of  Italy.  In  midsummer 
he  returned  by  Switzerland,  Germany  and  Belgium  to 
Paris,  and  in  August  to  England,  and  in  September 
sailed  from  Liverpool  for  New  York.  Arriving  home  in 
October,  he  spent  the  remainder  of  the  year  in  visiting 
various  parts  of  the  country,  and  finally  selected  an 
office  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Circumstances  afterwards 
prevented  his  settling  there,  and  in  February,  1848,  he 
opened  an  office  in  New  Haven,  but  in  May  was  per- 
suaded to  take  again  his  former  residence  and  business 
in  Wallingford.  Here  he  remained  in  active  business 
until  after  the  war  broke  out,  and  in  August,  1862,  was 
commissioned  as  surgeon  to  a  New  York  regiment  then 
in  the  field  at  Yorktown,  Va.,  where  he  immediately 
joined  the  regiment,  and  remained  with  it  in  the  service 
in  Virginia,  North  and  South  Carolina,  until  the  regiment 
finished  its  service  in  1864.  After  this  time  Dr.  Harri- 
son served  the  Sanitary  Commission  for  a  few  months 
in  Florida,  and  South  Carolina.  At  the  close  of  1864 
he  was  again  in  Wallingford,  resuming  his  old  residence 
F  v 


464  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

and  continuing  the  practice  of  his  profession,  until  the 
present  time.  During  all  his  long  residence  in  Wall- 
ingford,  Dr.  Harrison  has  taken  active  interest  in  the 
public  schools.  He  was  married  June  8,  1837,  to  Susan 
Lewis,  daughter  of  Frederick  Lewis  of  Wallingford. 
She  died  September  10,  1839,  leaving  an  infant  daughter 
who  also  died  seventeen  years  after.  He  again  married 
June  20,  1 868,  Virginia  V.  Abelle,  of  Franklin,  Conn. 
She  died  December  27,  1869. 


NEHEMIAH    BANKS,       M.    D. 

Dr.  Nehemiah  Banks  came  to  Wallingford  in  1852. 
He  was  graduated  at  the  Yale  College  medical  school  in 
1844.  In  1856  he  purchased  the  Judge  Pomeroy  place 
He  has  had  a  large  practice,  and  has  been  a  very  suc- 
cessful practitioner. 

Dr.  Henry  Davis  came  to  Wallingford  in  1870, 
and  bought  the  place  formerly  owned  by  O.  I. 
Martin. 

Dr.  Baldwin,  a  Botanic  physician,  has  practised  in 
Wallingford  for  several  years. 


PHYSICIANS.  465 

MERIDEN     PHYSICIANS. 

Few  are  the  recorded  data  for  biography  which  ordi- 
narily survive  the  life  of  the  practitioner  of  medicine  in 
country  districts.  The  uniform  and  familiar  character 
of  his  vocation  affords  but  scanty  material  for  the  adorn- 
ment of  general  history.  Being  more  familiar  with 
prescriptions  than  the  pen,  or  more  brilliant  exploits  of 
war  or  legislation,  his  fame  is  lamentably  prone  to  expire 
with  the  memories  and  lives  of  those  who  have  enjoyed 
the  benefit  of  his  professional  labors.1 

The  first  physician  in  Meriden  was  Dr.  Isaac  Hall. 
He  was  a  son  of  Jonathan  and  Dinah  Hall,  was  born 
July  n,  1714,  and  died  March  7,  1781,  ae.  66  years. 
He  married  Mary  Morse,  Nov.  5,  1739,  an^  had  six 
children,  one  of  whom,  Jonathan,  was  a  physician.  He 
resided,  while  living,  quite  in  the  easterly  part  of  the 
town,  on  that  road  which  now  passes  the  residence  of 
Deacon  Hezekiah  Rice.  Dr.  Ensign  Hough  was  the 
son  of  Daniel  and  Violet  (Benton)  Hough,  was  born 
Sept.  i,  1746,  and  commenced  practice  in  Meriden  in 
1769.  He  lived  near  the  center  of  the  town.  He  was  a 
short,  lively  man,  a  good  physician,  and  well  known  and 
highly  esteemed.  He  died  Dec.  3,  1813,  ae.  67.  Mercy, 
his  wife,  died  Feb.  6,  1820,  ae.  72.  He  left  two  sons, 
Ensign  Jr.,  and  Isaac.  The  last  studied  medicine  and 
commenced  practice  in  Meriden  in  i8o2.2  He  died  Feb. 
26,  1852,  ae.  71.  During  his  residence  in  Meriden  he 
had  a  large  practice,  but  retired  from  the  active  duties 
of  his  profession  in  comparatively  early  life.  Sally 
Bradley,  daughter  of  Dr.  Ensign  Hough,  died  Aug.  11, 
1864,  ae.  85  years. 

1  Dr.  Blakeman's  Address  before  the  Conn.  Med.  Soc.,  1853. 

2  See  Biographical  Notices. 


466  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Dr.  Wyllys  Woodruff  commenced  practice  here  in 
1825,  in  connection  with  Dr.  Hough.  He  was  born  in 
Southington,  Aug.  6,  1801,  and  was  a  son  of  Isaac  Jun., 
and  Abigail  (Clark),  Woodruff.  He  studied  medicine 
with  Dr.  Jacob  Brace  of  Newington,  and  Dr.  Julius  S 
Barnes,  of  Southington,  and  was  graduated  at  the  Yale 
College  Medical  School  in  1823.  He  married  ist,  Jane 
Curtis,  and  2nd,  Mary  Lewis.  After  Dr.  Woodruff's 
death,  she  married  Henry  C.  Butler,  of  Meriden.  Dr. 
Woodruff  had  two  daughters  ;  the  oldest  married  Thomas 
Hubbard.  Dr.  Woodruff  was  a  slender  built  man,  with 
light  hair  and  eyes.  His  attention  was  given  wholly  to 
his  business,  yet  he  was  of  a  very  social  disposition,  fond 
of  anecdote,  and  also  took  an  active  interest  in  church 
affairs.  He  died  of  typhoid  fever  March  31,  1842,  uni- 
versally beloved  for  his  many  estimable  qualities,  and 
highly  esteemed  for  his  medical  skill. 

The  day  that  Dr.  Woodruff  died,  a  message  was  sent 
to  Haddam  by  some  of  the  leading  citizens  of  Meriden, 
for  Dr.  Benjamin  H.  Catlin  to  come  to  Meriden  and  take 
the  practice  of  Dr.  Woodruff.  He  came  here  April  i, 
made  arrangements  for  his  removal,  and  commenced 
practice  here  April  5,  1842.  He  is  now  (18/0)  in  full 
practice.1 

Dr.  Andrews  commenced  practice  here,  living,  in  the 
old  house  west  of  the  residence  of  Aaron  Collins.  He 
afterwards  built  the  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
Sidney  Hall.  He  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  Gardner  Bar- 
low, a  graduate  of  the  Yale  College  Medical  School,  of 
the  class  of  1845.  Dr.  Barlow  died  of  consumption  in 
1854,  in  the  forty-seventh  year  of  his  age.  He  built  the 


I  See  Biographical  Notices. 


PHYSICIANS.  467 

house  now  owned  by  Dr.  Tait.  He  was  a  man  well 
posted  in  his  profession,  of  few  words,  indomitable 
energy,  and  although  possessing  delicate  health,  had  a 
larger  practice  than  any  other  physician  in  the  town  in 
his  day.  Dr.  Morris  was  here  in  1829,  for  about  two 
years.  He  returned  again  in  1832,  but  remained  but  a 
short  time.  He  bought  and  lived  in  the  house  of  the 
late  Walter  Booth,  on  South  Broad  Street.  Dr.  Brown, 
a  Thompsonian  doctor,  came  here  from  New  Britain,  and 
lived  in  the  house  now  occupied  by  A.  H.  Curtis  on 
South  Broad  Street.  He  remained  here  a  few  years  and 
removed  to  Ohio. 

Dr.  William  H.  Allen  was  born  in  Hebron,  Conn.,  in 
1819.  He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Stratton  of  Mid- 
dletown,  and  afterward  with  Dr.  Lapham  of  New  York. 
After  practising  in  New  Britain  one  year  and  in  Goshen 
about  six  months,  he  removed  to  Meriden  in  1840,  suc- 
ceeding Dr.  Fields,  who  had  practised  here  about  a  year. 
He  first  lived  in  the  house  then  occupied  by  Dr.  Fields, 
and  occupied  now  by  Mr.  Charles  Parker,  on  the  corner 
of  Main  and  High  streets.  Dr.  Allen  died  of  typhoid 
fever,  Sept.  4,  1850.  He  was  about  five  feet  seven 
inches  in  height,  and  weighed  about  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  pounds.  He  had  dark  hair  and  eyes  and  a 
very  high  forehead,  was  of  a  social  disposition,  fond  of 
company,  and  well  read  and  skillful  as  a  physician.  He 
built  the  house  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Levi  Butler, 
corner  of  Main  and  Center  streets.  He  left  four  chil- 
dren. 

Dr.  Edward  W.  Hatch  came  to  Meriden  in  December, 
1849,  and  retired  from  practice  in  1859,  to  assume  the 
office  of  Superintendent  of  the  State  Reform  School." 

I   See  Biographical  notices. 


468  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Dr.  H.  A.  Archer  was  born  in  Carlisle,  Cumberland 
County,  England,  April  8,  1820.  He  came  to  this  coun- 
try November  i,  1824.  His  father,  William  Archer, 
soon  became  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  by  legal  pro- 
cess, which  made  all  of  his  sons  who  were  minors 
citizens  also.  His  early  days  were  spent  upon  his 
father's  farm  in  Webster,  Mass.,  and  there  he  became 
acquainted  with  Rev.  John  Parker,  now  of  Meriden, 
who  at  that  time  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
preachers  of  the  Methodist  conference.  In  June,  1843, 
D-.  Archer  entered  the  office  of  Dr.  Amos  Beecher  of 


H.    A.    ARCHER,       M.    D. 

Barkhamstead,  Conn.,  as  a  medical  student,  there  pur- 
suing his  studies  until  the  autumn  of  1846,  when  he  en- 
tered the  medical  school  of  Yale  College.  At  that  time 
Col.  Dexter  R.  Wright,  formerly  of  Meriden,  now  of 
New  Haven,  who  has  since  distinguished  himself  as  an 
advocate  and  counselor  at  the  Connecticut  bar,  was  a 
student  in  the  law  school.  In  1847  Dr.  Archer  grad- 
uated and  received  his  degree  from  the  medical  college 
of  Kentucky.  In  the  spring  of  1847  he  commenced 


PHYSICIANS.  469 

practice  in  the  town  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  continuing 
there  until  January,  1850,  when  upon  the  invitation  of 
some  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  Meriden,  he  re- 
moved here  and  continued  in  practice  until  the  autumn 
of  1857,  when  he  sold  out  to  Dr.  John  Tait  and  removed 
to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  John  Tait,  the  successor  of  Dr.  Archer,  was  his 
assistant  for  a  short  time,  and  finally  succeeded  him  in 
practice.  He  bought  the  house  built  by  Dr.  Barlow  and 
afterward  owned  by  Dr.  Archer,  which  he  remodeled  a 
few  years  ago.  Dr.  Timothy  F.  Davis  came  here  in 
1850,  succeeding  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Allen,  and  for  eighteen 
years  had  a  large  and  successful  practice.1  Dr.  Lewis 
Barnes  came  to  Meriden  in  1852,  and  had  his  office  in 
the  Meriden  Bank  building.  He  removed  in  a  short 
time  to  Oxford,  Conn.,  where  he  now  resides.  Dr.  W. 
N.  Dunham,  a  homoeopathist,  came  here  in  1856,  re- 
mained a  short  time,  and  disposed  of  his  practice  to  Dr. 
C.  W.  Ensign  who  came  from  Tarifville.  Dr.  M.  F. 
Baldwin  was  herein  1856.  Dr.  G.  Herrick  Wilson,  of 
the  school  of  Hahneman,  came  here  in  1857,  and  has 
built  up  a  large  practice.  Dr.  Roswell  Hawley  was  in 
Meriden  in  1858.  Dr.  Asa  Hopkins  Churchill,  a  graduate 
of  the  Yale  Medical  school  in  1857,  succeeded  Dr.  E. 
W.  Hatch  in  1859. 

Dr.  James  Wylie  was  born  in  Kilwinning,  Ayreshire, 
Scotland,  in  1829.  He  was  graduated  in  surgery  from 
the  University  of  Glasgow  in  the  session  of  1852-3,  and 
in  1853  came  to  this  country.  In  1854  he  commenced 
practice  in  Meriden.  In  1868  he  took  a  medical  and 
surgical  degree  from  a  medical  school  in  Philadelphia, 
and  returned  to  Meriden  where  he  still  practices. 

I  See  Biog.  Notices. 


47O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORI). 

Dr.  Nehemiah  Nickerson,  a  graduate  of  the  N.  Y. 
Medical  School,  came  here  for  the  second  time  in  1865, 
and  was  for  a  time  associated  with  Dr.  Wylie.  After 
about  three  years  he  went  to  Missouri,  and  returned 
again  to  Meriden  in  1870,  and  is  now  practising  here. 
Dr.  Frederick  Fitch,  a  graduate  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital 
Medical  School,  came  here  in  1866.  Dr.  J.  J.  Averill,  a 
graduate  in  1866  of  the  Yale  Medical  School,  came  here 
in  1866.  Dr.  John  McMahon,  a  graduate  of  Harvard 
University  Medical  School,  came  here  in  1867  and  re- 
moved to  Boston  in  1869.  Dr.  Charles  H.  S.  Davis,  a 
graduate  of  the  New  York  University  Medical  School, 
came  here  from  Baltimore  in  1867,  succeeding  his  father 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  Dr.  Bodyfield  came 
here  in  1869,  but  removed  to  New  Britain  in  a  short 
time.  In  1870  Dr.  Hamlin,  a  graduate  of  the  Bellevue 
Hospital  Medical  School,  Dr.  Charles  Mansfield  and  Dr. 
E.  Newport,  the  last  two  Homeopathists,  commenced 
practice  in  Meriden. 

When  Dr.  Isaac  Hough  commenced  practice,  the 
usual  fee  for  visits  was  twenty-five  cents.  In  Dr.  Wood- 
ruff's time  it  was  three  shillings  ;  obstetrical  fee  three 
dollars.  When  Dr.  Catlin  commenced  practice  here  the 
fee  was  fifty  cents,  but  soon  went  up  to  seventy-five  cents. 
Soon  after  Dr.  T.  F.  Davis  commenced  practice  the 
usual  charge  was  one  dollar,  then  one  dollar  and  twenty- 
five  cents.  In  January,  1868,  the  Meriden  City  Medical 
Association  adopted  the  following  fee  table  : 

"For  first  visit  each  day,  $i  50  ;  subsequent  visit  same 
day,  $i  oo ;  visit  to  Hanover,  $2  oo  ;  visit  at  night  from  10 
P.  M.  to  6  A.  M.,  $2  oo  ;  detention  during  nights,  $3  oo 
to  $5  oo  ;  visit  in  consultation,  $3  oo  ;  obstetrical  fee  $10  oo  ; 
obstetrical  fee  with  instruments,  $15  oo  ;  travel  per  mile  from 


PHYSICIANS.  471 

city  limits  within  five  miles,  50  cts. ;  vaccination,  $i  50; 
vaccination  at  office  $i  oo  ;  office  advice,  75  cts.;  reducing 
fractures,  $5  oo  to  $15  oo  ;  reducing  dislocation,  $3  oo  to 
$15  oo. 

"  The  foregoing  Table  contains  the  standard  fees  of  the 
Medical  Profession  of  Meriden.  They  shall  be  increased 
according  to  the  judgment  of  the  practitioner  concerned,  in 
all  cases  of  extraordinary  detention  or  attendance.  Also,  in 
proportion  to  the  importance  of  the  case,  the  responsibility 
attached  to  it,  and  services  rendered  when  these  are  extraor- 
dinary. They  shall  be  diminished  at  the  discretion  of  the 
Physician  when  he  believes  the  patient  cannot  afford  to  pay 
the  regular  fees,  and  yet  is  able  to  make  some  compensation. 
It  shall  however  be  considered  as  unprofessional  to  diminish 
the  standard  fees  with  a  view  to  mercenary  competition." 


4/2  HISTORY    OK    WALL1NGFORD. 


CHAPTER  XXX. 

MANUFACTURES. 

IT  has  been  said  that  no  people  that  holds  labor  in  deris- 
ion can  maintain  its  position  for  three  centuries.  Too 
many  people  spend  their  time  and  waste  their  substance 
upon  vain  projects  for  getting  rich  without  labor.  Physi- 
cal labor  was  cherished  by  all  classes  of  our  ancestors 
with  great  care.  They  found  themselves  obliged  to  fell 
the  trees  and  till  the  ground,  that  they  might  have  bread. 
Agriculture  has  been  the  chief  resource  and  occupation 
of  a  majority  of  the  people,  but  such  is  the  surface  of 
our  town,  so  much  of  it  is  covered  with  rocky  and  barren 
ridges,  that  if  we  had  remained  exclusively  an  agricultural 
town,  our  population  would  not  have  increased,  and  our 
pecuniary  circumstances  would  have  been  equally 
cramped.  Yet  our  fathers  were  satisfied  if  they  could 
obtain  enough  from  the  ground  to  support  their  families. 
Their  wants  were  few  and  easily  satisfied.  They  manu- 
factured their  own  garments,  and  the  hand-card  and  spin- 
ning-wheel were  in  nearly  every  habitation.  Here  lived, 

"The  good  old  farmer  .   .   . 
In  his  ancestral  home  —  a  Puritan 
Who  read  his  Bible  daily,  loved  his  God, 
And  lived  serenely  in  the  faith  of  Christ. 

.  .  .  His  life  had  run 
Through  varied  scenes  of  happiness  and  woe ; 


ymti 


MANUFACTURES.  473 

But,  constant  through  the  wide  vicissitude 
He  had  confessed  the  giver  of  his  joys, 
And  kissed  the  hand  that  took  them." 

The  prosperity  of  Meriden  is  due  in  a  great  degree  to 
its  manufactories.  In  1791  Mr.  Samuel  Yale  began  to 
manufacture  cut  nails.  He  and  his  son  worked  in  a 
small  shop  on  the  hill,  near  the  present  site  of  the  Center 
Congregational  church.  Their  little  machine  was  worked 
by  their  own  hands,  and  each  nail  was  "  headed "  sepa- 
rately and  by  hand.  About  the  year  1794  Mr.  Yale 
commenced  the  manufacture  of  buttons  on  a  small  scale. 
They  were  made  of  pewter,  and  would  be  considered  by 
us  a  coarse  and  rough  article.  But  at  that  time  they 
met  a  ready  sale.  For  a  long  time  only  two  or  three 
men  were  employed  in  the  business.1 

IVORY    COMBS. 

Ivory  combs  were  first  made  in  this  country  by  An- 
drew Lord,  of  Saybrook,  Conn.,  about  eighty  years  ago. 
He  cut  out  the  plates  and  the  teeth  by  hand  with  a 
hand-saw  ;  a  slow  and  expensive  process.  John  Graham 
of  Boston,  and  Mr.  Tryon,  of  Glastenbury,  made  ivory 
combs  about  the  same  time,  on  a  small  scale  ;  the  latter 
person  using  machinery.  Ezra  and  Elisha  Pratt,  of 
Hartford,  also  manufactured  the  article  about  seventy- 
five  years  ago,  cutting  the  teeth  by  hand,  like  Mr.  Lord. 
Abel  Pratt,  of  Saybrook,  made  ivory  combs  seventy-two 
years  ago.  He  sawed  the  plates  by  hand,  and  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  were  considered  a  good  day's  work  ;  where- 
as by  the  present  improved  processes,  over  four  thousand 
can  be  sawed  out  in  one  day  by  one  man.  He  cut  the 
teeth,  however,  with  circular  saws,  and  machinery  moved 

I   Perkins. 


474  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

by  hand,  and  afterwards  by  wind.  Ezra  Williams  also 
commenced  the  same  business  in  Saybrook  soon  after 
Mr.  Pratt,  and  began  to  saw  the  plates  by  machinery 
moved  by  water-power.  This  establishment  afterwards 
was  known  by  the  name  of  George  Read  &  Co.  Great 
improvements  have  been  made  there  in  the  machinery, 
and  at  one  time  nearly  all  the  ivory  comb  business  in 
the  country  was  done  by  that  firm.  Various  other 
attempts  to  carry  on  this  business  have  been  made,  most 
of  which  have  not  succeeded.  At  the  present  time, 
most  of  the  ivory  combs  made  in  America,  are  manu- 
factured in  Connecticut,  and  nearly  two-thirds  of  the 
whole  are  made  in  Meriden. 

The  business  was  commenced  in  Meriden  in  1819,  by 
Merriam  &  Collins,  who  used  the  best  machinery 
known  at  that  time.  Their  establishment  was  not  long 
continued.  Howard,  Pratt  &  Co.,  began  to  manufacture 
ivory  combs  in  Meriden  in  1822.  This  firm  was  after- 
ward known  as  Julius  Pratt  &  Co.  Walter  Webb  & 
Co.  commenced  the  business  in  1831  ;  Philo  Pratt  & 
Co.,  in  1836.  The  business  of  the  latter  firm  was  sub- 
sequently transferred  to  Walter  Webb  &  Co.,  and  Mr. 
Pratt  became  a  partner.  October  6,  1863,  Julius  Pratt 
Si  Co.  united  their  interest  with  George  Reed  &  Co. 
and  Pratt  Brothers  &  Co.,  of  Deep  River,  forming  a 
joint  stock  company,  with  a  capital  of  175,000  dollars, 
under  the  name  of  Pratt,  Reed  &  Co.  This  company  at 
their  manufactories  at  Deep  River  and  in  this  town, 
now  turn  out  from  15,000  to  20,000  combs  daily,  or  over 
six  millions  annually,  besides  an  endless  amount  of 
piano  and  melodeon  ivory,  etc.  Quantities  of  the  combs 
are  exported  to  all  parts  of  North  and  South  America, 
and  some  are  sent  to  England. 


MANUFACTURES.  475 

s 

BRITANNIA     AND     PLATED    WARES. 

The  history  of  Wallingford  would  not  be  complete 
without  some  account  of  the  manufacture  of  electro- 
plated wares  which  constitute  so  conspicuous  a  part  in 
the  industrial  interests  of  the  town.  Indeed,  the  present 
prosperity  and  hopes  of  future  growth  in  population  and 
wealth  are  so  largely  dependent  upon  the  enterprises 
connected  with  this  manufacture,  that  we  should  not  do 
ourselves  justice  to  omit  so  important  a  feature  of  the 
town.  This  industrial  department  embraces  the  various 
manufactures  of  white  metal,  pewter,  britannia,  silver- 
plated  and  electro-plated  wares. 

Among  the  prominent  names  of  manufacturers  of 
pewter  and  britannia  wares  in  this  section,  at  an  early 
day,  were  those  of  Boardman,  Yale  and  Griswold.  The 
Boardmans  located  at  Hartford  ;  Griswold  at  Meriden ; 
and  Charles  and  Hiram  Yale  in  Wallingford.  In  the 
early  history  of  their  business  their  goods  were  sold 
chiefly  by  peddlers.  The  best  pewter  ware  was  a  com- 
pound of  English  tin,  known  as  block  tin,  and  lead,  in 
proportions  of  about  one-fifth  lead  to  four-fifths  tin. 
The  poorer  quality  contained  more  lead  and  antimony 
and  less  of  tin  ;  and  hence  more  scouring  was  required  to 
keep  the  wares  bright.  At  first  these  wares  rarely  ex- 
tended beyond  plates,  platters,  basins,  mugs,  spoons,  etc. 

The  power  at  first  employed  was  of  a  truly  primitive 
character,  being  a  balance-wheel  turned  by  a  crank  in 
the  hand  of  a  man.  A  lathe  was  connected  with  this 
balance-wheel  by  means  of  a  belt.  On  this  lathe  the 
wares  were  turned  and  burnished.  The  spoons  were 
used  either  in  the  rough  state  as  they  came  from  the 
mould,  or  were  scraped  by  hand  and  burnished.  With 


476  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

the  exception  of  the  spoons  these  goods  were  sold  by 
the  pound  and  not  by  the  dozen  ;  and  they  were  known 
by  the  dealers  as  weight  ware. 

The  Yales  were  enterprizing  and  progressive  men, 
and  soon  took  the  lead  in  the  manufacture  of  pewter ; 
and  they  imported  from  England  some  skilled  artizans 
from  the  britannia  establishments,  where  the  wares 
were  made  of  a  superior  compound  known  as  britannia 
metal,  from  which  lead  was  excluded  altogether,  and 
metals  of  a  harder,  and  firmer  texture  were  used  ;  and 
hence  they  were  susceptible  of  receiving  and  retaining 
a  high  polish  of  which  the  pewter  was  incapable. 

By  this  means  the  Yales  took  the  lead  in  the  manu- 
facture of  britannia  goods,  such  as  tea-sets,  church 
service,  etc. ;  and  it  is  noteworthy  how  different  the 
manner  of  working  this  metal  was  in  those  days  com- 
pared with  what  it  is  now.  Then  it  was  all  cast  in 
moulds  of  the  shape  desired.  The  wares  were  then 
considered  very  fine ;  and  the  art  of  compounding  the 
metal  was  of  great  value. 

The  demand  for  this  ware  became  so  great  that  even 
horse-power  was  insufficient,  and  a  resort  to  water- 
power  became  necessary.  These  men  purchased  a 
water-power  known  as  Tyler's  Mills,  in  the  early  settle- 
ment of  New  Haven  County.  At  this  mill,  flouring  of 
grain  and  dressing  of  cloth  were  accomplished  for  the 
surrounding  country  ;  and  it  was  located  on  the  Quin- 
nipiac  river  in  the  north  part  of  Wallingford,  at  a  place 
now  known  as  Yalesville.  This  power  was  improved  by 
the  erection  of  a  new  and  substantial  dam  across  the 
entire  stream.  New  and  commodious  buildings  were 
also  erected  for  a  business  now  becoming  more  and 
more  extensive. 


MANUFACTURES.  4/7 

At  this  juncture  the  art  of  spinning  britannia  met- 
al was  introduced  into  this  country.  An  Englishman 
by  the  name  of  Seignor  instructed  some  apprentices 
in  the  art.  And  the  apprentice  system,  after  the 
custom  of  Great  Britain,  was  now  adopted  by  this 
company.  The  apprentice  was  bound  for  five  years  or 
seven  years  to  learn  the  trade  in  all  its  branches  ;  and  at 
the  close  of  the  apprenticeship  the  profound  secret  of 
compounding  and  fluxing  the  metal  was  imparted. 

Samuel  Simpson,  the  senior  partner  of  Simpson,  Hall, 
Miller  &  Co.,  served  an  apprenticeship  with  this  firm, 
beginning  April  i,  1829;  and  before  its  termination, 
Hiram  Yale,  the  junior  partner,  died.  Soon  after  this, 
Charles  Yale,  the  surviving  partner,  went  into  a  decline, 
which  was  precipitated  by  various  misfortunes  and  dis- 
couragements. Soon  after  the  expiration  of  Mr.  Simp- 
son's apprenticeship  Mr.  Yale  proposed  to  him  and  Mr. 
Williams,  his  former  foreman,  that  they  should  manufac- 
ture the  goods.  This  arrangement  went  into  effect  on 
the  ist  of  January,  1835.  Mr.  Yale  died  the  same  year. 
Mr.  Williams  soon  after  went  to  Philadelphia,  and  Mr. 
Simpson  remained  as  successor  to  the  Yales,  continuing 
the  manufacture  of  the  same  and  other  lines  of  goods. 
He  continued  the  business  until  January  i,  1847,  when 
he  sold  his  manufactory  to  John  Munson,  who  had  been 
with  him  a  number  of  years. 

About  this  time  the  art  of  electro-plating  was  intro- 
duced and  applied  to  britannia  with  very  favorable  prom- 
ise. Mr.  Simpson  soon  after  purchased  the  old  and 
well  known  water-power  next  below  Yalesville  on  the 
Quinnipiac  river,  previously  occupied  for  cloth-dressing 
and  wheat-flouring,  and  known  as  the  Humiston  mills. 
This  place  is  about  half  a  mile  west  of  the  railroacj 


478  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

depot  in  Wallingford.  The  place  was  fitted  up  by  Mr. 
Simpson  for  the  manufacture  of  silver  plated  ware. 
Instead  of  casting  in  moulds  as  formerly,  the  metal  was 
rolled  into  sheets  and  cut  up  into  required  sizes,  and 
shaped  by  means  of  chucks  and  dies  fitted  to  the  spin- 
ning lathe  and  the  power  press.  By  this  process  the 
white  metal,  after  plating,  is  susceptible  of  a  finish  as 
fine  and  almost  as  durable  as  sterling  silver,  and  at  a 
cost  of  not  more  than  about  one-fifth. 

At  this  period  plated  wares  were  generally  imported 
under  the  name  of  Sheffield  plate.  This  was  commonly 
plated  on  copper  under  the  old  process  of  close  plating. 
For  a  while  electro-plating  in  this  country  encountered 
a  deep-seated  prejudice.  But  a  test  soon  satisfied  the 
most  skeptical,  that  silver  put  upon  rolled  white  metal  by 
the  voltaic  battery  was  both  beautiful  and  durable. 
These  facts  being  well  established,  the  difficulty 
of  selling  the  goods  was  at  an  end ;  and  the  electro-plat- 
ing excitement  began. 

On  Jan.  ist,  1833,  John  Munson,  to  whom  Mr.  Simp- 
son had  previously  sold  the  manufacture  of  common 
britannia  goods  in  Meriden,  associated  with  him  two 
enterprising  young  men  by  the  name  of  Wilcox,  and 
under  the  joint  stock  law  organized  an  incorporated 
company  by  the  name  of  the  Meriden  Britannia  Compa- 
ny. This  new  company,  energetic,  enterprising,  and 
fully  alive  to  passing  events,  induced  Mr.  Simpson  to 
stock  his  business  with  theirs.  This  arrangement  took 
effect  Jan.  i,  1854.  After  this  Mr.  Simpson  took  an 
active  part  in  the  new  company,  and  was  not  known 
separately  in  the  market  until  1866,  when  the  Meriden 
Company  proposing  to  build  a  large  shop  near  their 
office  in  Meriden  and  to  concentrate  all  their  works  to- 


MANUFACTURES.  479 

gather,  Mr.  Simpson,  after  careful  deliberation  in  the 
exercise  of  his  best  judgment,  dissolved  his  connection 
with  them,  preferring  to  remain  at  his  old  establish- 
ment in  his  native  town. 

SIMPSON,     HALL,    MILLER   &    CO. 

On  the  2nd  of  July,  1866,  Mr.  Simpson  associated 
with  him  some  practical  business  young  men  and  some 
skilled  artizans,  under  the  name  of  Simpson,  Hall,  Miller 
&  Co.  From  such  an  origin  and  under  such  favorable 
auspices,  there  is  now  established  in  Wallingford  a 
business  of  great  importance  to  the  welfare  and  pros- 
perity of  the  town  ;  one  which  may  be  regarded  among 
the  foremost  for  general  utility,  and  which  may  be 
classed  among  the  fine  arts.  The  prospects  now  are 
that  the  manufacture  of  white  metal,  for  which  Walling- 
ford has  been  noted  for  the  last  fifty  years,  will  be  en- 
tailed and  handed  down  to  other  generations,  with  all 
improvements  in  the  wares,  workmanship,  plate  and 
finish,  and  the  rigid  attention  to  business,  and  the 
honorable  and  liberal  dealing  of  the  present  pro- 
prietors. 

GERMAN    SILVER    WARE. 

Since  the  manufacture  of  plated  spoons  and  forks,  &c. 
on  German  or  nickel  silver  has  become  so  extensive  a 
business,  and  its  use  so  general,  it  may  be  interesting  to 
know  when  and  where  the  article  originated  in  the 
United  States.  We  suppose  that  there  can  be  no  ques- 
tion but  that  the  first  spoon  made  was  from  metal  mixed 
or  compounded  by  ROBERT  WALLACE,  now  of  the  firm  of 
Wallace,  Simpson  &  Co.,  of  Wallingford,  Conn.  Mr. 
Wallace  obtained  the  recipe  for  the  composition  of  a 
foreigner,  and  procured  the  nickel  and  other  necessary 


480  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

ingredients  in  New  York  in  1836,  he  at  this  time  being 
but  a  mere  boy,  and  in  the  employ  of  Deacon  Aimer  Hall, 
of  Wallingford,  who  manufactured  britannia  or  pewter 
spoons.  After  melting  a  few  pounds  of  the  different 
metals  together  agreeable  to  the  recipe,  he  took  the 
compound  to  one  of  the  mills  in  Waterbury,  and  had 
it  rolled  into  a  sheet  suitable  to  form  conveniently  into 
spoons.  He  had  it  worked  up  by  a  practical  sterling 
silver  worker  into  a  few  spoons.  It  proved  to  be  a  good 
thing,  looking  nearly  as  well  as  sterling  silver,  and  if 


ROBERT    WALLACE. 

anything,  more  substantial.  Mr.  Wallace  showing  what 
he  had  done  to  Deacon  Hall,  Mr.  Hall  at  once  saw  the 
utility  of  the  article,  and  immediately  took  means  to 
secure  the  services  of  Mr.  Wallace  and  other  practical 
men,  and  in  a  small  way  commenced  the  manufacture 
of  tea  and  table  spoons.  For  some  time  the  sale  of 
them  was  mostly  confined  to  trunk  peddlers,  who  at  that 
day  infested  the  country,  and  sold  their  ware  from  house 
to  house. 


MANUFACTURES.  481 

HALL,    ELTON    &    CO. 

In  1838,  Mr.  Hall  associated  with  William  Elton  and 
others,  under  the  name  and  firm  of  Hall,  Elton  &  Co. 
Mr.  Wallace  was  under  contract  with  this  company  a 
number  of  years,  when  in  1855,  he  associated  with  Mr. 
Simpson  and  the  other  stockholders  of  the  Meriden 
Britannia  Company,  and  formed  a  limited  copartnership 
for  ten  years,  under  the  name  of  R.  Wallace  &  Co., 
starting  the  manufacture  of  German  or  nickel  silver 
in  Mr.  Simpson's  factory,  located  on  the  Quinnipiac 
river,  known  as  Humiston's  mills ;  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  the  ten  years  the  same  individuals  incorporated 
under  the  joint  stock  law  under  the  name  of 

WALLACE,    SIMPSON    &    CO. 

The  Meriden  Britannia  Company  contracted  from  the 
beginning  to  take  all  the  manufactured  articles  produced 
by  the  new  firm ;  and  by  improving  the  water-power 
and  building  an  enlarged  factory  with  new  and  improved 
machinery,  they  are  now  able  to  turn  out  about  one 
thousand  dozen  spoons,  forks  etc.,  daily,  under  the  direct 
supervision  of  Mr.  Wallace,  who  it  is  generally  admitted 
cannot  be  surpassed  as  a  manufacturer,  either  in  point  of 
quantity  or  quality. 

Now  from  the  small  beginning  by  Mr.  Wallace  thirty- 
three  years  ago,  besides  the  large  business  done  by 
Wallace,  Simpson  &  Co.,  the  firms  of  Hall,  Elton  &  Co., 
and  Charles  Parker  Esq.  each  have  establishments 
making  a  large  amount  of  the  same  kind  of  goods  in 
Wallingford.  Then  there  are  two  large  establishments 
in  Waterbury  in  the  same  business,  one  in  Wolcottville, 
one  in  East  Haddam,  and  one  in  Taunton,  Mass. 
Probably  all  told,  not  less  than  three  thousand  gross  are 


482  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

put  into  the  market  daily,  amounting  to  nine  hundred 
thousand  dozen,  or  ten  millions  eight  hundred  thousand 
single  articles  in  the  year,  and  this  in  addition  to  the 
millions  of  brass,  iron,  tin  and  britannia,  to  say  nothing 
of  the  sterling  silver  goods.  But  when  we  think  of  fifty 
millions  of  people  who  use  spoons  and  forks,  it  may  not 
seem  so  strange  that  one  out  of  five  has  a  new  plated 
one  every  year. 

MERIDEN     BRITANNIA    COMPANY. 

The  Meriden  Britannia  Company  was  established  in 
1852,  the  factory  at  that  time  being  near  the  site  of  the 
substantial  buildings  which  compose  the  present  exten- 
sive series  of  factories.  The  warehouse  in  New  York 
has  been  at  1 99  Broadway  since  1 860.  The  factory  embra- 
ces several  buildings,  the  chief  one  being  the  most  impos- 
ing structure  in  the  city.  Its  dimensions  are  527  feet  by 
40.  The  whole  number  of  buildings  is  about  half-a-dozen. 
They  are  principally  of  brick,  built  especially  for  the 
varied  purposes  of  the  business,  and  are  nearly  all  four 
stories  in  height,  and  occupy  four  acres  of  ground  in  the 
heart  of  the  city.  In  the  busiest  seasons  there  are  em- 
ployed in  all  the  various  departments  about  nine  hun- 
dred experienced  operatives  of  both  sexes.  The  value 
of  the  merchandise  usually  on  hand  at  one  time  at  the 
factory  and  warehouse  is  about  $1,000,000;  and  this 
estimate  is  independent  of  the  immense  amount  of  costly 
machinery,  tools,  etc.,  employed  in  the  manufactory. 
The  annual  sales  of  the  company  and  the  various 
companies  they  own  a  controling  interest  in,  average 
$2,500,000;  and  the  goods  are  now  sent  to  the  trade 
not  only  throughout  the  United  States,  but  largely  to 
the  British  Provinces,  West  Indies,  South  America, 


MANUFACTURES.  483 

Mexico,  Pacific  Coast,  and  even  to  England,  France, 
parts  of  Africa,  to  Australia  and  to  China.  The 
specialities,  or  leading  lines  of  these  goods  are  nickel 
silver  and  fine  white  metal  electro-plated  wares.  All 
these  are  enumerated  and  elaborately  illustrated  in  the 
price-list  and  appendix  issued  by  the  house  ;  one  edition 
of  which,  inclusive  of  the  numerous  splendid  engravings, 
cost  them  nearly  $40,000.  This  item  alone  is  signifi- 
cant of  the  liberality  and  enterprise  of  the  company. 
Another  fact  worthy  of  note  is  that  they  manufacture 
more  pieces  of  nickel  silver  and  table  ware  than  all  other 
similar  establishments  in  the  world  combined,  outside  of 
Connecticut.  This  company  manufacture  of  nickel 
silver,  20,000  pounds  per  month  ;  of  white  metal  goods, 
from  40,000  to  50,000  pounds  per  month  ;  and  during 
twelve  months  in  1868  and  1869  they  used  in  electro- 
plating over  $200,000  worth  of  pure  silver. 

On  our  tour  through  the  establishment,  which  by  the 
way,  comprises  one  mile  of  flooring  forty  feet  in  width, 
we  were  particularly  struck  with  the  huge  size  of  much 
of  the  machinery,  for  instance,  the  rollers,  which  are  the 
largest  used  in  this  kind  of  business  in  the  United 
States  ;  one  press  for  raising  and  imparting  the  orna- 
mental figures  to  the  wares,  weighing  26,000  pounds,  and 
having  a  stamping  and  pressing  power  of  perhaps  400 
tons.  The  amount  of  coal  used  is  about  1,500  tons  per 
year.  The  most  important  part  of  the  machinery  used 
was  made  expressly  for  the  company  and  patented  by 
them  ;  and  one  additional  evidence  of  the  excellence  of 
the  manufactures  is  found  in  the  fact  that  the  older 
members  of  the  concern  have  had  constant  practical 
experience  in  the  business  for  between  thirty  and  forty 
years.  The  officers  of  the  company  are  as  follows : 


484  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

HORACE  C.  WILCOX,  President  ;  DENNIS  C.  WILCOX, 
Secretary  ;  GEORGE  R.  CURTIS,  Treasurer ;  ISAAC  C. 
LEWIS,  Superintendent. 

WOOLEN    GOODS. J.    WILCOX    &    CO. 

One  of  the  most  extensive  manufactories  in  Meriden 
is  that  of  Mr.  JEDEDIAH  WILCOX,  President  of  the  cor- 
poration of  J.  Wilcox  &  Co.,  whose  history  supplies 
another  addition  to  the  remarkable  instances  of  success- 
ful enterprise.  Mr.  Wilcox  commenced  the  manufacture 
of  carpet-bags  in  1848,  and  labored  industriously  in  the 
business  until  1850,  and  had  at  that  period  accumulated 
a  capital  of  only  $1,500.  He  then  associated  with  him- 
self a  partner  who  contributed  an  equal  sum ;  and  that 
year  their  sales  amounted  to  $75,000.  This  partnership 
however,  did  not  continue  beyond  the  year,  when  Mr. 
Wilcox  purchased  his  partner's  interest  and  continued 
the  business,  which  rapidly  increased,  and  in  1853  he 
admitted  two  partners,  establishing  the  firm  name  of  J. 
Wilcox  &  Co.,  which  is  still  retained.  The  manufacture 
of  ladies'  belts  was  soon  added  to  the  business.  Mr. 
Wilcox  not  only  attended  to  the  general  business  of  the 
firm,  but  himself  sold  all  the  goods  manufactured,  which 
sales  soon  amounted  to  $300,000  per  year.  A  large 
number  of  hands  were  employed  in  the  factory,  and 
teams  were  run  through  this  and  all  the  adjoining  towns 
delivering  work,  and  thus  hundreds  of  families  were 
furnished  employment. 

In  1858  the  manufacture  of  hoop-skirts  was  com- 
menced, which  soon  became  so  much  in  demand  that 
the  sale  of  these  alone  soon  amounted  to  $300,000 
per  year.  For  several  years,  skirts  and  corsets  were 
the  leading  articles  of  the  firm's  manufacture.  The  prin- 


J.WILCOX'S     MANUFACTORY. 


MANUFACTURES.  485 

cipal  factory  was  then  situated  on  the  corner  of  Pratt  and 
Camp  streets,  having  a  front  of  160  feet,  and  an  average 
depth  of  1 15  feet.  At  this  factory  about  four  hundred 
dozen  skirts  were  made  daily,  and  a  proportionate  quan- 
tity of  corsets.  Two  other  shops  in  town  were  also  en- 
gaged in  making  skirts  for  the  firm.  There  were  over 
five  hundred  hands  employed.  In  1860  it  being  difficult 
to  obtain  the  tape  used  in  the  manufacture  of  skirts,  a 
building  135  by  40  feet,  two  and  one-half  stories  high, 
was  erected  a  few  rods  south  of  the  other  buildings  in 
Pratt  street,  and  filled  with  woolen  machinery  for  the 
manufacture  of  balmoral  skirts.  An  extensive  dye- 
house  and  other  buildings  were  soon  added,  and  a  large 
boarding  house  for  the  convenience  of  the  operatives. 
The  firm  now  consisted  of  five  members,  and  in  1864, 
was  organized  into  a  joint  stock  corporation  with  a  capi- 
tal of  $200,000,  the  stockholders  and  directors  being 
Jedediah  Wilcox,  Hezekiah  H.  Miller,  Charles  H.  Col- 
lins, Eli  I.  Merriman  and  Edmund  N.  Wilcox.  In  1865 
the  capital  stock  was  increased  to  $300,000,  and  the 
company  were  doing  a  very  large  and  profitable  business, 
when  the  works  were  destroyed  by  fire  on  the  third 
of  May,  1865.  This  was  the  largest  fire  which  ever 
occurred  in  Meriden,  destroying  $250,000  worth  of 
property.  It  was  however  well  insured,  and  the  company 
immediately  commenced  erecting  the  splendid  brick 
mill  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street,  which  is  filled 
with  costly  machinery  for  the  manufacture  of  various 
kinds  of  woolen  goods,  in  which  500,000  pounds  of 
wool  is  consumed  yearly.  The  company  manufacture 
large  quantities  and  various  styles  of  ladies'  cloakings, 
shawls,  flannels,  balmoral  skirts,  cassimeres,  etc.,  and  so 
high  do  these  goods  stand  in  the  market  that  they  are 


486  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

often  compelled  to  run  their  works  nights   to   fill    their 
orders. 

GUNS  AND  HARDWARE. CHARLES  PARKER. 

CHARLES  PARKER  commenced  the  manufacture  of  coffee- 
mills  in  1832,  in  a  factory  25  feet  by  40,  two  stories  high, 
with  horse  power.  He  now  occupies  sixteen  different 
buildings,  with  dimensions  as  follows :  No.  i,  office  and 
plating  room,  18  feet  by  45.  No.  2,  coffee-mill  and 
burnishing  shop  with  additions,  20  by  26,  used  as  a  store 
and  varnish  room  ;  also  addition  for  a  coffee-mill  shop,  1 5 
by  25.  No.  3,  spectacle  shop,  20  by  108.  No.  4,  tobacco- 
box  shop  and  friction  rollers.  No.  5,  coffee-mill  shop, 
etc.,  25  by  30,  with  addition,  used  as  a  store  and  varnish 
room.  No.  6,  vise  shop,  25  by  160.  No.  7,  engine  and 
boiler-room,  29  by  48.  No.  8,  finishing  shop,  24  by  100. 
No.  9,  store-house,  60  by  100.  No.  10,  screw  shop,  30 
by  200.  No  u,  foundry,  66  by  360,  with  additions. 
No.  12,  blacksmith-shop,  16  by  20.  No.  13,  coal  house, 
20  by  20.  No.  14,  annealing  shop,  20  by  20.  No  15, 
coffee-mill  shop,  30  by  45,  with  additions,  28  by  25,  for 
oiling  shop  ;  also  a  japanning  room,  10  by  15.  No.  16, 
packing-room  and  carpenter-shop,  30  by  30.  These 
buildings  have  been  built  from  time  to  time  as  the  busi- 
ness increased  and  demanded  more  room.  The  motive 
power  is  furnished  by  an  80  horse-power  Corliss  engine. 
Mr.  Parker  has,  in  connection  with  business  here  four 
other  concerns  controlled  by  him  ;  one  located  two  miles 
east  of  the  city,  one  two  miles  west,  one  two  miles  south, 
and  another  half  a  mile  west,  where  there  are  made  iron 
spoons,  ladles  and  forks,  scales  and  hinges,  machinery 
and  guns,  britannia  spoons,  and  German  silver  spoons 
and  forks  ;  employing  at  these  four  concerns  at  different 
localities  about  three  hundred  persons,  besides  two 


MANUFACTURES.  487 

hundred  which  are  occupied  in  manufacturing  coffee-mills, 
screws,  spectacles,  eye-glasses,  tobacco-boxes,  vises,  butts, 
lanterns,  match-safes,  faucets,  iron  bench-screws,  scis- 
sors and  shears,  cranks  and  rollers,  barn-door  hangers 
and  rollers,  gate  and  plain  hinges,  gridirons,  bed-keys, 
wagon-jacks,  scrapers,  pulleys,  lamp-hooks,  window- 
springs,  thumb-latches,  hammers,  gimlets,  call  and 
hand-bells,  &c. 

Probably  there  is  no  manufactory  in  the  country  that 
manufactures  such  a  variety  of  goods  as  Mr.  Parker. 
Among  other  inventions  and  improvements  introduced 
to  the  public  by  Mr.  Parker,  is  a  breech-loading,  double 
barreled  shot-gun,  which  is  the  result  of  over  two  years  of 
the  most  thorough  experiments,  and  is  claimed  to  be  the 
best  gun  in  use  in  this  or  any  other  country.  The  bar- 
rels are  self-locked.  The  advantages  claimed  for  his 
cartridge  are,  that  it  is  a  central-fire,  coned,  metallic 
cartridge,  and  is  capped  with  the  ordinary  percussion 
caps.  The  weight  of  the  gun  is  from  7  1-4  to  7  3-4  Ibs. 
In  connection  is  the  United  States  Screw  Company, 
incorporated  in  1863,  owned  by  Mr.  Parker.  The  ma- 
chinery for  this  branch  of  his  business  is  all  new  and  of 
the  most  approved  kind. 

THE    MERIDEN    CUTLERY    COMPANY. 

The  business  of  this  house  dates  its  origin  as  far  back 
as  the  year  1834,  when  its  pioneers,  Messrs.  G.  &  D.  N. 
Ropes  were  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cutlery  in 
the  state  of  Maine.  They  were  the  earliest  manufac- 
turers of  American  cutlery.  A  few  years  afterward  Mr.  A. 
R.  Moen  of  New  York,  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
table  cutlery  in  Wethersfield,  Conn.  His  business  passed 
into  the  hands  of  Messrs.  Julius  Pratt  and  Co.,  of 
Meriden,  and  they  conducted  it  for  about  two  years,  hav- 


488  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ing  their  office  in  Water-street,  New  York.  In  1845  a 
company  was  formed  in  West  Meriden  which  consoli- 
dated the  business  of  the  two  establishments  under  the 
firm  style  of  Pratt,  Ropes,  Webb  &  Co.,  Mr.  D.  N. 
Ropes  having  been  the  junior  partner  of  the  pioneer 
house.  He  erected  a  factory  in  Hanover,  where  the  firm 
carried  on  the  business  till  1855,  when  the  present  joint- 
stock  company  was  formed,  and  succeeded  to  the  business 
under  the  now  well-known  name  of  the  Meriden  Cutlery 
Company.  The  factory  consists  of  a  series  of  substan- 
tial buildings,  occupying  from  four  to  five  acres  of  ground, 
its  vast  workshops  being  about  six  in  number.  The 
buildings  comprising  the  main  works  and  wing  are 
four  stories  high,  300  feet  by  36 ;  the  forge  shop  is  one 
story,  1 60  feet  by  38  ;  the  tempering  house  one  story,  80 
feet  by  20  ;  the  joiner's  repair  shop  two  stories,  50  feet 
by  25  ;  the  plating  house  two  stories,  45  feet  by  36 ;  and 
the  steel  and  store-house  two  stories,  70  feet  by  30.  A 
new  and  commodious  building  for  the  business  offices 
has  recently  been  erected.  On  other  portions  of  the 
grounds  the  company  have  built  numerous  tenements 
which  already  accommodate  some  sixty  families  of  their 
operatives,  while  the  building  which  constitutes  their 
boarding-house  provides  for  at  least  one  hundred  men. 
The  number  of  men  employed  ranges  from  300  to  400. 
The  company  use  water-power  exclusively.  This  is  sup- 
plied by  their  dam,  the  overflow  of  which  is  nearly  200 
feet  wide,  and  equal  to  300  horse-power.  The  works 
are  supplied  with  a  turbine  wheel  which  cost  about 
$6,000  before  leaving  the  establishment  where  it  was 
made.  The  coal  used  by  the  company  and  consumed 
chiefly  in  the  forge  department,  amounts  to  over  800 
tons  a  year.  The  steel  is  both  of  American  and  English 


MANUFACTURES.  489 

production.  The  materials  for  the  handles,  such  as 
pearl,  ivory,  rubber,  horn,  and  such  woods  as  cocoa, 
ebony  and  rose,  are  all  imported.  The  rubber  is  vul- 
canized in  this  country.  The  goods  manufactured  by 
this  house  embrace  about  five  hundred  different  styles. 
Mr.  J.  C.  Breckenridge,  who  died  in  April,  1870,  was 
.connected  with  the  works  for  twenty-two  years.  He 
entered  the  establishment  as  a  mechanic,  and  by  his  own 
energy  and  abilities  rose  by  degrees  to  be  foreman  and 
finally  superintendent,  which  post  he  occupied  for  about 
ten  years. 

JAPANNED    AND    TIN    WARE. IVES,    RUTTY    &    CO. 

Nathan  F.  Goodrich  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
japanned  and  tin  ware  about  forty  years  ago,  in  a  build- 
ing twenty  by  fifteen  feet.  The  business  was  continued 
two  years,  when  the  firm  was  Goodrich  &  Rutty,  and 
remained  under  that  name  till  1852,  when  Eli  Ives  and 
Elias  Howell  were  admitted,  making  it  Goodrich,  Ives 
&  Rutty.  Mr.  Goodrich  retired  in  1864,  and  Edwin 
R.  Crocker  and  Nelson  Payne  were  admitted,  making  the 
firm  Ives,  Rutty  &  Co.  They  occupy  a  two  story  building 
built  in  the  form  of  a  hollow  square,  330  by  28  feet. 
They  employ  seventy  persons,  and  use  4,000  tons  of 
tin  annually.  The  manufactory  is  located  nearly  a  mile 
from  the  Meriden  Post-Office,  south. 

LAMP    TRIMMINGS  &C.  —  EDWARD    MILLER   &  CO. 

The  firm  of  Edward  Miller  &  Co.  was  incorpora- 
ted in  1866  with  a  capital  of  $200,000.  EDWARD  MILLER, 
President,  F.  J.  SEYMOUR,  Secretary,  and  W.  H.  PERKINS, 
Treasurer.  The  manufacture  is  principally  lamp  trim- 
mings for  oil,  fluid  and  kerosene  lamps,  besides 
numerous  articles  from  brass,  copper,  German  silver, 
H  H 


49°  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

iron  and  britannia.  An  extensive  rolling  mill  is  also 
connected  with  the  works  ( the  building  being  70  by 
140  feet),  erected  in  the  fall  of  1868  for  the  manu- 
facture of  brass  for  their  own  consumption.  The 
main  building  is  210  by  40,  with  wing  100  by  40  feet. 
The  motive  power  is  furnished  by  a  150  horse-power 
engine,  Corliss  pattern,  Harris's  make,  with  three  cyl-. 
inder  boilers,  4  by  16  feet.  This  company  use  300,000  Ibs. 
of  brass,  and  do  a  business  of  $300,000  annually.  This 
business  was  commenced  about  twenty  years  ago  by 
Edward  Miller,  using  foot  and  horse-power,  making  as  a 
speciality  candle-stick  springs,  which  have  continued  to 
be  made  up  to  the  present  time,  having  barrels  of  them 
ordered  in  one  day. 

MERIDEN    MALLEABLE    IRON  CO. 

The  Meriden  Malleable  Iron  Company  was  incorpo- 
rated in  1868,  being  successors  of  J.  H.  Canfield  &  Co., 
and  Lyon,  Augur  &  Co.  The  main  building  is  of  brick, 
31  by  73  feet,  three  stories,  and  is  used  for  a  finishing 
shop.  There  are  besides  two  buildings  adjoining,  50  by 
104  feet,  and  40  by  1 10  feet,  and  another,  24  by  36  feet, 
all  one  story.  The  motive  power  is  furnished  by  a  thirty 
horse-power  Corliss  engine,  made  by  Harris,  with  one 
cylinder  boiler.  The  works  are  located  near  the  railroad 
in  the  northern  part  of  the  city,  and  can  be  seen  from 
the  cars,  which  pass  in  close  proximity  to  them.  The 
concern  employs  sixty  persons,  and  manufactures  on  an 
average,  twenty  tons  of  malleable  iron  and  twenty  tons 
of  grey  iron  per  month,  besides  house-furnishing  hard- 
ware, etc.,  etc. 

CASTERS.  —  FOSTER,    MERRIAM    &    CO. 

Foster,  Merriam  &  Co.,  incorporated  in  1866,  for  the 
manufacture  of  furniture  casters,  with  a  capital  of 


MANUFACTURES.  49! 

$80,000.  The  building  is  100  by  30  feet,  three  stories  high, 
with  brass  foundry  attached,  30  by  30  feet ;  iron  foundry, 
built  in  1865,  of  brick,  100  by  60  feet,  with  wing,  30  by 
40  feet.  This  company  employs  sixty  persons,  and  turns 
out  about  50,000  sets  of  casters  per  month,  besides 
screws  for  piano  stools,  etc.  They  make  40,000  Ibs.  of 
castings,  and  consume  40  tons  of  iron  per  month,  the 
motive  power  being  furnished  by  a  1 5  horse-power  en- 
gine, built  in  1849.  This  business  was  established  about 
1835.  JOHN  SUTLIFF,  President;  ALBERT  FOSTER, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

HARDWARE.  THE  PARKER    &    WHIFFLE    CO. 

The  Parker  and  Whipple  Co.  was  incorporated  in  1868, 
with  a  capital  of  $100,000,  being  successors  to  Parker 
and  Whipple,  who  are  the  officers  of  the  company.  The 
firm  of  Parker  and  Whipple  commenced  here  in  1859  and 
continued  so  up  to  the  date  of  incorporation.  The  main 
building  is  75  by  100  feet,  used  as  a  lock  shop.  The 
foundry  is  60  by  70,  with  wings,  30  by  40  feet ;  a  brass 
foundry,  30  by  25  feet,  and  other  buildings  are  used  in  the 
prosecution  of  the  business.  The  works  cover  about 
one  half  acre,  and  are  situated  about  one  mile  west 
from  the  railroad.  This  company  employs  seventy  per- 
sons, and  uses  300  tons  per  year  of  iron,  and  50,000  Ibs. 
of  brass.  They  manufacture  principally  door  locks  and 
knobs,  builders'  hardware  and  trimmings.  J.  E.  PARKER, 
President ;  HENRY  J.  P.  WHIPPLE,  Treasurer. 

SPOKES    AND    WHEELS. 

ELIHU  HALL  &  Co.  of  Wallingford  were  incorporated 
January,  1864,  for  the  manufacture  of  carriage  wheels, 
spokes,  hubs,  &c.,  with  a  capital  of  $15,000.  E.  HALL, 
President,  E.  H.  IVES,  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  This 


492  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

company  are  successors  to  E.  Hall  &  Sons,  who  com- 
menced here  in  1856,  the  business  being  previously 
established  by  the  father  in  1835.  The  main  building  is 
40  by  80,  three  stories,  built  of  wood,  with  an  addition 
30  by  50,  two  stories.  This  company  manufacture 
about  400,000  spokes  and  2000  sets  of  wheels  per  year. 
The  works  are  located  near  the  depot. 

BUTTONS. 

The  POMEROY  MANUFACTURING  Co.  of  Wallingford 
was  incorporated  in  1856,  with  a  capital  of  $15,000,  for 
the  manufacture  of  buttons  of  every  variety.  The 
manufactory  is  located  about  three  quarters  of  a  mile 
east  of  the  depot,  covering  about  one  half  an  acre.  The 
power  is  furnished  by  an  overshot  wheel,  the  fall  here 
being  sixteen  feet.  This  company  do  a  business  of 
$20,000  per  year.  L.  POMEROY,  President;  F.  MILLER, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

BORING    TOOLS. 

GAYLORD  BROTHERS  commenced  business  in  Walling- 
ford in  1864,  manufacturing  gimlets  and  boring  tools. 
Their  building  is  about  30  by  50,  two  stories.  They 
employ  about  fifteen  persons.  The  power  is  furnished 
by  a  twenty-four  feet  breast  wheel,  the  fall  being  twenty- 
one  feet,  located  on  Waterman's  brook,  a  branch  of  the 
Quinnipiac,  about  one  mile  east  of  the  depot. 

SILK    MANUFACTURE. 

The  Community  Silk  Factory  in  Wallingford  was 
established  in  1869.  It  is  situated  on  a  valuable  water- 
power  near  the  village,  and  employs  about  30  hands  in 
the  manufacture  of  machine  twist.  The  works  are  now 
( 1870)  in  process  of  enlargement.  Amount  of  raw  silk 
consumed  annually,  3640  Ibs.,  valued  at  $36,000. 


MANUFACTURES.  493 

PIANO     STOOLS. 

E.  D.  CASTELOW  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
piano  stools  in  1860.  He  now  occupies  a  building  75 
by  22  feet,  two  stories  high,  with  wing  20  by  12  feet,  one 
story  high,  located  on  Mechanic  street,  Meriden.  Mr. 
Castelow  employs  seven  persons,  and  consumes  25,000 
feet  of  lumber  annually  in  the  manufacture  of  his  stools 
and  the  boxing  of  them  ;  turning  out  about  nine  dozen 
piano  stools  per  week,  besides  stools  for  stores,  shops,  etc. 

TIN    WARE. 

S.  S.  CLARK  commenced  the  manufacture  of  plain  and 
japanned  tin  ware  about  the  year  1838,  the  business  hav- 
ing been  established  about  fifty  years  previous.  For  the 
past  year  he  has  turned  his  attention  to  the  manufacture 
of  coal  oil,  tin  and  iron  goods,  lanterns  and  lantern 
trimmings.  The  building  is  on  Main  street,  Meriden, 
and  is  60  by  90  feet,  two  stories,  and  employs  sixty 
persons. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

C.  ROGERS  &  BROTHERS  commenced  in  1865  the  manu- 
facture of  coffin  trimmings,  tea-pot  knobs,  spoons  and 
forks,  etc.  They  occupy  a  building  20  by  23  and  20  by 
.20,  respectively.  They  do  a  business  of  about  $30,000 
per  year. 

A.  H.  MERRIAM  commenced  business  in  Meriden  in 
April,  1868.  He  manufactures  turning  and  drill  lathes, 
presses,  punches,  etc.  He  employs  five  persons,  and  his 
works  are  run  by  a  Corliss  engine. 

WILMOT  BROTHERS  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
elastic  furniture  and  door  fenders  about  1860.  The 
monthly  productions  are  about  $3,000  worth. 


494  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

CHARLES  A.  ROBERTS  occupies  a  two  story  building 
20  by  30  feet,  located  on  Crown-street,  Meriden,  for  the 
manufacture  of  stationery  goods,  such  as  inkstands,  pen- 
racks,  bill-files,  weights,  etc.  He  commenced  here  in  1852. 

The  WILCOX  SILVER   PLATE  Co.  was  incorporated  in 

1865.  Capital  $250,000.     The  PARKER  &  CASPAR  Co., 
manufacturers  of  silver  plated  ware,  was  incorporated  in 

1866,  with  a  capital  of  $60,000.     In  1869  this  company 
became  associated  with  the  Wilcox  Silver  Plate  Co. 

The  MERIDEN  STEAM  MILL  LUMBER  Co.  was  incor- 
porated in  1867.  Capital  $75,000. 

G.  I.  Mix  &  Co.  occupy  a  large  factory  at  Yalesville  in 
the  manufacture  of  tinned  iron  spoons,  and  hollow  ware. 

The  QUINNIPIAC  PAPER  Co.  are  established  at  Quin- 
nipiac,  two  miles  south  of  Wallingford  village,  for  the 
manufacture  of  printing  paper. 

In  1849  tne  manufactures  in  Meriden  were  as  follows, 
omitting  the  ordinary  mechanic  arts  which  furnished 
articles  for~use  in  the  town  : 

JULIUS  PRATT  &  Co.;  ivory  combs.  Employed  forty-two 
hands.  WALTER  WEBB  &  Co. ;  ivory  combs.  Employed 
thirty-three  hands.  PRATT,  ROPES,  WEBB  &  Co. ;  table 
cutlery.  Employed  seventy-five  hands.  CURTIS,  MORGAN  & 
Co. ;  locks,  latches,  and  small  iron  castings.  Employed 
fifty  hands.  Raw  material,  annually  consumed,  $12,000. 
CHARLES  PARKER,  coffee-mills,  latches,  vises,  britannia  and 
plated  spoons  and  various  iron  castings.  Employed  sixty 
hands.  C.  &  E.  PARKER  ;  brass  and  iron  castings.  OLIVER 
SNOW  &  Co. ;  iron  pumps,  and  all  kinds  of  machinery  to  or- 
der. Employed  twenty  hands.  FOSTER,  MERRIAM  &  Co., 
casters,  and  a  variety  of  brass  and  iron  castings.  Employed 
fourteen  hands.  Raw  material,  $8,000.  JULIUS  PARKER; 
harness  trimmings,  hinges  and  iron  castings.  Employed 


MANUFACTURES.  495 

eight  hands.  HENRY  M.  FOSTER;  Spring  balances  and 
steelyards.  Employed  three  hands.  JULIUS  IVES;  cast  iron 
inkstands.  Employed  three  hands.  H.  T.  WILCOX  ;  steel- 
yards and  bit  braces.  Employed  seven  hands.  Raw  material 
$7,000.  SANFORD,  PARMELEE  &  Co. ;  augers,  skates,  rakes 
and  bits.  Employed  forty  hands.  STEDMAN  &  CLARK  ; 
plain  and  japanned  tin  ware.  Employed  forty  hands.  Raw 
material  $20,000.  GOODRICH  &  RUTTY;  plain  and  japanned 
tin  ware.  Employed  eighteen  hands.  Raw  material  $10,000. 
LAUREN  T.  MERRIAM;  plain  and  japanned  tin  ware.  Em- 
ployed twenty-five  hands.  Raw  material  $6,000.  H.  W. 
CURTIS;  plain  and  japanned  tin  ware.  Employed  eight 
hands  Raw  material  $6,000.  CHARLES  POMEROY  ;  plain 
and  japanned  tin  ware.  Employed  eighteen  hands.  BLAKES- 
LEE,  STILES  &  Co. ;  plain  and  japanned  tin  ware.  Employed 
four  hands.  CHARLES  WATERMAN  ;  kettle  ears  and  candle- 
sticks. Employed  five  hands.  FRARY  &  BENHAM  ;  britannia 
ware.  Employed  ten  hands.  Raw  material  $20,000.  WM. 
LYMAN  ;  britannia  ware.  Employed  six  hands.  ISAAC  C. 
LEWIS  ;  britannia  ware.  Employed  eight  hands.  Raw  ma- 
terial $8,000.  S.  L.  CONE;  britannia  ware.  Employed  four 
hands.  L.  G.  BALDWIN  ;  britannia  ware  and  spoons.  Em- 
ployed five  hands.  CROCKER  &  PRATT;  brass  and  plated 
articles,  like  letters  for  signs,  lamp  chains,  stove  ornaments,  &c. 
Employed  twenty  hands.  EDWIN  BIRDSEY  ;  wood  turning, 
wooden  combs  and  packing  boxes.  Employed  fifteen  hands. 
Raw  material  $8,000.  BIRDSEY  &  WILLIAMS  ;  bone  buttons. 
Employed  twelve  hands.  Raw  material  $7,000.  H.  GRISWOLD  ; 
bone  buttons.  Employed  twenty  hands.  Raw  material,  $8000. 
CALVIN  COE  ;  neat's  foot  oil,  ground  bones  and  gypsum. 
Employed  four  hands.  WM.  HALE;  suspenders.  Hands 
worked  at  their  own  houses.  Raw  material  $20,000.  JEDE- 
DIAH  WILCOX  ;  carpet  bags.  W.  K.  &  S.  L.  TREAT  ;  sashes, 
blinds  and  doors.  Employed  five  hands.  OSGOOD  &  Co. ; 
platform  scales.  Employed  three  hands.  SAMUEL  YALE; 
tin  ware  and  lamp  screws.  Employed  four  hands. 


496  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER  XXXI. 

WALLINGFORD  COMMUNITY. 

THIS  institution  is  located  about  one  mile  west  of  the 
village  of  Wallingford.  Its  buildings  occupy  a  conspic- 
uous site  on  the  old  Hartford  and  New  Haven  turnpike, 
commanding  a  view  of  the  Quinnipiac  valley  for  several 
miles  in  either  direction.  Its  orchards,  vineyards  and 
gardens,  extend  from  the  banks  of  the  river  nearly  to 
the  summit  of  "Mount  Tom,"  as  the  Communists  have 
named  the  high  land  west  of  their  dwellings. 

The  Wallingford  Community  consists  of  between 
forty  and  fifty  members,  and  is  a  branch  of  the  well 
known  Oneida  Community,  in  the  State  of  New  York, 
the  two  institutions  holding  their  interests  in  common, 
and  exchanging  men  and  means  as  circumstances  re- 
quire. Its  domain  consists  of  240  acres,  which  are 
chiefly  devoted  to  grazing  and  the  production  of  straw- 
berries, raspberries,  grapes  and  other  small  fruits.  Its 
harvest  of  strawberries  has  amounted  in  a  single  year  to 
over  one  thousand  bushels.  Less  attention  is  however, 
given  by  the  Communists  at  the  present  time  to  horticul- 
ture than  formerly.  Their  main  industries  now  are  print- 
ing and  silk-manufacturing.  Their  printing-office  is  some- 
what noted  for  its  excellent  work,  and  attracts  its  share 
of  patronage  from  the  neighboring  cities  and  villages, 
besides  accommodating  the  citizens  of  Wallingford. 


WALLINGFORD    COMMUNITY. 


497 


The  silk  manufactory  has  been  in  operation  less  than  a 
year,  and  affords  employment  to  about  thirty  hands 
exclusive  of  superintendents.  It  is  regarded  as  a  branch 
of  the  Oneida  silk-factory,  where  about  one  hundred 
hands  are  employed.  The  silk  made  here  is  sent  to 
Oneida  to  be  colored,  spooled  and  otherwise  prepared 
for  the  market. 

The  founders  of  the  Wallingford  Community  were 
representatives  of  old  and  respectable  families  of  Wall- 
ingford. It  was  commenced  in  1851  by  Mr.  Henry 
Allen1  and  family,  including  his  wife  and  four  children, 


HENRY   ALLEN. 

and  his  sister,  Miss  Eliza  A.  Allen.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen, 
having  become  convinced  of  the  truth  of  the  principles 
held  by  J.  H.  Noyes  and  the  Oneida  Communists,  deter- 
mined to  embody  them  in  practical  life,  and  accordingly 
invited  members  from  the  Oneida  Community  to  assist 
in  the  formation  of  a  Community  here.  Of  these  dele- 

i  Henry  Allen,  son  of  Jared  and  Abigail  Allen,  born  May  30,  1804,  m. 
Emily  H.  Button,  whose  grandfather  Col.  Wm.  Douglass  was  an  officer  of 
the  revolution. 


498  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

gates  Mrs.  M.  E.  Cragin,  Mr.  L.  H.  Bradley,  Mr.  E.  H. 
Hamilton  and  Mrs.  S.  C.  Hamilton  were  most  efficient 
during  the  first  years  of  the  Community.  Mr.  B.  Bris- 
tol and  family  of  Cheshire  soon  joined  ;  additional 
members  came  from  Oneida  ;  an  occasional  addition  was 
made  from  surrounding  society  ;  and  thus  its  present 
number  has  been  attained.  It  should  be  mentioned  in 
this  connection,  that  the  community  have  not  for  some 
years  past,  received  any  new  additions  to  their  number, 
the  limit  of  their  accommodations  having  been  reached. 
The  principles  of  the  Wallingford  Community,  and  of 
the  kindred  societies  at  Oneida  and  Willow  Place,  New 
York,  in  respect  to  religion,  property  and  social  relations, 
are  peculiar,  and  have  been  subject  to  no  little  comment 
by  the  public  press.  Their  religious  doctrines  are  thus 
briefly  stated  in  their  publications: 

"  The  Communists  have  no  formal  creed,  but  are  firmly  and 
unanimously  attached  to  the  Bible  as  the  text  book  of  the 
spirit  of  truth  ;  to  Jesus  Christ  as  the  eternal  Son  of  God  ; 
to  the  Apostles  and  Primitive  Church,  as  the  exponents  of 
the  everlasting  Gospel.  Their  belief  is,  that  the  second 
advent  of  Christ  took  place  at  the  period  of  the  destruction 
of  Jerusalem  ;  that  at  that  time  there  was  a  primary  resurrec- 
tion and  judgment  in  the  spiritual  world ;  that  the  final 
kingdom  of  God  then  began  in  the  heavens  ;  that  the  mani- 
festation of  that  kingdom  in  the  visible  world  is  now 
approaching ;  that  its  approach  is  ushering  in  the  second  and 
final  resurrection  and  judgment ;  that  a  church  on  earth  is 
now  rising  to  meet  the  approaching  kingdom  in  the  heavens, 
and  to  become  its  duplicate  and  representative  ;  that  inspira- 
tion, or  open  communication  with  God  and  the  heavens,  involv- 
ing perfect  holiness,  is  the  element  of  connection  between  the 
church  on  earth  and  the  church  in  the  heavens,  and  the  power 
by  which  the  kingdom  of  God  is  to  be  established  and  reign 
in  the  world." 


WALLINGFORD    COMMUNITY.  499 

Thus  believing  that  the  prayer  —  "Thy  kingdom 
come,  thy  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven"  —  is 
to  be  fulfilled,  they  proceed  to  make  a  practical  applica- 
tion of  what  they  conceive  to  be  gospel  principles  to  all 
the  relations  of  life.  They  make  no  provision  for 
selfishness,  and  hence  exclude  from  their  society  all 
private  ownership.  They  endeavor,  in  short,  to  conform 
to  the  model  of  society  exhibited  to  the  world  on  the 
day  of  Pentecost,  when  "  the  multitude  of  them  that 
believed  were  of  one  heart  and  of  one  soul :  neither  said 
any  of  them  that  aught  of  the  things  which  he  possessed 
was  his  own  ;  but  they  had  all  things  common." 

The  Communists  do  not  limit  the  Pentecostal  prin- 
ciple to  ordinary  property  interests.  They  affirm  that 
the  same  spirit  which  abolished  exclusiveness  in  regard 
to  money,  on  the  day  of  Pentecost,  would  abolish,  if 
circumstances  allowed  full  scope  to  it,  exclusiveness  in 
regard  to  women  and  children.  Still,  they  claim  that 
they  are  not  "free  lovers"  in  the  common  sense  of  the 
term,  or  in  any  sense  that  makes  love  less  binding  or  re- 
sponsible than  it  is  in  ordinary  marriage.  They  call  their 
system  of  social  relations  "complex  marriage,"  and  say: 

"We  receive  no  members  (except  by  deception  or  mistake) 
who  do  not  give  heart  and  hand  to  the  family  interest  for  life 
and  forever.  Community  of  property  extends  just  as  far  as 
freedom  of  love.  Every  man's  care  and  every  dollar  of  the 
common  property  is  pledged  for  the  maintenance  and  pro- 
tection of  the  women  and  education  of  the  children  of  the 
Community.  Whoever  will  take  the  trouble  to  follow  our 
track  from  the  beginning  will  find  no  forsaken  women  or 
children  by  the  way.  In  this  respect  we  claim  to  be  in  ad- 
vance of  marriage  and  common  civilization." 

Among  the  advantages  of  their  new  mode  of  life,  as 
stated  by  the  Communists,  are  these :  the  abolishment 


5OO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

of  all  distinctions  of  rich  and  poor,  and  of  all  forms  of 
social  oppression  ;  the  elevation  of  labor ;  improved 
conditions  of  intellectual  and  religious  culture ;  greater 
variety  of  occupation  and  better  opportunities  for  the 
development  of  natural  talent ;  relief  from  anxiety  and 
corroding  cares  ;  and  superior  conditions  of  health. 

Education  is  a  subject  of  prime  interest  with  the 
associated  Communities.  An  academy  recently  erected 
at  Oneida,  now  under  the  superintendence  of  competent 


JOHN     HUMPHREY    NOYES.1 

instructors,  offers  good  educational  facilities  to  the  youth 
of  both  sexes  of  all  the  Communities.  Besides,  for  a 
number  of  years  the  Communities  have  maintained  two 

i  JOHN  HUMPHREY  NOYES,  son  of  Hon.  John  Noyes  of  Putney,  Ver- 
mont, and  sixth  in  direct  line  of  descent  from  Nicholas  Noyes,  who  emi- 
grated in  1634  and  settled  at  Newbury  Mass.,  was  born  at  Brattleboro,  VL, 
Sept.  3,  1811.  On  the  maternal  side  he  is  descended  from  the  Hayeses, 
Russells  and  Trowbridges  of  New  Haven  County.  Graduated  at  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1830;  studied  theology  at  Andover  and  New  Haven; 
was  licensed  to  preach  in  1833.  ^1&  license  was  soon  withdrawn  in  conse- 
quence of  his  radical  views  on  Salvation  from  Sin  and  other  topics. 
Founder  of  Oneida  and  Wallingford  Communities ;  author  of  the  Berean, 
a  theological  volume,  History  of  American  Socialisms  and  other  works. 


WALLINGFORD    COMMUNITY.  50 1 

or  more  students  in  a  collegiate  course  abroad.  At 
present  three  young  men  of  the  Wallingford. Community 
attend  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  at  New  Haven. 
The  Circular,  the  weekly  organ  of  the  Communities 
was  printed  here  during  the  years  1864-1868.  Their 
principal  publications  are,  the  Handbook,  a  pamphlet  of 
71  pages,  containing  a  sketch  of  the  history  and  doc- 
trines of  the  Communities,  and  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Noyes  their 
founder  ;  the  Berean,  a  doctrinal  work  of  500  pages  by 
Mr.  Noyes  ;  and  a  History  of  American  Socialisms,  also  by 
Mr.  Noyes.  The  last  named  work  was  recently  published 
by  Lippincott  &  Co.  of  Philadelphia,  though  printed  by 
the  Wallingford  Community.  It  contains  sketches  of  all 
the  socialistic  experiments  worthy  of  note,  which  have 
been  made  in  the  United  States  during  the  last  forty 
years. 


I  i 


5O2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER     XXXII. 

THE  MERIDEN  RIOT. 

IN  1837  there  was  a  strong  and  bitter  feeling  in  Meriden 
against  the  abolitionists.  It  is  true  the  propagation  of 
an  ultra  anti-slavery  feeling  among  the  people  of  the 
New  England  States  had  been  going  forward  for  many 
years  from  various  motives  and  in  various  methods  ;  but 
in  Meriden  the  soil  was  poor  for  its  growth  and  pros- 
perity. The  object  of  the  abolition  movement,  said  the 
democrats,  was  not  humanity ;  it  was  to  produce  a  sec- 
tional hatred  between  the  North  and  South.  In  1837  the 
vote  in  Meriden  was  Democratic  about  200,  Whig  about 
150,  Abolition  about  12.  The  abolitionists  in  Meriden 
were  principally  men  of  property  and  influence.  They 
evidently  believed  that  ideas  were  not  dug  from  the 
earth,  did  not  grow  upon  trees,  nor  were  rained  down 
from  heaven  ;  but  that  they  were  a  communicated  power, 
usually  received  from  without,  and  rarely  from  within. 
They  thought  that  slavery  was  a  monstrous  sin.  If 
others  doubted  it,  so  much  the  more  benighted  must 
they  be,  and  so  much  more  they  needed  enlightenment. 
The  number  of  abolitionists  was  small,  but  with  the  aid 
they  received  from  abroad,  they  were  enabled  to  create  a 
profound  sensation  by  their  labors. 


MER1UEN    RIOT.  503 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Granger  was  settled  as  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  society  in  1836  ;  but  was  not  interested 
in  the  anti-slavery  movement.  In  the  fall  of  1837  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Ludlow,  who  had  gained  some  notoriety  as  an 
anti-slavery  lecturer,  was  requested  by  Messrs.  Levi  Yale, 
Julius  Pratt,  Fenner  Bush,  Major  Cowles,  Zina  K.  Mur- 
dock  and  others,  to  deliver  a  lecture  in  the  Congregational 
church.  The  notice  was  given  from  the  pulpit  by  Mr. 
Granger  the  Sabbath  previous,  and  for  a  few  days  there 
was  considerable  excitement  in  the  town,  some  declaring 
that  Mr.  Ludlow  should  not  speak  in  the  church.  Mr. 
James  S.  Brooks  with  other  influential  men  used  their 
influence  to  prevent  the  meeting  being  held.  When  it 
was  found  that  it  was  impossible  to  prevent  the  meeting 
a  movement  was  organized  to  break  it  up  ;  and  parties, 
not  only  in  Meriden,  but  from  Berlin,  Southington  and 
Wallingford,  determined  to  be  present  and  break  up  the 
meeting  by  force,  if  necessary. 

The  day  arrived  for  the  meeting  and  Mr.  Ludlow,  who 
was  stopping  with  Mr.  Granger,  proceeded  to  the  church, 
the  basement  soon  being  filled  by  ladies  and  gentlemen, 
some  of  them  from  the  neighboring  towns.  Soon  after 
Mr.  Ludlow  commenced  speaking,  it  was  whispered 
around  that  trouble  was  brewing  outside  ;  the  door  was 
then  locked  and  several  benches  were  placed  against  it. 
A  large  number  were  congregated  outside,  most  of  them 
lookers-on,  not  intending  to  take  part  in  any  demonstra- 
tions. Several  stones  were  thrown  against  the  door  ; 
then  two  men  by  the  name  of  Thompson  procured  a  log 
of  wood  from  the  wood-pile  of  Mr.  R.  H.  Beckley,  who 
then  had  his  harness-shop  in  the  west  end  of  the  old 
tavern  ;  with  this  log  used  as  a  ram,  they  soon  battered 
down  the  door,  and  the  audience  were  at  once  showered 


504  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

with  rotten  eggs  and  other  missiles.  Several  ladies 
fainted,  and  many  of  the  audience  ran  through  the  cellar 
up  into  the  body  of  the  church.  Mr.  Luther  Beckley 
was  sexton  of  the  church  at  that  time,  and  he  attempted 
to  pass  through  the  cellar,  when  he  was  stopped  by  Mr. 
J.  Y.,  who  had  some  words  with  him,  and  finally  drew  a 
knife.  Mr.  Beckley  clinched  with  him  and  after  a  severe 
struggle  threw  him,  and  passed  on  to  the  upper  part  of 
the  house.  Mr.  Beckley  had  taken  no  part  in  the  riot, 
and  was  merely  a  spectator.  A  large  basket  of  eggs 
was  procured  from  the  store  opposite  the  tavern,  and  as 
soon  as  any  one  came  out  of  the  church  they  were  at 
once  made  a  target  for  the  eggs.  Mr.  Hotchkiss  and  his 
wife  from  Berlin  and  Mr.  Harlow  Isbell  were  severely 
treated.  Messrs.  Stephen  Seymour  and  Zina  K.  Mur- 
dock,  in  endeavoring  to  remove  Mr.  Ludlow  from  the 
crowd,  received  a  shower  of  eggs  and  stones.  There 
were  two  or  three  personal  encounters,  and  several  blows 
struck,  but  no  one  was  seriously  hurt.  A  number  of 
men  were  arrested  and  a  long  trial  ensued.  The 
Thompson  brothers  were  fined  fifty  dollars  and  impris- 
oned six  months.  The  cost  to  Mr.  Ira  Twiss,  who  kept 
the  tavern,  was  over  a  thousand  dollars. 

The  affair  created  a  great  deal  of  excitement  through- 
out the  state.  At  a  church  meeting,  February  24,  1838, 
a  resolution  was  offered  by  Mr.  Fenner  Bush,  expressing 
the  satisfaction  of  the  church  with  the  course  pursued 
by  Mr.  Granger  in  relation  to  the  "  Meriden  riots,"  and 
that  they  were  fully  convinced  that  he  advanced  no 
doctrine  unauthorized  by  the  word  of  God,  or  opposed 
to  the  dictates  of  humanity.  Twenty-eight  voted  for 
this  resolution,  and  a  solemn  protest  signed  by  fifteen 
members  of  the  church  was  presented ;  and  a  committee 


MERIDEN    RIOT.  505 

was  appointed  to  carry  the  vote  of  the  church  before  the 
Consociation.     The  following  was  the 

"Decision  of  the  Consociation,  March  14,  1838,  in 
reference  to  difficulties  submitted  to  them,  growing  out  of 
opposition  to  the  Anti-Slavery  cause. 

"TO  THE  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH  AND  SOCIETY  IN  MERIDEN: 

"  DEAR  BRETHREN  : — We  have  patiently  and  prayerfully 
considered  the  difficulties  between  you  and  your  Pastor,  and 
have  arrived  at  the  following  unanimous  result. 

"While  the  difficulties  are  a  subject  of  deep  regret  to  us  as 
friends  of  Zion,  we  feel  that  they  ought  to  lead  you  to  serious 
self  examination ;  for  the  Saviour  hath  said,  '  it  must  needs 
be  that  offences  come,  but  woe  unto  that  man  by  whom  the 
offence  cometh.'  Your  difficulties  do  not  seem  to  have 
originated  with  your  Pastor.  They  commenced  among  your- 
selves. We  conceive  that  your  complaint  against  him  arose 
from  the  decided  stand  he  was  compelled  to  take  after  the'dis- 
graceful  riot  that  occurred  here  in  October  last.  In  the  course 
he  then  pursued,  we  feel  that  he  is  to  be  justified.  He  exer- 
cised his  right  to  plead  a  cause,  against  which  the  hand  of 
violence  had  been  raised.  We  consider  that  he  would  have 
been  an  unfaithful  watchman,  if  he  had  not  lifted  up  his  voice 
in  defence  of  a  privilege  which  is  dearer  than  life  itself. 

"The  erroneous  principle  which  lies  at  the  foundation  of 
your  difficulties  we  discover  to  be  this  —  an  opinion  among 
some  that  the  subject  of  slavery  is  not  proper  to  be  introduced 
into  the  pulpit.  It  is  the  judgment  of  this  Consociation  that 
a  minister  is  at  perfect  liberty  to  introduce  into  the  pulpit  all 
subjects  that  pertain  to  the  relations  which  men  sustain  to  each 
other  and  to  God.  On  all  these  subjects  the  Bible  has  abun- 
dant instruction,  and  Ministers  must  not  shun  to  declare  the 
whole  counsel  of  God,  whether  men  will  hear,  or  whether 
they  will  forbear. 

"Your  Pastor  maintained  his  neutrality  on  this  subject  of 
slavery,  as  long  as  we  think  he  consistently  could  with  a 
sacred  regard  to  the  welfare  of  this  place,  and  the  interests  of 


506  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

eternal  truth.  Considering  the  peculiarly  trying  circum- 
stances in  which  he  was  placed,  we  admire  the  wisdom  and 
prudence  which  your  Pastor  exercised.  We  know  not  how 
any  one  could  have  conducted  better  for  the  interests  of  this 
community.  And  now,  we  discover  no  insuperable  obstacle 
to  his  influence  and  usefulness.  We  regard  your  Pastor  as 
an  able  and  faithful  minister  of  the  Gospel.  He  has  been 
useful  among  you  ;  —  he  may  be  still.  We  discover  no  good 
reason  why  your  Pastor  should  be  dismissed.  We  do  think 
the  source  of  existing  evils  is  among  the  people,  and  they 
should  strive  to  remove  it. 

"  But  had  your  pastor  been  guilty  of  such  conduct  as  should 
dissolve  his  connection  with  this  people,  we  can  not  too 
strongly  disapprove  of  the  measures  adopted  in  the  present 
case.  In  any  society  a  few  individuals  might  inflict  irrepara- 
ble injury  on  a  minister  and  on  a  community  by  circulating  for 
subscription  a  paper  drawn  up  in  an  informal  and  illegal  meet- 
ing. In  this  way  impressions  may  be  made  and  reports  may  be 
spread,  such  as  would  never  proceed  from  a  regular  meeting. 

"When  difficulties  arise  between  a  Pastor  and  his  flock,  efforts 
should  first  be  made  to  heal  them.  They  should  become  the 
subject  of  conversation  and  prayer  between  him  and  the  persons 
aggrieved.  Then  if  they  can  not  be  removed,  and  if  they  are 
such  as  call  for  a  separation  between  the  parties  concerned,  the 
Church  and  Society  should  proceed  in  the  same  open,  manly 
and  Christian  manner  to  remove  their  minister,  as  they  did  to 
settle  him.  In  this  respect,  the  Consociation  judge  that  an 
improper  course  was  adopted  by  those  who  moved  in  the 
recent  transaction  before  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Church 
and  Society. 

"  In  drawing  our  results  to  a  close,  we  are  constrained  to 
express  our  surprise  and  joy  to  find  no  more  serious  grounds 
of  complaint  between  you  and  your  Pastor.  By  cherishing 
towards  each  other  a  spirit  of  brotherly  kindness  and  charity, 
the  way  will  be  prepared  for  mutual  happiness  and  usefulness. 

"  We  entreat  you,  brethren,  remember  to  be  kind  and  court- 


MERIDEN    RIOT.  507 

ecus,  forbearing  one  another  and  forgiving  one  another,  if  any 
man  have  a  ground  against  any.  Forget  not  your  relations 
to  Christ,  to  one  another,  and  to  your  Minister.  In  all  these, 
cherish  the  spirit  of  Him  whose  you  are  and  whom  you 
serve." 

This  was  followed  with  a  "  declaration  of  general 
principles  "  and  signed  by  "  Leveritt  Griggs,  Scribe  of 
the  Consociation,  Meriden  March  14,  1838." 

Mr.  Granger  published 

"  A  sermon  preached  to  the  Congregational  Church  and 
Society  in  Meriden,  at  the  request  of  several  respectable 
Anti-Abolitionists." 

In  the  introduction  Mr.  Granger  states  that 

"  The  preaching  and  publication  of  the  following  sermon, 
have  been  occasioned  by  a  humiliating  scene  —  a  scene  that 
will  be  incorporated  into  the  future  history  of  our  hitherto 
quiet  and  peaceable  town,  and  go  down  the  line  of  posterity 
to  the  latest  period  of  recorded  time." 

"April  15,  1846.  The  Church  met  this  day  by  special 
appointment,  and  after  deliberation  adopted  the  following 
vote.  Resolved,  that  the  system  of  Slavery,  as  it  exists  in 
the  United  States,  is  essentially  sinful  and  admits  of  no 
justification  from  the  word  of  God." 


5O8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 


CHAPTER   XXXIII. 

BIOGRAPHIES. 

"  To  wryte  of  a  Mannes  Lyfe  mote  bee  enowe  to  saie  of  somme  he  was 
ybore  and  deceased ;  odher  somme  lacketh  recytalle,  as  manie  notable 
matters  bee  contained  in  yee  storie." 

Life  of  W.  Canynge,  hie  Rowley. 

DR.    AARON    ANDREWS 

Was  a  Son  of  Denizen  Andrews  of  Meriden,  and  was 
born  in  that  part  of  Wallingford.  He  settled  as  a 
Physician  in  the  first,  or  Old  Society.  He  owned  and 
occupied  the  house  now  owned  by  Samuel  B.  Parmelee 
Esq.  Doct.  Andrews  when  living,  was  regarded  by  his 
friends  and  neighbors  as  a  very  skillful  and  able  physi- 
cian, and  as  such  won  a  highly  enviable  position  with 
them  and  the  profession,  and  it  is  to  be  regretted  that 
a  more  extended  notice  of  him  could  not  be  made. 

DR.  JOHN  ANDREWS 

Was  a  Son  of  Dr.  Aaron  Andrews,  and  was  for  many 
years  an  influential  and  very  successful  physician  in 
Wallingford,  and  enjoyed  an  extensive  practice  with 
the  confidence  of  the  community.  He  was  often 
called  by  the  choice  of  his  fellow  citizens  to  fill  important 
offices.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  in  1818, 
which  gave  the  State  of  Connecticut  her  present  con- 


BIOGRAPHIES.  509 

stitution.  He  married  Abigail  Atwater,  a  daughter  of 
Capt.  Caleb  Atwater,  for  his  first  wife,  and  Anna  Noyes, 
daughter  of  Rev.  James  and  Anna  Noyes,  for  his  second 
wife.  After  her  decease  he  left  Wallingford  and  went  to 
Penfield,  Ohio,  to  spend  his  old  age  with  his  son,  and  died 
at  the  house  of  his  son  William,  aged  86  years.  His 
remains  were,  at  his  request,  brought  to  Wallingford  for 
interment. 

HON.    SHERLOCK   J.    ANDREWS 

Is  the  son  of  Dr.  John  Andrews,  and  was  born  in  Wall- 
ingford, Nov.  17,  1801.  He  was  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1821,  and  studied  law  in  the  Yale  Law  School. 
He  removed  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1825,  and  was  a 
member  of  Congress  from  Ohio  from  1841  to  1843.  He 
was  for  several  years  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Cleveland,  and  in  1851  was  a  member  of  the  convention 
that  formed  the  present  constitution  of  Ohio.  He  mar- 
ried in  1828  Ursula  McCurdy  Allen,  daughter  of  the 
Hon.  John  Allen,  late  of  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and  has  five 
children  ;  a  son  and  four  daughters. 

HON.    WILLIAM    ANDREWS 

Son  of  the  late  Dr.  John  Andrews,  was  born  in  Walling- 
ford, and  is  now  a  successful  farmer  at  Penfield,  Ohio. 
He  has  been  honored  by  frequent  elections  to  the  Legis- 
lature of  Ohio,  and  is  a  highly  respected  citizen  of  his 
adopted  state. 

HON.    JOHN    WHITING    ANDREWS 

Son  of  the  late  Dr.  John  Andrews,  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1830.  After  finishing  his  law  studies,  he 
went  to  Columbus,  Ohio,  where  he  soon  took  high  rank 
as  a  lawyer,  and  as  such  commands  the  respect  of  the 
people  of  the  whole  Community  in  which  he  lives. 


5IO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

JONATHAN    ATWATEk 

Was  a  merchant  of  New  Haven.  In  1702,  Feb.  12,  he 
bought  of  Henry  Cook  of  Wallingford,  one  hundred  and 
eighteen  acres  of  land,  near  the  Honey  Pat  Brook  in  the 
western  part  of  Wallingford,  now  Cheshire.  The  same 
farm  has  been  in  the  family  name  ever  since,  and  has 
come  down  as  follows :  first  to  Jonathan  Atwater  Jr.  ; 
second  to  his  son  Abraham  Atwater  ;  third  to  Samuel 
Atwater,  and  fourth  to  Flamen  Atwater ;  and  then 
recently  to  the  heirs  of  Flamen,  who  had  lived  to  the 
age  of  70  or  more  years,  and  was  born  on  the  place. 
This  branch  of  the  Atwater  family  emanates  from  a 
different  branch  than  others  of  the  same  name  in  Chesh- 
ire and  Wallingford,  although  of  the  same  original  stock. 

CAPT.    CALEB    ATWATER, 

Son  of  Joshua  and  Sarah  (Yale)  Atwater,  and  grandson 
of  John  Atwater,  the  first  of  the  name  who  permanently 
settled  in  the  village  of  Wallingford,  was  born  Sept.  5, 
1741.  At  suitable  age  after  the  decease  of  his  father, 
he  articled  himself  as  an  apprentice  to  learn  the  art, 
trade  and  mystery  of  shoe  and  harness  making  and  tan- 
ning leather.  At  the  termination  of  his  apprenticeship, 
he  commenced  business  for  himself,  adopting  as  his 
motto,  Be  diligent,  be  honest,  and  owe  no  man.  In 
the  different  branches  of  his  business  he  was  successful, 
and  as  soon  as  his  means  would  permit  he  opened  a 
store  of  goods.  At  this  time  his  business  rapidly  in- 
creased, and  for  many  years  he  was  extensively  and  suc- 
cessfully engaged  as  a  merchant.  He  was  endowed  with 
extraordinary  good  judgment  and  business  talent.  He 
seldom  if  ever  failed  of  success  in  any  of  his  numerous 
enterprises. 


BIOGRAPHIES.  51  I 

He  was  one  of  the  Connecticut  Land  Company  which 
purchased  of  the  state  of  Connecticut  the  Western  Re- 
serve or  New  Connecticut  in  Ohio  ;  and  though  one  of 
the  largest  purchasers,  he  found  it  convenient  to  pay 
cash  in  full  for  all  of  his  purchases  on  receiving  his 
deeds.  Among  other  lands  in  the  different  counties  of 
the  Reserve,  was  the  entire  township  of  Atwater  in 
Portage  Co.,  which,  with  the  exception  of  200  acres  set 
apart  for  religious  purposes  by  him,  he  gave  to  his  son 
Joshua ;  and  he  afterwards  caused  a  tract  of  land  in 
Auburn,  Granger  County,  to  be  surveyed  into  65  lots  of 
100  acres  each,  giving  one  lot  to  each  of  his  grandchil- 
dren, numbering  over  fifty,  and  the  balance  of  his  west- 
ern land  to  be. divided  among  his  children.  He  was  at 
this  time  a  man  of  great  wealth. 

For  many  years  he  was  a  worthy  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church,  and  was  highly  esteemed  and  honored 
by  all  who  knew  him.  At  the  advanced  age  of  91,  in 
the  full  enjoyment  of  his  mental  faculties,  he  died  deeply 
lamented. 

DEACON    JOSHUA    ATWATER 

Was  an  only  son  of  Caleb  and  Abigail  (Jones)  Atwater, 
and  was  born  February  8,  1773.  He  was  bred  a  mer- 
chant, and  for  several  years  occupied  the  old  stand  of  his 
father,  where  he  prosecuted  quite  an  extensive  busi- 
ness. He  was  a  highly  respected  gentleman,  honorable 
and  honest  in  all  his  business  transactions.  He  was  a 
deacon  of  the  Congregational  church  for  many  years, 
and  occupied  a  highly  respectable  position  among  all 
classes  of  his  fellow  citizens  in  his  native  town  and 
wherever  known.  He  died  at  the  age  of  89  years,  be- 
loved and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 


512  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

CALEB    ATWATER 

Son  of  Joshua,  and  grandson  of  Capt.  Caleb  Atwater, 
was  born  July  11,  1804;  removed  to  Atwater,  Ohio,  in 
1823,  to  take  charge  and  dispose  of  Western  Reserve 
Lands,  and  to  engage  in  merchandize.  That  country  at 
that  date  was  quite  new.  For  over  forty  years  he  resi- 
ded in  the  town  of  Atwater  and  city  of  Cleveland,  an 
interested  observer  of  the  growth  and  advance  of  the 
Western  Reserve  and  entire  state  of  Ohio  to  its  present 
greatness.  In  1865  he  removed  from  Cleveland  to  his 
native  town,  Wallingford,  the  oldest  remaining  member 
of  his  father's  family. 

DEACON    JOHN    ATWATER 

Son  of  Joshua  Atwater,  born  July  19,  1815,  now  resides 
at  his  father's  old  homestead,  which  was  the  home  of  his 
grandfather  and  great  grandfather,  it  being  the  same 
farm  originally  owned  and  occupied  by  his  great  great 
grandfather  John  Atwater,  who  was  son  of  David  Atwa- 
ter of  New  Haven,  and  who  was  one  of  the  original 
Planters  of  New  Haven,  A.  D.  1637. 

HON.    EDGAR    ATWATER 

Son  of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  Atwater,  and  grandson  of 
Caleb  Atwater,  was  a  young  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
promise  and  ability.  As  a  public  speaker  he  was  en- 
dowed with  an  uncommon  gift.  In  1841  he  was  elected 
a  Senator  from  the  sixth  Senatorial  district  to  the 
Connecticut  Legislature,  and  was  a  popular  and  a  very 
influential  member  of  that  body.  He  died  in  1850,  at 
the  age  of  38  years,  lamented  by  all  who  knew  him. 

JOHN  BAULCOT 

Of  Farmington,  Eng.,  came  into  Wallingford  about  the 
beginning  of  the  last  century,  and  settled  in  the  eastern 
section  of  the  town  on  an  old  road  that  formerly  ran 


BIOGRAPHIES.  513 

south  from  the  site  of  the  late  Col.  Russel  Hall's 
barn.  This  old  road  on  which  lived  a  number  of  families 
has  long  since  been  closed,  and  the  dwellings  they  once 
occupied  are  now  gone  to  decay.  His  will  was  dated 
Feb.  19,  1745-6,  and  is  recorded  in  the  books  of  the 
Probate  Court  at  New  Haven.  The  inventory  of  his 
property  amounted  to  ^1839,  los.  2d.  After  giving 
to  the  Congregational  Church  at  Wallingford  the  sum 
of  ,£3  for  a  Silver  Cup,  he  gave  "  all  the  remainder  of 
his  property  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  interest  of 
which  to  be  expended  towards  keeping  up  two  lectures 
in  said  first  church,  to  be  called  Baulcot's  Lectures, 
forever ;  but  if  any  of  his  brothers'  or  sisters'  children 
claim  the  property  within  forty  years,  then  the  estate 
shall  go  to  them."  He  married  Naomi  Thorp,  Dec.  20, 
1710. 

THOMAS    BEACH 

Was  a  son  of  John,  of  Stratford.  He  married  Ruth 
Peck,  May  12,  1680.  He  located  on  the  farm  late  the 
property  of  Cephas  Johnson,  and  built  the  old  house 
that  was  taken  down  to  make  way  for  the  present  one 
built  by  Mr.  Johnson  on  the  old  site.  He  died  in  Meri- 
den  May  13,  1741,  aged  82  years,  and  was  interred  in 
the  old  burying-ground  on  burying-yard  hill,  about  a 
mile  to  the  south-west  of  Meriden  center. 

JOHN     BEACH 

Came  from  New  Haven  to  Wallingford  with  the  first 
company  of  Planters  in  1670,  and  located  himself  in  the 
southerly  portion  of  the  town,  and  I  suppose  him  to  be 
a  brother  of  Thomas  Beach  above.  He  was  a  man 
of  some  consequence  in  the  settlement,  and  was  fre- 
quently elected  to  some  of  the  offices  in  the  gift  of  the 
people. 


514  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

STEPHEN    BEACH 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  March  15,  1790.  Without  the 
advantages  of  a  collegiate  education,  but  with  a  remark- 
able love  of  learning,  and  strong  intellectual  powers,  he 
became  a  good  scholar  and  an  excellent  preacher.  He 
was  admitted  to  Deacon's  Orders  in  St.  Michael's  Church, 
R.  I.,  by  Bishop  Griswold,  on  the  twentieth  of  October, 
1815.  Immediately  after  his  ordination  he  removed  to 
the  northern  part  of  Vermont,  where,  for  several  years, 
he  officiated  in  the  three  parishes  of  St.  Albans,  Fairfield 
and  Sheldon.  He  was  the  only  clergyman  of  the  Epis- 
copal church  of  that  day,  north  of  Vergennes.  He  was 
admitted  to  Priest's  orders  by  Bishop  Griswold,  in  Hold- 
erness,  N.  H.,  August  20,  1817.  In  1822  he  removed 
from  Vermont  to  take  charge  of  the  parish  at  Salisbury 
in  the  state  of  Connecticut.  Here  also  he  was  known, 
as  he  had  been  in  Vermont,  as  a  successful  founder  of 
churches,  and  his  name  is  gratefully  remembered  through- 
out that  part  of  the  State.  In  1833  he  removed  from 
Salisbury  to  Essex  in  the  same  State,  taking  charge  of 
that  parish  in  connection  with  St.  Stephen's  Church,  East 
Haddam.  Under  his  zealous  ministry,  each  of  these 
parishes  soon  grew  to  require  and  be  able  to  support 
the  entire  service  of  a  minister;  and  in  1836  Mr.  Beach 
resigned  the  parish  at  Essex  and  became  pastor  at  East 
Haddam.  His  ministry  in  this  place,  abundantly  blessed, 
was  continued  for  two  years  only,  when  he  died  at  the 
age  of  forty-seven,  on  the  fourteenth  day  of  January,  1838. 

In  1814  he  was  married  to  a  daughter  of  Amos 
Billings  of  Guilford,  Vermont.  Two  of  his  sons  are 
highly  respectable  clergymen  of  the  Episcopal  church  ; 
one,  Amos  Billings,  rector  of  Christ  church,  Binghamp- 


BIOGRAPHIES.  515 

ton,  N.  Y.,  the  other,  Alfred  Billings  (now  D.  D. ),  rector 
of  St.  Peter's  church,  New  York  city. 

Although  called  in  the  Providence  of  God  to  occupy 
positions  in  the  church  to  which  he  belonged  remote 
and  comparatively  but  little  known,  yet  it  may  be  said 
with  truth,  that  few  of  its  ministers  have  been  more 
useful,  or  have  in  the  same  period  of  time  done  more  in 
this  country  for  the  extension  of  that  church,  and  its 
permanent  establishment  in  destitute  places,  than  did 
Mr.  Beach. 

As  a  preacher,  he  was  remarkably  clear,  earnest, 
plain  and  instructive.  He  excelled  in  extemporaneous 
preaching.  Taking  a  strong  hold  of  what  he  regarded 
as  truth  or  duty,  his  conduct  was  always  consistent  with 
his  professions  and  convictions.  At  the  same  time,  he 
was  singularly  humble  and  charitable,  and  was  therefore 
greatly  respected  and  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him,  and 
not  less  by  those  who  were  not,  than  by  those  who  were, 
of  his  own  church  and  persuasion. 

MOSES    YALE    BEACH. 

The  life  of  Moses  Y.  Beach,  well  known  as  the  late 
proprietor  of  the  New  York  Sun,  the  pioneer  of  the 
penny  press,  while  it  presents  no  remarkable  variety  of 
changes  or  incidents,  is  attractive  in  tracing  the  steps 
of  a  determined  man. 

His  great  grandfather  and  grandfather,  both  bearing 
the  name  of  Moses  Beach,  each  lived  in  succession  on 
the  same  farm,  to  good  old  age,  ranking  among  the 
more  respectable  men  of  the  settlement ;  and  when  each 
in  turn  had  answered  the  call  of  nature,  their  pos- 
sessions passed  to  Moses  Sperry  Beach,  who  married 
Lucretia  Yale,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Elihu  and  Lucre- 
tia  ( Stanley )  Yale,  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Yale,  who 


5l6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

settled  in  Wallingford  in  1670.  Of  this  couple,  Moses 
Yale  Beach  was  an  only  son.  When  at  the  age  of  four 
months  Mr.  Beach  was  deprived  of  his  mother  by  the 
hand  of  death  ;  and  as  his  father's  business  called  him 
much  from  home,  he  was  confided  to  the  care  of  his 
step-mother.  As  soon  as  his  age  would  permit  he  was 
taught  to  do  "  chores,"  and  at  the  age  of  ten  years  he 
took  charge  of  considerable  of  the  out-door  work  on  the 
farm,  besides  going  a  long  distance  to  school.  From 
four  o'clock  in  the  morning  until  eleven  o'clock  at  night 
he  was  generally  up  and  doing,  and  yet  found  leisure  to 
exercise  his  mechanical  ingenuity  in  the  manufacture  of 
playthings  for  himself  and  others. 

At  a  suitable  age  he  was,  at  his  own  solicitation,  bound 
an  apprentice  to  Mr.  Daniel  Dewey,  a  cabinet  maker  at 
Hartford.  His  industry  soon  excited  the  attention  of 
his  master,  who  was  a  close  man,  but  who  finally  made 
a  contract  by  which  young  Beach  was  allowed  two  cents 
an  hour  for  extra  work.  Mr.  Beach  afterwards  said, 
that  he  never  felt  happier  at  any  time  during  his  life,  at 
success  in  any  thing,  than  he  did  on  the  occasion  of 
closing  that  contract.  Early  and  late  he  worked,  and 
the  pennies  began  to  accumulate.  Finally  he  made  a 
bargain  for  his  time  after  he  should  arrive  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  years,  for  which  he  was  to  pay  the  sum  of 
$400.  This  arrangement  gave  him  new  life,  and  when 
the  time  had  come  round  he  had  saved  between  one 
and  two  hundred  dollars  more  than  enough  to  pay  for 
his  freedom,  with  which  he  commenced  life. 

He  went  to  Northampton  and  worked  a  short  time  as 
a  journeyman.  After  a  while  he  formed  a  copartnership 
with  a  young  man  by  the  name  of  Loveland.  Their 
work  was  much  celebrated  ;  in  testimony  of  which  they 


BIOGRAPHIES.  517 

received  the  first  premium  of  the  Franklin  Institute. 
While  thus  employed  under  a  fair  sky,  he  married 
Nancy  Day  of  West  Springfield,  Mass. 

In  1835  ne  removed  to  New  York,  where  he  shortly 
after  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  Wisner  in  the  New 
York  Sun,  on  a  credit  of  $5,200.  In  the  course  of  the 
following  year,  he  bargained  with  Benjamin  H.  Day,  his 
partner,  for  the  remaining  half,  for  the  sum  of  $19,500. 
The  first  six  months  after  he  became  the  entire  owner  of 
the  paper  it  did  not  prove  as  profitable  as  he  had  expect- 
ed, and  he  was  ready  to  sell  it  out,  and  offered  it  and 
all  the  property  he  then  possessed,  if  any  one  would  take 
it  off  his  hands  and  pay  his  obligations  to  Mr.  Day  ;  but 
not  succeeding  in  effecting  a  sale,  he  went  to  work  with 
renewed  ardor,  and  before  two  years  had  passed,  the  last 
dollar  was  paid  off  and  he  was  once  more  in  the 
ascendant. 

From  1838  his  course  was  steadily  upward.  His 
ability  and  enterprise  in  the  management  of  his  busi- 
ness excited  the  envy  of  some  ;  but  notwithstanding 
this,  there  are  very  few,  if  any,  who  knew  him  personally, 
who  did  not  value  him  as  a  friend.  Notwithstanding 
his  many  and  severe  labors,  together  with  his  failing 
health  in  middle  life,  he  lived  to  the  age  of  sixty-nine 
years,  and  died  possessed  of  the  largest  estate  of  any 
native  of  Wallingford  who  had  died  in  the  town. 

CHILDREN. 

Drusilla  Brewster,  b.  Nov.  30,  1820;  m.  Alexander 
Kursted  of  Tannersville,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  i,  1848.  In  1849 
they  removed  to  Delaware  County,  N.  Y.  Moses 
Sperry,  b.  Oct.  5,  1822  ;  m.  Chloe  Buckingham  of 
Waterbury,  in  1842.  Resides  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Henry  Day,  b.  Aug.  8,  1824;  m.  Annie  Fordham.  Re- 
K  K 


5i8 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


sides  at  May's  Landing,  N.  J.  Alfred  Ely,  b.  Sept.  I, 
1826;  m.  Harriet  E.  Holcomb  of  Boston,  Mass.,  June  30, 
1847.  Resides  in  Stratford,  Conn.  Joseph  Perkins,  b. 


July    16,   1828;  m.  Eliza  M.    Betts  of  New  York  city, 
March  20,  1850.     Resides  in  Cheshire,  Conn.     Eveline 


BIOGRAPHIES.  519 

Shepherd,  b.  July  27,  1830;  d.  Aug.  18,  1830.  Mary 
Ely,  b.  Aug.,  1834;  d.  1834.  William  Yale,  b.  Jan.  7, 
1836;  m.  Emma  A.  Munson  of  Wallingford,  where  he 
now  resides. 

REV.    JOSEPH    BELLAMY,  D.   D. 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  parish  of  Cheshire,  1719.  He 
was  a  son  of  Matthew,  and  grandson  of  Matthew  of 
Fairfield  and  Killingworth,  Conn.  He  was  graduated  at 
Yale  College — studied  for  the  ministry,  and  settled  at 
Bethlem  in  1740.  He  married  Frances  Sherman  of 
New  Haven,  April  27,  1744.  She  died  August  30,  1785. 
He  died  March  6,  1760. 

He  was  a  large,  well-built  man  of  commanding  appear- 
ance, had  a  smooth,  strong  voice,  and  could  fill  the 
largest  house,  without  any  unnatural  elevation.  He  was 
possessed  of  a  truly  great  mind,  and  generally  preached 
without  notes.  He  usually  had  some  great  doctrinal 
point  to  establish,  and  would  keep  close  to  his  subject 
until  he  had  sufficiently  illustrated  it  ;  then,  in  an  in- 
genious, close  and  pungent  manner,  he  would  make  the 
application. 

When  he  felt  well,  and  was  animated  by  a  large  audi- 
ence he  would  preach  incomparably.  Though  he  paid 
little  attention  to  language,  yet  when  he  became  warm, 
and  filled  with  his  subject,  he  would,  from  the  native 
vigor  of  his  soul,  produce  the  most  commanding  strokes 
of  eloquence,  making  his  audience  alive.  There  is  noth- 
ing in  his  writings,  though  a  learned  and  great  divine, 
equal  to  what  was  to  be  seen  and  heard  in  his  preaching ; 
and  it  is  difficult  for  any  one  who  never  heard  him  to 
form  a  just  idea  of  the  force  and  beauty  of  his  preach- 
ing. He  died  at  Bethlem  in  Litchfield  county,  Conn. 


52O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

STEPHEN    ROWE    BRADLEY,    LL.D. 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  Cheshire  Parish,  Oct.  20,  1754, 
and  graduated  at  Yale  in  1775.  He  was  the  aid  of  Gen. 
Wooster  when  that  officer  was  slain.  He  settled  in 
Vermont,  and  became  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in 
that  State.  In  1791  he  was  elected  to  the  Senate  of  the 
United  States,  and  continued  a  member  of  that  body  for 
sixteen  years.  He  died  at  Walpole,  New  Hampshire, 
Dec.  1 6,  1830,  aged  75  years. 

JOHN     BROCKETT 

Was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  Wallingford ;  was 
there  with  his  friend  John  Moss  in  1668,  and  possibly 
before,  making  preparations  for  the  settlement  of  a  vil- 
lage there,  and  was  selected  by  the  New  Haven  committee 
to  act  as  one  of  the  sub-committee  to  manage  the  affairs 
of  the  new  settlement  until  such  time  as  it  should  become 
strong  enough  to  manage  its  own  affairs.  The  lot  which 
was  assigned  him  and  on  which  he  located  himself,  was 
at  the  south  end  of  the  village,  a  short  distance  below  the 
present  residence  of  Constant  Webb,  and  extending  over 
to  Wharton's  brook,  embracing  a  portion  of  the  land  of 
Giles  Hall  and  the  house  of  the  late  Edward  L.  Hall. 
He  died  March  12,  1689,  aged  80  years.  His  eldest  son 
John  was  born  in  England,  and  settled  near  Muddy 
River  in  North  Haven,  as  a  Physician.  He  died  Nov., 
1720,  and  was  the  progenitor  of  most  of  the  Brockett 
families  in  that  locality. 

JAMES    CARRINGTON,    ESQ. 

Was  born  in  Wallingford  and  was  during  his  whole 
life  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  her  citizens.  He 
was  the  first  post-master  ever  appointed  for  Wallingford, 
having  the  appointment  in  1798,  and  continued  in 


BIOGRAPHIES.  521 

the  discharge  of  its  duties  until  the  close  of  his  life.  In 
person  he  was  a  large,  well-built  man,  of  commanding 
appearance  and  address.  For  many  years  he  conducted 
the  singing  in  the  old  Congregational  meeting-house, 
until  it  was  taken  down  in  1824,  giving  great  satisfaction 
as  a  leader.  He  was  superintendent  of  the  gun  factory 
for  the  late  Eli  Whitney,  Esq.,  at  Whitneyville,  and 
such  was  the  confidence  of  Mr.  Whitney  in  his  ability, 
that  he  gave  him  the  entire  charge  of  the  business  for 
many  years.  His  death  was  lamented  by  a  large  circle 
of  friends  and  neighbors. 

LIVERIUS    CARRINGTON,    ESQ. 

Studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Billious  Kirtland  of  Walling- 
ford,  but  never  practised  his  profession.  He  entered 
into  the  mercantile  business  in  early  life  as  a  partner 
with  the  late  George  B.  Kirtland,  and  continued  with 
him  through  life.  He  was  remarkable  for  his  fund  of 
liveliness.  He  had  a  peculiar  way  of  pleasing  his  patrons 
and  friends,  especially  the  young ;  and  his  many  noble 
qualities  will  long  live  in  their  memories.  The  firm  of 
Carrington  and  Kirtland,  at  the  decease  of  Mr.  C.,  was 
one  of  the  oldest,  if  not  the  oldest,  in  New  Haven  county. 

DANIEL    CLARK 

Married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James  Miles  of  Walling- 
ford.  She  died  April  19,  1755.  He  was  a  sea  captain, 
and  engaged  largely  in  the  shipping  business.  Being 
successful,  he  built  at  the  foot  of  town  hill,  a  house 
which  was  then  the  largest  in  the  township,  being  40  feet 
square  on  the  front,  and  three  stories  high.  It  was  after- 
ward occupied  by  Nathaniel  Hitchcock,  and  finally  sold 
to  Joel  Rice,  who  caused  it  to  be  taken  clown.  He  died 
Aug.  17,  1774,  aged  63. 


522  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

COL.    THADDEUS    COOK 

Son  of  Samuel,  the  son  of  Samuel,  was  born  in  that 
part  of  the  town  now  embraced  in  the  township  of 
Cheshire.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  of  the  Revo- 
lution he  entered  into  the  service  of  his  country  ;  was 
made  Colonel  of  his  regiment,  and  was  under  the  com- 
mand of  Gen.  Gates  during  the  memorable  battle  at  Sara- 
toga in  1777,  and  greatly  distinguished  himself  as  a 
brave  and  skillful  officer.  He  died  in  Wallingford,  Feb. 
28,  1800,  aged  72  years. 

SAMUEL    COOK 

Son  of  Col.  Thaddeus,  was  born  in  Wallingford,  and 
was  eminently  qualified  for  a  public  man.  Although  pos- 
sessed of  a  large  real  estate,  he  was  ever  ready  to  serve 
the  public  in  almost  any  position  to  which  he  might  be 
called.  He  was  often  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly, 
and  a  selectman  of  the  town.  He  was  noted  for  his  nat- 
ural gift  in  controlling  those  brought  under  his  special 
authority.  One  look  from  him  at  one  naturally  indolent, 
was  sufficient  to  arouse  in  him  spirited  action.  A  per- 
son once  said  to  me,  that  he  always  loved  and  feared  the 
presence  of  old  Esq.  Cook.  He  was  active  in  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  Union  Academy,  which  flourished  for 
some  years  after  its  charter  was  granted,  and  was  an 
honor  to  the  town.  As  a  farmer  he  had  few  if  any 
superiors  in  his  town  or  State.  He  died  Sept.  27,  1824, 
aged  66  years. 

CAPT.   JOEL    COOK 

Born  in  Wallingford  in  1760.  At  the  age  of  16  he  en- 
tered the  army  of  the  Revolution  with  his  father,  Col. 
Isaac  Cook  of  Wallingford,  and  served  to  the  end.  In 
1811  he  was  at  the  battle  of  Tippecanoe.  In  1813  he 


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resided  in  New  Haven,  and  in  1849  ne  removed  from 
Yonkers  to  Deer  Park,  Long  Island,  where  he  died  on 
the  1 8th  day  of  Dec.,  1831,  aged  92  years.  It  was  this 
man  who  built  the  small  stucco  house  standing  on  the 
east  side  of  East  street  in  the  city  of  New  Haven. 

REV.    BENJAMIN    DOOLITTLE. 

In  the  year  1718,  Rev.  Benjamin  Doolittle,  of  Wall- 
ingford,  preached  in  Northfield,  Mass.  ;  the  people 
desired  him  to  settle,  and  promised  him  £6$  as  annual 
salary,  and  quite  a  liberal  amount  of  money  and  land  as 
"  settlement."  Mr.  Doolittle  continued  there  until  Jan- 
uary 9,  1 748,  when  he  died,  in  the  fifty-fifth  year  of  his 
age,  and  the  thirtieth  of  his  ministry.  On  the  North- 
field  records,  one  of  their  highways  is  laid  out,  "from 
Pochaug  meadow  to  a  little  brook  where  Mr.  Doolittle's 
horse  died."  The  following  is  the  epitaph  on  his  tomb- 
stone : 

"  Blessed  with  good  intellectual  parts, 
Well  skilled  in  two  important  arts, 
Nobly  he  filled  the  double  station 
Both  of  a  preacher  and  physician. 
To  cure  man's  sicknesses  and  sins, 
He  took  unwearied  care  and  pains  ; 
And  strove  to  make  his  patient  whole 
Throughout,  in  body  and  in  soul. 
He  loved  his  God,  loved  to  do  good, 
To  all  his  friends  vast  kindness  showed, 
Nor  could  his  enemies  exclaim 
And  say,  he  was  not  kind  to  them. 
His  labors  met  a  sudden  close : 
Now  he  enjoys  a  sweet  repose, 
And  when  the  just  to  life  shall  rise, 
Among  the  first  he'll  mount  the  skies." 


524  HISTORY    OF    WALL1XGFOKD. 

LIEUT.    ABRAHAM    DOOLITTLE 

Was  an  inn-keeper  during  the  French  war.  His  house 
was  the  most  noted  tavern  on  the  main  road  between 
Boston  and  New  York.  Lord  Loudon,  while  on  his  way 
to  Canada,  put  up  at  Doolittle's  house  with  his  coach 
and  four  splendid  horses.  The  landlord  was  much  in 
the  habit  of  using  large  words  out  of  their  appropriate 
place  and  meaning.  On  this  occasion  he  felt  a  special 
call  for  them.  In  the  morning  he  carefully  looked  at 
the  fine  blooded  team  in  presence  of  his  titled  guest 
and  on  each  of  the  horses  employed  every  superlative  of 
a  considerable  character  until  he  came  to  the  fourth  ani- 
mal. "What  do  you  think  of  that  one?"  asked  his 
lordship.  "  It  is  a  precarious  good  horse,"  replied  the 
landlord.  The  word  precarious  stuck  to  Mr.  Doolittle 
as  long  as  he  lived.  The '  house  was  removed  from  its 
old  site,  and  is  now  the  building  on  the  south  corner, 
opposite  the  Congregational  church.  It  was  placed 
where  it  now  stands  by  Eben  Smith,  who  occupied  it 
as  a  hotel  for  several  years. 

DBA.    THOMAS    FENN 

The  son  of  Thomas  Fenn  of  Wallingford,  was  born  in 
Wallingford  in  the  year  1735,  and  removed  to  West- 
bury  in  early  life  with  his  father,  April  19,  1760.  He 
represented  the  towns  of  Watertown  and  Waterbury, 
in  thirty-five  Sessions,  beginning  in  1778.  He  was  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace  and  a  Deacon  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Watertown  for  many  years.  Through 
a  long  life  he  was  an  influential  and  much  respected  citi- 
zen. He  married  Abiah,  daughter  of  Richard  Welton 
of  Waterbury,  by  whom  he  had  six  sons  and  two 
daughters.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  Revolutionary 
army.  He  died  August  I,  1818. 


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HON.    SAMUEL    A.    FOOT,    LL.D. 

Was  a  son  of  Rev.  John  Foot  of  Cheshire,  and  was 
born  Nov.  8,  1780.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
1797,  studied  law,  and  commenced  practice  in  his 
native  village.  He  married  Miss  Eudocia  Hull,  daughter 
of  Gen.  Andrew  Hull,  of  Cheshire,  and  became  a  part- 
ner with  Mr.  Hull  in  commercial  business  at  New 
Haven.  In  1819  he  was  elected  a  member  of  Congress, 
and  reflected  in  1823  and  1834.  He  was  elected 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  Conn,  in 
1825-6,  and  was  chosen  a  Senator  in  Congress  from 
1827  to  1833.  In  1834  he  was  elected  Governor  of 
Connecticut,  and  during  that  year  received  from  Yale 
College  the  degree  of  LL.D.  He  died  Sept.  16,  1846, 
aged  66  years.  He  left  three  sons,  viz.  :  the  Hon.  John 
A.  Foot,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio  ;  Rear  Admiral  Andrew 
H.  Foot,  U.  S.  N.,  who  died  at  New  Haven  ;  Augustus 
E.  Foot,  Esq.,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

HON.    LYMAN    HALL 

Was  born  in  Wallingford.  He  graduated  at  Yale  Col- 
lege in  1747,  studied  medicine,  and  located  himself  at 
Midway,  Georgia.  Having  earnestly  and  zealously 
espoused  the  cause  of  his  country  in  her  struggle  with 
the  mother  country  during  the  Revolution,  his  efforts 
contributed  much  to  induce  the  people  of  Georgia  to 
join  the  confederacy.  He  was  in  May,  1775,  elected  to 
Congress,  as  a  member  of  which  he  signed  the  Decla- 
ration of  Independence,  and  continued  in  that  body  till 
the  close  of  1780.  In  1783  he  was  elected  Governor 
of  Georgia.  He  died  Feb.,  1791,  aged  66  years.  He 
was  a  son  of  the  Hon.  John  and  Mary  (Lyman)  Hall, 
of  Wallingford. 


526  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

DANIEL     HART 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  and  removed  to  Goshen  in 
early  life.  He  owned  and  occupied  when  living  in 
Wallingford  the  house  now  occupied  by  the  heirs  of 
Lyman  Hall,  and  known  as  the  Aaron  Yale  place.  He 
was  a  man  of  worth,  and  much  respected. 

REV.    LUTHER    HART 

Was  his  son,  and  was  born  at  Goshen,  July  27,  1783. 
His  mother  was  a  woman  of  superior  mind.  She  came 
from  a  family  on  Long  Island.  In  childhood  he  was 
distinguished  for  his  great  fondness  for  books  and  love 
of  music.  In  his  sixteenth  year  he  became  converted 
and  united  with  the  church  at  Torrington,  where  the 
family  then  resided.  He  felt  a  desire  then  to  enter  the 
ministry.  The  expense  however  was  an  effectual  barrier 
to  his  desires,  and  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  house  car- 
penter of  his  father.  In  the  meantime  he  became 
acquainted  with  the  rudiments  of  an  English  education, 
and  acquired  an  intimate  acquaintance  of  men  and 
things,  of  human  nature  as  seen  in  the  affairs  of  common 
life,  of  which  clergymen  as  a  class  are  lamentably  defi- 
cient. His  trade  he  never  forgot  through  life,  and  during 
his  preparatory  studies  continued  to  exercise  his  skill  as 
a  worker  on  wood  for  profit,  and  at  a  later  period  for 
exercise  and  recreation.  In  the  latter  part  of  the  year 
1802,  or  early  in  1803,  ne  commenced  his  preparatory 
course  of  studies  under  the  direction  of  his  pastor,  the 
Rev.  Alexander  Gillette.  In  September,  1803,  he  entered 
Yale  college.  He  at  once  took  high  rank,  and  at  his 
graduation  in  1807,  received  one  of  the  highest  honors 
of  the  institution.  After  a  year  devoted  to  teaching,  he 
commenced  his  theological  studies  under  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Porter  of  Washington,  Conn.,  and  finished  them  at  An- 


BIOGRAPHIES.  527 

dover,  Mass.  In  a  short  time  he  was  called  to  Plymouth, 
Conn.,  where  he  was  ordained  and  installed  over  the 
Congregational  church  and  society  in  Sept.,  1810.  He 
married  a  daughter  of  Gen.  Daniel  and  Martha  (Humis- 
ton)  Potter.  He  was  an  interesting  and  able  preacher, 
and  few  men  in  the  State  were  more  generally  acceptable. 
He  was  lively  and  pleasant  in  conversation,  easy  and 
agreeable  in  his  manners.  He  died  April  25,  1834;  left 
no  children. 

NATHANIEL    HART 

Of  Wallingford,  owned  the  farm  on  which  afterwards 
lived  Jeremiah  Hall,  who  married  his  daughter.  The  old 
Hart  house  stood  a  little  south  of  the  one  in  which  Mr. 
Hall  lived.  Mr.  Hart  was  a  carpenter  and  joiner,  and 
when  in  advanced  life,  used  to  boast  of  having  built 
eleven  meeting-houses,  one  of  which  is  now  (  1870) 
standing  in  Farmington.  In  his  old  age  he  went  to 
Goshen  to  reside  with  his  sons.  He  built  the  steeple  on 
the  old  three  story  Congregational  meeting-house  in 
Wallingford,  about  1745.  He  died  some  sixty  years  ago, 
aged  ninety  years. 

GIDEON    HOSFORD 

Was  an  inn-keeper  in  Wallingford,  and  is  said  to  have 
built  the  house  now  known  as  the  residence  of  the  late 
Abijah  Ives,  on  the  plains,  in  which  for  many  years  he 
kept  an  inn.  This  house  is  still  standing  on  its  original 
foundation,  on  the  corner  of  the  old  colony  road  and 
the  road  leading  to  Hosford's  bridge,  in  a  rather  dilapi- 
dated condition. 

DR.    ZEPHANIAH    HULL 

Was  a  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Hull,  of  Wallingford,  and 
was  born  in  what  is  now  Cheshire,  in  1728.  Studied 
the  profession  of  medicine  at  an  early  age ;  married 


528  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Hannah,  daughter  of Cook,  March  28,  1749,  and 

soon  after  removed  to  Bethlem  in  Woodbury,  probably 
through  the  influence  of  Dr.  Bellamy,  who  was  a  native 
of  the  same  town  and  a  few  years  his  senior.  He  died 
Nov.  10,  1760,  the  same  day  with  his  wife,  in  the  "  Great 
Sickness."  They  were  buried  in  one  grave,  and  two  of 
his  children  and  a  young  man  living  in  his  house  died  a 
few  days  later.  Soon  after  these  deaths,  and  while  others 
were  sick  in  the  house,  a  Deacon  Strong,  near  by,  raised 
a  flock  of  eleven  quails,  which  flew  over  the  house  and 
dropped  in  the  garden.  Immediately  after,  three  of  them 
rose  and  flew  into  the  bushes,  but  the  other  eight  were 
found  dead,  and  in  an  hour  afterwards  putrified,  became 
offensive  and  were  buried.  As  a  physician  and  as  a 
man  Dr.  Hull  ever  sustained  a  high  character,  in  the 
place  of  his  adoption. 

JAMES   HUMISTON,    ESQ. 

Was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Wallingford.  He  frequently 
represented  his  town  in  the  Legislature  of  the  State. 
Was  often  one  of  the  select  men  of  the  town,  and  as 
proprietor  of  the  old  mill  which  to  this  day  bears  his 
name,  conducted  a  large  business.  Subsequently  he 
added  to  his  milling  business  that  of  wool  carding,  dye- 
ing, dressing  cloth,  &c.,  continuing  the  same  to  the 
close  of  his  life. 

TURHAND     KIRTLAND 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  November  16,  1755.  He 
was  a  descendant  of  John  Kirtland,  who  was  one  of  the 
thirty-six  heads  of  families  who  settled  at  Saybrook  in 
1635.  In  the  year  1776  he  was  in  the  provisional 
service  at  New  York,  at  the  time  of  the  defeat  of  the 
American  army  on  Long  Island,  and  was  engaged  on 


BIOGRAPHIES.  529 

board  the  boats  which  conveyed  our  retreating  forces 
over  to  the  mainland.  He,  with  most  of  the  company, 
was  attacked  with  the  malignant  camp  distemper, 
typhoid  dysentery,  and  was  discharged  at  Saw-pits. 
After  his  recovery  and  return  home,  he  pursued  for  a 
number  of  years  the  occupation  of  carriage-making  and 
farming,  in  his  native  town.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Connecticut  Land  company,  which 
purchased  the  title  to  the  Western  Reserve,  or  New 
Connecticut.  As  agent  for  the  company,  he  conducted 
a  boat  loaded  with  surveyors,  emigrants  and  provisions 
up  the  Mohawk  river  through  Wood  creek,  Oneida  and 
Ontario  lakes,  into  Niagara  river ;  from  thence  hauled 
it  around  the  falls  on  the  Canada  side,  and  navigated  up 
the  river  and  through  Lake  Erie  into  Grand  river,  a  little 
above  the  present  city  of  Painesville,  in  the  year  1798. 
In  the  same  capacity  he  annually  visited  the  West  until 
1803,  when  he  removed  his  family  to  Ohio,  and  located 
at  Poland,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  August  16 
1844.  As  agent  or  proprietor,  he  disposed  of  extensive 
tracts  of  new  lands  ;  and  he  took  an  active  and  influ- 
ential part  in  promoting  settlements  and  introducing 
schools  and  various  improvements.  For  a  time  he  was 
a  Senator  in  the  State  Legislature,  and  Associate  Judge 
in  the  court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Ohio.  He  was 
distinguished  for  his  integrity  and  active  business  habits. 
As  one  of  the  earlier  settlers,  he  saw  the  Connecticut 
Reserve  in  its  primitive  condition  a  perfect  wilderness, 
and  lived  to  see  it  thickly  peopled  by  the  best  regulated 
and  most  intelligent  population  to  be  found  in  the 
Union  out  of  New  England.  When  in  Wallingford  he 
owned  and  occupied  the  house  and  farm  of  the  late 
Amos  Button. 


53°  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

GEORGE    B.    KIRTLAND,    ESQ. 

During  his  whole  life  was  an  example  worthy  of 
imitation.  He  was  universally  regarded  as  an  hon- 
est, upright  and  intelligent  merchant  and  business 
man.  He  made  it  a  principle  never  to  recommend 
an  article  beyond  what  it  would  bear.  He  died  in 
1869,  having  lived  out  the  full  number  of  years 
allotted  to  man,  greatly  lamented  by  the  whole  com- 
munity, and  especially  by  the  Episcopal  church,  of 
which  he  was  a  consistent  and  worthy  member.  He  was 
the  last  male  member  of  the  once  highly  respectable 
Kirtland  family  in  Wallingford. 

JARED    POTTER    KIRTLAND,    M.D.,    LL.D. 

A  son  of  Turhancl  and  Mary  Kirtland,  and  grandson  of 
Dr.  Jared  Potter,  a  distinguished  physician  of  Walling- 
ford. He  was  born  Nov.  10,  1793,  in  the  town  of 
Wallingford.  He  received  his  classical  education 
chiefly  in  Cheshire  and  Wallingford  academies,  and 
was  for  a  time  a  pupil  of  Rev.  Dr.  Tillotson  Bronson, 
the  then  Principal  of  the  Cheshire  Episcopal  Academy. 
In  1810  he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine,  and 
became  a  private  pupil  of  Drs.  Eli  Ives  and  Nathan 
Smith,  of  New  Haven,  until  1812,  when  he  entered 
the  first  class  in  the  Medical  Department  of  Yale  Col- 
lege, and  was  the  first  who  signed  the  matriculation 
book  in  the  charge  of  Prof.  Jonathan  Knight.  At  the 
close  of  the  medical  term,  he  with  others  formed  a  class 
for  the  study  of  botany  and  mineralogy,  which,  together 
with  their  medical  studies,  was  pursued  under  Prof.  Eli 
Ives  and  Benjamin  Silliman.  In  1814  he  entered  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  soon  after  passed  an  examination  for  a  medical 
degree  before  the  medical  faculty  of  Yale  College.  The 


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subject  of  his  Thesis  was,  "  Our  Indigenous  Vegetable 
Materia  Medica,"  a  private  subject  of  one  of  his  teach- 
ers, Dr.  Benjamin  Smith  Barton,  and  in  consonance 
more  with  his  own  taste  than  other  points  of  his  pro- 
fession. 

In  May,  1814,  he  married  Caroline,  daughter  of 
Joshua  and  Elizabeth  (Cook)  Atwater  of  Wallingford, 
and  soon  after  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
that  place,  which  he  continued  until  1817,  when  at  a 
town  meeting  held  at  Durham  he  was  invited  to  locate 
in  that  town  as  a  physician,  which  invitation  he  accepted. 
His  practice  here  soon  became  large ;  but  with  it  he 
found  time  to  interest  himself  in  the  culture  of  fruits 
and  flowers,  of  which  he  was  very  fond.  In  1823  he  re- 
moved to  Poland,  Trumbull  Co.,  Ohio,  where,  although 
continuing  to  practice  his  profession  of  medicine  when- 
ever called  upon,  he  gave  his  time  and  thoughts  mainly 
to  the  culture  of  his  farm,  garden  and  orchard. 

In  1837  he  removed  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  at  first 
established  himself  in  the  town  or  city  ;  but  soon  tiring 
of  the  confined  limits  of  a  city  residence,  he  purchased 
one  hundred  and  seventy-five  acres  of  land  about  five 
miles  west  of  the  city  of  Cleveland,  situated  immediately 
on  the  Lake  shore.  Here,  while  at  times  continuing  his 
professional  labors,  he  has  found  time  to  examine  and 
describe  all  the  fishes  of  Ohio's  lakes  and  rivers  ;  to 
collect  and  compare  innumerable  fresh  water  shells,  con- 
nected with  which  he  made  a  discovery  in  the  science, 
new  and  distinct,  viz.:  the  sexual  or  male  and  female 
character  of  the  muscle,  which  is  indicated  by  the  form 
of  the  shell.  He  found  time  to  examine  the  native  wild 
plants  botanically,  to  examine  and  to  study  the  geologi- 
cal formation  of  the  State,  to  study  and  gather  speci- 


532  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

mens  of  birds  by  hundreds.  He  has  investigated  the 
habits  of  the  honey-bee,  has  found  time  to  superintend 
and  direct  a  large  farm  on  which  all  the  best  grains  and 
grapes,  and  the  best  breeds  of  cattle,  sheep,  hogs,  &c., 
have  been  tried  and  compared,  comparative  values  of 
manures  tested,  and  their  components  analyzed. 

In  1827  he  was  elected  a  representative  to  the  Legis- 
lature of  Ohio,  and  re-elected  several  times  ;  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  the  Penitentiary  in  the  House. 
In  1835  he  was  elected  Professor  of  the  Theory  and 
Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio. 
In  1841,  having  resigned  his  position  in  the  Medical 
College  of  Ohio,  he  became  Professor  of  the  Theory  and 
Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  Willoughby  Medical  School ; 
and  afterwards,  when  the  medical  department  of  the 
Western  Reserve  College  was  established  at  Cleveland, 
he  accepted  a  similar  position  in  that  college,  which  his 
health  compelled  him  to  resign  in  1 864.  He  was  at  one 
time  President  of  the  Ohio  State  Medical  Society ;  and 
when  in  attendance  at  public  gatherings  has  universally 
been  called  upon  to  assume  the  duties  of  the  chair.  In 
1 86 1  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Williams  Col- 
lege. Genial  in  spirit,  full  of  intelligent  conversational 
power,  possessing  the  retiring  manner  and  dignity  of  a 
well-bred  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  he  wins  the 
hearts  of  the  old  and  young  ;  while  the  intelligent  and  all 
who  seek  knowledge,  rejoice  in  obtaining  an  hour  in  his 
society.  He  is  now  over  76  years  old. 

JARED    LEWIS,    ESQ. 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  and  was  for  several  years  a 
justly  celebrated  hotel  keeper  and  merchant  in  the  vil- 
lage. He  owned  and  occupied  the  lot  on  which  now 


BIOGRAPHIES.  533 

stands  the  house  and  store  of  Lorenzo  Lewis,  his  grand- 
son. He  was  a  prominent  politician.  One  of  the  parties 
at  one  time  assumed  the  name  of  Lewis,  and  the  oppo- 
sition that  of  Cooke.  Politics  never  ran  higher  in  Wall- 
in  gford  than  at  this  time.  He  was  the  father  of  Isaac 
Lewis,  who  was  keeper  of  a  hotel  and  merchant  at  Meri- 
den,  and  who  was  the  father  of  the  late  Patrick  Lewis, 
and  of  Isaac  Lewis,  who  is  and  has  been  a  very  successful 
business  man  in  Meriden  for  several  years. 

CHARLES    BARNY    MC  CARTY 

A  native  of  Ireland,  came  to  America  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  last  century,  and  found  his  way  to  Wallingford,  a 
peddler  of  small  articles  of  dry-goods.  In  making  his 
trips  about  Wallingford,  he  formed  the  acquaintance  of 
Miss  Dacia  Hall,  a  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah  ( At- 
water)  Hall,  and  married  her.  In  a  few  years  he  was 
enabled  by  his  industry  and  success  in  business,  to  build 
and  stock  a  store  with  dry-goods  and  groceries.  His 
ambition  led  him  to  invest  in  real-estate  quite  too  largely 
for  his  means,  by  which,  with  other  matters,  he  became 
involved,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  never  fully  recov- 
ered. He  lived  to  an  advanced  age.  His  children  were 
Dr.  Charles  B.,  who  was  a  physician  in  Yalesville  ;  Mary, 
died  in  Yalesville  ;  Sarah,  died  unmarried  in  1869  ;  Ann, 
died  unmarried  ;  Henry  Hobart,  died  April  23,  1870, 
from  an  injury  received  two  days  before. 

JOHN  MOSS 

Was  in  New  Haven  as  early  as  1645,  perhaps  earlier, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  General  Court  during  several 
sessions.  In  1670  at  the  May  session  he  was  active  in 
procuring  the  act  of  incorporation  of  Wallingford,  and 
succeeded  on  the  I2th  day  of  May,  1670,  at  Hartford. 
He  was  evidently  the  leading  man  of  the  new  settlement, 

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534  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

and  was  the  pioneer  of  the  settlers,  being  on  the  ground 
certainly  as  early  as  1667.  His  house  lot  was  situated 
at  the  extreme  south  end  of  the  village,  adjoining  that  of 
his  friend  (John  Brockett)  who  was  associated  with  him 
in  promoting  the  interest  and  advancement  of  the  settle- 
ment. He  died  A.  D.  1707,  aged  103. 

ELISHA  M.  POMEROY,  ESQ. 

Came  into  Wallingford  a  tinner  by  trade,  and  married 
Lydia  Mattoon.  About  the  year  1820  he  invented  his 
justly  celebrated  Razor  Strop,  which  soon  became  noted  in 
every  part  of  the  United  States.  In  this  enterprise  he 
was  prosperous  beyond  his  most  sanguine  expectations. 
He  was  a  man  of  enterprise  and  good  business  talents, 
and  of  easy  address  and  gentlemanly  deportment.  After 
his  retirement  from  business  he  was  chosen  Judge  of 
the  Probate  Court,  and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace.  In 
the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  these  offices,  he  was 
eminently  well  qualified,  and  his  decisions  compare 
favorably  with  those  of  any  of  his  predecessors.  He 
reared  a  large  and  highly  respectable  family  of  children, 
and  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  78  years,  in  Wallingford, 
the  place  of  his  adoption.  His  eldest  son,  George  V. 
Pomeroy,  is  a  merchant  in  New  York  city.  The  late 
Jerome  B.  Pomeroy  M.  D.  is  also  a  son  of  the  Judge. 

JARED  POTTER,  M.  D. 

Was  born  in  East  Haven,  Conn.,  Sept.  25,  1742.  His 
classical  studies  were  commenced  under  the  Rev.  Phile- 
mon Robbins  of  Branford.  He  entered  Yale  college  in 
1756,  and  was  graduated  in  1760.  His  medical  studies 
were  begun  under  Dr.  Harpins  of  Milford,  and  afterward 
pursued  under  the  Rev.  Jared  Elliot  of  Killingworth. 
He  commenced  practice  in  East  Haven  in  1763,  but 
soon  removed  to  New  Haven,  where  he  established  a  fa- 


BIOGRAPHIES.  535 

vorable  reputation  and  secured  a  good  share  of  patron- 
age. The  premonitory  tumults  of  the  approaching 
conflict  with  the  mother  country  induced  him  to  remove 
his  family  to  a  place  of  less  exposure  to  impending  dan- 
gers. Hence  in  the  year  1773  he  changed  his  location  to 
Wallingforcl,  where  he  went  into  professional  practice 
and  continued  with  the  exception  of  the  time  spent  in 
the  service  of  his  country,  until  his  death,  July  30,  1810. 

He  was  a  descendant  of  John  Potter,  who  signed  the 
plantation  covenant  of  New  Haven,  June  4,  1639.  At 
the  commencement  of  the  Revolution,  when  the  first 
six  regiments  were  raised  by  the  Province  of  Connecti- 
cut, he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  fourteenth  regi- 
ment under  Colonel  (afterwards  General)  Wooster,  and 
went  with  them  to  Canada,  and  was  present  when  the 
British  port  of  St.  John's  was  captured  in  September, 
1775,  by  General  Montgomery.  From  there  he  removed 
with  the  army  to  Montreal,  where  he  was  placed  in 
charge  of  a  hospital,  and  remained  until  our  forces 
returned  in  the  next  summer.  The  term  of  enlistment 
having  expired,  he  was  immediately  re-appointed  surgeon, 
and  was  attached  to  Colonel  Douglas's  regiment,  destined 
to  re-enforce  the  continental  army  in  New  York  city. 
He  was  in  the  battles  of  Long  Island  and  White  Plains, 
and  at  the  close  of  the  campaign,  when  the  regiment 
was  disbanded,  he  returned  to  Wallingford. 

Too  many  physicians  throw  aside  their  books,  or  pay 
little  attention  to  them  after  they  are  engaged  in  exten- 
sive practice.  This  was  not  the  case  with  Dr.  Potter. 
He  was  an  uncommonly  diligent  student,  not  merely 
while  acquiring  the  rudiments  of  his  profession,  but  to 
the  end  of  his  life.  For  many  years  he  kept  a  medical 
school,  in  which  several  of  the  most  eminent  physicians 


536  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

of  Connecticut  were  educated ;  and  it  is  worthy  of 
remark  that  the  late  Dr.  Samuel  Hopkins  of  Hartford, 
who  was  considered  the  most  able  practitioner  of  his 
county  if  not  in  the  State,  was  his  pupil.  Dr.  Potter 
imbibed  much  of  the  spirit  of  Elliot  for  philosophical 
investigations,  and  took  pains  to  become  well  acquainted 
with  the  practice  and  opinion  of  all  the  most  celebrated 
writers,  ancient  and  modern,  upon  nearly  every  disease. 
His  reading  was  consequently  very  extensive.  He 
was  in  the  habit  of  purchasing  annually  all  of  the  new 
medical  works  which  appeared  ;  and  was  also  well  read  in 
the  reviews  and  other  periodical  literature  of  the  day. 
As  a  physician  he  was  a  superior  judge  of  symptoms, 
and  was  a  very  energetic  and  successful  practitioner  in 
acute  diseases  ;  but  it  is  said  that  he  was  very  skeptical 
of  the  power  of  medicine  in  most  chronic  complaints, 
and  for  that  reason,  his  practice  in  such  cases  was  rather 
inefficient  and  sometimes  almost  inert.  Dr.  Potter  was 
well  known  as  having  had  a  peculiar  fondness  for  discuss- 
ing questions  of  speculative  theology  and  the  politics 
of  the  day  ;  and  when  conversing  on  these  subjects  his 
strict  command  of  his  temper  and  an  uncommon  urban- 
ity of  manner,  joined  to  a  large  share  of  wit  and  humor, 
usually  gave  him  a  decided  advantage  over,  most  of  his 
opponents.  Like  his  preceptor  Elliot,  his  practice  and 
consultations  were  very  extensive,  and  like  him  too  for 
many  years  he  was  probably  the  most  distinguished  and 
influential  physician  in  the  State.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders,  and  a  Vice  President  of  the  State  Medical 
Society.  It  is  said  that  he  was  always  able  to  recollect 
the  name  and  face  of  any  person  who  had  once  been 
introduced  to  him,  and  the  circumstances  of  their  meet- 
ing. His  great  colloquial  powers,  and  the  frankness  and 


BIOGRAPHIES.  537 

candor  with  which  he  uniformly  treated  his  medical 
brethren,  made  his  presence  and  advice  as  a  counselor 
always  acceptable.  He  died  in  Wallingford,  deeply  la- 
mented by  the  whole  community. 

THOMAS    RICHARDSON 

Of  Farmington  in  1672,  and  of  Waterbury  in  1674, 
received  and  accepted  a  grant  of  land  called  the  bache- 
lors' property  in  1699.  He  was  one  of  the  eighty-four 
first  proprietors  of  the  town  in  1692.  He  died  Nov.  14, 
1712.  Mary,  his  wife,  died  one  week  afterwards,  Nov. 
21.  Both  were  victims  of  the  "great  sickness"  that  then 
prevailed  in  the  place. 

Thomas,  their  second  son  and  fourth  child,  received  a 
grant  of  land  in  March,  1695,  which  he  accepted  as  a 
bachelors'  proprietor  March  26,  1699.  He  remained  in 
Waterbury  long  enough  to  secure  his  right,  and  then 
removed  to  Wallingford,  and  was  there  in  July,  1705. 
After  his  father's  decease  he  returned  to  Waterbury  and 
was  appointed  a  fence-viewer  in  1713,  grave-digger  in 
1714-15-16,  hayward  in  1714-17-18-19.  March  30 
he  sold  his  house  and  six  acres  of  land  on  the  north  side 
of  West  Main-st,  to  Thomas  Richards,  and  returned  to 
Wallingford,  where  he  was  living  in  1722,  a  farmer.  He 
had  brothers  and  sisters,  viz.,  Mary,  Sarah,  John,  Israel, 
Rebecca,  Ruth,  Johannah,  Nathaniel  and  Ebenezer. 
He  married  for  his  second  wife,  Rachel,  daughter  of 
John  and  Hannah  Parker,  of  Wallingford. 

THOMAS    RUGGLES 

Came  to  Wallingford  about  1812,  and  purchased  the  old 
homestead  of  Mr.  Joel  Hall.  He  was  a  gentleman  of 
means,  and  a  graduate  of  Yale  College.  He  soon  after 
purchased  the  house  of  Salmon  Carter  in  the  village, 
and  became  the  principal  of  the  Union  Academy.  He 


538  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

continued  in  charge  of  the  Academy  until  the  death  of 
his  father-in-law,  Mr.  Charles  Hall,  which  occurred  in 
1817,  at  which  time  he  by  his  will  became  the  possessor 
of  one-half  of  Mr.  Hall's  estate.  Having  repaired  the 
buildings,  he  occupied  them  during  the  rest  of  his  life. 
He  had  by  his  first  wife  a  child,  Hannah,  who  died  young. 

SAMUEL    GEORGE    SIMPSON 

Son  of  Robert,  alias  Samuel  George,  and  Mary  Simpson, 
was  born  in  New  Haven  in  17 — .  Samuel  G.  sen.,  came 
to  America  a  lieutenant  in  the  British  army,  about  the 
year  1767,  on  a  mission  from  the  King  of  England  to 
persuade  the  people  of  the  colonies  to  receive  the  Stamp 
Act  and  other  measures  of  the  English  government, 
which  were  then  looked  upon  as  odious  and  burdensome 
by  the  people.  Mr.  Simpson  was  a  relation  of  the  King 
by  his  marriage  into  a  German  family,  Mr.  Simpson 
himself  being  a  German,  and  of  a  highly  respectable 
and  wealthy  family.  After  taking  up  his  residence  in 
New  Haven  under  the  assumed  name  of  Robert,  he 
married  Mary  Johnson,  daughter  of  a  reputable  family. 
Of  this  marriage  Samuel  George  was  an  only  child. 
After  the  decease  of  Mr.  Simpson  in  1776,  his  widow 
married  Josiah  Merriam  of  Wallingford,  in  the  parish  of 
Meriden,  and  removed  to  that  place,  taking  her  little  son 
along  with  her,  who,  when  about  twenty  years  of  age, 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Eunice  Yale  of 
Meriden.  She  died  April  2,  1799.  After  a  suitable 
lapse  of  time  he  married  Malinda,  daughter  of  John  and 
Lois  Hall  of  Wallingford.  He  purchased  and  settled  on 
the  Dr.  Russel  or  Henry  place,  situated  on  the  old 
Tank-hood  road,  a  short  distance  east  of  the  residence  of 
Mr.  Hall.  He  disposed  of  this  place  and  removed  to 
Ohio,  but  after  a  residence  of  a  few  years  he  returned 


BIOGRAPHIES.  539 

to  Wallingford,  where  he  died,  highly  respected  for  his 
honesty  and  integrity. 

Children:  Alfred,  Henry,  George,  Harmon,  Samuel. 
The  latter  married  Martha  Benham  and  is  a  successful 
manufacturer  in  his  native  town  ;  has  had  one  son,  Sam- 
uel G.,  and  two  daughters. 

EBEN    SMITH 

Was  a  man  of  some  note  in  Wallingford  sixty  years  ago. 
He  bought  the  old  Doolittle  hotel  that  formerly  stood 
a  little  to  the  west  of  the  Dr.  Potter  house,  lately 
Rice  Hall's,  and  placed  it  upon  the  corner  of  Main 
street  and  the  street  running  east  and  west  past  the 
Congregational  meeting-house,  and  in  front  of  the  same, 
and  occupied  it  as  a  hotel.  At  that  time  there  were 
three  hotels  in  the  village,  viz.  :  Jared  Lewis's  house, 
Chauncey  Cook's,  now  Dwight  Hall's,  and  Eben  Smith's 
house.  He  was  the  father  of  Mrs.  Lyman  Carmon. 

TITUS    STREET,    ESQ. 

Son  of  Samuel,  was  born  in  Wallingford.  In  early  life 
he  went  to  Cheshire,  where  he  commenced  business 
in  a  small  store,  with  his  friend  Samuel  Hughs  (after- 
wards his  partner)  as  clerk.  Here  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Amaryllis,  daughter  of  Reuben  and  Mary  Atwater, 
by  whom  he  had  two  children,  Augustus  Russell  and 
Mary,  the  wife  of  Gov.  Hoppen  of  Rhode  Island.  He 
afterward  located  in  New  Haven  with  Mr.  Hughs  as 
partner,  and  after,  a  few  years'  sucessful  business  in  the 
city  he  retired  with  a  large  fortune,  and  continued  in 
retirement  until  his  decease.  He  was  a  descendant  of 
the  Rev.  Samuel  Street,  the  first  settled  Congregational 
minister  in  Wallingford.  Augustus  Russell  Street,  son 
of  Titus,  was  the  founder  of  the  Yale  Art  Building  on 
the  grounds  of  Yale  College  in  New  Haven. 


54°  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

CAPT.     WILLIAM    TODD 

Was  born  in  North  Haven  and  came  to  Wallingford  a 
young  man.  He  became  acquainted  with  Miss  Harriet 
Johnson,  and  in  due  time  married  her.  He  was  a  house 
joiner  and  carpenter,  and  as  a  builder  was  deservedly 
popular.  Being  possessed  naturally  of  a  good  constitu- 
tion, he  was  enabled  to  continue  the  business  of  his  trade 
until  near  the  close  of  his  life,  which  occurred  in  1869, 
at  the  advanced  age  of  83  years.  After  the  death  of  his 
first  wife,  he  was  married  twice  ;  first,  to  the  widow  of 
Capt.  Joel  Rice,  and  secondly,  to  the  widow  Merrit  Tuttle. 
He  had  a  large  family  of  children,  most  of  whom  are  living. 

JOHN    TYLER 

Was  a  native  of  Wallingford,  and  was  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1765.  He  was  educated  a  Congregationalist, 
but  having  embraced  the  doctrines  of  the  Church  of 
England,  prepared  for  Holy  Orders  under  the  care  of  Dr. 
Johnson  of  Stratford.  In  1768  he  went  to  England  to 
receive  ordination,  with  a  view  to  becoming  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  in  Chelsea,  Norwich,  Conn. ;  and  having 
accomplished  this  object  he  returned  the  next  year  and 
entered  on  'the  duties  of  his  office.  For  three  years 
during  the  Revolution,  owing  to  the  popular  excitement 
which  prevailed  against  Episcopacy  in  New  England,  (it 
being  regarded  almost  synonymous  with  Toryism),  Mr. 
Tyler's  church  was  closed  ;  and  from  April  1776^0  April 
1779  not  an  entry  was  made  in  its  records.  He  how- 
ever, during  this  time  held  divine  service  in  his  own 
house,  and  was  never  molested  in  the  performance  of  it. 
At  one  time  he  was  afraid  to  drink  the  water  of  his  own 
well ;  and  yet  he  was  regarded  as  a  man  of  great  benevo- 
lence and  liberality.  As  an  evidence  of  the  kindly 
feeling  which  both  he  and  his  church  maintained  toward 


BIOGRAPHIES.  54! 

their  Congregational  neighbors,  it  may  be  mentioned 
that  wnen  the  Congregationalists  in  1794  lost  their 
place  of  worship  by  fire,  the  Episcopalians  at  once  prof- 
fered them  the  use  of  theirs  on  the  following  condition  : 
"The  Rev.  John  Tyler,  our  present  pastor,  to  perform 
Divine  service  one  half  the  day  on  each  Sabbath,  and 
the  Rev.  Walter  King,  pastor  of  said  Presbyterian  Con- 
gregation, to  perform  Divine  service  on  the  other  half 
of  said  Sabbath,  each  alternately  performing  on  the  first 
half  of  the  day."  The  offer  was  gratefully  accepted,  and 
this  amicable  arrangement  continued  for  three  months. 
Mr.  Tyler  died  Jan.  20,  1823,  aged  81  years.  He  pub- 
lished a  sermon  preached  at  the  opening  of  Trinity 
church  in  Pomfret,  1771  ;  and  a  sermon  preached  at  Nor- 
wich on  the  Continental  Thanksgiving,  1795.  Mrs. 
Sigourney  writes  thus  concerning  him :  "  He  was  an 
interesting  preacher ;  his  voice  sweet  and  solemn,  and  his 
eloquence  persuasive.  The  benevolence  of  his  heart  was 
manifest  in  daily  acts  of  courtesy  and  charity  to  those 
around  him.  He  studied  medicine  in  order  to  benefit 
the  poor,  and  to  find  out  remedies  for  some  of  those  pe- 
culiar diseases  to  which  no  common  specifics  seemed  to 
apply.  During  the  latter  years  of  his  life  he  was  so 
infirm  as  to  need  assistance  in  his  clerical  duties." 

AUOLPH    WILHELM   AUGUST    FRIEDRICH, 
BARON    VON    STEINWEHR 

Was  born  at  Blankenburg  in  the  duchy  of  Brunswick, 
Sept.  25,  1822.  His  father  was  a  major  in  the  ducal 
service,  and  his  grandfather  a  lieutenant-general  in  the 
Prussian  army.  He  was  educated  at  the  military  acade- 
my of  the  city  of  Brunswick,  and  entered  the  army  of 
the  duchy  as  a  lieutenant  in  1841.  In  1847  ne  resigned 
and  came  to  the  United  States  for  the  purpose  of  offer- 


542  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ing  his  services  to  the  government  in  the  Mexican  war ; 
but  failing  to  obtain  a  commission  in  the  regular  army, 
he  returned  to  Germany  after  marrying  a  lady  of  Mobile. 
In  1854  he  again  came  to  America  and  purchased  a  farm 
in  Wallingford.  At  the  commencement  of  the  civil 
war  he  raised  a  regiment,  the  2Qth  New  York  Vol- 
unteers, which  he  commanded  at  the  first  battle  of  Bull 
Run,  forming  part  of  the  reserve  under  Col.  Miles.  On 
Oct.  12,  1 86 1,  he  was  commissioned  brigadier-general  of 
volunteers,  and  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  2d 
brigade  of  Blenker's  division.  This  division  was  attached 
in  May,  1862,  to  the  Mountain  department  under  Gen. 
Fremont.  When  Sigel  assumed  command  of  the  corps 
after  the  organization  of  the  army  of  Virginia,  General 
Steinwehr  was  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  2d 
division,  and  participated  in  the  campaign  on  the  Rapi- 
dan  and  Rappahannock  in  August. 

ANDREW    WARD 

Was  admitted  a  Freeman  in  1638  at  Boston.  In  1638 
he  was  at  Wethersfield,  and  with  twenty  others  pur- 
chased the  town  of  Stamford.  He  also  with  others 
purchased  Hempsted  on  Long  Island,  but  in  consequence 
of  difficulties  with  the  Dutch  government,  removed  to 
Fairfield,  and  died  Oct.,  1650,  leaving  a  widow  Esther 
and  children.  He  was  a  man  of  great  worth  and  con- 
sequence in  the  colony,  and  was  frequently  called  upon 
by  the  Governors  and  members  of  the  Legislature  to 
act -with  them  on  important  committees.  He  was  the 
ancestor  of  those  of  the  name  in  Hartford,  and  the 
father  of  Andrew,  who  was  the  father  of  W7illiam,  who 
married  Lettice,  daughter  of  John  Beach  of  Wallingford, 
and  had  Zenas,  who  settled  in  Woodbury,  and  Macock, 
who  was  a  lawyer  in  Wallingford. 


BIOGRAPHIES.  543 

ELISHA     WHITTELSEY 

Was  a  merchant  in  Wallingford,  and  for  many  years 
was  Town  Clerk,  in  which  office  he  gained  the  esteem 
and  confidence  of  all  who  had  business  with  him. 
He  was  a  highly  respected  and  honored  gentleman,  and 
a  man  of  strict  integrity  and  usefulness.  At  his  death 
he  was  greatly  lamented  by  all.  He  was  born  July  I, 
1753,  and  died  Sept.  16,  1822,  aged  67  years. 

JARED    POTTER     WHITTELSEY 

Was  the  third  son  of  Elisha  and  Sarah  (Jones)  Whittel- 
sey,  and  was  born  in  Wallingford,  March  8,  1787.  In 
1808,  being  then  in  his  twenty-first  year,  he  commenced 
business  in  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  four  years. 
In  1812  he  removed  to  New  York  city,  where  he  carried 
on  the  wholesale  flour  business,  retaining  his  flour-mills 
and  his  store  in  Catskill,  Cairo,  and  Schoharie,  until  the 
year  1832,  when  he  removed  his  family  to  Wallingford 
and  erected  the  present  buildings  on  the  ground  where 
he  was  born  ;  and  during  the  remainder  of  his  life  he  de- 
voted his  time  to  improving  and  beautifying  the  streets 
of  his  native  town,  by  setting  out  shade  trees,  opening 
walks  and  highly  improving  his  own  grounds.  He  was 
a  man  of  sterling  worth,  very  methodical  in  habit,  of 
thorough  business  qualities  and  a  finely  balanced  mind. 
During  his  residence  in  Wallingford,  he  gave  largely  to 
the  Episcopal  church,  and  gaye  more  to  erect  the  present 
Congregational  church  than  any  of  its  members.  In  his 
religious  belief  he  was  a  Unitarian.  His  donations  were 
made  during  his  lifetime,  and  yearly  he  gave  to  the  fol- 
lowing societies,  viz. :  Children's  Aid  Society,  Five  Points 
House  of  Industry,  Association  to  improve  the  condition 
of  the  Poor,  and  other  societies.  During  the  war  he 
gave  largely  to  the  sanitary  commission.  He  never 


544  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

spoke  of  his  donations,  and  they  were  not  known  until 
after  his  death.  Mr.  Whittelsey  was  frequently  offered 
positions  of  trust  in  private  and  public,  but  he  refused 
them,  for  he  wished  to  be  quiet  after  a  busy  life.  Mr. 
Whittelsey  was  the  father  of  ten  children,  only  two  re- 
maining at  the  time  of  his  death  ;  six  died  between  the 
ages  of  nineteen  and  twenty-seven.  He  married  Oct. 
22,  1814,  Lydia  G.  Archer  of  New  York  city,  who  lived 
with  him  fifty-five  years,  and  died  only  a  month  before 
him.  Mr.  Whittelsey  died  January  25,  1869,  in  the 
eighty-second  year  of  his  age. 

CAPT.    THOMAS    YALE 

Son  of  Thomas  the  emigrant,  was  one  of  the  original 
settlers  or  planters  of  Wallingford,  and  was  one  of  the 
most  active  and  efficient  among  them.  As  selectman  or 
townsman,  he  was  ever  ready  to  work  for  the  interest 
of  the  village.  He  was  frequently  elected  to  represent 
the  people  in  the  General  Court,  and  was  greatly  dis- 
tinguished for  his  devotion  to  the  interests  of  his  constit- 
uents, whom  he  ably  represented  for  a  number  of 
successive  years.  He  married  Rebecca  Gibbons, 
daughter  of  William,  of  New  Haven.  She  died  Dec. 
n,  1667.  After  her  decease,  he  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Nash,  of  New  Haven.  She  died  May  24, 
1716  ;  and  he  then  married  Mary  Beach,  of  Wallingford, 
July  31,  1716.  He  had  by.  the  two  last  no  children.  He 
was  chosen  one  of  the  number  to  assist  in  the  formation 
or  gathering  of  a  church  in  the  place,  after  the  Congre- 
gational order  ;  and  was  a  signer  to  the  call  of  the  first 
and  second  ministers,  viz. :  Rev.  Samuel  Street  and 
Rev.  Samuel  Whittelsey.  In  1710  he  was,  with  the 
exception  of  Mr.  Street,  the  only  surviving  signer  of  the 
Plantation  covenant  of  Wallingford.  He  was  a  Justice 


BIOGRAPHIES.  545 

of  the  peace,  and  a  Captain  of  the  train-band,  &c.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  89  years,  July  26,  1 736. 

CHARLES  YALE,  ESQ. 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  parish  of  Meriden,  April  20, 
1709.  He  married  Huldah  Robinson  of  Meriden,  and 
commenced  the  manufacture  of  japanned  and  tin  ware, 
for  this  and  the  southern  market ;  and  for  several  years 
kept  a  depot  for  the  sale  of  his  goods  at  Richmond, 
Virginia,  in  connection  with  his  brother  Selden.  In, 
this  enterprise  they  were  very  successful,  and  in  a  few 
years  they  each  had  accumulated  a  very  handsome 
property.  The  failing  health  of  Selden  compelled  him 
to  retire  from  the  firm.  Upon  this,  Mr.  Yale  formed  a 
business  connection  with  his  son-in-law,  under  the  name 
of  Yale  and  Dunby,  and  soon  after  purchased  in  his 
own  name  the  old  Mills  at  the  first  falls  on  the  Quinni- 
piac  River,  which  had  borne  the  name  of  Tyler's  Mills 
for  more  than  one  hundred  years.  He  repaired  and 
remodeled  the  whole  concern,  and  changed  the  name 
to  Yalesville.  Here  he  entered  largely  into  the  manu- 
facture of  britannia  wares  and  tea-pots,  which  found  a 
ready  sale  in  New  York  and  elsewhere.  In  this  business 
he  continued  until  the  close  of  his  life.  He  died  Nov. 
2, 1835,  aged  47  years. 

HON.    EL1HU    YALE 

Of  New  Haven,  son  of  the  late  Ira  and  Harriet  ( Cook ) 
Yale  of  Wallingford,  was  born  July  25,  1807,  in  the 
house  built  by  his  grandfather  Elisha  Yale  in  Yalesville 
district,  and  resided  at  home  with  his  parents  until  Jan. 
6,  1824,  when  he  left  his  home  to  learn  a  trade  in  the 
city  of  New  Haven.  After  the  term  of  his  apprentice- 
ship was  concluded,  he  returned  to  his  native  town,  where 
he  was  soon  after  made  a  freeman  and  elected  a  consta- 


546  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

ble.  The  year  following  he  went  to  Cheshire,  where  he 
married  Julia  Ann,  daughter  of  the  late  Capt.  Thaddeus 
Rich,  formerly  of  Bristol,  Conn.,  May  25,  1830.  He  was 
appointed  post  master  at  Cheshire  in  1832,  and  continued 
in  the  office  with  the  exception  of  a  few  months  until 
185  i,  when  he  removed  to  New  Haven.  He  was  a  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace  for  about  18  years,  and  a  selectman  in 
Cheshire  five  consecutive  years,  clerk  of  the  school  soci- 
ety for  about  fourteen  years,  and  judge  of  the  Probate 
court  in  1850-7,  and  was  in  1853  elected  a  member  of 
the  common  council  of  New  Haven,  and  was  re-elected 
for  five  consecutive  years.  In  1859  ne  was  elected  chief 
of  the  Police  of  the  city  of  New  Haven,  and  was  re- 
elected  to  the  same  office  in  1864.  After  serving  nearly 
two  years  he  resigned  the  office,  believing  that  he  had 
contributed  his  share  to  the  public  service. 

In  1750  he  prepared  and  published  a  genealogy  of  the 
Yale  family,  from  the  first  of  the  name  who  appeared  in 
this  country  down  to  1850.  He  has  in  manuscript  a 
genealogy  of  the  Cook  family,  which  he  has  carefully 
prepared  and  hopes  soon  to  publish.  Besides  he  has 
collected  a  large  amount  of  genealogical  matter  for  this 
work,  and  many  of  the  Biographical  notices  which 
appear  in  this  work,  have  been  prepared  by  him.  He  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  New  England  Historical  and 
Genealogical  Society,  on  the  7th  of  May,  1856,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society. 


BIOGRAPHIES.  547 

M  ERI I )  EN   J.tJ  (  K ;  R  \  Pf  1 1 ES. 

HON.    WALTER    BOOTH 

born  in  Woodbridge,  Conn.,  Dec.  8th,  1791.     When 
steen  years  of  age,  he   came   to    Meriden    and 
his  first  night  in   this  town  at  the  old  white  house 
<e  Hanover  road/  which  stands  first  northwest  of 
••>\d  residence  of  the  late  J.  C.  Breckenridge.     The 
or  part  of  his  life  since  then   has  been  spent  here, 
years    excepted  which    He   spent    in    business    in 
:nore.     But  it  is   not  n  of  Mei 

Deacon  Booth   wis  k 

:ghout:  the  state.     At  OIK        '  appoinf 

e  office  of  General  of  our  State  Militia,  botii  as  a 
ulier  and  a  Major  General.     In   1850  he  was  sent 
^o  Washington  to  represent  the  State  of  Connecticut  in 
luuse  of  Representatives,  held 

r  two  years;  besides  bavin.-. 

offices  in   both  town  an     '  At   t\s 

e   he   was    electe-  .1    in   th... 

rcgational  Cburch  in  thi- 
at  the  time  of  his  death 
a  director   in    the    Mer 
y  years,  and  at  one  time  i  'ent. 

above  all  he  was  eminently  a  good  man,  •<.'. 
integrity  and  a  Christian   man.     Up  to   hi 

was  active  in  all  his  church  duties,  an- 
he  absent  from  his  place  in  the  sanctuary  and  the 
.ith  school  where  he  was  a  teacher,  and  of  v* 
he  was   the  first  superintendent,  and  also  in  ! 
•  r-meetings.     Many   will   recall   the   fervor   o. 

aid  the  unction  of  his  exhortations  in  the  social 


548  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

meeting ;  and  the  testimony  of  all  who  knew  him,  is 
uniform  as  to  the  steadfastness  of  his  Christian  principle, 
and  the  purity  of  his  Christian  character. 

He  was  a  man  of  great  simplicity  and  plainness  of 
manners,  and  was  averse  to  all  pageantry  and  parade, 
and  strictly  economical  in  his  expenditures.  He  showed 
himself  ever  ready  to  aid  any  enterprise,  either  in  business, 
or  civil  and  religious  affairs,  which  promised  to  promote 
the  secular  or  religious  interests  of  his  native  town. 

His  illness,  which  lasted  little  less  than  two  weeks, 
was  a  malignant  form  of  erysipelas ;  first  indicating 
itself  in  his  face,  and  from  there  creeping  to  his  brain, 
rendering  him  delirious  for  a  greater  part  of  the  time. 
His  friends,  however,  and  physician,  Dr.  Catlin,  did  not 
deem  him  dangerous  until  Wednesday  of  the  week  in 
which  he  died.  Dr.  Townsend  of  New  Haven  was 
called  in  as  counsel  on  Tuesday,  and  did  not  then  think 
his  chances  for  recovery  were  doubtful.  But  notwith- 
standing the  tender  nursing  of  his  wife  and  friends  who 
were  continually  by  his  bedside,  and  in  spite  of  the  skill 
and  faithfulness  of  his  physician,  the  destroying  disease 
made  headway,  and  on  Saturday  morning,  April  30, 
1870,  lapsing  into  unconsciousness,  he  gently  and  with- 
out a  struggle  or  a  groan  breathed  his  life  away. 

FENNER     BUSH 

Son  of  John  and  Bathsheba  (Dodge)  Bush,  was  born  in 
East  Lyme,  Conn.,  in  the  year  1 79 1 .  His  father  died  when 
Fenner  was  quite  young,  and  as  the  family  were  in  very 
poor  circumstances,  he  was  put  out  to  live  when  but  six 
years  of  age.  He  was  employed  in  assisting  on  the 
farm  and  at  house-work.  When  eleven  years  old  he  was 
put  in  the  family  of  a  ship-builder,  and  was  to  be  taught 
the  trade  when  old  enough  ;  but  soon  after,  his  master 


BIOGRAPHIES.  549 

ran  off  with  his  wife's  sister,  and  the  boy  was  returned 
to  his  former  master.  In  his  twelfth  year  he  went  to 
live  with  a  joiner,  with  a  view  to  learn  the  trade. 
When  eighteen  years  old,  his  master  furnished  him  with 
a  new  suit  of  clothes,  and  for  the  first  time  he  attended 
church.  The  last  four  years  of  his  apprenticeship  (he 
served  nine  years'),  his  master  treated  him  with  less  rigor, 
but  his  situation  was  far  from  being  respectable. 


FENNER    BUSH. 

When  he  was  twenty-one,  he  had  no  home  or  proper- 
ty, except  a  right  in  a  small  piece  of  land  that  his  father 
left,  worth  perhaps  two  hundred  dollars.  He  worked 
for  his  master  three  months,  at  fourteen  dollars  per 
month,  and  at  the  close  of  this  term,  he  took  his  forty- 
two  dollars  and  started  off  on  foot  to  a  neighboring 
town,  to  make  purchases  of  some  tools.  On  his  way  he 
lost  his  money,  all  he  had  in  the  world  ;  but  by  good 
luck  found  it  again,  purchased  his  tools,  and  returned 
and  set  up  business  in  opposition  to  his  former  master, 
who  politely  told  him  that  he  was  "a—  —fool,  for  he 
would  not  earn  enough  to  pay  his  board."  But  he  was 
M  M 


5  5O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ambitious,  and  moreover  a  good  workman,  and  soon  had 
so  much  to  do,  that  his  former  master  offered  to  sell  out 
to  him.  Fenner  accepted  the  offer,  and  hired  help  to 
meet  his  engagements. 

He  now  found  the  necessity  of  something  which  had 
been  entirely  neglected  ;  for  he  could  neither  read  nor 
keep  accounts.  He  therefore  gave  up  business,  hired  a 
room,  and  for  two  winters  devoted  himself  to  study, 
three  months  of  which  were  given  to  learning  to  read. 
He  again  commenced  business,  and  pursued  his  trade 
with  considerable  success.  In  1816  he  married  Eunice 
Kirtland  of  Saybrook,  and  commenced  keeping  house, 
taking  two  apprentices  to  board.  About  this  time  he 
was  taken  sick  with  typhus  fever,  and  for  a  long  time 
was  very  sick  ;  and  for  nearly  two  years  was  unable  to 
work.  During  his  sickness  he  spent  all  he  had  earned 
from  the  beginning,  and  got  into  debt  several  hundred 
dollars.  But  by  diligent  attention  to  business  he  paid 
up  his  debts  and  bought  the  house  that  he  lived  in. 

In  April,  1824,  he  removed  from  Saybrook  to  Meriden 
and  became  interested  in  the  comb  business  in  connec- 
tion with  Mr.  Julius  Pratt.  He  worked  here  with 
untiring  industry  twelve  hours  a  day,  at  $i  25  per  day  ; 
after  a  few  years  the  time  was  reduced  to  eleven  hours, 
and  the  wages  increased  to  $i  75  a  day.  For  twenty 
years  he  labored  here,  when  the  shop  was  destroyed  by 
fire,  and  he  lost  the  earnings  of  twenty  years.  It  was 
through  his  management  that  the  shop  was  re-built  and 
the  machinery  introduced  early  in  the  July  following 
the  fire.  Mr.  Bush  has  been  interested  in  the  comb 
business  up  to  this  time  ;  is  now  one  of  the  largest 
stockholders,  and  until  within  a  few  years,  was  one  of  the 
directors.  By  steady  and  persevering  industry  and 


BIOGRAPHIES.  55 1 

economy  he  has  accumulated  considerable  property. 

Mr.  Bush  is  a  whole-souled,  liberal  man,  loved  and 
respected  by  every  one  who  has  met  him.  He  has 
contributed  largely  to  benevolent  objects,  assisted  lib- 
erally to  build  three  churches  and  five  school-houses, 
and  paid  liberally  for  the  support  of  the  Anti-Slavery 
cause  and  of  Christianity. 

Mr.  Bush  served  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  in  1848  was 
elected  senator  from  the  6th  district  to  the  Connecticut 
Legislature. 

His  two  daughters,  Temperance  Janet  and  Eunice 
Kirtland,  married  respectively  Randolph  Lindsley  and 
P.  J.  Clark. 

LIEUT.    COMFORT   BUTLER 

Son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Foster)  Butler,  was  born  in 
Middletown,  Nov.  16,  1743.  He  was  the  sixth  genera- 
tion from  Richard  Butler,  one  of  the  original  proprietors 
in  Hartford  in  1639,  an<^  wno  was  admitted  freeman  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1634.  Comfort  Butler  was  appren- 
ticed to  the  shoemaking  business  in  Middletown  at  an 
early  age,  and  being  much  troubled  by  a  fellow  apprentice 
of  a  quarrelsome  disposition,  he  told  his  master  that  if 
he  must  fight,  he  preferred  to  fight  the  enemies  of  his 
country  rather  than  one  of  his  mates  ;  and  that  if  he 
would  allow  him  to  enlist  in  the  army  he  would  serve 
out  the  balance  of  his  time  after  his  return.  His  master 
consented,  and  young  Butler  enlisted,  although  only 
about  sixteen.  To  his  great  surprise  he  found  his  fellow 
apprentice  was  a  member  of  the  same  company.  But  it 
seems  that  their  fighting  propensities  found  ample  scope 
without  troubling  each  other,  and  they  became  fast 
friends  and  remained  such  until  the  close  of  the  war, 
when  Comfort  returned  home,  fulfilled  his  agreement 


552 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


with  his  master,  finished  his  trade,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Divan  Berry,  in  1765,  and  removed  to  Wall- 
ingford  in  the  Meriden  parish.  He  had  nine  children, 
viz. :  Samuel,  John,  Hannah,  Lemuel,  Esther,  Asa,  Divan, 
Mary  and  Phebe.  He  died  February  19,  1826. 

JOHN    BUTLER 

Son  of  Comfort  and  Mary  (Berry)  Butler,  was  born  in 
Meriden,  Sept.  5,  1770.  He  was  early  in  life  apprenticed 
to  a  shoemaker,  and  subsequently  engaged  in  the  tanning 
and  shoe-making  business  on  his  own  account,  and  was 
the  principal  shoemaker  and  tanner  in  Meriden  for 
nearly  sixty  years.  He  was  considered  by  all  who  knew 
him  an  honest,  upright  man  in  all  his  intercourse  with 


JOHN    BUTLER. 

the  world.  He  was  "  Uncle  John"  to  everybody.  He 
was  remarkable  from  a  boy  for  his  industrious  and  frugal 
habits.  After  he  had  arrived  at  an  age  when  he  was 
subject  to  military  duty,  his  residence  was  in  the  center 
of  the  town  ;  and  on  training  days  he  would  manage  to 
have  his  work  where  he  could  see  the  military  move- 


BIOGRAPHIES.  553 

ments,  and  when  the  time  of  roll-call  arrived,  he  would 
leave  his  work  and  go  and  answer  to  his  name,  drill  a 
while  with  the  company,  and  return  to  his  work  again, 
thereby  making  the  most  of  his  time.  He  was  very 
regular  in  his  habits,  rising  before  the  sun  and  re- 
tiring before  nine  in  the  evening.  He  was  very  exact 
in  his  accounts,  and  when  he  gave  his  apprentices  money 
he  always  wanted  to  know  what  use  it  was  put  to,  and 
usually  made  a  note  of  it.  For  instance,  I  find  in  his 
account-book  among  others,  the  following  entry  :  "  Gave 
Stephen  Seymour  twenty-five  cents  to  see  a  striped 
jackass."  He  raised  a  numerous  family  of  children, 
most  of  whom  are  residents  of  Meriden  at  this  date, 
and  are  universally  esteemed  by  the  community.  Mr. 
Butler  married  ist,  August  17,  1796,  Ruth  Parker,  who 
died  Sept.  30,  1799;  m.  2d,  March  15,  1800,  Philomela 
Cowles,  who  died  March  25,  1807;  m.  3d,  April  17, 
1 8 10,  widow  Susannah  Hall.  His  children  were  Albert, 
Ruth  A.  ( m.  Morris  Stevens),  Henry  C.,  Philomela, 
Lyman,  John,  Levi,  Susan  ( m.  Sydney  P.  Hall),  and 
Isaac.  John  Butler  died  Oct.  6,  1852,  ae.  82  years  and 
21  days,  in  the  full  hope  of  a  blissful  immortality. 

LEMUEL     BUTLER 

Son  of  Comfort  and  Mary  ( Berry )  Butler,  was  born  in 
Meriden,  Feb.  3,  1775.  He  was  a  farmer,  a  plain,  unas- 
suming man,  perfectly  reliable  at  all  times.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  raised  a  numerous  family, 
most  of  whom  now  reside  here,  and  are  very  estimable 
citizens,  some  of  whom  are  occupying  responsible  po- 
sitions both  in  religious  and  secular  affairs.  Dec.  4, 
1810,  he  married  Salina,  daughter  of  Jesse  Merriman, 
who  was  born  March  20,  1786,  and  died  Sept.  25,  1842. 
Their  children  were:  Joel  1.,  Eli,  Hiram,  Harriet,  (m. 


5  54  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Andrew    A.    Bradley),    and    George.      Lemuel    Butler 
died  Dec.  11,  1852. 


LEMUEL    BUTLER. 


HENRY    C.    BUTLER 

Son  of  John  and  Philomela  (Cowles)  Butler,  was  born 
in  Meriden,  March  6,  1807.  By  honest  and  persevering 
industry,  Mr.  Butler  has  accumulated  a  large  property, 


HENRY    C.    BUTLER. 

and  for  his   moral  worth  he  is  highly  respected  by  his 
fellow  citizens.     Though  often  solicited  to  accept  offices 


BIOGRAPHIES. 


555 


of  trust  in  the  town,  he  has  always  refused,  with  the 
exception  of  acting  as  moderator  at  every  annual  town 
meeting  since  the  town  hall  was  built.  He  married  ist, 
July  i,  1832,  Sophronia  Hotchkiss,  who  died  April  17, 
1841.  He  married  2d,  Nov.  25,  1841,  Elizabeth  Foster, 
who  died  June,  1847.  He  married  3d,  May  31,  1848, 
Mrs.  Mary  L.  Woodruff,  widow  of  Dr.  Isaac  Woodruff. 
His  children  by  his  ist  wife  were:  Lucy  C.  (m.  Wm. 
L.  Squires),  Mary  P.  and  John  H. :  by  2nd  wife :  Henry 
W.  and  Aaron  C. 

JOEL    I.    BUTLER 

Son  of  Lemuel  and  Selina  (Merriman)  Butler,  was  born 
in  Meriden,  Nov.  12,  1811.  He  has  occupied  numerous 
positions  of  trust  and  responsibility  in  matters  pertain- 


JOEL    I.    BUTLER. 

ing  to  the  government  and  the  town.  He  is  President 
of  the  Meriden  Bank,  and  U.  S.  Internal  Revenue 
Assessor,  and  a  man  in  whom  the  people  have  the  most 
implicit  confidence  in  every  respect.  Mr.  Butler  married 
ist,  Aug.  27,  1835,  Mary  A.  Morton,  who  died  Aug.  21, 
1837.  He  married  2nd,  July  27,  1840,  Sarah  A.  Hotch- 


556  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

kiss,  who  died  Sept.  11,  1853.  He  married  3d,  Jan.  17, 
1855,  Ursula  M.  Hart.  By  his  2nd  wife  he  had  two  chil- 
dren, Mary  Ann  and  Emma  S. 

BENJAMIN    HOPKINS    CATLIN 

The  eldest  son  of  Benjamin  and  Rhoda  Catlin,  was  born 
in  Harwinton,  Litchfield  county,  Conn.,  Aug.  10,  1801. 
His  advantages  for  education  were  limited  to  the  district 
school  near  his  father's  residence,  till  his  sixteenth  year, 
when  an  academy  was  built  in  his  native  town,  in  which 
he  had  the  opportunity  of  pursuing  the  higher  branches 
of  study  not  then  taught  in  our  common  schools.  At 
this  academy  and  under  the  tuition  of  the  Rev.  Luther 
Hart  of  Plymouth,  he  pursued  his  preparatory  studies. 
He  studied  medicine  and  surgery  nearly  four  years 
under  the  instruction  of  different  physicians  and  at  the 
Medical  Institution  of  Yale  College,  where  he  received 
his  diploma,  March  4,  1825.  July  I3th  of  the  same 
year,  he  opened  an  office  in  Haddam,  Middlesex  County, 
there  being  a  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  death  of  Dr. 
Andrew  Warner.  The  first  week  he  had  patients  to 
attend,  and  in  two  or  three  months  was  in  full  practice. 
He  remained  here  more  than  sixteen  years,  his  practice 
extending  into  all  the  adjoining  towns.  The  last  day  of 
March,  1842,  Dr.  Wyllis  Woodruff  of  Meriden  died. 
The  same  evening  a  messenger  was  sent  to  Dr.  Catlin 
by  some  of  the  leading  citizens  of  Meriden,  requesting 
him  to  come  to  Meriden  to  fill  the  vacancy.  He  came 
up  the  next  day,  April  i,  made  arrangements  for  his 
removal,  and  commenced  practice  in  Meriden  April  5. 
He  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Connecticut  Medical 
Society,  and  in  1840  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
M.  D.  from  Yale  College.  In  1854  he  was  elected  Vice- 
President  of  the  Connecticut  Medical  Society,  re-elected 


BIOGRAPHIES.  557 

in  1855,  appointed  President  in  1856,  and  re-elected  in 
1857.  He  has  been  a  permanent  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association  since  May,  1853,  and  has  since 
that  time  attended  most  of  the  annual  meetings  as 
delegate  from  the  New  Haven  County  Medical  Society, 
or  from  the  State  society.  In  1 860  he  was  elected  an 
Honorary  Member  of  the  New  York  State  Medical 
Society,  and  in  1869  a  Corresponding  Member  of  the 
Gynaecological  Society  of  Boston.  When  the  first  Con- 
gregational society  removed  to  West  Meriden,  Dr. 
Catlin  was  elected  deacon,  which  office  he  has  held  until 
the  present  time. 

TIMOTHY    FISHER    DAVIS,    M.    D. 

Was  the  son  of  Eliphaz  and  Hannah  (Sawyer)  Davis, 
and  was  born  in  Marlboro,  Mass.,  March  13,  1810.  After 
receiving  his  early  education  at  the  common  schools 
of  his  native  town,  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  trade  in 
Springfield,  Mass.  In  1837,  having  then  a  wife  and  two 
children,  he  entered  the  office  of  Dr.  Riley  of  Croshen, 
Conn.,  to  pursue  the  study  of  medicine,  still  working  at 
his  trade  during  his  spare  hours,  for  the  support  of  his 
family.  After  leaving  the  office  of  Dr.  Riley  he  prac- 
ticed his  profession  for  a  time  in  Goshen,  and  then 
concluded  to  remove  to  Litchfield  as  offering  a  wider 
field  for  his  business.  In  Litchfield  he  remained  several 
years,  engaged  in  a  constantly  increasing  and  lucrative 
practice ;  but  hearing  that  there  was  a  better  opening  in 
Plymouth,  and  being  urged  by  a  number  of  influential 
persons  in  that  town,  he  removed  his  family  there  and 
commenced  practice  about  the  year  1846.  Here  he 
opened  a  drug  store,  built  a  house,  and  obtained  an  ex- 
tensive practice  in  the  town  and  beyond  it,  being 
frequently  called  to  the  neighboring  towns  of  Wolcott, 


558  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Bristol,  Bethlem,  and  Watertovvn.  These  long  rides 
in  a  hilly  country  soon  wore  upon  his  health,  and  he 
began  looking  for  some  easier  field  of  practice.  At  this 
time  his  old  friend  and  fellow  student,  Dr.  William  H. 
Allen  of  Meriden,  died,  and  his  widow  wrote  to  Dr.  Davis 
a  letter  urging  him  to  remove  to  Meriden  and  take  her 
late  husband's  practice.  This  was  just  the  field  that  he 
was  looking  for,  and  accordingly  in  1850  he  removed  to 
Meriden,  and  the  year  following  removed  his  family. 


DR.    TIMOTHY    FISHER    DAVIS. 

For  nearly  eighteen  years  Dr.  Davis  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Meriden  with  success.  He  was  a  skillful  and 
prudent  operator,  a  careful  and  discriminating  prescriber, 
ever  improving  the  lessons  of  experience.  In  1843  he 
received  a  diploma  from  the  Botanic  Medical  Society  of 
Connecticut,  and  in  1850  an  honorary  diploma,  he  being 
at  that  time  Vice  President  of  the  Society.  He  after- 
wards held  the  office  of  President.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  State  Eclectic  Medical  Society,  and  held 
the  offices  at  different  times,  of  Secretary,  Treasurer^ 


BIOGRAPHIES.  559 

Vice  President  and  President,  and  was  for  several  years 
one  of  the  Board  of  Censors. 

Dr.  Davis  was  most  genial,  kind  and  companionable 
in  his  social  relations.  Fond  of  society,  with  a  genial 
humor  which  led  him  to  enjoy  the  present  and  not  be 
too  careful  of  the  future,  quick  in  his  perceptions,  liber- 
al in  pecuniary  matters,  and  despising  money-hoarding, 
he  lived  in  as  much  enjoyment  as  falls  to  the  lot  of  most 
men,  and  was  personally  esteemed  as  a  friend  and 
physician  throughout  the  community.  He  was  not  a 
man  of  fluent  speech,  and  of  consequence  not  what  we 
call  a  great  talker.  But  he  was  a  capital  listener,  and 
would  attend  with  great  eagerness  and  delight  to  hear 
men  of  sense  talk.  He  was  fond  of  horticulture,  and 
evinced  much  taste  and  skill  in  the  cultivation  of  his 
land.  He  had  the  true  idea  of  success  in  this  business, 
viz. :  that  "a  little  land  should  be  well  tilled." 

In  1866  a  small  pimple  on  his  lower  lip  began  troub- 
ling him,  and  soon  proved  to  be  a  cancer.  At  that  time 
he  was  very  busy,  and  thinking  that  he  could  not  neglect 
his  patients,  he  was  careless  of  himself  and  suffered  the 
disease  to  make  great  progress  before  he  could  be  pre- 
vailed upon  to  do  anything  for  it.  He  had  at  different 
times  two  operations,  one  by  Dr.  Ellsworth  of  Hartford, 
and  the  other  by  Dr.  Gurdon  Buck  of  New  York  ;  but 
the  operations  were  undertaken  too  late.  He  lingered 
until  the  24th  of  February,  1870,  when  he  passed  away 
in  his  sixtieth  year.  At  the  funeral  services,  the  atten- 
dance of  the  most  prominent  citizens  in  the  city  testified 
to  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held.  The  funeral 
services  were  performed  by  Rev.  M.  I.  Steere.  The 
rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church  and  the  pastor  of  the 
Methodist  Church  were  also  present.  His  pastor  said 


560  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

of  him,  "  During  his  long  and  distressing  sickness  I  do 
not  think  so  much  as  a  shadow  of  distrust  or  fear  passed 
over  his  soul.  He  steadfastly  contemplated  death  as 
though  it  were  life.  He  saw  light  in  its  darkness,  and 
the  Father's  love  shining  within  its  shadows.  He  felt 
that  his  life  was  with  Christ  in  God,  and  that  death 
could  not  disturb  it.  His  language  ever  was,  '  I  am 
ready  ;  I  am  sinking  into  the  arms  of  Jesus.'  And  the 
pressure  of  his  hand  as  I  rose  from  his  bedside,  often 
told  me  how,  deeper  than  I,  he  felt  the  sentiments  of 
hope  and  goodness."  Dr.  Davis  was  a  member  of  the 
order  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  was  buried 
with  Masonic  honors.  He  married  Miss  Mary  Parsons, 
November  i,  1832.  She  died  April,  1834,  in  Pleasant 
Valley,  Conn.,  leaving  one  child,  Mary  Markham 
Morehouse,  who  married  Edwin  Miner  in  1853,  and 
is  now  living  in  New  Haven,  a  widow.  Dr.  Davis  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife,  Miss  Moriva  Hatch  of  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  in  1836,  and  had  :  Julia,  born  April,  1838; 
died  December,  1839;  Charles  Henry  Stanley,1  born 
March  2,  1840;  Julia  Moriva,  born  July,  1844;  Wilbur 
Fisk,  born  Sept.,  1846,  died  July  15,  1847  ;  Wilbur  Fisk, 
born  July,  1848;  a  graduate  of  the  Cambridge  Law 
School  in  1870. 

i  Charles  Henry  Stanley  Davis  was  born  March  2,  1840.  He  was  pre- 
pared for  college  in  the  public  schools  of  Meriden,  and  pursued  the  studies 
of  the  Freshman  and  Sophomore  classes  under  Rev.  Messrs.  Wilder  and 
Foster.  His  plans  for  entering  college  were  broken  up  by  the  war,  and  in 
1862  after  a  short  residence  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  he  removed  to  New 
York  and  entered  the  medical  department  of  the  New  York  University, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  the  spring  of  1865,  attending  the  last  course  of 
lectures  ever  delivered  by  Dr.  Valentine  Mott.  After  attending  a  course 
of  lectures  at  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  school  and  following  hospital 
practice,  he  removed  to  Boston,  attending  the  summer  course  at  the  Har- 
vard University  Medical  school.  During  his  residence  in  Boston  he  edited 


BIOGRAPHIES.  561 

.  JACOB    EATON 

Was  a  graduate  of  Harford  University,  Pennsylvania, 
and  of  the  New  Haven  theological  seminary.  His  first 
and  only  pastorate  was  over  the  Hanover  Congregational 
Church,  where  he  was  ordained  May  28,  1857.  This 
church,  then  in  its  infancy,  enjoyed  a  revival  of  religion 
at  the  beginning  of  his  ministry,  which  continued  after 
his  ordination,  and  was  the  means  of  increasing  the 
membership  and  the  strength  of  the  church  by  an 
addition  of  about  twenty-five  new  members.  This  re- 
lation was  sustained  harmoniously  till  the  outbreak  of 
the  rebellion.  The  following  pastoral  note,  under  date 
of  September  30,  1861,  copied  from  the  records  of  the 
church  in  Hanover,  speaks  for  itself: 

"The  Congregational  church  in  Hanover  has  been  subjec- 
ted to  many  changes  since  my  settlement  as  pastor.  God 
has  blessed  it  by  adding  to  its  numbers  from  year 
to  year.  These  additions  have  averaged  ten  each  year  dur- 
ing my  ministry  here.  But  our  church  and  society  have  been 
greatly  weakened  by  numerous  removals.  The  darkest  hour 
has  arrived.  The  terrible  rebellion  in  our  Southern  states 


the  first  volume  of  the  Boston  Medical  Register.  In  the  fall  of  1866,  he 
removed  to  Baltimore,  where  he  remained  through  the  winter  attending 
the  lectures  in  the  medical  department  of  the  University  of  Maryland  and 
following  hospital  practice.  In  1867  he  returned  to  Meriden,  succeeding 
his  father  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  1863  Rev.  Dr.  Brown, 
Rev.  Messrs.  Duer,  Jones,  Post,  Owen  and  others  organized  the  American 
Philological  Society,  and  Dr.  Davis  was  elected  the  first  corresponding 
Secretary  and  afterwards  one  of  the  Vice  Presidents.  In  September,  1868, 
he  was  elected  member  of  the  N.  E.  Historical  and  Genealogical  society 
of  Boston,  and  during  1868  and  the  following  year  was  elected  correspond- 
ing member  of  the  Wisconsin,  Minnesota  and  Chicago  Historical  societies. 
In  1870  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  so- 
ciety. He  is  also  a  member  of  several  medical  and  scientific  societies,  and 
has  contributed  largely  to  the  medical  and  periodical  press.  He  married 
September  23,  1869,  Carrie  E.  daughter  of  George  W.  Harris,  Esq. 


562  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

has  seriously  affected  our  manufacturing  and .  pecuniary 
interests.  We  feel  it  most  deeply.  My  mind  and  heart  have 
been  deeply  interested  in  our  national  conflict.  After  mature 
reflection,  I  have  asked  of  my  people  a  leave  of  absence  for 
one  year,  that  I  may  enlist  in  the  Grand  Army  of  Freedom. 
May  God  be  with  those  I  shall  leave  behind.  May  He  save 
me  through  His  grace,  and  may  He  save  our  beloved  country 
and  our  government,  from  anarchy  and  dissolution. 

"Signed,     JACOB  EATON." 

In  accordance  with  the  purpose  here  expressed,  he 
enlisted  in  the  8th  Connecticut  Regiment,  sharing  its 
fortunes  under  Burnside  on  the  Atlantic  coast  as  a  pri- 
vate. He  was  promoted  at  length  to  a  Lieutenancy,  and 
served  as  an  officer  till  wounded  on  the  bloody  field  of 
Antietam,  a  musket  ball  entering  his  hip  and  disabling 
him  for  many  months.  Incapacitated  thus  for  service  in 
the  ranks,  he  received  an  honorable  discharge  and  re- 
turned to  his  people  again  to  break  unto  them  the  bread 
of  life  and  fight  the  good  fight.  His  heart  more  than  ever 
was  with  the  country  in  its  trial,  and  with  the  brave  men 
who  were  fighting  our  battles.  After  preaching  about  a 
year,  again  he  enlisted  in  the  7th  Connecticut  Regiment, 
and  was  promoted  to  a  chaplaincy.  Here  he  did  valiant 
service  for  Christ  and  his  country.  He  died  at  Wilming- 
ton, N.  C,  March  20,  1865,  of  typhoid  fever,  induced  by 
fatigue  and  over  exertion  in  ministering  to  the  wants  of 
the  recently  rescued  federal  prisoners  in  the  hospital  at 
that  place.  Mr.  Eaton  was  a  man  of  strong  affection  and 
love  of  home,  of  most  deep  and  tender  sympathies,  and 
of  ardent  devotion  to  the  cause  of  Christ  and  the  country. 
He  was  a  warm  friend,  when  once  friendship  was  estab- 
lished, and  self-sacrificing  for  others  weal.  His  charac- 
ter was  impulsive.  He  was  strong  in  his  detestation  of 


BIOGRAPHIES.  563 

whatever  he  thought  wrong,  and  bold  in  his  defense  of 
what  he  deemed  right.1  Humble  as  was  the  life  and  death 
of  this  man,  it  may  be  doubted  whether  any  of  all  the 
martyrs  of  the  Great  Rebellion  offered  a  truer  sacrifice  to 
their  country  than  his.  Twice  he  left  his  peaceful  pro- 
fession for  the  camp  and  the  battlefield  ;  but  he  finally 
died,  not  in  the  work  of  death,  but  as  a  minister  of  mercy. 

JOEL  H.  GUY 

Son  of  Orchard  and  Lois  (Hall)  Guy,  was  born  in  Meri- 
den  June  4,  1804.  He  attended  the  district  school 
winters,  until  he  was  sixteen  years  old.  At  the  age  of 
twenty  he  commenced  teaching,  and  taught  for  ten  win- 
ters at  an  average  salary  of  eight  dollars  per  month  and 
board.  He  then  acted  as  salesman  for  Meriden  manufac- 
tures for  four  or  five  years.  After  this  Mr.  Guy,  in 
connection  with  his  brother,  bought  a  store  in  Middle- 
town  where  he  carried  on  business  until  1840,  though 
residing  in  Meriden  most  of  the  time.  In  1840  he  built 
the  store  now  standing  east  of  his  present  residence,  and 
under  the  title  of  J.  H.  Guy  &  Co.,  he  carried  on  the 
grocery  business,  the  Company  being  the  firm  of  Julius 
Pratt  &  Co.  In  1846  Mr.  Guy  bought  out  his  partner 
and  carried  on  the  business  until  about  1850.  Mr.  Guy 
has  been  a  very  energetic  business  man,  honest  and 
straightforward  in  all  of  his  dealings.  Since  1844  he 
has  held  the  office  of  postmaster  at  different  times  for 
twelve  years.  He  was  President  of  the  Meriden  Bank 
thirteen  years,  and  has  been  President  of  the  ist  Nation- 
al Bank  seven  years.  He  has  also  held  the  office  of  con- 
stable, deputy-sheriff,  assessor  and  collector,  justice  of 
the  peace  and  alderman.  He  has  also  acted  more  than 

i  Funeral  Discourse  by  Rev.  H.  C.  Hayden. 


564  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

any  other  man  in  Meriden  as  administrator  and  trustee  of 
estates.  Mr.  Guy  married  Nov.  9,  1830,  Semira  Wetmore 
of  Middlefield,  and  has  one  daughter  born  in  1833.  He 
has  been  extensively  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness about  twenty  years. 

JULIUS    HALL. 

The  oldest  house  in  Meriden  is  now  standing  about 
three  miles  east  of  the  center.  It  was  built  by  Daniel 
Hall  in  the  earlier  part  of  the  last  century.  He  was  the 
grandson  of  John  Hall,  the  first  emigrant,  and  was  born 
January  27,  1689.  His  son  John  was  born  Jan.  29,  1724, 
and  died  May  13,  1795,  leaving  twelve  children.  Joseph, 
the  fifth  son,  born  Oct.  8,  1770,  succeeded  to  the  old 
homestead.  He  died  March  13,  1831,  leaving  six  chil- 
dren, of  whom  two,  Sherman,  born  April  26,  1806,  and 


JULIUS  HALL. 

Julius,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  born  June  7,  1813,  still 
survive.  They  are  the  fourth  generation  born  in  this  old 
house.  Julius  Hall  married  Laura  L.  Parker,  May  I, 
1852,  and  has  six  children.  Some  years  ago  he  built  the 
house  in  which  he  now  lives,  just  north  of  the  old  house. 


BIOGRAPHIES.  565 

The  immense  timbers  and  old  stone  chimney,  in  the  fire- 
place of  which  a  load  of  wood  might  easily  be  placed, 
bid  fair  to  stand  for  several  generations  to  come.  Mr.  Hall 
is  a  plain,  unassuming  man,  whose  whole  attention  is 
given  to  his  farm.  Respected  by  his  friends  and  neigh- 
bors for  his  moral  worth,  he  never  sought  after  office,  or 
mingled  in  town  affairs,  but  lives  as  did  his  ancestors  for 
four  generations  in  this  town,  a  tiller  of  the  soil,  happy 
and  content  in  the  bosom  of  his  family. 

EDWARD  WALKER    HATCH,  M.  D. 

Was  born  in  Blandford,  Hampden  Co.,  Mass.,  Aug.  31, 
1818.  His  parents  were  Timothy  Linus  and  Sarah 
Walker  (Shepard)  Hatch.  He  was  graduated  at  the 
Berkshire  Medical  College,  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  in  the  class 
of  1842.  He  was  married  Oct.  15,  1846,  to  Miss  Nancy 
C.  Boies,  daughter  of  David  Boies  Esq.,  of  Blandford. 
He  was  then  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  New 
Jersey.  He  removed  from  New  Jersey  to  Meriden  in 
December,  1849.'  In  1853  he  built  and  occupied  the 
house  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Butler  streets,  now 
occupied  by  Henry  C.  Butler,  Esq.  He  was  appointed 
trustee  of  the  State  Reform  School  by  the  Legislature 
of  1838,  and  in  July,  1859  was  appointed  by  the  trustees 
superintendent.  He  still  occupies  that  position.  He 
made  a  public  profession  of  his  faith  in  Christ  in  1853, 
and  in  1853  he  connected  himself  with  the  First 
Congregational  church  of  Meriden,  at  West  Meriden, 
and  still  retains  his  connection  there.  His  success  as 

I  His  children  are  Edward  Walker  Hatch  Jr.,  born  at  Little  Falls,  N.  J., 
Jan.  12,  1848,  died  July  28,  1849;  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  at  Blandford, 
Mass.,  Nov.  2,  1849  ;  Caroline  Bigelow,  born  Sept.  30,  1852  ;  Mary  Boies, 
born  March  6,  1859  ;  Frances  Catharine,  born  Sept.  6,  1863,  died  April 
9,  1864. 

N  N 


566  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

superintendent  of  the  Reform  School  is  well  known 
not  only  to  the  people  of  this  town,  but  to  the  people  of 
the  State  and  to  all  in  the  country  at  large  who  are 
interested  in  the  success  of  such  institutions.  Dr. 
Hatch  was  a  warm  and  earnest  advocate  of  the  Union 
all  through  the  war  of  the  rebellion.  He  has  always 
been  interested  in  the  cause  of  education,  and  is  well 
known  as  an  able,  zealous  advocate  of  total  abstinence. 


EDWARD    WALKER    HATCH,    M.    D. 

He  is  active  as  one  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Connecticut  Temperance  Union,  is  earnestly  interested 
in  sabbath  schools,  and  is  one  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  Connecticut  Industrial  school  for  girls,  just 
established  at  Middletown. 

DR.    ISAAC    I.    HOUGH 

Was  born  in  Wallingford,  in  the  parish  of  Meriden,  in 
1781.  His  father,  Dr.  Ensign  Hough,  commenced 
practice  in  this  town  in  1769,  and  died  in  1813.  The 
parents  of  Dr.  Isaac  Hough  were  small  in  stature  and 
weight.  His  mother  especially  was  a  feeble,  delicate 
woman.  Their  son  Isaac  was  large  from  his  birth,  and 


BIOGRAPHIES.  567 

in  childhood  was  so  heavy  that  his  mother  could  not 
lift  him  ;  and  when  no  one  was  near  to  raise  him  into  her 
lap,  she  would  stretch  out  her  limbs  and  roll  him  up. 
When  ten  weeks  old  he  weighed  twenty  pounds,  and 
previous  to  his  death  had  attained  the  weight  of  about 
three  hundred  and  fifty  pounds.  He  studied  medicine 
under  his  father,  and  under  the  instruction  of  Dr.  Hall 
of  Middletown.  His  father  requested  him  not  to  marry 


ISAAC    I.    HOUGH,    M.    D. 

early,  as  several  members  of  the  family  would  be  de- 
pendent upon  him.  The  result  was,  he  did  not  marry 
at  all. 

At  the  time  he  commenced  practice,  Meriden 
contained  about  twelve  hundred  inhabitants ;  but  his 
practice  extended  to  all  adjoining  towns,  and  was  for 
several  years  quite  extensive.  He  was  a  very  efficient 
practitioner  and  believed  fully  in  the  power  of  medicine 
and  administered  it  freely.  He  had  a  good  library  of 
medical  and  miscellaneous  works,  and  in  his  earlier 
years  his  reading  was  extensive.  He  took  and  read  for 
many  years  the  North  American  Review  and  most  of 


568  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

the  medical  journals  published  while  he  was  in  practice. 
For  a  person  so  large  and  fleshy  he  was  remarkably 
active  in  body  and  mind.  He  always  kept  some  of  the 
best  horses  in  the  country  and  drove  them  rapidly.  He 
was  an  early  riser,  up  and  off  to  see  his  patients  earlier 
than  they  were  ready  to  receive  him.  He  spent  but 
little  time  investigating  cases,  but  would  see  at  once 
the  prominent  points  of  acute  cases,  and  prescribe  with 
skill  and  good  jugdment.  His  prognosis  of  a  cure  was 
generally  very  correct.  He  had  no  taste  for  the  manage- 
ment of  chronic  cases,  and  no  patience  to  listen  to  the 
multitudinous  complaints  of  chronic  patients.  He  much 
preferred  to  laugh  at  what  appeared  to  him  their  absurd 
notions,  and  consequently  would  often  lose  their  confi- 
dence. He  had  great  faith  in  the  medical  properties  of 
opium,  and  prescribed  it  freely  in  fevers  and  in  acute 
and  chronic  cases.  His  presciptions  unfortunately  led 
some  of  his  friends  and  patients  to  its  habitual  use. 
His  charges  for  professional  services  were  very  moderate, 
and  he  accumulated  no  property  from  that  source. 

For  many  years  he  kept  a  public  house  in  the  building 
now  standing  on  the  corner  of  Broad  and  Main  streets ; 
and  during  a  portion  of  the  time  he  found  it  very  profita- 
ble, especially  during  the  war  of  1812.  From  this  source 
he  accumulated  considerable  property,  and  retired  from 
active  business  at  the  early  age  of  fifty-three.  It  is  be- 
lieved that  this  was  an  unfortunate  movement  for  him. 
When  Dr.  Catlin  moved  to  Meriden  in  1842,  Dr.  Hough 
took  a  deep  interest  in  his  welfare,  and  rode  in  consulta- 
tion with  him  more  than  he  had  done  for  several  years 
previous.  For  several  of  the  latter  years  of  his  life  he 
read  but  little,  as  it  affected  his  head  unpleasantly,  and  he 
thought  it  imprudent  to  indulge  in  this  pleasure.  He 


BIOGRAPHIES.  569 

always  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  his  friends 
and  neighbors,  and  was  sometimes  so  minute  in  his  in- 
quiries as  to  cause  offense,  though  he  never  did  it  from 
bad  motives ;  it  was  only  that  he  might  rejoice  in  their 
prosperity,  or  sympathize  with  them  in  their  adversity. 

Dr.    Hough's  knowledge  of  men  was  very  extensive, 
and  his  judgment  of  character  very  accurate.     Keeping 
a  public  house  on  one  of  the  great  thoroughfares  of  the 
State,  half  way  between   Hartford  and  New  Haven,  all 
of  the  prominent  men  of  the   State  and   many  of  the 
nation   were  more  or  less  frequently  his  guests.     Being 
very  social  and  inquisitive  he  formed  a  very  extensive 
acquaintance.       He   knew   something   about,   not   only 
every  Doctor  in  the  State,  but  the  ministers,  lawyers, 
judges  and  politicians.      Six  or  eight  four  horse  stages 
stopped  daily  at  the  Doctor's  inn.     He  was  so  remarka- 
ble in  personal  appearance  that  he  was  always  noticed 
and  remembered  by  those  who  saw  him.     According  to 
the  custom   of  those  days  his   house  was  well  stocked 
with  the  best  of  liquors  (none   of  the  mixed  poisonous 
liquors  so  much  used   now),   but  he  never  tasted  them 
himself,  and  at  the  commencement  of  the  temperance 
reform  in   1828-30,  he  sold  out  his  tavern  for  $6,000  and 
removed  across  the  street  to  the  house  now  occupied  by 
Wm.    Merriman.      A    student   of  Yale   College,   while 
passing  through  Meriden,  called  at  the  Doctor's  bar  and 
said,  "  Doctor,  I  have  a  bad  cold,  what  is  best  for  me  to 
take  ?"     The  Doctor  handed  him  a  glass  of  water.     Dr. 
Hough  never  united  with  any  church,  but  he  was  a  con- 
stant attendant  upon   the  service  of  the  Congregational 
church  and  a  liberal  supporter  of  its  institutions,  and  a 
friend  of  good  morals. 

I  have  said  that  it  was  unfortunate  for  him   that   he 


5/O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

gave  up  business  so  early  in  life.  It  affected  his  health  and 
mind  unfavorably.  Being  naturally  so  active,  he  suffered 
from  ennui.  At  the  best  he  was  a  poor  sleeper,  and  his 
wakefulness  was  increased  by  his  lack  of  employment  of 
body  and  mind  during  the  day.  He  has  been  known  to 
take  his  horse  and  wagon  and  ride  twenty  or  thirty  miles 
till  he  was  thoroughly  fatigued,  when  he  would  sleep 
well.  He  almost  uniformly  called  himself  well,  except 
to  his  most  intimate  friends.  He  never  could  bear  to  have 
people  talk  to  him  of  their  bodily  complaints  ;  so  he 
seldom  troubled  other  people  with  a  recital  of  his  own. 
Says  Dr.  Catlin  (to  whom  I  am  indebted  for  most  of  the 
facts  in  this  sketch  of  Dr.  Hough)  :  "  I  knew  that  he 
suffered  much  pain  in  his  limbs,  and  for  several  years  he 
had  an  organic  affection  of  the  heart.  He  expected  to 
die  suddenly,  and  was  not  disappointed.  He  had  been 
unwell  more  than  usual  for  a  few  days.  I  was  called  in 
to  see  him  several  times  ;  he  was  sometimes  in  his  chair, 
at  others  on  the  lounge.  I  was  in  one  afternoon,  when 
he  appeared  more  comfortable  and  quite  cheerful.  Early 
the  next  Monday  (I  think),  word  was  sent  me  that  he 
was  dead.  I  found  him  on  the  floor.  He  had  appar- 
ently got  up,  put  on  his  dressing-gown,  slid  down  by  the 
side  of  his  bed,  and  died  alone,  evidently  from  dropsy 
of  the  heart.  He  was  fearful  he  should  give  his  friends 
trouble,  either  by  being  confined  by  sickness,  when  his 
great  weight  would  be  burdensome,  or  after  he  was  dead. 
To  provide  against  the  latter  event,  he  went  to  Hartford 
some  years  before  his  death,  and  was  measured  for  his 
coffin,  which  he  had  made,  boxed  up  and  sent  home.  He 
told  me  he  did  not  suppose  the  maker  expected  he  would 
examine  it,  but  he  had  a  desire  to  see  how  the  work  was 
done.  He  appeared  satisfied  with  its  appearance.  It 


BIOGRAPHIES.  5/1 

was  kept  in  the  loft  of  a  carriage  house."  Dr.  Hough 
died  in  the  building  now  occupied  (1870)  by  the  ist 
National  Bank. 

He  was  very  sensitive  in  regard  to  his  weight.  He 
once  drove  on  to  the  hay-scales,  and  while  engaged 
in  conversation  a  bystander  endeavored  to  weigh 
the  doctor  with  his  horse  and  gig,  hoping  afterwards 
to  weigh  the  horse  and  gig,  thus  getting  his  exact 
weight ;  but  the  doctor  happened  to  look  around,  and 
discovered  what  was  going  on,  and  he  instantly  whipped 
up  his  horse  and  left  the  scales  before  the  operation  was 
completed.  Dr.  Hough  died  Feb.  26,  1852,  ae.  71  years. 
I  remember  hearing  the  following  verses  when  I  was  a 
boy  : 

"  Dr.  Hough,  he  keeps  good  stuff, 

And  lives  just  under  the  steeple ; 

By  hook  or  by  crook,  he  keeps  his  good  looks 

And  takes  the  cash  from  the  people." 

These  lines  so  pleased  the  doctor  that  he  was  often  in 
the  habit  of  repeating  them. 

LEVl    SILLIMAN    IVES 

Was  born  in  Meriden  parish  on  the  i6th  of  September, 
1 797.  At  an  early  age  he  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Lewis  county,  N.  Y.,  where  he  lived  until  he  was  sent  to 
the  academy  at  Lowville.  During  the  last  months  of 
the  war  with  Great  Britain  he  served  in  the  army,  but 
upon  the  return  of  peace  went  back  to  school,  entering 
Hamilton  college  in  1816.  At  first  he  studied  for  the 
ministry  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  but  before  he  was 
ordained,  illness  compelled  him  to  leave  the  college,  and 
upon  his  recovery  to  health  his  religious  views  became 
changed  and  he  allied  himself  with  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal denomination.  In  1820  he  removed  to  New  York, 


572  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

where  he  studied  theology  under  Bishop  Hobart,  who 
ordained  him  in  August,  1822.  Three  years  later  he 
married  Rebecca,  a  daughter  of  the  Bishop.  After  his 
ordination  his  first  mission  was  to  Batavia,  Genesee  Co. ; 
subsequently  he  took  charge  of  Trinity  church,  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop 
White,  and  in  1827  removed  to  Lancaster,  Pa.,  and  offi- 
ciated at  Christ  church.  During  the  next  year  he  re- 
turned to  New  York  and  served  as  assistant  minister  at 
Christ  church  for  about  six  months,  when  he  became 
rector  of  St.  Luke's  church.  Here  he  remained  until  he 
was  consecrated  Bishop  of  North  Carolina  in  1831. 
While  in  North  Carolina  he  became  quite  popular  for  his 
efforts  in  behalf  of  education  and  his  success  in  providing 
for  the  spiritual  welfare  of  the  slaves.  He  also  became 
widely  known  as  a  theological  author  from  his  works  on 
the  "Apostles'  Doctrine  and  Fellowship,"  and  the  "  Obe- 
dience of  Faith,"  published  in  New  York  in  1849. 

When  the  Oxford  tract  excitement  broke  out  in  the 
Episcopal  church,  he  strongly  sided  with  the  tractarian 
movement,  and  this  position  caused  his  alienation  from 
his  diocese.  The  fact  was  that  he  doubted  the  truth  of 
the  Protestant  faith  for  a  long  time,  and  in  1852,  while  on 
a  visit  to  Rome,  openly  renounced  his  faith  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Catholic  church.  This  conversion  on  his 
part  was  severely  denounced  by  the  Protestant  religious 
papers  in  the  United  States,  and  upon  his  return  he  de- 
fended the  act  in  a  work  entitled  "The  Trials  of  a  Mind 
in  its  Progress  to  Catholicism."  (London  and  Boston, 
1864).  After  his  return  to  America,  he  became  Pro- 
fessor of  Rhetoric  in  St.  Joseph's  theological  seminary, 
and  lectured  in  the  convents  of  the  Sacred  Heart  and 
the  Sisters  of  Charity.  He  also  occasionally  lectured  in 


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public,  and  served  as  an  active  president  of  a  conference 
of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul.  In  1857  he  conceived  the  idea 
of  founding  a  home  in  New  York  for  vagrant  and  orphan 
children  of  Catholic  parentage,  and,  having  obtained  the 
approval  of  Archbishop  Hughes,  set  energetically  to 
work  to  carry  out  his  design.  The  result  of  his  philan- 
thropic labors  was  the  establishment  of  the  Catholic 
Male  Protectory,  and  the  house  of  the  Holy  Angels,  two 
of  the  most  deserving  charitable  institutions  in  New 
York.  Dr.  Ives  died  at  Fordham,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  13,  1867. 

ISAAC  C.  LEWIS 

Son  of  Isaac  and  Esther  (Beaumont)  Lewis  of  Walling- 
ford,  was  born  Oct.  19,  1812.  When  he  was  about 
eleven  years  old  his  father  died,  and  five  years  after 
his  mother  died.  He  attended  school  until  the  death 
of  his  father.  About  a  year  afterwards  he  was  sent  to 
live  with  Mr.  Levi  Yale,  and  the  following  summer  with 
Moses  Andrews  in  the  west  part  of  Meriden.  At  the 
end  of  the  summer  he  went  to  live  with  his  grandfather, 
Jared  Lewis  of  Wallingford,  who  soon  after  died,  when 
Isaac  returned  to  Meriden  to  live  with  his  brother 
Patrick  Lewis.  When  in  his  fifteenth  year  he  returned  to 
Wallingford  and  was  apprenticed  to  Hiram  Yale  to  learn 
the  britannia  ware  trade.  His  employer  died  when  he 
was  nineteen  years  old.  He  remained  with  the  family  a 
short  time,  then  returned  to  Meriden  and  worked  about 
two  years  for  Lewis  and  Holt.  In  1834,  being  then  in 
his  twenty  second  year,  Mr.  Lewis  formed  a  copartner- 
ship with  George  Cowles  under  the  title  of  Lewis  and 
Cowles,  and  hired  rooms  in  a  factory  in  East  Meriden 
for  the  manufacture  of  britannia  metal  goods.  They 
remained  here  about  two  years,  when  they  closed  up 
business,  Mr.  Cowles  going  north,  and  Mr.  Evans  west. 


574  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

This  was  in  the  summer  of  1836.  Mr.  Lewis  returned 
in  the  fall  and  commenced  business  again  with  Mr. 
Lemuel  Curtis  as  partner,  under  the  name  of  Lewis  and 
Curtis,  in  a  factory  belonging  to  Mr.  Samuel  Cook  in 
East  Meriden.  After  about  two  years  the  partnership 
was  dissolved,  Mr.  Curtis  coming  to  Meriden  center. 
Mr.  Lewis  soon  after  purchased  a  house  and  small  farm 
about  one  mile  east  of  Meriden  center,  and  built  a  shop 
and  put  in  a  horse-power.  Business  increased  to  such 
an  extent  that  a  small  engine  was  put  in ;  but  that 
proving  to  be  insufficient,  he  bought  the  factory  where 
he  first  commenced  business  with  Mr.  Cowles.  He 
soon  after  associated  with  Daniel  B.  Wells,  a  former 
apprentice,  under  the  name  of  I.  C.  Lewis  &  Co.  Mr. 
Wells  died  soon  after,  and  Mr.  Lewis  bought  his  interest. 
In  1852  the  Britannia  Company  was  formed,  with  Mr. 
Lewis  as  President.  He  remained  President  of  the 
company  about  twelve  years,  when  he  declined  holding 
the  office  any  longer.  He  is  still  a  member  of  the  com- 
pany, and  takes  an  active  interest  in  the  business.  Mr. 
Lewis  married  in  1836,  Harriet,  daughter  of  Noah 
Pomeroy,  and  has  had  six  children,  viz.  :  Melissa  N., 
Martha  E.,  Henry  J.,  Isaac,  Frank,  and  Katie  A.  Three 
are  now  living.  Mr.  Lewis  represented  the  town  in  the 
Legislature  in  1848,  1859,  1862,  and  1866.  He  has 
given  largely  toward  the  support  of  the  Universalist 
society  in  Meriden,  and  for  fifteen  years  has  been  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday-school.  Mr.  Lewis  commenced 
life  without  a  dollar,  and  by  his  own  exertions  and  strict 
attention  to  business  has  accumulated  a  large  fortune. 
He  never  had  a  note  protested,  never  was  sued,  nor 
has  he  ever  entered  a  suit  against  any  man.  Uni- 
versally loved  and  respected,  he  affords  another  example 


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in  this  town,  of  what  honest  industry  and  enterprise  can 
accomplish. 

WILLIAM    W.    LYMAN 

Son  of  Andrew  and  Anna  ( Hall)  Lyman,  was  born  in 
Woodford,  Vt.,  March  29,  1821.  When  seven  years  of 
age  his  father  died,  and  he  removed  to  Northford,  Conn, 
where  he  lived  six  years.  In  1836  he  came  to  Meriden 
and  learned  the  trade  of  making  britannia  ware,  of 
Griswold  &  Couch,  serving  five  years.  In  1844  ne  went 
into  business  on  his  own  account,  manufacturing  britan- 
nia spoons  in  connection  with  Ira  Couch,  but  after  a 
short  time  bought  him  out.  The  shop  stood  a  few  rods 
north  of  his  present  residence.  He  remained  there  two 
years,  and  then  removed  his  works  to  the  Twiss  factory 
in  Prattsville.  He  was  in  business  here  for  a  short  time 
with  Lemuel  J.  Curtiss,  but  finally  dissolved  partnership 
and  removed  to  the  Frary  shop,  near  the  present  works 
of  the  Malleable  Iron  Co.  He  was  there  about  five 
years.  He  has  been  a  member  and  director  of  the  Meri- 
den Britannia  Co.  since  its  organization.  In  Dec.  1858 
he  patented  a  fruit  can  which  is  known  throughout  the 
country  as  "  Lyman's  Fruit  Jar."  One  house  in  Dela- 
ware has  bought  over  60,000  of  these  jars.  He  has  also 
patented  an  ice  pitcher,  copper  bottom  tea-pot,  butter 
dish  and  numerous  other  articles.  Mr.  Lyman  represent- 
ed Meriden  in  the  Legislature  in  1849,  and  is  President 
of  the  Meriden  Cutlery  Co.  In  1844  ne  married 
Roxanna  G.  Frary,  and  has  one  daughter,  who  married 
Henry  Warren,  of  Watertown,  Conn. 

JOHN    PARKER 

Son  of  Stephen  and  Rebecca  Parker  was  born  in 
Cheshire,  Conn.,  in  1805.  Receiving  his  early  education 


5/6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

in  the  common  schools  of  his  native  town,  he  at  an  early 
period  of  life  took  a  decided  stand  on  the  side  of  Christ, 
and  even  then  it  was  his  earnest  desire  to  prepare  for  the 
ministry  and  devote  his  life  to  preaching  the  gospel.  To 
this  end  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  theology  at  the 
Wesleyan  University  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1831.  He  then  removed  to  Massachusetts 
and  was  stationed  at  Webster  two  years.  He  afterwards 
supplied  the  pulpit  at  Newtown  in  1833-4  '•>  Holliston, 
1835;  Lowell,  1836-7;  Lynn,  1838-9;  Holliston,  1840. 
In  1840  he  came  to  Meriden  and  entered  into  business 
with  his  brother  Charles. 

In  1843  the  Second  Adventists  were  making  a  great 
excitement,  and  had  quite  a  large  number  of  followers  in 
Meriden.  Mr.  Parker  collected  a  number  of  these  to- 
gether and  formed  a  society  of  Primitive  Methodists. 
They  assembled  for  worship  in  the  building  now  used  by 
the  Messrs.  Parkers  as  a  spectacle-shop.  It  then  stood 
where  the  office  is  now  situated.  It  was  through  the 
exertions  of  Mr.  Parker  that  the  Methodist  church  grew 
and  prospered  in  the  town ;  and  he,  with  his  brother 
Charles,  jointly  contributed  between  thirty  and  forty 
thousand  dollars  toward  the  erection  of  the  present 
church  edifice.  During  his  residence  in  Meriden,  Mr. 
Parker  has  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the 
people,  and  has  always  been  looked  to  as  a  friend  and 
counselor.  He  has  filled  acceptably  the  offices  of 
Selectman,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  Judge  of  Probate  ; 
and  in  1870  was  elected  a  Representative  to  the  State 
Legislature.  Mr.  Parker  was  married  in  March,  1832, 
to  Miss  Emily  Ward  of  Ashfield,  Mass.  She  died 
June  i,  1867.  He  married  for  his  second  wife,  Grace  A. 
Belden,  January  22,  1868.  The  following  children  were 


BIOGRAPHIES.  577 

by  his  first  wife:  Emily,  born  November  2,  1842,  died 
December  17,  1843  ;  George  White,  born  September  19, 
1846;  Mary,  born  July  28,  1848,  died  Aug.  4,  1848; 
Frank  Milton,  born  July  7,  1850,  died  October  7,  1850. 

NOAH    POMEROY 

Was  born  March  i,  1786,  in  Saybrook,  Conn.,  and  was 
the  youngest  of  five  children,  three  sons  and  two 
daughters.  His  father,  Charles  Pomeroy,  was  a  mer- 
chant of  that  place,  and  died  a  short  time  previous  to 
the  birth  of  his  youngest  child.  If  a  long  and  honor- 
able line  of  ancestry  is  capable  of  conferring  dis- 
tinction, the  subject  of  this  sketch  could  scarcely 
have  desired  a  more  auspicious  birth  ;  for  his  family 
trace  their  ancestry  into  the  eleventh  century,  to  a  dis- 
tinguished Norman  Knight,  who  fought  at  the  battle  of 
Hastings,  under  William.  One  of  the  descendants  of 
the  knight,  Eltwood  Pomeroy,  emigrated  to  Massachu- 
setts in  1630,  from  England,  and  was  well  known  in  the 
early  Indian  wars  of  New  England  ;  and  the  history  of 
the  Indian,  French  and  Revolutionary  wars,  bears  honor- 
able record  of  the  bravery  and  patriotism  of  many  of  his 
descendants. 

Noah  Pomeroy  was  descended  from  Eltwood,  and  his 
only  inheritance  was  the  good  name  and  strong  physical 
and  mental  capacities  of  his  ancestors.  After  the  death 
of  his  father,  his  brothers  and  sisters  were  kindly  cared 
for  and  educated  by  his  paternal  grandfather,  a  man  of 
considerable  property  and  good  standing  in  Colchester, 
Conn.  ;  while  he  from  necessity  remained  with  his  mother 
who  removed  with  him  to  Meriden.  When  he  was  about 
five  years  old  his  mother  contracted  a  second  marriage, 
which  to  him  proved  of  little  advantage.  He  continued 
to  live  with  his  mother  and  step-father  until  he  was  ten 


5/8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

years  old,  when  penniless  and  scarcely  possessing  a 
knowledge  of  the  English  alphabet,  he  commenced  the 
world  for  himself. 

His  first  great  object  was  to  secure  an  education  which 
would  enable  him  to  transact  the  common  business  in- 
cident to  a  life  of  action  and  enterprise,  such  as  his 
youthful  preception  had  already  foreshadowed  as  his 
destiny.  In  attempting  to  accomplish  this,  he  was 
obliged  to  struggle  with  difficulties  which  those  alone 
can  rightly  estimate  who  have  had  the  same  to  contend 
with.  The  meagre  earnings  of  the  summer,  with  the 
most  rigid  economy,  afforded  a  bare  surplus  to  apply  to 
the  purpose  of  his  education  during  the  winter ;  and 
often  this  was  lawfully  claimed  and  obtained  by  his  step- 
father. 

At  fifteen  he  commenced  peddling  tin  ware,  but  this 
gave  offence  to  some  of  his  nearest  relatives.  After 
repeated  solicitations  by  other  members  of  the  family, 
he  was  induced  about  three  years  afterwards  to  commence 
an  apprenticeship  with  a  carpenter  and  joiner ;  a  trade 
in  those  days  being  esteemed  next  to  a  profession.  He 
continued,  however,  but  a  short  time  in  this  employment. 
He  had  already  selected  the  business  most  congenial  to 
his  feelings  for  his  future  occupation,  and  returning  to 
his  peddling  wagon,  he  made  use  of  it  as  the  most  direct 
and  honorable  means  within  his  power,  by  which  he 
could  eventually  make  himself  master  of  that  business, 
and  establish  himself  in  the  manufacture  of  tin  ware. 
Accordingly  at  twenty,  he  apprenticed  himself  to  a  tin- 
smith for  six  months,  for  which  he  paid  a  stipulated  sum, 
and  in  that  almost  incredibly  short  period,  gained  such 
an  insight  into  the  business  as  to  enable  him  to  become 
a  complete  master  of  the  trade,  which  usually  required 


BIOGRAPHIES.  579 

four  or  five  years  to  learn.  In  the  succeeding  year  he 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  plain  tin  ware.  During 
the  same  year  he  married  Miss  Mary  Merriman,  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Lieut.  Nathaniel  Merriman,  who  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  Wallingford,  and  who  commanded 
in  the  early  Indian  wars.  During  the  eleven  years 
succeeding,  he  prosecuted  a  small  yet  successful  business 
at  various  localities.  In  the  Autumn  of  1807,  he  re- 
moved to  Plymouth,  Conn.,  where  he  continued  his  busi- 
ness until  1815,  with  the  exception  of  one  winter  spent 
at  Baltimore.  It  was  during  his  residence  at  Plymouth 
that  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain  commenced,  of 
which  he  was  an  enthusiastic  supporter.  He  was  tendered 
a  lieutenant's  commission  in  the  regular  army,  which 
however  he  did  not  accept.  In  1815  he  returned  to 
Wallingford,  from  whence  he  removed  to  Meriden  in 
1818,  where  he  permanently  established  his  business 
and  purchased  a  farm  on  which  he  ever  afterward  lived. 
From  this  time  he  continued  gradually  to  increase  the 
yearly  amount  of  his  manufactures,  yet  not  so  fast  as  to 
endanger  his  credit.  He  was  among  the  first  to  engage 
extensively  in  the  manufacture  of  japanned  and  orna- 
mented tin  ware  in  this  country.  In  1839  ne  retired 
nominally  from  his  business,  which  he  left  to  his  sons, 
and  applied  his  energies,  which  were  not  in  the  least 
abated,  to  the  improvement  of  his  farm. 

During  his  residence  in  Meriden  he  exercised  a  con- 
trolling influence  in  its  affairs.  He  held  all  the  offices 
within  its  gift,  and  that  of  selectman  repeatedly  until  he 
declined  an  election.  He  filled  the  office  of  justice  of 
the  peace  by  appointment  of  the  State  Legislature,  as 
long  as  it  possessed  the  power  to  appoint.  During  his 
whole  residence  in  Meriden  he  was  scarcely  ever  removed 


580  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

by  a  change  in  party  politics.  His  knowledge  of  com- 
mon law,  and  his  impartial  judgment  may  be  estimated 
by  the  fact,  that  of  all  the  cases  which  were  ever  brought 
before  him,  an  appeal  from  his  decision  was  never 
carried  to  the  county  court.  An  ardent  advocate  of  pro- 
gression and  reform,  and  contending  for  the  broadest 
religious  and  political  liberty,  he  earnestly  urged  the 
necessity  of  calling  the  convention  which  remodeled  the 
constitution  of  the  state,  and  expunged  many  of  those 
statutes  which  have  been  known  as  "  blue  laws."  In 
1832  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, and  in  1837  he  was  chosen  senator  from  the 
sixth  district,  and  in  that  capacity  exerted  his  influence 
for  the  abolition  of  the  law  which  imprisoned  for  debt. 
In  1833  when  the  Meriden  Bank  was  established  he  was 
appointed  one  of  the  directors,  and  in  1849  was  chosen 
president,  which  office  he  shortly  after  resigned.  Mr. 
Pomeroy  died  Nov.  23,  1868,  in  the  eighty-second  year 
of  his  age. 

JULIUS  PRATT 

Was  born  Nov.  24,  1/91,  at  Saybrook,  Conn.,  and  was 
the  son  of  Deacon  Phineas  (and  Hepsibah)  Pratt,  who 
was  the  son  of  Azariah,  (born  Aug.,  1710),  who  was  the 
son  of  John  Jr.  (born  Sept.  5,  1671),  who  was  the  son  of 
John  (born  Feb.  20,  1644),  who  was  the  eldest  son  of 
William,  who  came  to  this  country  with  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker  in  1633.  Julius  Pratt  married  Lydia,  daughter 
of  John  De  Wolfe  of  Westbrook,  January  9,  1817.  She 
was  born  March  18,  1795.  His  father's  residence,  where 
he  himself  lived  in  early  life,  was  about  one  mile  west 
of  Pautapaug  Point.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  com- 
menced work  with  his  brothers  Abel  and  Phineas,  in 
ivory-comb  making,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  en- 


BIOGRAPHIES.  581 

gaged  with  his  brother  Philo  in  the  silversmith  business 
in  Pautapaug.  In  February  181 8  he  removed  to  Meriden, 
and  in  connection  with  Messrs.  Bush,  Williams,  Howard, 
Reed,  Starkey,  Rogers  and  Spencer,  soon  commenced 
the  manufacture  of  ivory  combs  on  Harbor  brook,  a 
little  south  of  the  Middletown  and  Waterbury  turnpike 
bridge.  Finding  his  water-power  too  small  for  his  in- 
creasing business  he  removed  to  what  is  now  called 
Prattsville.  Joined  with  Mr.  Webb  he  continued  to  be 
a  leading  member  of  the  ivory  comb  business,  and  his 
energy  and  enterprise  contributed  in  a  large  degree  to 
the  development  of  this  branch  of  manufactures,  which 
in  a  few  years  distanced  foreign  competition,  and  at  the 
present  time  is  a  large  and  important  business,  the 
goods  being  exported  to  nearly  all  parts  of  the  world. 
While  Mr.  Pratt  was  heavily  engaged  in  business  at 
Prattsville,  he  was  also  interested  in  another  company  at 
Crow  Hollow,  afterward  at  Hanover,  where  much  of  his 
time  was  occupied.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the 
manufacture  of  cutlery,  and  had  the  pleasure  while 
living,  of  seeing  that  business  well  established  on  a  firm 
and  profitable  basis.  He  was  a  stockholder  and  director 
in  the  Home  National  Bank  of  Meriden  from  its  com- 
mencement. In  this  connection,  as  in  all  other  business 
relations,  his  counsel  was  sought  and  relied  upon  at  all 
times. 

As  a  citizen  he  always  enjoyed  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  the  community  where  he  lived.  Uncom- 
promising in  principle,  unflinching  in  the  discharge  of 
duty,  sagacious  as  an  adviser,  modest  in  demeanor, 
active  and  liberal  in  private  and  public  charities,  and 
affectionate  towards  his  family  and  friends,  it  may  well 
be  said  that  the  best  blood  of  the  Puritans  flowed  in  his 
O  o 


582  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

veins.  He  never  sought  for  preferment,  but  was  called 
to  represent  his  town  in  the  State  Legislature  of  1852, 
and  was  elected  Senator  of  the  Sixth  District  of  Con- 
necticut in  1854.  In  his  business  intercourse  he  may 
have  left  the  impression  at  times  that  he  was  austere  ; 
but  his  apparent  sternness  arose  from  the  promptness 
and  decision  with  which  he  always  transacted  his  busi- 
ness. His  language  was  direct,  final  and  rigidly  busi- 
ness like.  He  was  seldom  misunderstood,  and  but  few 
ever  attempted  to  swerve  or  cajole  him.  Beneath  his 
apparent  harshness  was  an  inner  life  as  gentle  as  a  dove. 
He  loved  with  a  woman's  heart,  but  he  spoke  with  the 
promptness  of  a  business  man,  and  in  all  his  movements 
there  was  a  kind  of  military  precision  which,  to  the  un- 
observing,  might  easily  be  misapprehended.  He  died 
August  31,  1869.  His  children  are,  Harriet  Melinda, 
born  April  24,  1818  ;  Julius  H.,  born  August  i,  1821  ; 
William  McLain,  born  December  12,  1837.' 

BENJAMIN    TWISS 

Was  born  in  Meriden  Oct.  31,  1798.  He  early  com- 
menced the  manufacture  of  wooden  clocks  in  Prattsville, 
and  did  a  large  business.  Later  in  life  he  manufactured 
coffee-mills  at  the  same  place.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
active  men  of  the  day  in  town  affairs,  holding  at  different 
times  the  offices  of  constable,  justice  of  the  peace,  select- 
man and  assessor.  He  was  appointed  postmaster  in 


I  William  McLain  Pratt  graduated  at  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute, at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  with  the  degree  of  civil  engineer,  in  the  class  of  1857. 
He  visited  South  America  in  1860  and  1861,  crossing  the  continent  from 
Buenos  Ayres  to  Valparaiso,  via  Mendoza  and  the  Andes.  He  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  the  8th  Regiment  of  Connecticut  Volunteer  Infantry,  in 
May,  1862,  and  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Antietam,  September  17, 
1862.  He  was  promoted  to  the  office  of  second  lieutenant  in  November, 
1862,  and  that  of  first  lieutenant  and  adjutant  in  June,  1863. 


BIOGRAPHIES.  583 

1853,  but  resigned.  He  took  an  active  interest  in  the 
establishment  of  the  Reform  school ;  also  in  the  Air-line 
railroad.  He  married  March  7,  1832,  Miss  Lucy  G. 
Francis  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.  Mr.  Twiss  died  January 

23,  1854- 

HON.    DEXTER    R.    WRIGHT 

Was  born  in  Windsor,  Vermont,  on  the  2/th  of  June, 
1821.  His  ancestors  were  among  the  first  settlers  of 
Vermont,  and  one  of  them  was  killed  in  the  frontier 
wars  with  the  Canadians  and  Indians.  Alpheus  Wright, 
his  father,  held  a  commission  in  the  war  of  1812,  and 
was  severely  wounded  in  the  battle  at  Plattsburg. 

During  the  boyhood  of  Dexter,  his  father  removed  to 
the  northern  part  of  New  York,  where  he  carried  on  the 
milling  and  lumber  business,  together  with  a  woolen 
factory.  All  of  his  sons  were  employed  in  these  various 
branches  of  business,  and  each  learned  some  useful  trade. 
Dexter,  however,  being  of  a  studious  turn  of  mind,  pre- 
pared himself  for  college  and  entered  the  University  at 
Middletown,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1845.  In  the 
same  year,  he  became  principal  of  the  Meriden  Academy, 
and  continued  as  such  for  nearly  a  year  and  a  half; 
having  given  instruction  to  many  youths  who  are  now 
among  the  energetic  and  successful  business  men  of 
Meriden.  He  was  noted  for  his  firm  discipline  and  thor- 
ough teaching ;  and  the  Academy  flourished  under  his 
administration. 

In  the  year  1846,  he  entered  the  Yale  law  school  at 
New  Haven,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1848.  During 
his  studies  at  Yale,  as  well  as  throughout  his  collegiate 
course,  he  gave  great  promise  of  future  eminence  in  his 
profession  ;  and  particularly  in  that  branch  of  it  per- 
taining to  advocacy.  In  1848  he  commenced  the 


584  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

practice  of  law  in  Meriden,  and  soon  after  married  Miss 
Maria  H.  Phelps,  daughter  of  Col.  E.  L.  Phelps,  of  East 
Windsor,  Conn. 

In  1 849  he  was  elected  senator  for  the  6th  senatorial 
district,  and  was  the  youngest  man  that  had  ever  been 
elected  to  the  state  senate  from  that  district.  He  served 
with  credit  to  himself  and  satisfaction  to  his  constituents. 
After  the  adjournment  of  the  Legislature,  he  sailed  for 
California,  where  he  remained  for  two  years  practising 
in  the  territorial  courts  and  taking  part  in  the  early 
political  history  of  that  state. 

In  1851  he  returned  to  Meriden  and  continued  the 
practice  of  his  profession  until  1862,  when  he  entered 
the  Union  army  as  colonel  of  the  fifteenth  regiment, 
Connecticut  volunteers.  His  practice  in  Meriden  during 
this  period  was  large  and  successful,  and  he  had  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  men  as  a  thorough  lawyer, 
an  honest  man,  and  a  good  citizen.  The  people  of 
Meriden  are  largely  indebted  to  his  cultivation  and  taste 
as  a  pioneer  in  beautifying  the  village,  and  in  urging 
forward  general  public  improvements,  and  his  spirit  in 
those  matters  has  become,  largely  from  his  example,  the 
prevailing  spirit  of  the  people  of  the  present  city. 

He  was  commissioned  Lieut.  Col.  of  the  I4th  Regi- 
ment of  Connecticut  Volunteers,  early  in  1862;  and 
he  assisted  in  raising  a  company  for  that  Regiment. 
He  had  also  aided  in  raising  companies  for  every  prece- 
ding regiment,  for  that  purpose  speaking  in  different  parts 
of  the  State.  Owing  to  his  zeal  in  the  cause  of  the 
Union,  Gov.  Buckingham,  without  consulting  Col. 
Wright's  wishes,  commissioned  him  Colonel  of  the  I5th 
Regiment  of  Connecticut  Volunteers  ;  thus  promoting 
him  before  he  entered  the  field.  The  latter  Regiment 


BIOGRAPHIES.  585 

he  recruited  to  its  full  number  and  six  hundred  in  excess 
in  an  unprecedentedly  short  time,  by  his  personal  exer- 
tions and  great  influence  and  popularity. 

His  regiment  went  to  Virginia  in  August,  1862,  where 
for  several  months  he  commanded  a  brigade.  He  par- 
ticipated in  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  13,  1862, 
under  Burnside.  After  about  a  year's  service  in  the 
field,  he  was  discharged  upon  surgeon's  certificate  of 
disability,  and  subsequently,  upon  special  request  of 
Gov.  Buckingham,  he  was  appointed  commissioner  on 
the  Board  of  Enrollment  for  the  2nd  Congressional 
District,  the  duties  of  which  he  discharged  with  marked 
ability  and  zeal  in  the  cause  of  the  nation.  In  1863  he 
was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly  of  Conn,  as  a 
representative  from  the  town  of  Meriden. 

Having  served  in  the  field  and  as  commissioner  for 
three  years  with  great  pecuniary  sacrifice,  Col.  Wright 
removed,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  to  New  Haven,  Conn. ; 
where  he  resumed  the  practice  of  the  law,  and  has  con- 
tinued therein  to  the  present  time.  He  has  served  as 
United  States  assistant  District  Attorney  for  a  term  of 
years,  and  discharged  the  duties  of  that  office  with 
ability  and  satisfaction  to  the  public. 

His  present  law  partner  is  H.  Lynde  Harrison,  Esq., 
who  is  himself  somewhat  identified  with  the  history  of 
Wallingford.  Mr.  Harrison  taught  school  in  Walling- 
ford  in  1858-9,  and  represented  the  6th  senatorial  dis- 
trict, of  which  Meriden  is  a  part,  in  1865  and  1866;  and 
he  is  a  young  man  of  ability  and  promise. 

Mr.  Wright  is  a  thoroughly  educated  man.  His 
studies  are  not  confined  to  the  legal  profession  alone  ; 
but  he  is  well  read  in  every  department  of  general  litera- 
ture and  national  science.  He  has  even  pursued  his 


586  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

studies  into  medicine  ;  and  several  years  ago,  the  hono- 
rary degree  of  M.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  a 
medical  college  in  the  city  of  New  York.  His  maxim 
is  that  of  Lord  Bacon,  "  All  knowledge  is  my  province  ;" 
and  he  is  not  satisfied  with  the  mastery  of  one  profession 
only.  His  personal  integrity  has  never  been  questioned, 
and  his  professional  honor  is  fully  up  to  the  high  stand- 
ard always  maintained  by  the  Connecticut  bar.  His 
mind  works  quickly  and  logically,  and  has  been  well 
trained  for  the  successful  practice  of  the  most  drastic 
profession  pursued  by  men.  His  diction  is  at  all  times 
polished  and  elegant ;  his  command  of  language  and 
power  of  characterization  is  almost  wonderful ;  and  his 
manners  are  dignified  and  well  calculated  to  please  all 
with  whom  he  comes  in  contact.  As  a  lawyer  he  is  re- 
markably strong ;  as  an  examiner  of  witnesses  he  is 
powerful;  in  the  presentation  of  facts  in  argument  to 
court  or  jury,  he  is  clear  and  forcible  ;  in  the  preparation 
of  his  cases  for  trial,  thorough  and  exhaustive ;  and,  in 
his  drafting  of  pleadings,  neat,  clear  and  logical. 

Since  his  removal  to  New  Haven  in  1864,  he  has,  by 
strict  attention  to  his  business,  built  up  a  large  and 
lucrative  practice.  He  is  a  laborious  worker,  and  is 
devoted  to  his  calling,  and  has  attained  a  position  in 
his  profession,  which  his  many  friends  are  glad  to  see 
him  occupy. 

Col.  Wright,  though  a  republican  in  sentiment,  par- 
ticipates but  little  in  politics ;  yet  the  republicans  have 
few  men  in  Connecticut  who  could  shed  more  honor 
upon  their  party  than  he,  were  he  to  actually  enter  upon 
political  life.  Though  not  a  native  of  Meriden,  he  has 
been  for  so  many  years  identified  with  her  interests  and 
progress,  that  this  notice  of  him  is  due  more  to  the  town 


YALE  E 


• 

and  the  people  of  Meriden  can  never  feel 
>!g  interest  in  his   future  success  and 

WILLIAM    YALE 

Samuel  and   Eunice   (  Payne)   Yale,  was    born 

;    1784.     He  attended  the  schools  of  the  town 

•old  enough  to  work,  when  he  was  appren- 

:-arn  the  tin  business,  and  "finally  went  into  the 

ess  on  his  own  account.     It  was  his  custom  to  go  to 

•>n  and  purchase  a  box  of  tin  ;  then  with  the  assistance 

lil-makei      e  would  maV  v/hich  he 

•    the  tin ;   then 

,  he  would  brin :  and  max.;  ;:  into 

tin  combs,  pint-cup 

1817  he  bought  the  fan  Merriam, 

•v  comprised  nearly  the  whole  of  what  is  r 

The  land  was  purchased  for  $2500, 
r  $1800  for  one  year,   r.rvl  paying  the 

Previous  to  the  •  r'rned 

that  .  he  intei  ')and 

of  it  in   specie, 
by    gradually 
in    sixpence  ant! 

x>in  home,   Lyi.  Hall 

t  and  put  it  in  bags,  upor 
This  was  continued  u 

cl    in   the   bags      Tht-   day   that    rhe  note 
ne  due,  Mr.   Yale  stationed  his  son  at  th 

any  stranger  that  might  come.     In  the 

>nan  drove  up  to  the  hotel, 
.  sq.    Yale   lived.      The   boy   at    once    ink 
ns  and  Hall,  and  they  repaired  to  Mr.  ^ 
-nger,  who  soon   made  h^ 


588  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

After  a  few  remarks,  the  decanter  with  sugar,  lemons, 
etc.,  was  brought  out,  according  to  the  custom  of  the 
times,  and  all  took  a  drink.  The  stranger  then  remark- 
ed, that  he  was  the  sheriff  of  Hartford  county,  and  had 
come  to  demand  payment  of  the  note  which  was  due 
that  day,  and  that  he  was  ordered  to  demand  specie  pay- 
ment. "  Very  well,"  replied  Mr.  Yale,  "  I  have  antici- 
pated your  demand,  and  am  prepared  to  meet  it."  He 
then  told  Messrs.  Collins  and  Hall  to  bring  out  the  bags 
and  examine  the  seals,  and  they  were  found  all  right. 
Mr.  Yale  then  untied  the  bags  and  emptied  the  contents 
on  the  table,  first  sixpences  and  then  shillings  ;  then 
turning  to  the  sheriff  said,  "There  is  $1800.  which  I  tend- 
er to  you  in  payment  of  my  note,  due  this  day."  The 
sheriff  was  completely  nonplussed.  "  It  will  take  me  a 
week  to  count  it,"  said  he.  "  Very  well,"  replied  Mr. 
Yale,  "  I  don't  doubt  it,  for  it  has  taken  me  six  months 
to  get  it."  The  sheriff  took  another  drink,  then  filling 
the  bags,  he  took  his  departure,  after  asking  Mr.  Yale 
if  he  did  his  own  coining. 

Mr.  Yale  took  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the 
town,  and  was  much  respected  by  his  townsmen.  He 
married  Mary  Johnson,  Nov.  20,  1803,  and  died  Jan.  23, 
1833,  in  the  forty-ninth  year  of  his  age.  Mary,  his  wife, 
died  April  I,  1854,  ae.  sixty-nine  years.  His  son,  Edwin 
Rodolphus  Yale,  was  born  Aug.  8,  1804,  and  was  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  business  in  Meriden  for  many 
years.  He  is  now  the  proprietor  of  the  Mansion  House, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

SAMUEL    YALE 

Was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Eunice  (Payne)  Yale,  and 
was  born  April  4,  1786.  He  was  the  third  of  a  family 
of  nine  children,  six  sons  and  three  daughters.  At  an 


BIOGRAPHIES.  589 

early 'age  he  was  engaged  with  his  father  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  cut  nails,  in  a  little  shop  which  stood  nearly  in 
front  of  the  present  center  Congregational  church.  He 
and  his  father  worked  the  nail  machine  with  their  own 
hands,  and  each  nail  was  headed  separately.  The  elder 
Mr.  Yale  soon  after  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
pewter  buttons,  which  met  with  a  ready  sale,  his  son 
working  with  him.  The  father  died  Sept.  18,  1804,  in 
his  forty-seventh  year,  and  after  his  death  the  son  con- 
tinued the  business  in  connection  with  his  brother  Hi- 
ram, employing  two  or  three  men.  Samuel  and  Hiram 
afterwards  removed  to  Richmond,  Va.,  where  they 
remained  several  years  engaged  in  the  tin  business. 
They  finally  returned  to  Meriden,  where,  in  connection 
with  two  other  brothers,  William  and  Charles,  they  com- 
menced the  manufacture  of  tin  and  britannia  ware. 
Their  goods  were  sold  chiefly  by  peddlers.  The  Yales 
were  very  enterprising  men  and  imported  from  England 
more  skilled  artizans,  and  soon  took  the  lead  in  the 
manufacture  of  britannia  goods,  such  as  tea-sets,  church 
services,1  etc.  Charles  and  Hiram  removed  to  Walling- 
ford  and  commenced  business,  and  had  for  an  apprentice 
Mr.  Samuel  Simpson.  Samuel  Yale  remained  in  Meri- 
den and  continued  the  tin  and  britannia  business,  occu- 
pying a  shop  on  Liberty-st.,  and  afterwards  on  the  cor- 
ner of  Broad  and  East  Main-st.  He  continued  here 
until  1858,  when  he  retired  from  business.  The  shop  is 
still  standing  a  few  rods  east  from  Broad-st. 

Mr.  Yale  in  his  younger  days  was  deputy  sheriff  for 
several  years.  When  the  Meriden  Bank  was  organized 

I  The  author  has  in  his  possession  a  flagon  which  was  manufactured  by 
the  Yale  Brothers.  It  was  a  part  of  the  communion  service  of  the  First 
Baptist  church  in  Meriden. 


590 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


he  was  chosen  one  of  the  directors,  and  held  the  office 
until  his  death.  He  was  President  and  trustee  of  the 
Meriden  Academical  Association  while  it  was  in  exist- 
ence. In  1850  he  erected  the  building  known  as  the 
Odd  Fellows  Building;  and  in  1856  erected  the  brick 
building  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Broad  and  Main-sts. 
Mr.  Yale  died  March  12,  1854,86.  79  years.  His  wife 
died  in  1865  in  her  79th  year. 

WM.    HUBBARD    YALE 

Son  of  Jonathan  and  Alma  (Hubbard)  Yale,  was  born 
in  Meriden  Nov.  22,  1817,  in  the  house  in  which  he  now 


WILLIAM    HUBBARD    YALE. 

lives.  The  house  was  known  to  the  old  residents  of  the 
town  as  the  "Penfield  place,"  and  was  built  by  Mr.  Wm. 
Yale's  grandfather.  Mr.  Yale  gives  most  of  his  time  to 
the  cultivation  of  his  farm,  but  finds  time  to  take  an  ac- 
tive interest  in  town  affairs.  To  his  memory  the  author 
is  indebted  for  many  facts  contained  in  this  volume. 
Mr.  Yale  married  June  27,  1841,  Miss  Maria  M. 
Hubbard. 


BIOGRAPHIES.  59 1 

JAMES    S.    BROOKS 

Was  born  in  Haddam,  Conn.,  March  i,  1796.  He  came 
to  Meriden  when  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  a  poor  boy, 
and  was  apprenticed  to  David  Plant,  to  learn  the  busi- 
ness of  carpenter  and  joiner.  He  served  his  apprentice- 
ship, and  worked  at  the  business  a  few  years.  Major 
Elisha  A.  Cowles  was  engaged  in  business  in  Meriden  at 
that  time,  and  having  become  acquainted  with  young 
Brooks,  he  employed  him  to  travel  and  sell  dry-goods 
and  Yankee  notions  for  him.  Mr.  Brooks  with  a  single 
horse  and  wagon,  in  which  he  carried  his  goods,  drove  to 
South  Carolina,  and  there  carried  on  business  in  connec- 
tion with  Mr.  Cowles,  under  the  name  of  J.  S.  Brooks 
&  Co.,  for  nearly  twenty  years ;  his  family  residing,  in 
the  meantime,  in  Meriden.  When  he  returned  to  Meri- 
den to  live,  he  was  engaged  in  numerous  enterprises,  at 
one  time  manufacturing  augers,  and  at  another  as  one  of 
the  firm  of  Parker,  Snow,  Brooks  &  Co.,  occupying  the 
buildings  now  used  by  Parker  Brothers.  Mr.  Brooks 
was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  building  the  Hartford,  New 
Haven  and  Springfield  railroad,  was  a  Director  for  sev- 
eral years,  Vice  President,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
acting  President.  He  was  largely  identified  with  the 
affairs  of  the  town,  serving  as  Selectman,  Judge  of  Pro- 
bate, Justice  of  the  Peace  and  as  Representative  of  the 
town  to  the  State  Legislature  in  1839,  ^44,  1855  and 
1857.  He  was  very  active  in  church  affairs,  and  gave 
the  land  on  which  the  West  Meriden  Congregational 
church  was  built,  and  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars 
towards  the  building.  He  had  a  good  knowledge  of 
human  nature,  and  a  quick  perception  of  the  character 
and  intent  of  men.  He  was  ardent  in  his  temperament, 
strong  in  his  attachments,  and  kind  as  a  friend  and 


592  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

neighbor.  Possessing  strong  common  sense  and  good 
mother-wit,  and  an  indomitable  will  and  perseverance, 
he  made  his  influence  felt  in  the  community.  Mr. 
Brooks  married,  Aug.  31,  1823,  Millicent  A.,  daughter 
of  Patrick  Clark  of  this  town.  He  died  Oct.  29,  1862, 
leaving  ten  children  :  six  daughters  and  four  sons.  One 
of  the  latter,  John  C.,  died  in  1864,  after  nearly  three 
years'  service  in  the  Union  Army.  He  occupied  the 
house  just  north  of  the  depot  in  West  Meriden. 

LEMUEL   J.    CURTIS 

Son  of  Elisha  and  Abigail  (Hall)  Curtis,  was  born  Jan. 
15,  1814.  He  attended  school  until  he  was  sixteen  years 
old,  when  he  was  apprenticed  to  Ira  Yale  of  Wallingford 
to  learn  the  britannia  ware  business.  After  serving 
about  twelve  months,  he,  together  with  Mr.  Wm.  Elton, 
bought  out  Mr.  Yale  and  formed  a  partnership  in  which 
they  continued  about  one  year.  In  the  summer  of  1 836 
Mr.  Curtis  and  Mr.  Isaac  C.  Lewis  went  to  Illinois,  in- 
tending to  settle  there  and  carry  on  business  together  ; 
but  Mr.  Lewis  was  taken  sick,  and  they  soon  returned 
to  Meriden,  and  formed  a  partnership  and  commenced 
manufacturing  britannia  ware  about  two  miles  east  of 
the  town.  The  partnership  was  soon  dissolved,  and  Mr. 
Curtis,  together  with  his  brother  Edwin  E.  Curtis,  manu- 
factured britannia  ware  in  Meriden  for  a  few  years.  Mr. 
Lemuel  Curtis  then  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Will- 
iam Lyman,  and  when  the  Meriden  Britannia  Company 
was  formed  in  1852,  they  both  became  members  of  the 
company.  Mr.  Curtis  has  been  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  company  since  its  organization,  and  an  active  mem- 
ber until  1868.  He  has  long  been  an  active  member  of 
the  Episcopal  Church  ;  was  vestryman  for  several  years, 


BIOGRAPHIES.  593 

and  is  now  one  of  the   wardens.     He  married  Dec.  24, 
1835,  Bedotha  P.  Button,  and  has  had  two  children. 

ASHABEL      GRISWOLD 

Was    born   in   Rocky  Hill,   Conn.,  April  4,  1784.     He 
removed  to  Meriden    in    1808,  eating  his  first  meal  in 


ASHABEL    GRISWOLD. 

Meriden  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  James  Frary,  in  the 
north  part  of  the  town.  On  this  occasion  he  first  met 
Mr.  Frary's  daughter  Lucy,  whom  he  afterward  married. 
Previous  to  his  coming  to  Meriden  he  had  learned  the 
block-tin  business  of  Captain  Danforth  of  Rocky  Hill, 
and  soon  after  coming  here  he  commenced  business  in  a 
small  shop  near  the  residence  of  Mr.  Samuel  Clark,  in 
Clarksville,  now  Fraryville,  manufacturing  tea-pots  and 
other  articles  from  block-tin.  In  1810  he  built  the  house 
just  north  of  the  residence  of  Mr.  Wm.  Lyman,  and  near 
this  he  built  a  shop  which  he  occupied  until  1842,  when 
he  retired  from  business.  Mr.  Griswold  was  a  very  ener- 
getic business  man  and  highly  respected  in  the  com- 
munity. He  was  President  of  the  Meriden  Bank  for 
some  years,  one  of  the  wardens  of  the  Episcopal  church, 


594 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  represented  the  town  in  the 
Legislature  in  1831  and  1847.  He  married  ist,  Lucy 
Frary  ;  2nd,  the  widow  of  Andrew  Lyman,  and  died  May 
30,  1853,  ae.  69  years. 

ELI  IVES 

Son  of  Othniel  and  Sarah  (Yale)  Ives  was  born  in  the 
house  now  occupied  by  his  brother  Othniel  Ives  Jr.  in 
the  eastern  part  of  the  town,  January,  1809.  He  re- 
mained on  the  farm  until  his  twenty-second  year,  when 
with  Mr.  Noah  Pomeroy  he  commenced  the  manufacture 
of  tin  ware.  In  1837  he  went  to  Wetumpka,  Alabama, 
and  commenced  business  in  which  he  retained  an  inter- 
est, although  living  most  of  the  time  in  Meriden.  In 
1 843  he  bought  the  Tyler  mills  in  Yalesville,  and  carried 
on  the  milling  business  and  manufacture  of  britannia 
spoons.  In  1849,  m  company  with  Mr.  Bennett  Jeralds 
he  commenced  manufacturing  britannia  spoons  and 
other  articles  in  Prospect,  Conn.  The  business  was 


ELI  IVES. 

carried  on   until    1854.     In  1852  Mr.  Ives  was  admitted 
as  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Goodrich    and  Rutty,   and 


BIOGRAPHIES. 


595 


the  firm  was  changed  to  Goodrich,  Ives  and  Rutty. 
Mr.  Goodrich  retired  in  1864,  and  Edwin  R.  Crocker 
and  Nelson  Payne  were  admitted,  making  the  firm  Ives, 
Rutty  and  Co.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  common 
council,  and  also  one  of  the  aldermen.  His  services 
have  been  often  called  for  in  the  settlement  of  estates, 
and  he  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  city  improvements. 

LAUREN  MERRIMAN 

Son  of  Asaph  and  Damaris  Merriman,  was  born  in 
Meriden  in  1787.  He  early  commenced  the  manufac- 
ture of  block  tin  buttons  in  his  own  house,  and  afterwards 


LAUREN    MERRIMAN. 


in  a  small  shop  which  is  now  occupied  as  a  dwelling- 
house,  and  stands  opposite  the  north  end  of  Foster  and 
Merriman's  shop.  He  afterwards  commenced  the  manu- 
facture of  ivory  combs  in  Crow  Hollow,  where  he 
continued  until  1830,  when  he  sold  out  the  business. 
He  was  a  very  active  and  enterprising  man,  devoted 
entirely  to  his  business,  and  accumulated  a  large  proper- 
ty. He  married  Temperance  Todd  of  Bristol,  Conn., 
and  had  six  children.  His  three  sons  have  been  actively 


596  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

engaged  in  business  in  this  town  ;  viz.,  Asaph,  Nelson, 
and  Lauren  T.  Mr.  Merriman  died  in  April,  1867,  ae. 
80  years. 

ORVILLE  H.  PLATT 

Son  of  Daniel  G.  and  Almira  Platt,  was  born  in 
Washington,  Litchfield  county,  Conn.,  July  19,  1827. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  his  native  town,  and 
studied  law  with  G.  H.  Hollister  Esq.,  of  Litchfield. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  in  the  spring  of  1851 
he  removed  to  Meriden  and  commenced  the  practice  of 
law.  He  was  appointed  Judge  of  Probate  in  1853-4-5 
and  6 ;  was  Clerk  of  the  Senate  in  1855-6;  Secretary 
of  State  in  1857;  State  Senator  in  1861-2;  and  Repre- 
sentative in  1864-9.  He  was  speaker  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  in  1869.  Mr.  Platt  has  always  ranked 
high  in  the  legal  profession.  His  success  as  a  lawyer 
has  been  dependent  on  an  unshaken  conviction  of  his 
probity,  untiring  diligence  and  devotion  to  the  interests 
of  his  clients,  and  his  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the 
law,  and  his  admirable  judgment.  The  impulse  he  has 
communicated  while  living,  to  all  schemes  of  public 
enterprise  and  improvement,  will  doubtless  continue ; 
but  his  aid  and  influence  would  be  missed  in  many 
channels  which  no  other  could  successfully  fill.  Mr. 
Platt  married  May  15,  1850,  Miss  Annie  Bull  of  To- 
wanda,  Penn.,  and  has  had  two  children,  Daniel  G.  who 
died  young,  and  James  P.  who  is  now  in  Yale  College. 

SAMUEL    PADDOCK 

Was  born  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  Feb.  22,  1784,  and  re- 
moved to  Meriden  in  1806.  For  over  fifty  years  he  was 
one  of  the  active  and  influential  men  of  the  town, 
holding  several  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  town.  He  was 


BIOGRAPHIES.  597 

by  occupation  a  farmer.  August  20,  1803,  he  married 
Miss  Polly  Sears.  January  22,  1823,  he  married  for  his 
second  wife  Charlotte  Yale.  He  died  August  7,  1869. 


SAMUEL    PADDOCK. 

One  of  his  sons,  Charles  Paddock,  is  an  extensive  far- 
mer in  the  eastern  part  of  the  town.  Another  son, 
Samuel  C.  Paddock,  is  well  known  as  a  business  man  in 
Meriden. 

CHARLES    PARKER 

Son  of  Stephen  and  Rebecca  Parker,  was  born  in  Che- 
shire, Conn.,  January  2,  1809.  When  nine  years  of  age  he 
was  placed  with  a  farmer  by  the  name  of  Porter  Cook, 
where  he  remained  until  he  was  fourteen.  He  contin- 
ued on  a  farm  until  he  was  eighteen,  when  he  went  to 
work  in  Southington  casting  buttons  for  Anson  Mat- 
thews. He  remained  there  one  year  and  then  removed 
to  Naugatuck,  then  a  part  of  Waterbury,  where  he 
worked  for  Horace  and  Harry  Smith  about  six  months. 
In  August,  1828,  Mr.  Parker  came  to  Meriden  and  hired 
out  to  Patrick  Lewis,  making  coffee-mills.  In  December, 
1829,  he  went  into  business  for  himself  with  a  capital  of 
P  P 


5Q8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

seventy  dollars,  taking  a  contract  from  Lewis  and  Holt 
for  thirteen  months  to  manufacture  coffee-mills.  His 
shop  stood  nearly  opposite  his  present  residence.  Du- 
ring the  thirteen  months  Mr.  Parker  cleared  thirteen 
hundred  dollars.  He  then  took  in  as  partner,  Mr.  Jared 
Lewis,  and  took  another  contract  from  Lewis  and  Holt, 
to  manufacture  coffee-mills,  ladles  and  skimmers.  In 
January,  1831,  he  sold  out  to  Mr.  Jared  Lewis  and 
bought  an  acre  of  ground  lying  west  of  his  present 
residence.  On  this  ground  was  an  old  brown  house,  and 
Mr.  Parker  paid  for  the  house  and  ground,  six  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars.  On  the  back  of  this  lot  he  built  a  shop 
which  was  finished  in  the  spring  of  1832,  in  which  he 
manufactured  coffee-mills  and  waffle  irons.  Mr.  Parker 
then  went  to  market  with  his  own  goods.  In  Nov. 
1833  Lewis  and  Holt  failed,  thus  leaving  the  whole 
market  in  Mr.  Parker's  hands.  In  1833  he  associated 
with  his  brother  Edmund  and  Heman  White,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Parker  and  White,  and  carried  on 
business  until  1835,  when  Edmund  Parker  was  sent  to 
Montgomery,  Alabama,  with  clocks  and  dry  goods.  In 
1836  he  returned,  and  Mr.  White  went  to  Montgomery 
with  dry  goods,  which  sold  readily.  In  October,  1837,  ne 
made  a  second  trip  to  Alabama  with  a  large  stock  of 
dry  goods ;  but  the  hard  times  came  on  and  he  lost 
heavily,  much  embarassing  the  firm  of  Parker  and  White, 
who  did  not  fully  recover  from  their  embarassment  for 
over  six  years.  They  were  often  advised  by  their  friends 
to  fail,  but  did  not,  and  paid  all  debts  in  full  with  interest. 
During  this  time  Edmund  Parker  sold  out  his  interest  to 
Mr.  White,  and  in  1843  the  partnership  was  dissolved, 
Mr.  White  going  south,  where  he  soon  failed.  He  came 
back  to  Meriden  and  hired  out  to  Mr.  Parker  for  one 


BIOGRAPHIES.  599 

hundred  dollars  a  month.  He  built  the  house  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  Mr.  John  W.  Miles,  corner  of 
Broad  and  Elm  streets.  He  died  there  of  consumption. 
Mr.  Parker's  business  steadily  increased,  and  in  1844  he 
added  largely  to  his  buildings,  putting  in  steam  power, 
having  previously  used  horse  power.  He  was  the  first 
to  manufacture  plated  spoons  and  forks,  and  the  first  to 
plate  hollow  ware  in  Meriden.  Mr.  Parker  owns  be- 
sides his  shop  in  Meriden  center,  a  factory  in  East 
Meriden,  one  about  two  miles  west  of  Meriden,  one  in 
Yalesville,  one  in  West  Meriden,  and  occupies  the  Twiss 
shop  in  Prattsville.  His  business  now  amounts  to  about 
one  million  dollars  a  year. 

His  success  in  life  has  been  owing  to  strict  ecomony 
and  close  application  to  business ;  he  often  working 
fifteen  hours  a  day,  attending  to  his  large  correspondence 
evenings.  He  has  been  distinguished  for  good  sense, 
great  industry,  method  in  business,  and  punctuality  in 
all  his  engagements.  At  the  age  of  thirty-one,  Mr. 
Parker  experienced  religion,  and  after  two  years  united 
with  the  Methodist  church.  He  gave  the  Methodists 
the  lot  on  Broad  street  on  which  their  church  was 
built,  and  also  gave  three-quarters  of  what  the  build- 
ing cost ;  and  he  with  his  brother  John  jointly  contributed 
between  thirty  and  forty  thousand  dollars  towards  the 
erection  of  the  present  Methodist  church.  His  liberality 
has  been  great  but  unostentatious  ;  and  whenever  he  has 
conferred  a  favor  he  has  endeavored  to  conceal  it  from 
the  world.  Mr.  Parker  has  always  refused  to  accept 
office,  though  often  urged  to  do  so,  until  Meriden  was 
incorporated  a  city  ;  when  he  was  elected  Mayor,  which 
office  he  held  two  years. 

Mr.  Parker  married  October  6,  1831,  Miss  Abi  Lewis 


6(X)  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Eddy,  of  Berlin,  and  has  had  ten  children  ;  four  are 
now  living.  The  youngest  son,  Dexter  Wright  Parker, 
was  graduated  at  West  Point  in  the  spring  of  1870,  he 
being  then  in  his  twenty-first  year. 

EDMUND  PARKER 

The  youngest  son  of  Stephen  and  Rebecca  Parker,  was 
born  in  Cheshire,  Conn.,  Feb.  9,  1811.  He  removed 
to  Meriden  at  an  early  age,  and  shortly  after  became 
connected  with  his  brother  Charles  and  Mr.  Heman 
White,  in  the  manufacture  of  hardware,  under  the  name 
of  Parker  and  White,  which  firm  were  really  the 
pioneers  of  the  business  enterprise  of  Meriden.  To 
their  energy,  perseverance  and  success,  is  due  in  a 
great  measure  the  growth  and  present  prosperity  of 
the  town.  Upon  the  dissolution  of  Parker  and  White 
he  associated  himself  with  his  brother  John  in  the  brass 
and  iron-foundry  business,  and  in  the  manufacture  of 
coffee-mills  and  other  hardware,  under  the  firm  name  of 
J.  &  E.  Parker,  which  partnership  continued  until  his 
health  failed  in  1865,  when  he  sold  out  his  interest  to 
his  brother  Charles.  He  was  Selectman  and  also 
County  Commissoner  for  several  years.  He  embraced 
Christianity  at  an  early  age,  and  for  many  years  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Meriden. 
He  joined  the  Episcopal  Church  in  1858,  in  which 
communion  he  remained  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
April  19,  1866,  at  the  age  of  fifty-five  years.  Mr. 
Parker  was  distinguished  for  the  clearness  and  strength 
of  his  judgment,  the  ease  and  accuracy  with  which  he 
transacted  business,  and  the  kindness  and  affability 
which  he  uniformly  manifested  in  all  the  relations  of 
life  ;  and  while  always  attentive  to  business,  he  was 


EDMUND      PARKER. 


BIOGRAPHIES. 


6O I 


never  neglectful  of  the  duties  of  friendship  nor  of  social 
life  generally.  Mr.  Parker  married  Miss  Jennette 
Bradley  of  Branford,  and  had  seven  children,  four  of 
whom  are  now  living. 

JOSEPH   J.    WOOLLEY 

son  of  Joseph  and  Fannie  (Burroughs)  Woolley,  was 
born  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  September  17,  1832.  He 


REV.    JOSEPH    J.    WOOLLEY. 

studied  for  the  ministry  in  the  M.  E.  Church,  and  joined 
the  New  York  East  Conference  in  1856,  and  was  sta- 
tioned at  South  Norwalk,  Conn.  When  the  war  broke 
out  in  1 86 1,  he  was  commissioned  as  chaplain  in  the 
8th  Regiment,  Conn.  Volunteers,  and  was  connected 
with  the  Burnside  expedition  into  North  Carolina,  being 


6O2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

actively  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Roanoke  Island  and 
Newbern.  Constant  exposure  for  weeks  brought  on 
an  attack  of  typhoid  fever,  and  he  came  home  in  the 
spring  of  1862.  Immediately  after  his  recovery  he  pre- 
sented the  cause  of  the  Chaplain's  aid  Commission  in 
this  State  ;  and  it  was  while  engaged  in  this  work,  that 
he  was  invited  to  become  the  Pastor  of  the  Center 
Congregational  Church  in  Meriden,  Conn.,  where  he 
was  installed  October  22,  1862  ;  having  been  previously 
ordained  by  Bishop  Simpson  in  the  Methodist  Church. 
Mr.  Woolley  was  brought  up  in  the  Congregational 
Church  under  the  pastorate  of  Dr.  N.  Hewitt,  but  was 
converted  in  the  Methodist  Church,  which  will  account 
for  his  connection  with  that  church,  for  which  he  still 
cherishes  the  warmest  affection.  Mr.  Woolley  has  been 
twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  the  daughter  of 
Charles  Briscoe  of  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  with  whom  he 
lived  five  years  ;  during  four  years  of  which  she  was  an 
invalid,  being  confined  to  her  room  the  greater  part  of 
the  time.  She  died  May  6th,  1860,  leaving  no  children. 
In  Dec.  1 86 1  he  married  the  daughter  of  Dea.  Stephen 
G.  and  Mary  A.  Ferris  of  South  Norwalk,  Conn.,  by 
whom  he  has  two  children,  a  son  and  daughter. 

In  his  present  pastorate,  Mr.  W.  succeeded  the  Rev. 
O.  H.  White  of  New  Haven.  The  church  membership 
at  that  time  was  154 ;  it  is  now  224.  His  church  is  the 
original  church  of  Meriden,  having  been  organized  in 
October,  1729. 

HORACE    C.    WILCOX 

Son  of  Elisha  B.  and  Hepsibah  ( Cornwall )  Wilcox,  was 
born  in  Middletown,  Ct,  Jan.  26,  1824.  He  lived  on  his 
father's  farm  until  he  was  twenty  years  old,  attending 
school  until  he  was  eighteen.  In  his  twentieth  year  he 


BIOGRAPHIES.  603 

commenced  peddling,  and  followed  this  business  for  near- 
ly two  years.  In  1850  he  came  to  Meriden  and  began 
selling  britannia  ware  for  Mr.  James  Frary,  and  finally 
furnished  Mr.  Frary  with  stock,  and  took  all  of  the  goods 
that  he  manufactured.  He  followed  this  business  for 
several  years,  taking  also  the  goods  manufactured  by 
Messrs.  Wm.  Lyman  and  John  Munson  of  Wallingford, 
and  I.  C.  Lewis  &  Co.  Mr.  Wilcox  took  in  partner- 
ship his  brother  Dennis  C.  Wilcox,  and  under  the  firm 
name  of  H.  C.  Wilcox  and  Co.,  remained  until  Dec., 
1852,  when  the  Meriden  Britannia  Company  was  formed. 
The  Company  comprised  Mr.  Horace  Wilcox,  his  brother 
Dennis,  and  the  men  for  whom  he  had  been  selling 
goods.  Mr.  Lewis  was  elected  President,  and  Mr. 
Wilcox  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  Mr.  George  R.  Curtis, 
then  the  Cashier  of  the  Meriden  Bank,  was  admitted 
into  the  Company  and  filled  the  office  of  Treasurer,  Mr. 
Wilcox  continuing  Secretary  until  1865,  when  he  was 
appointed  President  of  the  Company.  The  principal 
trait  in  Mr.  Wilcox's  character  is  an  indomitable  energy 
and  perseverance.  From  a  borrowed  capital  of  three 
dollars,  with  which  he  commenced  business,  he  has  accu- 
mulated a  large  property.  The  success  of  the  Meriden 
Britannia  Company  demonstrate  his  enterprise  and 
sagacity.  Success  as  the  result  of  the  skillful  use  of 
means  and  the  powers  of  nature,  persistent  success, 
always  proves  ability.  Judged  by  this  standard,  Mr. 
Wilcox  is  no  ordinary  man.  He  married  first,  August  9, 
1 849,  Charlotte  A.,  daughter  of  Jabez  Smith  of  Middle- 
town,  by  whom  he  had  five  children.  He  married  sec- 
ond, May  31",  1865,  Miss  Ellen  M.,  daughter  of  Edmund 
Parker,  by  whom  he  has  two  children. 


604  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORU. 

ALMER    HALL 

Son  of  David  and  Thankful  Hall,  was  born  in  Walling- 
ford,  Sept.  10,  1793.  His  early  boyhood  was  spent  with 
his  parents  on  the  farm.  His  opportunities  for  intellec- 
tual improvement  were  limited.  After  leaving  the  farm, 
he  commenced  for  himself  by  peddling  tin  ware  and 
"  Yankee  notions"  over  the  Alleghany  monntains,  through 
Virginia,  Tennessee  and  other  States,  for  Charles  Yale 
of  Wallingford.  After  following  this  business  a  few 
years,  he  opened  a  small  store  in  Wallingford  for  the 
sale  of  dry  goods  and  groceries.  He  continued  in  that 
business  several  years.  In  1827  he  commenced  the 
manufacture  of  britannia  spoons,  but  did  not  succeed 
well  in  the  business.  In  1834  he  went  into  company 
with  Walter  Martin  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
wooden  screws.  They  soon  failed,  and  Mr.  Hall  lost 
$9,000,  all  that  he  was  worth.  He  became  very  de- 
spondent, and  had  no  ambition  to  commence  business 
again  ;  but  visiting  New  York,  a  friend  gave  him  seven 
pounds  of  German  silver  and  told  him  to  begin  life 
again.  In  1837  Mr.  Hall  formed  a  copartnership  with 
William  Elton  under  the  firm  name  of  Hall,  Elton  & 
Co.,  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  German  silver 
ware.  They  were  the  first  successful  manufacturers  of 
this  ware  in  this  country.  He  continued  in  this  business 
until  his  death,  Jan.  15,  1865,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two 
years.  He  was  the  last  one  of  the  constituent  members 
of  the  Baptist  Church,  which  was  organized  in  May, 
1817.  Four  weeks  afterwards  he  was  chosen  deacon, 
and  ever  after  used  the  office  well,  "  purchasing  to  him- 
self a  good  degree."  He  had  a  more  than  ordinary  gift 
for  prayer  and  exhortation,  and  used  it  well  to  the  last. 
He  was  thoroughly  versed  in  the  great  doctrines  of 


BIOGRAPHIES.  605 

grace.  It  was  his  delight  to  hear  them  preached,  and  to 
converse  about  them  in  private.  Mr.  Hall  was  a  quiet, 
unassuming  man,  and  was  possessed  of  that  charity 
which  "thinketh  no  evil."  He  was  inclined  to  put  the 
best  construction  on  the  acts  of  others,  and  to  impute 
to  them  the  best  motives  possible.  He  was  confiding 
and  unsuspecting,  so  much  so  as  to  suffer  loss  from 
some  with  whom  he  transacted  business.  For  many 
years  he  was  the  chief  support  of  the  church,  when  it 
could  not  have  been  sustained  without  him.  Mr.  Hall 
married,  ist,  Miss  Lois  Twiss  of  Meriden  ;  2nd,  Miss 
Fanny  Silliman  Ives  of  Meriden  ;  3rd,  March,  1840, 
Mrs.  Clarissa  Cooke  of  Wallingford.  He  had  seven 
children,  two  of  whom  are  living,  viz.  :  Aimer  I.  and 
Jane  A.,  wife  of  Mr.  D.  W.  Fields  of  Wallingford. 

ELIHU  YALE 

Son  of  Theophilus  and  Azubah  (De  Wolf)  Yale,  was 
born  in  Wallingford  in  1747.  He  married  Lucretia, 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Prudence  Stanley  of  the 
same  town,  Nov.  24,  1774.  He  was  a  blacksmith, 
and  was  one  of  the  first  in  Connecticut  who  commenced 
the  manufacture  of  scythes  and  bayonets.  Being 
successful  in  business,  from  a  small  beginning  he 
accumulated  a  large  estate.  He  was  in  the  service 
of  his  country  during  the  Revolution,  and  was  an  active 
and  efficient  man  in  all  his  undertakings.  He  died 
suddenly,  having  attended  Church  during  the  day, 
Sunday  evening  May  12,  1806,  in  his  fifty-ninth  year, 
leaving  seven  children. 


606  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


CHAPTER   XXXIV. 

MISCELLANEOUS  LAWS.     LETTERS.     CATHOLIC  CHURCH. 
LAWYERS.    MERIDEN  GRAYS. 

AT  a  special  town  meeting  holden  at  Wallingford  Jan. 
27,  1794,  "Voted  unanimously  that  this  town  do  disap- 
prove of  the  measures  taken  by  the  General  Assembly 
in  October  last  relative  to  the  sale  of  the  western  territo- 
ry belonging  to  this  State,  and  the  appropriation  of  the 
avails  thereof;  and  that  we  deem  it  our  duty  to  use  every 
prudent  method  to  prevent  the  aforesaid  measures  being 
carried  into  effect,  and  that  the  above  Vote  be  inserted 
in  the  Connecticut  Journal" 

At  the  October  session  of  the  General  Assembly, 
1726,  a  grant  of  three  hundred  acres  of  land  in  the  town 
of  Goshen  was  made  to  John  Hull  of  Wallingford,  James 
Wadsworth  of  Durham  and  Hezekiah  Brainerd  of  Had- 
dam  (father  of  the  missionary  David  Brainerd),  for 
public  services.  It  was  called  the  Esquires'  Farm,  from 
its  being  given  to  these  persons,  each  of  whom  had  the 
title  of  Esquire. 

[From  the  CONNECTICUT  JOURNAL,  April  29,  1768.] 

As  I  have  never  burthened  the  public  to  read  or  you  to 
publish  any  of  my  productions,  I  flatter  myself  the  subsequent 
succint  suggestions  will  be  forgiven.  As  economy  is  the 
watchword  of  this  reign,  as  candor  was  of  the  former,  in  the 


MISCELLANEOUS.  607 

courtly  and  ministerial  style,  it  has  crossed  the  Atlantic,  and 
is  in  high  vogue  in  America  as  well  as  in  Westminster  the 
city  of  the  great  king.  The  story  is  this :  A  few  days  since 
a  strolling  man  in  soldier's  regimental  garb,  calling  himself 
James  McCannon,  with  a  blazing  woman,  came  into  my  house 
in  early  morn,  begged  for  cider,  then  three  mugs  deep,  as  I 
was  informed  ;  after  some  admonitions  given  him,  my  affairs 
pressing  my  immediate  departure,  I  left  him  in  the  house,  on 
which  he  soon  became  very  boisterous,  attempted  to  pilfer 
some  things  which  my  domestic  discovered  ;  finally  carried 
off  a  brass  save-all,  of  a  stand  of  candleticks  ( then  undiscov- 
ered ),  what  else  is  at  present  unknown.  This,  though  trifling 
in  its  value  intrinsically,  but  as  an  ancient  patrimonial  legacy 
of  high  estimation,  not  only  is  a  standing  evidence  of  their 
prudent  economy,  but  ex  vi  termini  a  memento  of  economy  and 
save-all.  And  hereby  I  beg  leave  to  give  warning  to  all  fami- 
lies to  beware  of  such  strolling  pilferers,  if  they  would  save 
all.  I  beg  leave  also  to  ask  the  public,  whether  it  would  not 
be  of  public  utility,  to  have  task-masters  in  every  town  to 
compel  them  to  labor,  as  they  are  passing  every  day  in  our 
streets,  and  will  be  probably  more  and  more,  or  some  other 
similar  salutary  measure.  I  ask  pardon  for  one  more  hint 
which  pops  into  my  head,  while  my  pen  is  moving,  as  a  sup- 
plemental suggestion  to  economy  and  save-all.  A  respectable 
physician  of  the  city  of  London,  of  high  renown  in  the  faculty, 
told  the  subscriber  that  he  required  his  servants  to  save  all 
the  rags,  not  that  it  was  of  the  least  avail  to  him,  but  only  a 
specimen  of  economy — save-all,  and  withal  added,  "  The  rags 
in  this  city  are  worth  sixty  thousand  pounds  sterling  a  year." 
I  hope  the  paper-mill  manufacturers  will  not  esteem  the  fore- 
going hint  burthensome,  though  the  public  may  what  precedes. 
Gentlemen,  if  it  appear  more  eligible  to  save  your  pains  and 
paper  than  print  this,  remember  and  save  all. 
I  am  your  most  humble  servant, 

E.  HALL. 

Wallingford,  5  o'clock,  April  2ith. 


608  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

[  From  the  CONNECTICUT  GAZETTE.] 

At  a  meeting  of  the  true  sons  of  Liberty  in  Wallingford,  in 
New  Haven  county,  on  the  evening  of  the  i3th  day  of  Jan- 
uary, 1766,  after  duly  formed  by  choosing  a  moderator  and  a 
clerk,  the  following  resolves  were  come  into,  viz. : 

Resolved,  i  That  the  late  act  of  Parliament,  called  the 
Stamp  Act,  is  unconstitutional,  and  intended  to  enslave  the 
true  subjects  of  America. 

Resolved,  2.  That  we  will  oppose  the  same  to  the  last  ex- 
tremity, even  to  take  the  field. 

Resolved,  3.  That  we  will  meet  at  the  Court  House  in  New 
Haven,  on  the  third  Tuesday  of  February  next ;  and  we  de- 
sire all  the  sons  of  liberty  in  each  town  in  the  county  would 
meet  there  by  themselves  or  representatives  ;  there  to  consult 
what  is  best  to  be  done  in  order  to  defend  our  liberties  and 
properties,  and  break  up  the  stop  to  public  affairs. 

Resolved,  4.  That  this  meeting  be  adjourned  to  the  first 
Tuesday  of  February  next,  then  to  choose  our  representatives 
to  attend  the  aforesaid  meeting. 

A  true  copy,  examined. 

P.  P.  CLARK. 

CATHOLIC    CHURCH. 

The  first  Roman  Catholic  service  in  Meriden  was  held 
at  a  private  residence  in  the  north-east  part  of  the  town. 
The  building  now  occupied  as  a  residence  near  the  cor- 
ner of  Liberty  and  Broad  streets,  and  which  then  stood 
on  the  corner  of  Olive  and  South  Broad  streets,  was  soon 
after  purchased  and  used  by  the  Catholics  for  many 
years.  Rev.  Thomas  Quinn  was  the  first  settled  pastor, 
although  Rev.  Messrs.  Stevens  and  Hugh  Riley  had 
previously  had  pastoral  care  of  the  society.  During 
Rev.  Mr.  Quinn's  pastorate,  the  present  church  of  St. 
Rose  of  Lima  was  built  at  a  cost  of  about  $25,000. 
Soon  after  the  completion  of  the  Church,  Father  Quinn 
was  removed  to  another  field  of  labor,  and  was  succeeded 


MISCELLANEOUS.  609 

by  Rev.  Thomas  Walsh,  the  present  pastor.  Rev.  Mr. 
Sheridan  was  curate  for  a  while  under  Father  Walsh, 
and  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Plunkett,  who  in 
1870  was  removed.  The  church  has  recently  been 
enlarged. 

The  Holy  Sacrifice  of  the  Mass  was  offered  up  for  the 
first  time  in  Wallingford  on  the  22nd  of  December, 
1847,  by  a  missionary  Priest,  in  a  private  house  on  Main 
street,  occupied  by  James  Hanlon.  Fifteen  persons 
composed  the  congregation.  From  1847  to  ^57  the 
Catholics  of  Wallingford  had  divine  service  in  private 
houses  and  in  the  hall  of  the  tavern  when  it  could  be  ob- 
tained, and  it  was  attended  by  the  Priest  from  Meriden. 
On  the  23d  of  November,  1857,  tne  corner  stone  of  the 
present  Catholic  church  was  laid  by  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Quinn,  then  pastor  of  the  Meriden  church.  Wallingford 
has  ceased  to  be  an  out-mission  to  Meriden  since  1868  ; 
Rev.  Hugh  Mallon  being  then  appointed  pastor.  The 
Catholic  population  of  Wallingford  is  now  about  one 
thousand. 

LUTHERAN    CHURCH. 

The  corner-stone  of  the  St.  John's  German  Evangel- 
ical church  was  laid  Friday,  Oct.  19,  1866,  Rev.  Dr. 
Bohrman  of  Albany  preaching  the  sermon.  In  the 
stone  were  deposited  a  Bible,  Catechism,  Records  of 
the  Church,  a  copy  of  the  Recorder,  and  several  evan- 
gelical newspapers.  Rev.  Gustavus  A.  Schmidt  was  the 
first  pastor,  and  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Charles  Groeber. 
LAWYERS. 

Benajah  Andrews  was  for  many  years  the  leading 
lawyer  of  Meriden.  He  was  Judge  of  Probate  in  this 
district  from  1844  to  1846,  and  from  1847  to  1850. 
Dexter  R.  Wright,  a  graduate  of  the  Wesleyan  Uni- 


6lO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

versity,  of  the  class  of  1845,'  and  Tilton  E.  Doolittle,  a 
graduate  of  Yale  College  of  the  class  of  1846,  practised 
law  in  this  town  for  many  years.  Orville  H.  Platt  came 
here  in  185 12  and  has  held  many  important  offices  in  the 
gift  of  the  town.  Savilian  R.  Hall  practiced  here  for  a 
short  time,  and  removed  to  New  Haven,  as  did  Messrs. 
Wright  and  Doolittle.  The  lawyers  at  present  in  Meri- 
den  are  as  follows :  George  W.  Smith,  Cooke  Lounsbury, 
George  A.  Fay,  E.  A.  Merriman,  Leverett  L.  Phelps 
and  Ratcliffe  Hicks. 

MERIDEN    GRAYS. 

2d  Brigade,  Conn.,  State  Militia.  In  1830  the  roll  was 
as  follows  :  Captain,  Almeron  Miles  ;  Lieutenant,  John 
S.  Blake  ;  Ensign,  Osamas  Crocker ;  Sergeants,  Alfred 
P.  Curtiss,  Alanson  Curtiss,  Edmund  Parker,  Harrison 
W.  Curtiss  ;  Bugler,  Elam  L.  Johnson ;  Fifer,  Henry  P. 
Judd  ;  Drummer,  John  Miles  Jr.  ;  Bass  Drummer,  Loyal 
Smith  ;  Almon  Ives,  Benj.  H.  Royce,  Charles  Parker, 
Charles  Ranney,  Daniel  Hart,  Edwin  Birdsey,  Ezra 
Rutty,  Edward  N.  Hall,  Geo.  Thrall,  Harrison  Curtiss, 
Henry  Penfield,  Henry  W.  Saltonstall,  Horace  Redfield, 
Isaac  W.  Curtiss,  James  S.  Lathrop,  Lyman  Ives,  Nor- 
man W.  Pomeroy,  Nelson  Payne,  Sydney  P.  Hall,  Wm. 
H.  Yale,  Wm.  D.  Cutler,  Wm.  Green,  John  Houseman, 
Alanson  Carter,  Wm.  Seymour,  Wm.  White,  Elias  M. 
Barnes,  Hiram  H.  Royce. 

1  See  Biographical  notices. 

2  See  Biographical  notices. 


r-      •, 


GENEALOGIES. 


"To  trace  lineage  —  to  love  and  record  the  names  and  actions  of  those 
without  whom  we  could  never  have  been,  who  moulded  and  made  us  what 
we  are,  and  whom  the  very  greatest  of  us  all  must  know  to  have  propagated 
influences  into  his  being,  which  must  subtly  but  certainly  act  upon  his 
whole  conduct  in  this  world — all  this  is  implied  in  ancestry  and  the  love  of 
it,  and  is  natural  and  good."  Westminster  Review,  July,  1853. 


INTRODUCTION. 

FEW  know  the  amount  of  time,  patience  and  labor,  that 
is  required  in  compiling  genealogies,  and  no  one  can 
estimate  the  difficulty  of  collecting  these  materials,  who 
has  not  had  experience  in  similar  undertakings.  It  has 
been  said,  that  it  was  useless  to  tell  antiquaries  anything 
about  the  cost  of  such  works,  for  they  understood  it ; 
and  it  was  equally  useless  to  tell  others,  for  they  could 
not  comprehend  you.  It  is  probable  that  this  work 
would  not  have  been  printed  for  several  years  had  not 
the  services  of  Mr.  ELIHU  YALE  been  called  into  requi- 
sition. He  has  spent  many  years  in  examining  town, 
church  and  family  records,  and  in  an  extensive  corres- 
pondence with  the  descendants  of  the  families  noticed 
in  this  work.  Every  one  who  has  had  any  experience 
in  labors  of  this  kind,  knows  that  errors  are  unavoidable. 
The  neglect  of  parents  in  having  the  births,  deaths,  and 
marriages  in  their  respective  families  recorded,  renders 
it  imposssible  in  many  cases,  to  collect  from  the  town 


6l2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

records  a  correct  list  of  a  family.  I  have  carefully  com- 
pared these  records  with  those  of  the  neighboring  towns, 
the  published  genealogies  of  some  of  the  families,  and 
also  the  records  of  the  Probate  office,  and  the  office  of 
the  Register  of  deeds  for  the  county.  Thus  in  some 
instances  I  have  supplied  the  record  of  whole  families, 
not  found  upon  the  town  records  at  all.  It  was  my  in- 
tention to  bring  the  record  of  each  family  down  to  the 
present  generation,  but  the  work  has  grown  to  such  a 
size  that  it  will  be  impossible  except  in  a  few  instances. 
Of  the  Parker,  Street,  and  Brown  families  I  have  the 
record  of  several  thousand  names  of  collateral  branches, 
and  also  the  records  of  numerous  Meriden  families,  since 
the  incorporation  of  the  town.  These  Meriden  pedi- 
grees I  had  hoped  to  have  incorporated  in  this  work,  but 
perhaps  sufficient  inducement  may  be  offered  to  print 
them  separately  ;  they  would  occupy  about  two  hundred 
pages.  Any  corrections  or  additions  to  the  families 
mentioned  in  these  genealogies  will  be  thankfully  re- 
ceived by  the  author. 


6i3 


ABERNATHY.' 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  ABERNATHY  came  to  Wallingford  from  Branford. 
He  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  was  an  active  man  among 
the  settlers.  The  name  of  his  ist  wife  was  Sarah.  His  2nd 
wife  was  Elizabeth. 

Children:  i  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  15,  1673;  2  William,  b  Jan. 
23>  X675  ;  3  Sarah,  b  Oct.  10,  1677  ;  4  Mary,  b  Mar.  27, 
1679  ;  5  Samuel,  b  Jan.  10,  1683,  d  Mar.  14,  1723  ;  6  Dan- 
iel, b  Sept.  3,  1686  ;  7  Susannah,  b  July  18,  1689. 

2.  WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  AND  MARY  ABERNATHY.  He  died  Feb.,  1728. 
She  died  Jan.  i,  1757. 

Children:  8  Maty,  b  April  30,  1700;  9  Jemima,  b  Aug. 
20,  1702;  10  Sarah,  b  Dec.  15,  1705;  n  Ann,  b  June  7, 
1706  ;  12  John,  b  Feb.  27,  1708,  killed  by  lightning  May  12, 
1727,  as  19;  13  Caleb,  b  Feb.  n,  1710,  m.  to  Lois  Gaylord 
by  Capt.  Yale,  Sept.  26,  1733;  14  Susannah,  b  April  28, 
1712,  m.  Samuel  Yale. 

5.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  ABERNATHY  married  Elizabeth  Peck  Nov.  21,  1711. 

Children:  15  Abraham,  b  March  i,  1712;  16  Samuel, 
b  Dec.  28,  1718,  d  July  28,  1724;  17  Jasper,  b  Feb.  24, 
1721,  d  Dec.  2,  1741. 

13.   CALEB. 

CALEB  and  Lois  ABERNATHY,  of  Wallingford,  married,  1733. 

Children:  18  William,  b  July  i,  1734;  19  Mary,  b  Nov. 
23>  J736;  20  John,  b  July  2,  1738;  21  Mary,  b  Dec.  9, 
1797  ;  22  Jared,  b  Oct.  31,  1741. 


i   Hinman's  Letters  of  Conn.,  17,  18. 

QQ 


614  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKI). 

ALLING  AND  ALLEN. 

JAMES. 

JAMES  ALLING  is  the  first  of  this  name  that  I  find  in  Wall- 
ingford,  with  his  wife  Abigail,  before  1700.  The  name  has 
not  been  numerous. 

Children:  i  Abigail,  b.  June  23,  1701  ;  2  James,  b.  Nov. 
15,  1702;  3  Stephen,  b.  Oct.  13,  1704;  4  Mary,  b.  March  3, 
1708;  5  Samuel,  b.  Jan.  15,  1710,  m.  Mary  Blakeslee,  June 
23,  1726  ;  6,  Ebenezer,  b.  April  8,  1713. 

2.  JAMES. 

JAMES  and  MARY  (Beadles)  ALLING  were  married  Sept.  23, 


Children:    7  Marshal,   b.  Aug.   i,  1732;  8  Rebecca,  b.  Feb. 
7)    J734j    9    Abigail,  b.   Dec.    i,   1735  ;    10   Josiah,  b.   Feb. 


6.     EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  ALLING  married  Sarah  Atwater,  Dec.  19,  1742. 
He  died  Nov.  3,  1760. 

Children:  n  Sarah,  b  Feb.  8,  1745;  12  Daniel,  b.  Oct. 
22,  1747,  d.  July  n,  1746;  13  Abel,\>.  Jan.  30,  1749;  14 
Enos,  b.  Jan.  17,  1752  ;  15  Daman's,  b.  March  15,  1755;  16 
Abigail,  b.  July,  6,  1757  ;  17  Eunice,  b.  Dec.  19,  1760. 

EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  ALLING  married  Hannah  —       —  . 
Children:   18  Daniel,  b.  Nov.  18,  1743  ;   19  Esther,  b.   Jan. 
24,  1744- 


ANDREWS.' 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  ANDREWS,  of  Hampsworth,  England  (carpenter), 
was  one  of  the  fifty-three  persons  besides  women  and  children 
who  shipped  at  Hampton,  15  miles  west-south-west  of  London, 

i  Andrews'  Hist   New  Britain ;  Bubson's  Hist,  of  Gloucester,  57,   58 ; 


GENEALOGIES.  615 

about  the  6th  of  April,  1635,  on  board  of  the  James  of 
London,  of  300  tons,  Wm.  Cooper,  Master.  Several  of  the 
53  passengers  had  their  wives  and  children  with  them,  but 
no  record  of  their  names  was  kept.  They  landed  at  Boston, 
where  Wm.  Andrews  was  made  a  freeman  in  1635.  He  was 
early  at  New  Haven  with  Eaton  and  Rev.  John  Davenport. 
He  built  the  first  meeting-house  there  in  1644.  He  is  known 
to  have  had  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  and  is  supposed  to 
have  had  two  other  daughters  whose  names  are  now  unknown. 
The  name  of  his  first  wife  who  was  the  mother  of  all  his 
children,  is  also  now  unknown.  He  married  his  and  wife,  Anna 
Gibbands,  Dec.  7,  1665  ;  she  was  a  daughter  of  William  Gib- 
bands,  who  was  Colonial  Secretary  in  1657.  Mr.  William 
Andrews  died  at  East  Haven,  March  4,  1676.  Mrs.  Anna, 
his  wife,  died  A.  D.  1701. 

Children:  i  William,  born  in  England,  died  Jan.  3,  1663, 
left  no  sons;  2  Samuel,  born  in  England,  1632,  died  Oct.  6, 
1704;  3  Nathan,  born  in  England,  1638.  Ancestor  of  the 
East  Haven  branch.  Daughters,  supposed  three. 

Samuel  and  Nathan  were  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
Wallingford  in  1670.  Nathan  was  one  of  the  twelve  selected 
to  lay  the  foundation  for  the  formation  of  the  Church  in  Wall- 
ingford, and  was  an  active  member  of  the  plantation,  after 
giving  directions  for  its  government,  until  they  became  suffi- 
ciently strong  to  support  a  minister. 

2.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  ANDREWS;  son  of  William  the  emigrant,  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Deacon  Wm.  Peck,  of  New  Haven. 
He  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  May  2,  1654;  settled  in  Walling- 
ford in  1670.  Made  his  will  April  17,  1703,  amount  of  estate 

Dodd's  Hist,  of  E.  Haven,  101,  102  ;  Eaton's  Annals  of  Warren,  376,  377  ; 
Eaton's  Hist,  of  Thomaston,  135  ;  Hale's  Lawrence  Family,  10-13  ;  Hin- 
man's  Conn.  Settlers,  51-53;  Machias,  M.  Centennial  Celebration,  152, 
153  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  1.51,  57;  Walker's  Memorials  of  Walker  Fam- 
ily, 215;  Ward's  Hist.  Shrewsbury,  221-5. 


6l6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 


2s.  6fi.     He  died   in  Wallingford,  Oct.    6,  1704,3;.  73 
years.     She  died  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  4  William,  b.  1658;  5  Samuel,  b.  Feb.  i,  1661, 
d.  1662,  ae.  about  i  year;  6  Samuel,  b.  April  30,  1663,  in. 
Anna  Hall,  Aug.  27,  1686;  7  William,  b.  Feb.  9,  1664,  m. 
to  Hannah  Parker,  by  Mr.  Moss,  Jan.  12,  1692  ;  8  John,  b. 
July  4,  1667  ;  9  Nathaniel,  b.  Aug  2,  1670,  m.  Susannah 
Tyler;  she  d.  June  5,  1721  ;  10  Twins,  b.  May  30,  1673,  d. 
i  day  after  birth;  n  Elizabeth,  b.  July  16,  1674,  m.  Benjamin 
Hall;  12  Mary,  b.  March  27,  1677;  13  Joseph,  b.  June  i, 
1679,  m.  Abigail  Paine;  14  Margery,  b.  Jan.  15,  1681  ;  15 
Dinah,  b.  July  25,  1684. 

3  NATHAN. 

NATHAN  ANDREWS,  son  of  William  the  emigrant,  married 
ist,  Elizabeth  Miles,  July  26,  1686  ;  2nd,  Hannah  Gibbons,  of 
New  Haven.  He  went  to  Wallingford  in  1670.  Lot  8  on 
the  west  side  of  Main  street  was  assigned  him  for  his  house 
lot.  He  died  in  1712. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  16  Elizabeth,  b.  April  8,  1688; 
17  Daniel,  b  Aug.  15,  1690.  d.  Aug.  15,  1690;  18  Tamer, 
b.  Aug.  15,  1690,  d.  Jan.  n,  1727  ;  19  Samuel,  b.  Aug.  15, 
1691,  d.  Jan.  31,  1727;  20  Daniel;  21  Maty;  22  Jonathan, 
m.  Jemima  -  ;  23  Abigail  ;  by  2nd  marriage,  24  Will- 
iam, b.  Sept.  4,  1729. 

6.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth,  married 
Hannah,  or  Anna  Hall,  August  27,  1686. 

Children:  25  Thomas,  b.  March  1  1,  1687,  m.  Felix  --  ; 
26  John,  b.  April  18,  1692,  d  May  6,  1693  ;  27  John,  b. 
May  5,  1693,  m.  Hannah  Merriman,  July  19,  1714;  28 
Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  27,  1695,  d  Juty  J9>  J^97  ;  29  Samuel, 
b  1697,  m  Abigail  -  ;  30  Elisha,  b.  Apr.  28,  1701  ;  31 
William,  b  July  6,  1702,  m.  Mary  Foster;  32  Anna,  m. 
Joseph  Roys  of  Wallingford. 


GENEALOGIES. 

7.    WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth,  married  to 
Hannah  Parker,  by  Mr.  Moss,  Jan.  12,  1692.  He  died  July 
8,  1726.  (Estate  ^291.) 

Children:  33  Thankful  A.,  m.  Matthias  Hitchcock. 
8.  JOHN. 

JOHN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth,  married 
Sarah . 

Children:  34  Ruth,  b.  Oct.  i,  1723. 

9.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Susannah  Tyler,  Dec.  13,  1705.  She  died  June  25, 
1721  ;  and  he  married  Elizabeth  Clark,  Oct.  16,  1721.  He 
died  March  5,  1735.  Elizabeth  Clark  died  Sept.  10,  1751. 

13.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Andrews, 
married  Abigail  Payne  Nov.  10,  1704.  He  made  his  will 
Oct.  12,  1741,  and  died  Nov.  20,  1741,  ae.  62  yrs.,  6  mos., 
ii  days.  She  died  June  25,  1721. 

Children:  35  Caleb,  b.  June  23,  1701  ;  36  Caleb,  b.  March 
12,  1706,  d  Nov.  20,  1741  ;  37  Joseph,  b  March  3,  1708,  d 
1741  ;  38  Giles,  b  March  19,  1710,  m  Abigail  Curtiss,  April 
7,  1731;  39  Mercy,  (twin)  b  June  15,  1714;  40  Mary, 
(twin),  b  June  15,  1714,  m  John  Hulls  of  Wallingford  ;  41 
Nathaniel,  b  March  16,  1717,  d  1741  ;  42  Andrew,  b  Aug. 

16,  1719,  d.  1792,  m  Hester ,  she  d  Sept.  6,  1750; 

43  Stephen,  b  May. 24,  1722,  d  1775,  ae.  73. 

20.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  ANDREWS,  son  of  Nathan  and  Elizabeth,  married 

ist  Mehitable ,  she  died.  He  married  20!,  Sarah , 

she  died  of  small  pox,  1712. 

Children  by  first  wife:  44  Nathaniel,  b.  July  12,  1714; 
45  Elnathan,  Sept.  12,  1717.  By  2nd  wife:  46  Jchicl,  b. 
June,  1720,  m.  Sarah  Cook,  Jan.  16,  1746  ;  47  Hannah,  b. 


6l8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

May  12,  1723  :  48  Mehitable,  b.  April  30,  1726  ;  49  Ephraim, 
b.  May  13,  1731.  By  3d  wife,  Deliverance:  50  Margery,  b. 
Nov.  6,  1733  ;  51  Abigail,  b.  May  i,  1736  ;  52  Lydia,  b.  June 
16,  1740. 

22.  JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Nathan  and  Elizabeth  ;  mar- 
ried Jemima  Hotchkiss  April  n,  1727. 

Children:  53  Abel,  b.  Jan.  28,  1728,  m.  Lettis  Williams 
Feb.  10,  1757,  and  settled  in  Cheshire;  54  Esther,  b.  May  9, 
1730;  55  Mary,  b.  Jan.  14,  1734  ;  56  Daniel,  b.  June  4,  1737  ; 
57  Jemima,  b.  Nov.  24,  1740. 

25.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth,  married 
istFelix — .  He  died  in  1756,  leaving  widow  Elizabeth. 

Children:  58  Elizabeth,  born  April  23,  1717,  m.  R.  Strong 
of  Waterbury,  Conn.;  59  Benjamin,  b.  Nov.  26,  1718:  60 

Enos,  b  April  13,  1719,01.  Content ;  61  Sarah,  b.  July  15, 

1720;  62  Lois,  b.  July  15,  1722,  m.   Leverius  Carrington ;  63 

Martha,  b.  Sept.  25,  1730  ;  64  Thankful,  in.  Jason  Hitchcock. 

26.  JOHN. 

JOHN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth,  married 
Hannah  Merriman,  July  23,  1714.  She  died  Sept.  28,  1738. 

Children  :  65  Ephraim,  b.  Oct.  14,  1714  ;  66  Phebe,  b.  Sept. 
n,  1716;  67  Denizen,  b.  May  14,  1718,  d.  April  13,  1725; 
68  Eben,  b.  Jan.  15,  1720;  69  Anna,  b.  Nov.  17,  1721  ;  70 
Hannah,  b.  Jan.  13,1722  ;  71  Peter,\).  Dec.  6,  1723  ;  72  John, 
b.  Nov.  23,  1727  ;  73  Hannah,  b.  Oct.  24,  1729;  74  Mary,  b. 
Sept.  15,  1732,  m.  Joseph  Parker  in  1758;  75  Elizabeth,  b. 
Aug.  20,  1736. 

29.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Anna,  married  Abi- 
gail Tyler,  daughter  of  John  and  Abigail.  He  died  Oct.  5, 
1784,  aged  87  years.  She  died  Feb.  13,  1786,  aged  89  years. 
Interred  in  Meriden. 

Children:  76  Elon,\>  Nov.  26, 1721, m.  Sarah .  He  died 


GENEALOGIES.  619 

Sept.  22,  1784;  77  Jacob, \*.  Nov.  18,  1723;  78  Nicholas, \>. 
Dec.  27,  1725,  died  Dec.  21,  1784,  ae.  26  years;  79  Laban,  b. 
Apr.  25,  1728,  m.  Prudence  Stanley,  Apr.  5,  1758;  80  Deni- 
zen, b.  Aug.  27,  m.  Abigail  Whiting,  May  n,  1757  ;  81-2  Mo- 
ses and  Aaron,  twins,  b.  Aug.  29,  1734;  the  former  was  a 
physician  in  Meriden ;  83  Samuel,  b.  April  27,  1737. 
30.  ELISHA. 

ELISHA  ANDREWS,  son  .  of  Samuel  and  Annah,  married 
Mabel  Andrews. 

Children:  84  Zuba,  b.  April  i,  1721,  m.  John  Couch  of 
Meriden,  Conn.;  85  Elisha,  b.  Dec.  25,  1727,  d.  young;  86 
Elisha,  b.  Jan.  5,  1728;  87  Dinah,  b.  Mar.  23,  1729,  m.  Silas 
Merriman  ;  89  Mabel,  b.  May  24,  1731,  m.  Benjamin  Tyler  of 
Farmington  ;  90  Bartholomew,  b.  Jan.  30,  1735,  m.  Sarah  An- 
drews;  91  Noah,  b.  Feb.  4,  1737,  d.  in  the  old  French  war; 
92  Anna,  b.  Dec.  15,  1738,  d.  in  childhood;  93  Lucy; 

94  Anna. 

31.  WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Anna,  married 
Mary  Foster,  Nov.  i,  1727.  He  died  July  8,  1756.  Will 
dated  Oct.  6,  1736. 

Children  :  95  Samuel,  b.  Aug.  21,  1727,  m.  Lydia ;  96 

Anna,  b.  Feb.  15,  1729  ;  97  Eunice,  b.  Feb.  18,  1750;  98  Titus, 
b.  June  3,  1732  ;  99  William,\>.  Feb.  13,  1724;  100  Thankful; 
101  Mary;  102  'Rhoda ;  103  Titus,  b.  March  7,  1751. 

35.    CALEB. 

CALEB  ANDREWS,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  ( Payne ), 
married,  ist,  Esther  Beecher,  May  22,  1727.  She  died  Oct. 
25,  1729.  He  married  2nd,  Mary  Culver,  July  5,  1733.  He 
died  Nov.  20,  1741.  Estate  £13 14. 

Children  by  first  marriage :  104  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  22,  1729; 
by  2nd  marriage:  105  Lament,  b.  July  28,  1730,  d.  December 
6,  1736. 

38.    GILES. 

GILES  ANDREWS,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail,  married 
Abigail  Andrews.  They  settled  in  Sheffield,  Mass. 


62O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  106  Amos,  b.  Jan.  19,  1732  ;  107  Josep/t,  b  May 
2,  1743,  d.  Nov.  8,  1744. 

41.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIF.L  ANDREWS,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail,  married 
ist,  Esther  ;  2nd,  Ruth  ;  He  died  July  2, 

I7S6- 

Children  by  Esther :  108  Amos,  b.  April  15,  1733.  Chil- 
dren by  Ruth:  109  Rhoda,  b.  Feb.  i,  1743;  no  Nathan,  b. 
Feb.  2,  1750;  in  Daniel,  h.  May  29,  1751  ;  112  Moses,  b. 
April  8,  1752. 

42.    ANDREW. 

ANDREW  ANDREWS,  son   of  Joseph  and  Abigail,  married 

ist,  Esther  .     She  died.      He  married  2nd,  Elizabeth 

Dunbar.     He  died   Feb.   22,   1772,  ae.   72  years,  6  months, 
and  6  days. 

Children:  113,  114,  Johanna  and  Sarah,  b.  July  31,  1740, 
twins  ;  the  latter  married  Bartholemew  Andrews  ;  115  Margery, 
b.  March  23,  1742,  d.  in  1751  ;  116  Esther,  b.  Feb.  24,  1743  ; 
by  2nd  wife:  117  Eunice,  b.  Dec.  6,  1746  ;  118  Caleb,  b.  Dec. 
9,  1748;  119  Margery,  b  Nov.  23,  1751;  120  Margery,  b. 
June  14,  1752;  121  Andrew,  b.  Aug.  9,  1756;  122  Joseph, 
b.  Nov.  26,  1758,  died  on  board  of  the  old  prison  ship,  Jer- 
sey ;  123  Nathaniel,  b.  May  20,  1761  ;  124  Elizabeth,  b.  June 
20,  1763  ;  125  Mary,  b.  May  20,  1766,  m.  Joseph  Blakeslee ; 
126  Abigail,  b.  April  26,  1770,  m.  Charles  T.  Jackson,  of 
Litchfield,  Conn. 

43.   STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail,  married 

twice;    ist,  Mabel ,  she  died.     2nd,    Hannah—       — . 

He  died  in  Meriden. 

Children:  127  Mary,  b.  April  5,  1747,  m.  a  Mr.  Bailey; 
128  Abigail,  b  Oct.  29,  1749  ;  129  Benjamin,  b.  Oct.  16,  1751 ; 
Abigail,  b.  Oct.  16,  1753  ;  130  Mabel,  b.  Sept.  23,  1761 ;  131 
Sarah ;  Content. 

46.     ELNATHAN. 

ELNATHAN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mehitable,  married 
Hannah . 


GENEALOGIES.  621 

Children:  132  Beta,  b.  March  16,  1740,  d.  in  Cheshire; 
133  Amasa,  b.  Sept.  22,  1742-3;  134  Damaris,  b.  March  23, 
1745  ;  135  Hannah,  b.  Jan.  10,  1746;  136  Elizabeth,  b.  June 
21,  1758;  137  Mary,  b.  Aug.  29,  1761. 

47.    JEHIEL. 

J EH i EL  ANDREWS,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah ;  married 
Sarah  Cook 

Children:  138  Mabel,  b.  July  19,  1746;  139  Thankful,  b 
Dec.  9,  1748  ;  140  Lois,  b.  Aug.  8,  1750;  141  John,  b.  Nov. 
12,  1752  ;  142  Ebenezer,  b.  May  4,  1754;  143  Sarah,  b.  Dec. 
29,  1756  ;  144  Eunice,  b.  March  14,  1759  ;  145  Chloe,  b.  Dec. 
16,  1760. 

53-  ABEL. 

ABEL   ANDREWS,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Jemima,  married 

ist,   Sarah  ;  she  died,  and  he  married,   2nd,   Lettis 

Williams,  Feb.  10,  1757,  and  settled  in  Cheshire,  where  they 
both  died. 

Children:  by  ist  marriage;  146  Sarah,  b.  Feb.  i,  1744. 
By  2nd  marriage;  147  Samuel;  148  Mamre ;  149  Abel,  m. 
twice;  150  Chauncey,  d.  in  Cheshire;  151  Esther,  d.  in 
Cheshire. 

59.    BENJAMIN. 

Benjamin  Andrews,  son  of  Thomas  and  Felix,  married 
Susannah .. 

Children:      153  Samuel,  b.  Sept.  21,  1741. 
60.  ENOS. 

Enos  Andrews,  son  of  Thomas  and  Felix ,  married 

Content . 

Children:  154  Thomas,  b.  Aug.  8,  1744  ;  155  Bcdc,  b. 
April  2,  1746;  156  Asahcl,\>  Nov.  13,  1747;  157  Huldah, 
b.  Nov.  3,  1751  ;  158  Thankful,  b.  Mar.  i,  1754;  159  Enos, 
b.  Oct.  12,  1760. 

65.     EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  ANDREWS,  son  of    John  and   Hannah,  married 

Hannah . 

Children:   160  Asahel,  b  Nov.  5,  1736. 


622  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

68.    EBEN. 

EBEN  ANDREWS,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married  Eliza- 
beth Andrews,  Dec.  13,  1739. 

Children:      161  Joel,  b  Aug.  n,  1740. 

72.    JOHN. 

JOHN  ANDREWS,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married 
Abigail  . 

Children:  162  Abigail,  b  Sept.  21,  1740;  163  Lydia,  b 
Nov.  13,  1741. 

76.  ELON. 

ELON    ANDREWS,    son    of    Samuel   and    Abigail,   married 

Sarah .     He  died  Sept.  22,  1784,  aged  63  years.     She 

died  April  30,  1797,  aged  60. 

Children :  164  Isaac,  d  Oct.  24,  1754  ;  165  Eutiice,  b  July  23, 
1758  ;  166  Isaac,  b  March  8,  1762. 

77-    JACOB. 

JACOB  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail,  married 
Ruth  -  — . 

Children:  167  Abigail,  b  Oct.  29,  1749;  168  Benjamin,}) 
Oct.  16,  1751  ;  169  Abigail,  b  Oct.  16,  1753. 

78.     NICHOLAS. 

NICHOLAS  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail,  married 
Lydia  -  — ,  March  31,  1761.  He  died  Dec.  21,  1784, 
ae.  50  years.  He  when  living  owned  land  now  owned  by 
Charles  E.  Yale. 

Children:   170  Amos,  b  July  24,  1762. 
79   LABAN. 

LABAN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail,  married 
Prudence  Stanley. 

Children:  171  Abigail,  b  Sept.  21,  1740;  172  Lydia,  b 
Nov.  13,  1741. 

80.    DENIZEN. 

DENIZEN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail,  married 
Abigail  Whiting,  May  u,  1787.  He  died  at  Meriden,  June, 
1807,  ae.  77  years.  She  died  Oct.  i,  1796,  ag.  60  years. 


GENEALOGIES.  623 

Children:  173  Sarah,  b  March  16,  1758;  174  Abner,  b 
August  25,  1759.  He  was  paralyzed,  died  in  Meriden,  during 
the  Revolutionary  war;  175  Abigail,  b  March  23,  1671  ;  176 
Whiting;  177  Samuel;  178  Aaron;  179  Denizen;  180  Oliver, 
was  a  farmer  in  Meriden,  and  died  there;  181  Loyal;  182 
Harvey;  183  Sarah;  184  Philomelia. 

8 1.  MOSES. 

Dr.  MOSES  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail,  married 

Lucy .     He  died  in  Meriden,  Oct.  2,  1811,  ae.  77.     She 

died  June  13,  1832,  ae.  86  years. 

82.  AARON. 

DR.  AARON  ANDREWS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Whiting  of  Stamford,  Dec.  18,  1771,  and  settled  in 
the  old  village  of  Wallingford.  He  owned  and  occupied  the 
house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Samuel  B.  Parmelee  Esq., 
during  his  life-time.  She  died  Aug.  28,  1836,  ae.  92  years, 
5  months  and  19  days. 

Children  :  185  Sherlock,\>.  Oct.  19,  1772,  d.  at  Geneva,  N.  Y., 
Aug.  28,  1795,  m  Selina,  dau.  of  Samuel  Tyler,  of  Walling- 
ford; 186  Betsey,  b.  Dec.  n,  1774,  m.  Oliver  Clark,  and  d. 
Sept.  10,  1828,  at  Oswego,  N.Y;  187  John,  (  M.  D.)  b.  June 
J3»  X777>  m-  Abigail  Atwater  ;  188  William,  b.  Dec.  26,  1779, 
d.  in  St.  Bartholomew,  Nov.  9,  1809  ;  189  Drake,  b.  Dec. 
27,  1781,  m.  Lucy  Whittelsey,  and  d.  in  Illinois,  May  21, 
1841 ;  190  Aaron,  b.  Dec.  20,  1784,  d.  in  the  West  Indies, 
July,  30,  1837. 

89.    BARTHOLOMEW. 

BARTHOLOMEW  ANDREWS,  son  of  Elisha  and  Mabel,  married 
Sarah  Andrews,  of  Wallingford.  They  both  died  at  Wall- 
ingford. 

Children:  191  Elisha,  b  Jan.  5,  1761;  went  to  Ballston 
Spa,  N.  Y.  ;  192  Thomas,  b.  May  17,  1762  ;  d.  in  Walling- 
ford, left  Betsey  and  Orrin ;  193  Esther,  m.  Ezra  Reid  ;  194 
Sally,  b.  April  17,  1774,  d.  in  Wallingford;  195  Noah,  b. 
April  17,  1744,  d.  in  Wallingford;  196  Eunice,  b.  Sept.  8, 


624  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1776,  m.  Asaph  Merriman,  of  Wallingford ;  197  Lytmvi, 
settled  at  Ballston  Spa,  N.  Y.  ;  198  Caleb,  b.  Nov.  n,  1782, 
went  to  Nova  Scotia,  N.  B.  ;  199  Margery,  m.  Constant  Abbot. 

94.  SAMUEL. 
SAMUEL  ANDREWS,  son  of  William  and  Mary,  married  Lydia 


Children:  200  Christopher,  b.  Oct.  29,  1752  ;  201  Lydia,  b. 
Dec.  29,  1757. 

123.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  ANDREWS,  son  of  Andrew  and  Esther,  married 
Lois  Blakeslee,  May  7,  1781.  He  died  Nov.  21,  1836,  aged 
75  years,  8  months  and  i  day.  Mrs.  Lois  his  wife  died, 
March  8,  1823,  aged  61  years,  i  month  and  29  days. 

Children  :  202  Ira,  b  Aug.  30,  1781,  m.  Julia,  clau.  of 
Jeremiah  Hull ;  203  Andrew,  b  Sept.  6,  1783;  204  Salmon. 
b  April  3,  1788;  204  Joseph,  b.  Feb.  9,  1791  ;  205  Polly, 
b  May  18,  1793,  m  Nathan  Hull;  206  Viney,  b  Sept.  7, 
1795  ;  207  O rriii,  b.  Dec.  4,  1797,  m.  —  -  Cook,  clau.  of 
Chester  Cook  ;  208  Nathaniel,  b  1800  ;  209  Aaron,  b  April  18, 
1803  ;  210  Ives,  b  March  28,  1805. 

GIDEON. 

GIDEON  ANDREWS,  married  Hannah  —  — ,  and  had  at  his 
decease  the  following 

Children:  212  Caleb,  m.  ist,  Esther  Be nham,  May  22,  1727. 
She  cl.  Oct.  25,  1727.  Married  2d,  Mary  Culver,  July  5, 
1735;  2I3  Jedediah ;  214  Lydia;  215  Sarah;  216  Phebe ; 
217  Esther;  218  Samuel. 

170.   AMOS. 

AMOS  ANDREWS,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Lyclia ,  mar- 
ried Content . 

Children:  219  Abigail,  b  Feb.  17,  1752;  220  Sybil,  b 
July  6,  1754;  221  Lois,  b  April  13,  1756  ;  222  Mary,  b  Mar. 
18,  1758  ;  223  Amos,  b  Jan.  16,  1760. 


GENEALOGIES.  625 

TIMOTHY. 

TIMOTHY  ANDREWS  married  Temperance  Griswold,  Aug.  23, 
1741.  She  died  Nov.  25,  1743,  ae.  23.  He  married  a  sec- 
ond wife,  Rachel.  She  died  Jan.  n,  1756,  aged  33.  He 
settled  at  Newark  Valley,  near  Oswego,  N.  Y. 

Children  by  ist  wife:  224  Lydia,  b  Oct.  27,  1743  ;  by  2d 
wife,  225  Elisha,  b  Dec.  12,  1746;  226  Timothy,  b.  April 
27,  1749;  227  Phineas,  b  Nov.  25,  1752;  228  Benjamin, 
b  Dec.  18,  1755. 

185.     SHERLOCK. 

SHERLOCK  ANDREWS,  son  of  Doctor  Aaron  and , 

married  Salina,  daughter  of  Samuel  Tyler,  of  Tyler's  Mills, 
now  Yalesville,  Wallingford.  He  died  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  in 
1795.  She  died  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  aged  94  or  95. 

Children:  229  Samuel,  was  a  lawyer  at  Columbus,  Ohio; 
230  Sarah,  in.  Wilcox,  a  lawyer  at  Columbus,  Ohio. 

187.  JOHN. 

Dr.  JOHN  ANDREWS,  son  of  Dr.  Aaron  and  ,  mar- 
ried Abigail,  daughter  of  Caleb  Atwater,  by  whom  he  had 
all  his  children.  His  2d  wife  was  Anna,  daughter  of  Rev. 
James  and  Anna  Noyes. 

Children:  231  Hon.  Sherlock  J.,  b  Nov.  1801,  gradu- 
ated at  Yale,  and  a  lawyer  at  Cleveland,  Ohio  ;  232  Jane, 
b  Dec.,  1803,  m  John  M.  Wolsey,  Esq.,  of  New  Haven ; 

233  William,  b    1806,  a  farmer  at  Elyria,  Loraine  Co.,  Ohio  ; 

234  John    Whiting,    b    1809,   graduated   at   Yale.      A  lawyer 
at  Columbus,  Ohio. 

189.  DRAKE. 

DRAKE  ANDREWS,  son  of  Dr.  Aaron  and  -  — ,  married 
Lucy  Whittelsey,  Oct.  12,  1812.  He  died  in  Illisia,  May  21, 
1841.  Of  his  family  I  have  no  further  information. 

229.  IRA. 

Col.  IRA  ANDREWS,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  —  — ,  married 
Julia  Hall,  daughter  of  the  late  Jeremiah  Hall  of  Wallingford. 
He  died  Jan.  14,  1861,  aged  79  years,  4  months,  15  days.  She 


626  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

was  born  the  5th  of  March,  A.  D.  1788,  and  is  living  Jan.,  1870. 
Children:  235  Janet,  b  June  9,  1806,  m  Miller  ;  236  Alt,  b 
Mar.  6,  1800,  resides  in  Bridgeport,  Conn  ;  237  Gad,  b  Nov. 
19,  1803  ;  238-9  Burr  and  Sarah  (twins),  b  Oct,  14,  1806  ; 
240  Lee,  b  April  2,  1809  ;  241  Joseph  D.,  b  March  9,  1824  ; 
242  Jane,  b  June  24,  1830. 


ATWATER.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN,  son  of  Daniel  Atwater  of  New  Haven,  settled  in 
Wallingford  in  1682  on  a  lot  in  the  village  designated  as  No. — 
on  the  east  side  of  the  Main  street,  being  forty  rods  long  and 
twenty  rods  wide,  and  was  first  settled  by  Daniel  Atwater 
for  his  son  Joshua,  who  died  before  taking  possession  of  it  in 
1680.  He  was  married  to  Abigail  Mansfield,  Sept.  13,  1682, 
and  was  a  weaver  by  trade.  She  died  Sept.  24,  1717. 

Children:  i  John,  b.  Aug.  17,  1683,  m.  Elizabeth  Mix, 
Aug.  4,  1713  ;  2  Abigail,  b  Oct.  17,  1685  ;  3  Mercy,  b  Feb.  6, 
1687;  4  Hannah,  b  Dec.  17,  1690;  5  Joshua,  b  Sept.  18, 
1693,  m.  Mary  Peck  and  Sarah  Yale  ;  6  Moses,  b  July  17, 
1696,  m.  Sarah  Merriman  and  Mary  Hotchkiss  ;  7  Phineas, 
b  Sept.  23,  1699,  m.  Mary  Ward  ;  8  Ebenezer,  b  Feb.  6,1703, 
m.  Jane  Andrews;  9  Caleb,  b  Oct.  9,  1705,  m.  Mehitable 
Mix;  10  Benjamin,  b  Dec.  8,  1708,  m.  Elizabeth  Porter. 

I.    JOHN. 

JOHN,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Atwater  of  Wallingford, 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of Mix,  August  4,  1713. 

Children:  \\Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  17,1721,  m Ives  ; 

12  Enos,  b  Dec  3,  1717;  13  Stephen,  b  Sept.  8,  1714;  14 
John,\$  Jan.  27,  1718;  15  Sarah;  16  Hannah,  b  Dec.  28, 
1722,  m  Bela  Hitchcock  of  Cheshire;  17  Ebenezer,  b  1723, 
d.  Oct.  21,  1755  ;  18  Stephen,  b  Feb.  2,  1720,  m  Elizabeth  Yale, 

I  Atwater's  Gen.  Reg.  of  Atwaters,  30 ;  Hinman's  Conn.  Settlers,  76  ; 
Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  I.  75,  76. 


GENEALOGIES.  627 

June  6,  1739;  19  Titus,  b  1724,  d.  Dec.  26,   1758;  20  Amos, 
died  without  issue. 

5-  JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA,  son  of  John,  m  Mary,  dau.  of  John  Peck,  17  Jan. 
1723;  m  2nd,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Theophilus  Yale,  Sept.  4,  1740. 
He  died  Nov.  29,  1757. 

Children:  by  ist  marriage;  21   Joshua,   b  Mar.  8,  1724, 
d    1747;  22  Mary,  b  Feb.   12,  1727.     By  2nd    marriage;  23 
Caleb,  b  Sept.  5,  1741  ;  24  Sarah,  m  -  Hall. 
6.  MOSES. 

MOSES,  son  of  John  Peck,  m  Sarah  Merriman,  Dec.  28, 
1722.  She  died  Feb.  1733,  and  he  married  2nd,  Mary 
Hotchkiss,  Apr.  22,  1734. 

Children:  by  ist  marriage;  28  Abigail,  b  Sept.  13,  1725; 
26  Sarah,  b  Oct.  29,  1727;  27  Moses,  b  Nov.  22,  1729;  28, 
Mercy,  b  Aug.  15,  1731.  By  2nd  marriage;  29  Elihu,  b  Jan. 
l8>  X735;  3°  David,\>  Feb.  23,  1736;  31  Mary,  b  Aug.  i, 
1734;  32  Hannah,  b  May  i,  1739. 
7.  PHINEAS. 

PHINEAS,  son  of  John  Atwater,  m  Mary  Ward  Nov.  9, 
1727,  and  died  Oct.,  1781.  He  resided  in  Cheshire. 

Children:  33  Reuben,  b  Oct.  13,  1728;  34  William,  b  1730; 
35  Thomas,  b  Aug.  14,  1733  ;  36  Phineas,  b  Dec.  12,  1735  ; 
37  Damaris,  b  1738,  m  Samuel  Tyler  of  Wallingford  ;  28 
Menab,  b  July  8,  1741,  d  Sept.  13,  1754;  Ambrose,  b  Dec.  19, 
1743,  m  Sarah  Tryon. 

8.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER,  son  of  John  Atwater  m,  Jane  Andrews,  Dec.  30, 


Children:  40  Caleb,  b  Sept  8,  1738,  m  Phebe  Talmage  ; 
41  Samuel,  b  January  30,  1740,  m  Hannah  Bristol  ;  42  Ebene- 
zer,  b  July  13,  1742  ;  43  Ephraim,  b  Nov.  27,  1743,  m 
Abigail  Rowe  ;  44  Esther,  b  Feb.  4,  1746  ;  45  Elizabeth,  b 
April  13,  1748;  46  Abigail,  b  Sept.  19,  1754;  47  Comfort,  b 
March  16,  1757. 


628  HISTORY    OF    VVALLINGFORD. 

9.    CALEB. 

CALEB,  son  of  John  Atwater,  married  Mehitable  Mix,  Nov. 
10,  1726. 

Children:  48  Sarah,  b  Nov,  28,  1727  ;  49  Eunice,  b  Sept. 
10,  1786,  m  Phineas  Cook. 

10.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN,  son  of  John  Atwater,  married  Elizabeth  Porter, 
Nov.  28,  1739.  She  died  January  13,  1774,  ae.  66  years. 

Children:  50  Elizabeth,  b  April  25,  1780;  51  Mary,  b  Dec. 
20>  Z735  >  52  Comfort,  b  Sept.  19,  1749,  d  January  22,  1789  ; 
53  Benjamin,  b  January  9,  1750,  d  January  19,  1781. 

12.  ENOS. 

ENOS,  son  of  John  2nd,  married  Hannah  Moss,  July  9, 1740. 

Children:  54  Heman,  b  March  4,  1743,  d  Sept.  27,  1752  ; 
55  Asaph,  b  Aug.  i,  1745  ;  56  Mehitable,  b  July  23,  1747,  m  Eli 
Bronson  of  Waterbury ;  50  Enos,  b  Oct.  25,  1748,  m  Hannah 
Moss,  July  3,  1741  ;  58  Eunice,  b  Sept.,  1750  ;  59  Heman,  b 
Aug.  29,  1752,  went  to  Southington ;  60  Kezia,  b  Oct.  10, 
1754  ;  62  Anna,  b  Nov.  17,  1756  ;  63  Titus,  b  Jan.  6,  1761. 
14.  JOHN. 

JOHN,  son  of  John  2d,  m  Hannah  Thompson,  Feb.  22,  1744. 

Children  :  63  Jeremiah,  b  Nov.  10,  1744  ;  64  Phebe,  b  Aug. 

n,  1747,  m Button;  65  Hannah,  b  Feb.  17,   1749,  m 

Samuel  Hull  of  Cheshire;  66  John;  67  Jesse;  68  Mary,  m 

Peck  of  Waterbury. 

1 8.  STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN,  son  of  John    2d,  m   Hannah  Hotchkiss,  Feb. 

23.  :744- 

Children  :  69  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  12,  1746  ;  70  Lois,  m  John 
Upson ;  71  Stephen,  b  Sept.  4,  1749,  d  Aug.  25,  1750;  72 
Sarah,  b  Nov.  25,  1751,  m  Enos  Johnson;  73  Hannah,  b 
Nov.  27,  1754,  m  John  Hall;  74  Naomi,  b  Aug.  17,  1756, 
m  Enos  Bushnell ;  75  Ruth,  b  Aug.  17,  1756,  m  Jonathan 
Hall;  76  Stephen,  b  May  13,  1758. 
19.  TITUS. 

TITUS,  son  of  John  2nd,  m  Margaret  Scott,  Dec,  14,  1758, 


GENEALOGIES.  629 

Children:  77    Chloe,  b   Sept,   29,   1750,    m  Samuel  Cook  ; 

1%  Amos,  b  June  12,  1752,  m  Mary ,  his  wife  d  Oct,  2,  1799, 

ae  38  ;  79  Miriam,  b   1754,  m  Calvin  Cowles  ;  80  Rhoda,   b 
May  15,  1756. 

23.  CALEB. 

CALEB,  son  of  Joshua  and  Sarah,  m  Abigail  Jones  for  his 
ist  wife,  and  Ruth  Wadsworth,  Jan.  22,  1776,  for  his  2nd  wife. 

Children  :  81  Sarah,  b  July  19,  1767  ;  82  Mary,  b  April  23, 
1769  ;  83  Lucy,  b  Dec.  8,  1770  ;  84  Joshua,  b  Feb.  8,  1773,  m 
Elizabeth  Cook,  dau.  of  Aaron  ;  85  James  W.,  b  June  30, 1777  ; 
d  Oct.  30,  1777;  86  Abigail,^  Dec.  13,  1778,  m  Doct.  John 
Andrews;  87  Catharine;  88  Ruth. 

27.    MOSES. 

MOSES,  of  Wallingford,  son  of  Moses,  m  Emma  Newton, 
Dec.  18,  1755. 

Children:  89  Sarah,  b  Nov.  16,  1755  ;  90  Lyman,  lived  in 
Broad  Swamp,  Cheshire. 

29.  ELIHU. 

ELIHU,  of  Wallingford,  son  of  Moses,  married  Abigail  Tryon. 

Children:  91  Freeman,  b  Feb.  16,  1766,  went  to  Canan- 
dagua,  N.  Y.  ;  92  Mary,  b  March  2,  1767  ;  93  Abiah,  b  Nov.  3, 
1769;  94  Sally,  b  Jan.  23,  1773  ;  95  Elihu,  b  June  9,  1776, 
went  South ;  96  Je'sse,  was  Postmaster  at  New  Haven,  m 
Widow  Hudson,  left  no  children. 

V  30.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL,  son  of  Moses  of  Wallingford,  was  an  apothecary  at 
New  Haven,  m  Eunice  Thompson  of  Stratford,  Nov.  15, 
1770,  and  was  killed  in  a  skirmish  with  the  British  troops  at 
Compo  Hill,  April  28,  1777. 

Children:  97  Chester,  b  Dec,  21,  1772,  d  Mar.  30,  1773; 
98  Chester,  b  April  14,  1774,  no  issue;  99  Sylvester,  b  Feb. 
17,  1776,  d  Sept,  9,  1776  ;  100  David,  b  1777,  graduated  at 
Yale  1797,  d  1805. 

33.  REUBEN. 

REUBEN,  son   of  Phineas  of   Wallingford,  m  Sarah  Hall 

R   R 


630  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

April  29,  1752,  and  Mary  Russel  January  28,  1755.     He  died 
Aug,  19,  1801. 

Children:  101  Sarah,  b  June  14,  1753  ;  102  Merab,  b  June 
I9>  X757  >  I03  Phineas,  b  Nov.  25,  1758  ;  104  Elizabeth  M.  A., 
b  Sept.,  1760,  m  Andrew  Hull  of  Cheshire ;  105  Russel,  b 
June -20,  1762,  went  to  Blandford,  Mass. ;  106  Nabby,  b  April 
2,  1764,  m  Dr.  Elnathan  Beach  of  Cheshire  ;  107  Amaryllis, 
b  April*2,  1764,  m  Titus  Street  of  Wallingford,  Cheshire,  and 
of  New  Haven  ;  108  Reuben,  b  May  18,  1767. 

34.  WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM,  son  of  Phineas,  of  Wallingford,  married  Esther 
Tuttle. 

Children:  109  Rufus,  b  Nov.  29,  1754,  m  ist,  Mary  Tuttle 
of  Wallingford,  Dec.  18,  1777.  He  removed  to  Nova  Scotia; 
\\vLyman,  b  Feb.  8,  1757;  in  William,  b  Feb.  16,  1759, 
went  to  Nova  Scotia  ;  112  Chloe,  b  Sept.  21,  1763  ;  113  Ira, 
b  June  21,  1765,  d  April  4,  1738,  in  Wallingford ;  114  Ase- 
nath,  b  Oct.  30,  1768;  115  Esther,  b  Oct.  4,  1771;  116 
Ward,  went  to  Nova  Scotia. 

36.  PHINEAS. 

PHINEAS  married  Mary ,   and   2nd,  widow   Hannah 

Ives,  of  Goshen,  Conn.,  June  15,  1760. 

Child:   117   Ward,  b  1760. 

39.    AMBROSE. 

AMBROSE,  son  of  Phineas,  married  Sarah  Tryon. 

Children:  n&Ame/ia,b  July  3,  1767,  m  Thaddeus  Tuttle; 
119  Linus,  b  July  23,  1769  ;  120  Jonathan,  b  Oct.  18,  1770  ; 
121  Ambrose,  b  April  5,  1773,  d  June  23,  1778;  122  Thomas, 
b  April  19,  1774;  123  Sarah,  b  April  19,  1775;  124  Mary, 
b  Oct,  17,  1778;  125  Phineas,  b  July  12,  1782;  126  Menab, 
b  April  17,  1782,  m  John  P.  Wetmore ;  127  Clara  C.,  b 
May  6,  1786,  m  Joshua  Tuttle;  128  William,  b  May  9,  1789. 
40.  CALEB. 

CALEB,  son  of  Ebenezer,  of  Wallingford,  m  Phebe  Tallmage. 


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Children:  129  Anne,  b  Nov.  17,  1765;  130  Ebenezer,  b 
Feb.  1 6,  1768. 

41.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  Ebenezer,  m  Hannah  Bristol,  May  5,  1768. 

Children:   131  Sylvia,  b  Feb.  21,  1769,  m Winchell ; 

132   Merab,  b    May    n,   1771,  m Ives,  d   1857;   133 

Samuel,  b  Oct.  7,    1773,  d  in  Orange,   Conn.  ;   134    Joshua,  b 
Feb.  20,  1779  ;  135  Ebenezer,  d  in  Cheshire. 
43.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM,  son  of  Ebenezer,  m  Abigail  Rowe,  d  Oct.  22, 
1776,  at  Danbury,  Conn. 

Children:  136  Lowly,  b  Oct.  26,  1772,  m  Noah  Andrews, 
of  Wallingford ;  137  Eunice,  b  Sept.  18,  1744,01 Mat- 
thews; 138  Ephraim,  b  March  5,  1777. 

STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN,  son  of  David,  settled  in  Meriden,   then  in  Wall- 
ingford, m  Elizabeth  Yale.     He  came  from  New  Haven. 
,  Children:   139  Ruth,  b  June  6,  1740  ;  140  Stephen,  b  Sept. 
16,  1742,  settled  in  Cheshire;  141  Eunice,  b  Sept.  28,  1744; 
142  Daniel,  b  Aug.  30,  1747,  d  unmarried ;  143  Mary,  b  June 

25,  1750,  m Merriam  ;   144  Elizabeth,  b  July  27,  1752  ; 

145  Christopher,  b  Jan.  6,  1757,  d   Sept.  10,    1776:   146  Isaac, 
b  Dec.,  1758. 

ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM,  son  of  Jonathan,  the  son  of  Jonathan,  the  son 
of  Daniel,  the  son  of  David,  m  Mary  Bull  in  May,  1738,  and 
settled  in  Cheshire,  then  belonging  to  Wallingford.  He  died 
Jan.  4,  1786,  ae  70  yrs.  She  died  May  15,  1811,  ae  83  yrs. 

Children:  146  Esther,  b  Dec.  19,  1738  ;  147  Mary,  b  April 
28,  1740;  148  Chloe,  b  Oct.  27,  1742  ;  149  Isaac,  b  June  15, 
1746;  150  Lois,  b  June  12,  1749;  151  Timothy,  b  Oct.  30, 
1751  ;  152  Abigail;  153  Samuel,  b  1757,  died  Jan.  12,  1748  ; 
154  Esther,  b  Dec.  10,  1763. 

BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN,  son  of  Joseph  Atwater,  the  son  of  Jonathan,  m 


632  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

Phebe .     She  died   March   i,    1799,  ae  64.     He  died 

Feb.  6,  1799,  ae  72. 

Children:  155  Joseph;  156  Sarah,  b  April  26,  1756,  m 
Charles  Hull,  2nd,  Aaron  Hall,  of  Wallingford  5157  Benjamin, 
b  Sept.  26,  1757;  158  Titus,  b  Aug.  29,  1759,  d  unm.  at 
Cheshire;  159  Moses,  b  May  12,  1765,  d  at  Cananclaigua, 
N.  Y.  ;  160  Aaron,  b  Nov.  10,  1776  ;  161  y^/,  b  April  22,  1769  ; 
162  Anna,  b  Aug.  23,  1777,  d  Aug.  29,  1776  ;  163  Jeremiah, 
d  in  Canandaigua ;  164  Anna,  m  Stephen  Jarvis,  of  Cheshire. 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Joseph,  son  of  Jonathan,  son  of  Daniel  of 
Wallingford,  m  Phebe  Hall,  Aug.  18,  1756.  He  d  Aug.  22, 
1769.  She  d  March  23,  1767,  ae.  23  yrs.. 

Child:  165  Phebe,  bOct.  15, 1757,  d  Jan.  19,  1766,  ae.  9  yrs. 

54.    HEMAN. 

HEMAN,  son  of  Enos  Atwater,  settled  at  Southington,  and 
was  the  owner  of  Atwater  mills. 

84.  JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA,  son  of  Caleb,  of  Wallingford,  m  Elizabeth  Cook, 
dau.  of  Aaron  Cook,  Oct.  22,  1793. 

Children:   166  Elizabeth,}*   Aug.  4,  1794,  m  John  Barker  ; 

167  Caroline,  b  June     17,    1796,  m  Dr.   Jared   P.    Kirtland  ; 

168  Emily,  b  Feb.  7,  1798,  m  Dr.  Friend  Cook  ;   169  Abigail, 
b  Dec.  28.  1800,  d  at  Durham,  Sept.   23,  1823  ;  170  Mary,  b 
Oct.    18,  1802,  d   July  24,  1804;   171  Caleb,  b  July  u,  1804, 
m  Julia  A.  Royce,  and  2nd,  Elizabeth  S.  Clark  ;  172  Joshua, 
b  Aug.  26,  1806,  m  Mary  H.  Day  ;   173  Thomas  Cook,  b  Aug. 
20,  1808,  m  Harriet  E.  Cook  ;   174  Lucretia,  b  June  26,  1800, 
d  June  29,    1822  ;   155  Edgar,  b  Oct    12,    1812,   m  Sarah  S. 
Yale,    d    1860  ;   176     John,    b    Jan.     19,   1815,  m    Caroline, 
and   2nd,  Eliza   Hall,   dau.  of  Russel  Hall  ;   177    William,  b 
Aug.    5,   1817,  m   Elizabeth   Helfenstein  ;  178  Mary  Ann,  b 
May  29,  1819,  m  Lieut.  Garrit  Barry. 

105.  RUSSELL. 
RUSSEL,  son  of  Reuben  Atwater,  of  Cheshire  (then  Wall- 


GENEALOGIES.  633 

ingford),  m  Clarissa   Chapman,  Oct.    24,   1790,  and  died  Oct. 
3,  1798.     She  was  born  Nov.  22,  1762. 

Children:  179  Phineas,  b  Nov.  10,  1791;  180  Merab,  b 
April  28,  1793,  d  March  19,  1794;  181  Russell,  b  Jan.  8, 
1795,  d  Dec.  22,  1823  ;  182  Frederick,  b  Nov.  6,  1796;  183 
Henry,  b  Sept.  21,  1798;  184  Thomas,  b  Sept.  21,  1798,  d 
April  15,  1803. 

108.  REUBEN. 

REUBEN,  son  of  Reuben  Atwater,  m  Eliza  Willard,  and  2d, 
Sarah  Lamb.  He  died  February,  1831. 

Children  :      183  Catharine;  184  Clinton  Edward. 
113.   IRA. 

IRA,  son  of  William   Atwater,  m  Lois  .      He  was  a 

shoe-maker,  and  lived  and  died  at  what  is  now  Yalesville. 

Children  :  185  Mary,  m  and  went  to  Bethany;  186  Martha, 
m  Henry  Hough;  187  William,  d  March,  1828  ;  188  John,  d 
South;  189  Luman,  of  Fair  Haven,  Conn.;  190  Esther;  191 
Lois;  192  Chloe. 

116.  WARD. 

WARD,  son  of  Phineas,  m  Abigail  Atwater.  She  died  in 
New  Haven  in  1822. 

Children:  193  Rebecca,  b  Sept.  23,  1787,  d  Sept  22,  1788; 
194  Harriet,  b  Feb.  23,  1789,  d  May,  1795  ;  195  James,  b  May 
i,  1790,  d  Oct.  21,  1791;  196  James  Ward,\$  Feb.  n,  1794, 
d  Dec.  8,  1820;  197  William,  b  June  20,  1795,  d  Jan- 
1810;  198  Harriet,  b  March  14,  1797,  d  Sept.,  1798;  199, 
Abigail,  b  Sept.  4,  1798,  d  Nov.  n,  1799;  200  Richard,  b 
March  25,  1802,  d  Oct.  3,  1848  :  210  Edivard,  b  June  29,  1803  ; 
202  Charlotte,  b  Sept.,  1804. 

120.    AMBROSE. 

AMBROSE,  son  of  Phineas  Atwater,  m  Sarah  Tryon. 

Children :  203  Amelia,  b  July  3,  1767,  m  Thaddeus  Tuttle  ; 
204  Linus,  b  Feb.  22,  1769  ;  205  Jonathan,  b  Oct.  18,  1770  ; 
206  Ambrose  ,  b  April  5,  1773,  d  June  23,  1778  ;  207  l^homas, 
b  April  19,  1775  ;  280  Sarah,  b  Feb.  n,  1777,  m  Asa  Lyon ; 


634  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

209  Mary,  b  Oct  17,  1778,  m  Peter  B.  Smith;  210  Phineas, 
b  July  12,  1770;  211  Merab,  b  April  17,  1782,  m  John  P. 
Wetmore  ;  212  Clara,  b  May  6,  1786,  m  Joshua  Fuller;  213 
William,  b  May  9,  1789. 

137.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN,  son  of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  Yale  Atwater,  m 
Anna  Moss,  March  23,  1780.  Settled  in  Cheshire. 

Children:  2  14  Hannah  H.,  b   Feb.  8,    1781;  215   Richard, 
b  Feb.    10,    1783;  216   Tempa,\>  Sept.    n,  1787;  217   Anna 
Maria,  b   Aug.    28,  1789;  218  Betsey,  b   Dec.  9,  1794;  219 
Merab,  b  June  22,  1797  ;  220  Matilda,  b  June  5,  1805. 
147.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC,  son  of  Abraham  Atwater,  son  of  Jonathan  of  Che- 
shire, settled  in  Columbia,  now  Prospect,  m  Eunice  --  ,  May 
16,  1771.  He  died  Sept.  13,  1776,  at  New  York. 

Children:  221  Pamdia,\>  March  28,  1772;  222    Abraham, 
b  March,  6,  1774;  223  Hannah,  b  Oct.  15,  1775. 
149.  TIMO'THY. 

TIMOTHY,  son  of  Abraham  Atwater,  son  of  Jonathan  of 
Cheshire,  m  Lucy  -  . 


Children:  224  Deborah,\>  May  28,  1773  j  225  ^uO'i  D  Aug. 
8,  1775;  226  Cato,  b  Oct.  18,  1777;  227  Isaac,  b  Oct.  5, 
1779  ;  228  Lucinda,  m  March  4,  1782;  229  Timothy  Glover,  b 
July  20,  1784,  d  in  Cheshire  ;  230  Charlotte,  b  July  22,  1786  ; 
231  Phineas,  b  Jan.  20,  1789;  232  Esther,  b  July  i,  1791; 
233  Aaron,  b  March  n,  1793,  m  Betsey  Atsom. 
151.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  Abraham  Atwater,  son  of  Jonathan,  settled 
in  Cheshire,  m  Patience  --  . 

Children:  204  Flamen,  b  March  30,  1783  ;  235  Roxanna,  b 
Jan.  15,  1785  ;  236  Nancy,  b  May  15,  1789  ;  237  Nancy,  2d,  b 
Sept.  13,  1789  ;  238  Mary  Ann,  b  Jan.  4,  1792  ;  239  Patience, 
b  March  13,  1794  ;  240  Nabby  Ann,  b  Dec.  13,  1797  ,  241  Abi- 
gail Ann,  b  Oct.  19,  1800;  242  Lois,  b  July  15,  1803;  243 
Lois  Maria,  b  Feb.  13,  1806,  m  Joseph  Hitchcock  of  Cheshire. 


GENEALOGIES.  635 

153.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Benjamin  of  Cheshire,  m  Hannah  Hitch- 
cock, Sept.  17,  1783. 

Children  :  244  Joseph  Hall,  b  Feb.  29,  1784,  m,  had  Joseph 
H.  ;  245  Phebe,  b  Nov.  25,  1786  ;  246  A/mon,bMa.rch  5,  1788  ; 

247  Hannah,  b  April  20,  1790,  m  Belina  Clark  of  Cheshire; 

248  Freeman,  b  April  17,  1796,  m Beach. 


BEAUMONT. 

DEODATE. 

DEODATE  BEAUMONT  was  born  in  Wallingford  as  early  as 
the  commencement  of  the  present  century,  and  perhaps 
earlier.  He  was  a  mechanic  and  farmer,  and  owned  and 
occupied  the  house  and  lot  now  owned  by  his  son  Elijah 
Beaumont  in  Wallingford. 

Children  :   John  ;  Elijah  ;  Elizabeth. 


BARKER.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  and  SARAH  BARKER  were  in  Wallingford  previous  to 
1739,  from  Branford,  where  he  was  born.  He  built  the  large 
brick  house  now  owned  by  Samuel  C.  Ford,  Esq.  His  farm 
was  a  large  one,  and  one  of  the  best  in  the  county  of  New 
Haven.  Of  his  history  very  little  can  now  be  learned. 

Children:  i  Sarah,  b  July  22,  1739;  2  John,  b  May  2, 
1741  ;  3  Mary,  b  March  10,  1742,  m  Solomon  Johnson ;  4  Ed- 
ward, m  Rachel,  dau.  of  Constant  Kirtland  ;  5  Eunice,  m  John 
Beadles,  Jan.  18,  1764. 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Abbott's  Hist  Andover,  Mass.,  20-1  ; 
Harry's  Hist.  Hanover,  Mass.,  206-7  5  Blood's  Hist.  Temple,  N.  H.,  203  ; 
Bolton's  Hist.  Westchester  Co.,  N.  Y.,  501  ;  Deane's  Hist.  Scituate, 
Mass.,  216  ;  Eaton's  Hist.  Thomaston,  Me.,  139  ;  Goodman's  Foot  family 
Gen.,  189;  Hanson's  Hist.  Gardner,  Me.,  156;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  I.  115, 
116. 


636  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFOKD. 

4.     EDWARD. 

EDWARD  BARKER,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Barker,  m 
Rachel,  dau.  of  Constant  and  Rachel  Kirtland  of  Wallingforcl, 
and  remained  on  the  old  homestead  until  his  death. 

Children :  6  John,  m  Elizabeth  Atwater,  of  Wallingford  ; 
7  Sarah,  m  Wm.  H.  Jones,  New  Haven. 


BEACH.' 

Genealogists  have  been  somewhat  divided  and  in  doubt 
regarding  the  earliest  families  of  this  name.  Hinman  assigns 
John  of  Stratford,  to  Thomas  of  Milford  ;  but  John  of  Strat- 
ford had  two  children  born  to  him  before  John  the  son  of  the 
Milford  Thomas  was  born.  Savage  thinks  John  of  Stratford 
was  probably  son  of  Richard  of  New  Haven,  if  not  his  brother. 
Savage  also  thinks  Benjamin  of  Stratford  was  son  of  Richard 
of  New  Haven.  But  if  so,  he  would  have  been  only  fifteen 
years  old  when  first  announced  in  Stratford,  which  is  out  of 
the  question.  The  probabilities  seem  to  indicate  that  John, 
Benjamin  and  Richard,  who  all  appear  in  Stratford,  and 
Thomas  of  Milford,  were  brothers.  The  latter  had  a 
home  lot  in  Milford  in  1648.  The  Beaches  of  Litchfield, 
and  George  Beach  Esq.  of  Hartford,  -are  said  to  be  of  this 
stock.  Richard  Beach  of  New  Haven  I  take  to  be  the  man 
who  was  in  Stratford  in  1663,  and  as  keeper  of  the  ordinary 
or  tavern,  desired  a  grant  of  land  from  the  town,  and 
also  exemption  from  military  duty.  He  bought  of  Thomas 
Wheeler,  who  bought  from  Robert  Rice,  the  lot  where 
Mr.  Meacham  now  lives.  Wheeler  moved  to  Pagusset 
(  Derby),  and  sold  to  R.  Beach,  who  sold  to  Mr.  Fenn  of 
Milford,  and  he  sold  in  1667  to  Rev.  Israel  Chauncey,  the 
second  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Stratford, 
part  of  this  land,  with  part  of  the  land  owned  by  John 
Brinsmade,  one  of  the  first  settlers  ( on  the  river  side),  and 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Hinman's  Conn,  settlers,   163,  164 ;  Lit- 
tell's  Passaic  Valley  Gen.,  35-7  ;  Savage's  Gen.   Diet.,  I.  144. 


GENEALOGIES.  637 

the  land  owned  by  William  Beardsley,  with  a  piece  of  Nicho- 
las Knell's  lot  on  the  back  street  and  now  (  1868 )  owned  by 
Alfred  E.  Beach,  son  of  the  late  Moses  Yale  Beach  of  Wall- 
ingforcl,  a  lineal  descendant  of  John,  brother  of  Richard. 

Benjamin  Beach,  a  brother  also  of  John,  as  I  suppose,  was 
in  Stratford  in  1659.  From  him  descended  Benjamin  Beach, 
the  merchant  and  owner  of  vessels,  who  was  a  man  of  prop- 
erty and  built  the  old  house  that  was  taken  down  by  Mr. 
Patterson  some  years  ago,  and  which  stood  where  Mr. 
Dutcher,  in  1863,  lived.  Benjamin  Beach  senior's  descen- 
dants settled  in  part  in  Trumbull.  The  year  of  John  Beach's 
birth  is  now  unknown  :  he  died  suddenly,  intestate,  in  1667, 
and  the  names  of  his  ten  children  are  given  on  the  probate 
records,  but  not  that  of  his  'wife.  He  became  one  of  the 
original  proprietors  of  Wallingford,  and  is  represented  in  the 
inventory  of  his  estate  as  having  property  in  Wallingford  to 
the  amount  of  ,£92  igs.  •  and  in  Stratford  to  the  amount 
of  ^312  13-v.  He  seems  to  have  bought  in  Wallingford 
with  a  view  to  the  settlement  of  his  sons  there.  John 
Jr.,  Isaac  and  Thomas  removed  to  Wallingford,  but  the 
first  two  died  in  Stratford.  Indeed,  Isaac  in  1694  united 
with  Stratford  church,  and  is  entered  as  of  Wallingford.  His 
grave-stone  with  that  of  his  brother  Nathaniel's  and  also  of 
Nathaniel's  wife,  yet  remain  in  the  old  cemetery  at  Stratford. 
As  John  Beach  senior's  estate  was  administered  in  Fairfield 
county  probate  court,  he  evidently  had  not  transferred  his 
residence  to  Wallingford. 

References  in  the  Stratford  Records  establish  the  identity 
of  the  Wallingford  Beaches  with  the  family  of  John  Beach  of 
Stratford,  through  his  son  Thomas  principally,  as  will  be  seen. 

Children  of  John  Beach  of  Stratford :  i  Elizabeth,  b  March 
8,  1652,  m  Eliasaph  Preston,  went  to  Wallingford;  John,  b 
April,  1654,  m  Hannah,  dau.  of  Thomas  Staples  of  Fairfield, 
1679  >  3  Mary,  b  Sept.,  1656 ;  4  Thomas,  b  May,  1659,  m  Ruth 
Peck  of  Wallingford,  and  2nd,  Phebe,  dau.  of  Timothy  Will- 
coxen;  5  Nathaniel,  b  March,  1662,  m  Sarah  Porter,  April  29, 


638  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1693,  went  to  Wallingford  ;  6  Hannah,  b  Dec.,  1665,  m  Zacha- 
riah  Fairchild,  Nov.  3,  1681,  after  his  decease  she  m  John 
Barrit ;  7  Sarah,  b  Nov.,  1667  ;  8  Isaac,  b  June  27,  1659,  m 
Hannah  Birdsey,  was  a  tailor  in  Stratford  ;  9  Joseph,  b  Feb. 
5,  1671,  m  Abiah,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  Booth  ;  10  Benjamin,  b 
March,  1674,  m  Mary . 

John  Beach's  house  lot  extended  from  Main-st,  to  Back-st, 
originally  called  Front  street,  and  covered  the  present  lots 
now  occupied  by  the  Masonic  Lodge,  Alfred  Barnet  and  Mrs. 
Hubbell,  with  a  part  of  Mrs.  Linsley's  and  Miss  Poor's 
grounds. 

I  will  now  attempt  to  trace,  so  far  as  I  can  by  existing  re- 
cords, the  settlement  and  increase  of  the  above  named  ten 
children  of  John  Beach  of  Stratford : 

I.  ELIZABETH. 

ELIZABETH  m  Eliasaph  Preston.  He  was  born  with  his 
twin  brother  Hackaliah,  April  9,  1643  :  was  a  son  °f  William 
Preston,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  New  Haven.  Their 
mother  was  probably  William  Preston's  2d  wife,  and  a  daughter 
of  Robert  Seabrook,  another  of  whose  daughters  was  the 
wife  of  Thos.  Fairchild,  and  an  original  proprietor  in  Strat- 
ford. Eliasaph  Preston  removed  to  Wallingford  soon  after  its 
settlement  in  1674,  and  was  the  first  Deacon  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  in  that  place.  He  died  in  1705,  ae.  62  years. 
Elizabeth  was  his  second  wife.  His  first  wife  Mary  Kimberly 
died  in  1674,  April  28.  She  was  the  widow  of  Thos.  Kimberly, 
and  died  in  1672. 

The  children  of  Eliasaph  and  Elizabeth  Preston  were:  n 
Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  29,  1676  ;  12  Hannah,  b  July  12,  1678;  13 
Eliasaph,  b  Jan.  26,  1679-80  ;  14  Joseph,  b  March  10,  1681-2  ; 
15  Esther,  b  Feb.  28,  1683-4 ;  16  Lydia,  b  May  25,  1686  ;  17 
Jehiel,  b  Aug.  25,  1688,  d  Nov.,  1689. 

2.    JOHN. 

JOHN  BEACH  m  Hannah,  dau.  of  Thomas  Staples  of  Fair- 
field,  1679. 

Their    children    recorded  at     Stratford    were:    18   Mary, 


GENEALOGIES.  639 

b  July  14,  1683,  m  Archibald  Dunlap,  June,  1704,   and  2nd, 

Smith;   19  Ruth,  b  about  1685,  m  Samuel  Fairchild, 

1704;  20  Mehitable,  b  Sept.  30,  1690;  21  Ebenezer,\>  Sept. 
14,  1692  ;  22  Hester,  b  May  3,  1694.  John  Beach  2nd  d  in 
Stratford,  1712. 

4.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  BEACH,  married  ist,  Ruth  Peck,  a  sister  of  John 
Peck,  and  settled  in  Wallingford  May  12,  1680;  2nd,  Phebe, 
dau.  of  Timothy  Willcoxen  of  Stratford.  She  was  born  in  1669. 
Her  father  was  son  of  William,  an  original  proprietor  of 
Stratford,  whose  house-lot  was  situated  about  where  Mrs. 
Turk's  home-lot  now  lies  ( 1863  ),  and  probably  covered  Mr. 
Wm.  Benjamin's  lot  besides.  Phebe's  mother  was  Johannah, 
dau.  of  Deacon  John  Birdsey,  an  original  proprietor  of  Strat- 
ford. 

Children:  23  Hannah,  b  Feb.  26,  1680,  d  Sept.  18,  1683,; 
24  Ruth,  b  Oct.  24,  1684,  died  young;  25  Thomas,  b  Dec.  9, 

1685,  d  De'c.  13,  1685  ;  26  Benoni,  b  Oct.  20,  1686,  d  Dec.  5, 

1686.  Mrs.    Ruth  Beach  died  Dec.   5,  1686.     Children    by 
2nd    marriage:    27    Timothy,    b  Jan.    n,    1689,    m    Hannah 
Cook,    Nov.    25,    1713;    28    Nathan,    b    Aug.    18,    1692,    m 
Jemima  Curtiss,  Sept.  29,  1713  ;  29  Moses,  b  Feb.  19,  1695,  m 

Esther  Tyler,  Sept.  21,  1722,  2nd,  Susannah ;  30  Gershom, 

b  May  23,  1697,  m  Deliverance  How  of  Wallingford ;  31  Caleb, 

m  Eunice ;  32   Thankful,  b  Sept.  20,  1702  ;  33  Phebe,  b 

May  23,  1710;  34  Joanna,\)  Oct.  9,  1705,  m  Mr.  Royce.     Mr. 
Thomas  Beach  died  in  Meriden,  where  he  was  buried  in  the 
old  cemetery,  May  13,  1741,  ae  82  years. 

5-    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  BEACH  m  Sarah  Porter,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Porter.  She  was  born  1667.  Her  mother  was  a  daughter  of 
Philip  Groves,  the  first  and  only  ruling  elder  in  Stratford 
church.  She  died  in  1738,  and  her  grave-stone  yet  stands 
with  that  of  her  husband,  who  died  in  1747. 

Children:  35  Ephraim,  b  May  25,  1687,  m  1712,  Sarah, 
dau.  of  Andrew  Patterson,  d  Oct.  30,  1717  ;  36  Elizabeth,  b 


640  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Nov  n,  1689;  37  David,  b  May  15,  1692,  m  1717,  Hannah 
Sherman,  dau.  of  Matthew,  son  of  Samuel  Sen.  ;  38  Josiah,  b 
Aug.  18,  1694,  m  1722,  Patience  Nichols;  39  Nathaniel,  b 
Dec.  22,  1696,  m  1720.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Solomon  Burton,  d  1734  ; 
40  Sarah,  b  Nov.  12,  1699  ;  41  Daniel,  b  Jan  15,  1700,  m 
1724,  Hester,  dau.  of  Benj.  Curtiss,  son  of  John,  son  of  Will- 
iam Curtiss  ;  42  Anna,  b  March,  1704,  m  Elnathan  Beers,  Jan. 
25,  1728;  43  Israel,  b  May,  1705,  m  1731,  Hannah  Barrett, 
dau.  of  Joseph,  son  of  John,  son  of  William  ;  44  James,  b 
Aug.  13,  1709,  m  Sarah  Curtiss  1710,  dau.  of  John,  son  of 
Benjamin,  son  of  John. 

8.  ISAAC. 

V!SAAC  BEACH,  married  Hannah  Birdsey,  daughter  of  John, 
in  1693.  Mr.  Birdsey  was  a  son  of  John,  an  original  settler 
in  Stratford.  Her  mother  was  Phebe,  daughter  of  William 
Willcoxen,  also  among  the  first  settlers  of  Stratford.  Han- 
nah was  born  February,  1671.  Isaac  Beach  settled  in  Wall- 
ingford  on  land  given  him  by  his  father  John  Beach,  but  in 
1694  was  received  into  the  church  at  Stratford  as  from  Wall- 
ingford.  He  died  in  Stratford  in  1741,  and  his  grave-stone 
still  remains.  Hannah  his  wife  died  Oct.  15,  1750,  in  her  79th 
year,  and  was  buried  in  the  Episcopal  burying-ground,  Strat- 
ford. He  sold  land  in  Wallingford  to  Joseph  Rice  in  1699. 

Children:  45  William,  b  July  7,  1794,  m  Sarah  Hull  of 
Derby,  dau.  of  Joseph  Hull ;  46  Elnathan,  b  July  7,  1698,  m 
Abigail  Uffont,  2d,  Hannah,  dau.  of  Samuel  Cook;  47  John, 
b  Oct.  6,  1700,  Episcopal  clergyman  at  Newtown,  Ct.,  d  Mar. 
19,  1782  ;  48  Mary,  b  Dec.  16,  1703 ;  49  Hannah,  b  May  26, 
1709  ;  50  Dinah,  b  Oct.  14,  1713. 

9.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BEACH,  son  of  John  No.  i,  married  Abiah,  dau.  of 
Ebenezer  Booth,  son  of  Richard,  an  original  settler  in  Strat- 
ford. He  died  in  1737,  ae.  66.  His  grave-stone  yet  remains. 

Children:  51  Sarah,  b  July  13,  1697  ;  52  Agar,  b  April  8, 
J699  ;  53  Abraham,  b  April  29,  1701  ;  54  Hannah,  b  Feb.  12, 
1702,  m  Zachariah  Tomlinson,  grandson  of  Henry  and  great 


GENEALOGIES.  64! 

grandfather  of  Gov.  Gideon  Tomlinson,  d  in  1812;  55  Jo- 
seph ;  56  Abiah,\>  Jan.  12,  1712-13,  m  Samuel  Judson  in  1737. 
His  first  wife  in  1734  was  Bethiah  Beach. 

10.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  BEACH  of  Stratford,  m  Mary . 

Children:  57  Bethia,  b  April  23,  1674;  58  Peter,  b  Sept. 
14,  1696;  59  Eunice,  b  Aug.  3,  1699;  60,  61,  Benjamin  and 
Mary,  b  May  19,  1702,  the  former  went  to  Durham,  Conn. 

46.    ELNATHAN. 

ELNATHAN  BEACH,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Beach,  was 
a  merchant  settled  in  Wallingford,  in  the  southerly  part  of 
what  is  now  Cheshire,  and  for  several  years  was  engaged  with 
Captain  Samuel  Cooke,  in  foreign  trade,  in  which  they 
were  very  successful.  Mr.  Beach  soon  became  a  man  of 
great  wealth  and  high  standing  in  the  community.  He  pre- 
sented the  Congregational  society  of  Cheshire  with  a  bell  for 
their  meeting-house,  and  by  his  last  will  left  a  bequest  of  sev- 
eral pounds  as  a  fund  for  the  relief  of  the  poor  of  the  parish 
of  Cheshire.  He  married  first  Miss  Abigail  Ufford  of  Strat- 
ford, May  9,  1720.  She  died  Dec.  2,  1738.  He  married 
second,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  Cooke,  Feb.  8, 
1742.  She  died  May  18,  1754,  a;.  21  years.  He  died  Aug. 
16,  1742,  ae  45  years. 

Children  by  first  marriage  ;  79  Isaac,  b  April  7,  1721,  cl  Jan. 
27,  1724;  80  Elnathan,  b  July  21,  1723,  at  Cheshire,  d  May 
18,  1754,  ae  31  ;  81  Isaac,  b  March  3,  1725,  d  Oct.  13,  1471, 
ae  16  years;  82  John,  b  1733,  a  farmer  at  Cheshire;  83 
Hannah,  b  Nov.  12,  1728;  84  Abigail,  b  Dec.  17,  1730;  85 
Samuel,  b  Dec  26,  1737,  Dea.  of  the  church,  graduated  at  Yale, 
r757  j  86  Sarah,  b  March  25,  1727,  m  Jonathan  Atwater  of 
New  Haven;  87  Lois,  b  Aug  18,  1732,  m  Col.  Thaddeus 
Cook  of  Wallingford,  d  April  4,  1753  ;  88  Esther. 

Child  by  second  marriage:  89  Abraham,  b  Aug.  29,  1743, 
graduated  at  Yale,  1757,  and  was  a  distinguished  clergyman 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  city  of  New  York. 
He  died  1828,  ae.  85  years. 


642  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

45.    WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  BEACH,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Beach 
of  Stratford,  married  Sarah  Hull,  daughter  of  Joseph  Hull  of 
Derby  (ancestor  of  Com.  Isaac  Hull),  in  1725.  Her  mother 
was  Mary  Nichols,  dau.  of  Isaac  2d  of  Stratford  and  Derby. 

Children:  62  Isaac,  b  and  bap.  Oct.,  1726,  bap.  in  the  Cong, 
church,  Stratford;  63  Ann,  b  April,  bap.  May,  1729,  m  Wm. 
Sam'l  Johnson,  bap.  in  Cong,  church ;  64  Abel,  b  and  bap. 
Nov.  31,  1731,  m  Mary  Lewis  1757,  d  1768;  65,  66  Henry 
and  Abijah,  b  May,  1734,  bap.  in  the  Episcopal  church. 
63.  ANN. 

ANN  BEACH,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  Hull  Beach, 
married  in  Nov.,  1749,  at  the  age  of  20  years,  Wm.  Sam'l 
Johnson,  aged  22  years,  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  D.  D.  by  his 
wife  Charity,  wid.  of  Benj.  Nichols,  oldest  son  of  Hon.  Mat- 
thias Nichols  of  Islip,  L.  I.  Wm.  Samuel  Johnson  had  by 
wife  Ann, 

Children  :    67    Charity,  b  July,  1750;  68   Sarah,   b  April, 
1754;  69    Gloriance  Ann,  b  March,  1757  ;  70  Mary,  b  April, 
T759  >  71  Samuel  William,\>  Oct.,  1761  ;  72  Elizabeth,  bDec., 
T763  ;  73  Robert  Charles,  b  May,  1766. 
71.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  WM.  JOHNSON,  son  of  Anna  and  Wm.  Samuel 
Johnson,  married  Nov.,  1791,  Susan,  dau.  of  Pierrepont  Ed- 
wards Esq.,  and  grand-daughter  of  Rev.  President  J.  Edwards. 

Children  :  74  Anna  Frances ;  75  William  Samuel ;  76  Sarah 
Elizabeth;  77  Edwards;  78  Robert  Charles. 

85.     SAMUEL. 

DEA.  SAMUEL  BEACH  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1757. 
He  was  an  Attorney  at  Law  in  his  native  town,  Cheshire,  and 
was  a  highly  respected  citizen,  and  filled  with  honor  many 
offices  of  public  trust,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  convention 
which  formed  the  constitution  of  the  United  States.  He 
married  Mary . 

Children  ;  90  Mary  Ann,  b  July  31,  1760;  91   Samuel  W., 


GENEALOGIES.  643 

b  Feb.  ii,  1762,  was  a  farmer  in  Cheshire,  where  he  died. 
Sons,  Samuel  W.,  Albert  and  Rufus.  By  second  marriage  :  92 

Barrage,  m Bowden,  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in 

1793  and  became  an  Attorney  at  Law  in  his  native  town, 
where  he  died  ae.  70.  He  had  daughters,  Elizabeth,  wife  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Fuller,  Augusta,  Amelia. 

29.    MOSES. 

MOSES  BEACH,  son  of  Thomas  and  Phebe,  of  Wallingford, 
married  Esther  Tyler,  Sept.  26,  1722.  She  died  Sept.  16, 

1750,  as  55.  He  married  Susannah  .  She  died 

April  9,  1770,  ae  62  yrs.  Mr.  Beach  died  in  Wallingford. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  resided  on,  and  owned  the  farm  called 
( at  the  present  time )  the  Wooden  Farm,  in  the  southern 
part  of  Yalesville. 

Children:  93  Ephraim,  b  Aug.  2,  1723,  m  Lyclia ,  d 

August  29, '1751;  94  Titus,  b  April  4,  1725;  95  Moses,  b 
Nov.  8,  1726,  m  Dinah  Sperry,  March  19,  1756;  96  Lois,  b 
April  29,  1729,  d  Jan.  4,  1731  ;  97  Esther,  b  May  16,  1731  ; 
98  Asahel,  bjan.  n,  1736,  m  Keziah  Roys,  Feb.  n,  1757,  and 
settled  in  Westbury  in  Waterbury,  previous  to  1764. 

28.    NATHAN. 

NATHAN  BEACH,  son  of  Thomas  and  Phebe  of  Walling- 
ford, married  Jemima  Curtiss,  Sept.  29,  1713.  He  lived  in 
the  house  late  the  property  of  Jason  Beach. 

Children:  99    Joseph,  b   June    10,    1764;    100    William,   b 
Nov.  18,  1716,  m   Susannah  Holt,  Oct.  15,  1739;  101  Lydia, 
b  Feb.  26,  1719;  102  Nathan,  b  May  28,  1721  ;  103  Stephen, 
b  April  6,  1729  ;   104  Elihu,  b  Dec.  14,  1734. 
95.    MOSES. 

MOSES  BEACH,  son  of  Moses  and  Esther,  married  Dinah 
Sperry  of  New  Haven,  March  19,  1756.  She  died  April  8, 
1768,  leaving  one  child,  a  daughter;  105  Mary,  b  Feb.  14, 1758. 
She  became  the  wife  of  Turhand  Kirtland  of  Wallingford. 
She  died  Nov.  24,  1792.  The  2nd  wife  of  Mr.  Beach  was 
Parthenia  Tallman  of  Branford.  By  this  marriage  they  had 


644  HISTORY    OK    WALLINGFORD. 

one  child,  a  son.  She  d  July  5,  1797,  as  60.  106  Moses 
Sparry,  b  March  7,  1776,  d  at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  in  1826,  ae  50 
yrs.,  m  Lucretia  Yale  of  Wallingford. 

104.  MOSES. 

MOSES  SPERRY  BEACH,  only  son  of  Moses  and  Parthenia, 
married  Lucretia  Yale,  daughter  of  Elihu  and  Lucretia 
(Stanley)  Yale.  She  died  1800,  and  had  by  this  marriage 
two  children:  107  Sally,  m  Horatio  Green  of  Springfield, 
Mass. ;  108  Moses  Yale,  b  Jan.,  1800,  d  July  i,  1868,  ae  68. 
He  married  2nd,  Lois  Ives,  daughter  of  Abijah  Ives,  of 
Wallingford.  She  died  at  New  Haven,  Huron  Co.,  Ohio. 

Children  :  109  Tallman,  b  in  Wallingford,  d  at  New  Haven, 
Ohio;   no  Abraham  Stanley,  b  in  Wallingford,  d  supposed  in 
Canada  ;  in  Abijah,  M.  D.,  b  in  Wallingford,  resides  in  Ohio  ; 
101  Asahel,  b  in  Wallingford,  d  in  Kansas. 
30.  GERSHOM. 

GERSHOM  BEACH,  son  of  Thomas  and  Deliverance  Howe 
Beach. 

Children:   112  Ruth,  b  Aug.  21,  1722;   113  Aaron,  b   Jan. 

14,  1727;  114  Joanna,  b  Aug.  17,  1724,  m Chittenden ; 

115    Gershom,  b  Sept.  24,  1729. 


CHESHIRE  BRANCH. 

82.    JOHN. 

JOHN  BEACH,  son  of  Capt.  Elnathan  and  Abigail,  married 
Eunice  Eaton  in  1744,  and  settled  on  a  farm  left  him  by  his 
father.  His  house  stood  almost  opposite  the  present  resi- 
dence of  Edward  Andrews,  south  part  of  Cheshire,  Conn. 
It  was  a  large  two  story  red  house,  and  was  in  its  day  consid- 
ered a  first  class  house. 

Children:  186  Hannah,  b  Jan.  29,  1756,  m  Samuel  Rice, 
1776,  Feb.  15;  187  Isaac,  b  Aug.  25,  1758,  d  Dec.,  1776; 
188  Elnathan,  b  Aug.  30,  1760,  m  Abigail  Atwater ;  189 
James  Eaton,  b  Sept.,  1762,  m  Huldah  Sherman  of  Bridge- 
port ;  190  John,  b  May,  1764,  m  ist,  Lucy  Cornwall,  2d,  Lois 


GENEALOGIES.  645 

Doolittle ;  191  Eunice,\>  Jan.  4,  1766,  m  Dan  Bradley ;  192 
Abijah,  b  1768,  m  Jemima  Cornwall;  193  Bildad,\>  Sept., 
1770,  m  ist,  Huldah  Hotchkiss,  2cl,  Hannah  Cossit ;  194  Abra- 
ham, b  1772,  d  in  1772  ;  195  Lois,  b  Dec.,  1774,  m  Calvin 
Lawrence. 

1 88.    ELNATHAN. 

ELNATHAN  BEACH,  M.  D.,  was  a  physician  in  his  native 
village,  where  he  married  Abigail  Atwater.  He  built  and 
occupied  the  house  now  known  as  the  Bronson  house,  oppo- 
site the  south-west  corner  of  the  public  Green  in  the  village. 
He  died  in  Western  N.  Y. 

Children:  196  Hannah;  197  Nartissa;  198  Julia;  199 
Eliza. 

189.     JAMES. 

JAMES  EATON  BEACH  married  Huldah  Sherman  of  Bridge- 
port, where  he  died  quite  advanced  in  life,  and  highly 
respected  by  the  community  generally.  A  fine  marble  monu- 
ment has  been  erected  to  the  memory  of  both  him  and  his 
wife. 

Children:  200  Polly ;  201  Laura;  202  Isaac,  now  resides  in 
Bridgeport. 

191.  EUNICE. 

EUNICE  BEACH  married  Dan  Bradley,  and  settled  at 
Marcellus,  N.  Y. 

Children:  203  Nancy;  204  Harriet;  205  Augustus ;  206 
William;  207  Dan. 

190.  JOHN. 

JOHN  BEACH  married  Lucy  Cornwall,  daughter  of  Abijah 
Cornwall  of  Cheshire,  and  sister  of  Thomas  T.  Cornwall, 
Sept.  20,  1786.  She  died,  and  he  married  Lois  Doolittle  of 
Cheshire.  He  died  in  western  New  York,  Dec.  23,  1844,  ae. 
80  years.  His  wife  Lucy  died  Feb.  14,  1814. 

Children:  208  Abraham,  b  Nov.  9,  1787,  d  March  i,  1788, 
in  his  2d  year;  209  Horace,  b  April  u,  1789,  m  Ann  Atwater 
of  New  Haven,  no  issue.     His  widow  m  Laban  Smith,  is  liv- 
ing in  1869.     Hedied  in  1826;  210  Isaac,  b  June  5,  1792,  m 
S  s 


646  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Nancy  Cooper  of  Meadville,  Pa.,  May  15,  1823,  she  died 
March  2,  1857  ;  211  William,  b  Feb.  6,  1797,  d  Sept.,  1820  ; 
212  John,  b  July  16,  1794,  m  Polly  Prescott  of  New  Haven, 
Feb.  14,  1819,  d  Oct.  17,  1849  ;  213  Matilda,  b  Feb.  13,  1799, 
was  the  wife  of  John  H.  Cooley  of  New  Haven;  214  Lor- 
raine, b  March  24,  1802,  m  Minerva  Porter  of  Marcellus, 
N.  Y.,  Nov.  20,  1823.  She  dying,  he  m  Sarah  Elizabeth 
Plant  of  Stratford,  Ct.,  no  issue  ;  215  Lucy  Ann,  b  Dec.  15, 
1810,  d  Aug.  17,  1845.  She  m  Samuel  Porter  Rhodes  of 
Marcellus,  April  26,  1829.  Her  children  were:  216  Edward, 
b  June  26,  1830,  d  June  3,  1831 ;  217  Edward  P.,  b  Jan.  14, 

1832,  d   March  31,    1836;  218  Augusta   Comstock,  b  Sept.  30, 

1833,  d  Oct.  31,  1859;  219    William  Porter,  b  May  2,  1826; 
220  Samuel  Porter,  b  May  2,  1838  ;  221  Ann  Elizabeth,  b  Nov. 
15,  1840;  222  John  Beach,  b   Aug.  8,  1843;  223   Mary  Ma- 
tilda, b  Aug.  12,  1845,  d  Aug.  22,  1845. 

192.    ABIJAH. 

ABIJAH  BEACH  married  Jemima  Cornwall,  daughter  of 
Abijah  Cornwall  of  Cheshire,  Nov.  6,  1796.  He  was  a 
merchant,  inn-keeper  and  farmer  in  his  native  town  Cheshire 
until  his  death,  which  occured  Dec.  2,  1821.  She  died  at 
the  house  of  her  son-in-law,  Edward  A.  Cornwall  Esq.,  Dec. 
17,  1853.  Mr.  Beach  while  living  built  the  house  now  owned 
by  Burrit  Bradley  Esq.,  and  also  that  of  Martin  Branin  in  the 
village  of  Cheshire,  long  occupied  for  a  store  and  hotel  by 
Mr.  Beach  and  others. 

Children:  224  Richard,  b  July  14,  1799,  m  Lucinda 
Hitchcock,  of  Cheshire;  225  Palmina,\)  April  19,  1802,  m 
Truman  Atwater;  226  Elnathan,  b  Sept.  i,  1804,  m  Mary 
Bullard,  of  Cheshire  ;  227  Eunice,  b  Feb.  n,  1809,  m  Edward 
A.  Cornwall  Esq.,  of  Cheshire;  228  Abijah,  b  Dec.,  1812, 
d  Jan.  9,  1813. 

193.    BILDAD. 

BILDAD  BEACH,  married  for  his  ist  wife  Huldah  Hotchkiss, 
and  his  2nd,  Hannah  Cossit,  and  removed  to  Marcellus,  N. 
Y.,  where  the  family  still  reside. 


GENEALOGIES.  647 

Children:     229    Emily;    230    Laura;    231    Hannah;    232 

Merab ;  233   Merab. 

224.    RICHARD. 

RICHARD  and  Lucinda  Beach  were  married  Nov  21,  1824; 
he  resided  in  his  native  town,  Cheshire,  until  1830,  as  a  mer- 
chant. He  built  a  store  on  the  canal,  at  what  is  now  West 
Cheshire,  and  gave  it  the  name  of  Beachport  In  1830  he  re- 
moved to  Burton,  Grange  Co.,  Ohio,  where  he  prosecuted  the 
mercantile  business  with  good  success,  until  near  the  close 
of  his  life. 

Child:  234  Ann  Palmina,  b  July  14,  1826,  d  Dec.  17,  1848. 
She  married  Wm.  Tolles,  of  Burton,  Ohio,  June  9,  1846,  had 
two  children,  both  deceased. 

226.    ELNATHAN. 

ELNATHAN  and  Mary  Ann  Bullard  Beach  were  married 
Jan  18,  1824.  He  resided  at  Cheshire  and  Hartford,  and 
finally  removed  to  Michigan. 

Children:  235  Lucretia  H.,  b  Aug.,  1824,  died  1827;  236 
Elizabeth  Eunice,  b  Jan.  26,  1826,  m  Chester  S.  Steele  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  Nov.  22,  1852,  3  children  ;  237  William  A., 
b  1828;  238  Henry  Bullard,  b  Oct.,  1830;  239  Mary  Ann 
Beach,  b  Sept.  9,  1832,  m  William  Carey,  of  Pittsfield,  Mass. 
in  1863,  and  has  had  three  children;  240  Edward E.,  b  Sept. 
6,  1834;  241  Cornelia,  b  Sept.  9,  1836;  242  George,  b  July  3, 
1840,  died  Sept.  15,  1842. 

WALLINGFORD   BRANCH. 

27.    TIMOTHY. 

TIMOTHY,  son  of  Thomas  and  Phebe  Beach,  born  in  Wall- 
ingford,  married  Hannah  Cook,  Nov.  25,  1713. 

Children:  115  Thomas,  b  Aug.  6,  1714,  d  Sept.  27,  1714; 
116  Thomas,  b  Dec.  16,  1751  ;  117  Keziah,  b  Oct.  18,  1717  ; 
118  Prudence,  b  Oct.  6,  1719  ;  119  Hannah,  b  April  21,  1722  ; 
120  Ebenezer,  b  Feb.  9,  1724  ;  121  Thankful,  b  Dec.  19,  1725; 
122  Keziah,  b  May  18,  1733. 


648  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

28.     NATHAN. 

NATHAN,  son  of  Thomas  and  Phebe  Beach,  born  in  Wall- 
ingford,  married  Jemima  Curtis,  Sept.  29,  1712. 

Children:   123    Joseph,  b  Jan.    10,    1714;   124    William,   b 

Nov.   18,    1716,  m   Susannah ,  she  d  Sept.   24,   1742; 

125  Lydia,  b  Feb.  26,  1719  ;  126  Nathan,  b  May  23,  1721  ; 
127  Sarah,  b  Oct.  22,  1723  ;  128  Enos,  b  Jan.  30,  1726;  129 
Stephen,  b  Oct.  16,  1729;  130  Elihu,  b  Dec.  17,  1734;  132 
Eunice,  b  March  3,  1737. 

31.  CALEB. 

CALEB,  son  of  Thomas  Beach,  of  Wallingford,  m  Eunice  — . 

Children:  133  Sarah,  b  Oct.  20,  1728;  134  Margaret,  b 
Aug.  28,  1735. 

Il6.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS,  son  of  Timothy  Beach,  m  Hannah  —  — . 

Children:  135  Damaris,  b  April  5,  1714  :  136  Amzi,  b  July 
14,  1716  ;  137  Abigail,  b  Oct.  15,  1718  ;  138  Londrey,  b  March 
5>  J727  ;  i39  Asa,  b  Oct.  3,  1752. 

123.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Nathan  and  Jemima  Beach,  of  Wallingford, 
m  Experience . 

Children:  140  Lydia,  b  Sept.  13,  17355  141  Mehitable.,  b 
Nov.  2,  1732  ;  142  Mary,  b  Dec.  22,  1740;  143  Elizabeth,  b 
Feb.  24,  1743  ;  144  John,  b  Jan.  25,  1745  ;  145  Joel,  b  Sept. 
23,  1747  ;  146  Sarah,  b  Sept.  21,  1749. 

128.    ENOS. 

ENOS,  son  of  Nathan  and  Jemima  Beach,  m  Anna . 

Child  :   147  Joanna,  b  April  i,  1751,  in  Wallingford. 

124.  WILLIAM. 
WILLIAM,  son  of  Nathan   and  Jemima  Beach,  m  Susannah 

—  for  his  first  wife.     His  2nd  wife  was  Martha .     He 

built  the  house  in  which  lived  the  family  of  the  late  Mr. 
Charles  Parker,  on  Parker's  Farms,  in  Wallingford.  He  went 
west  with  his  family.  Susanna  d  Sept.  24,  1742. 

Children:  by  first  m,  148   Benjamin,  b  May   21,    1740  ;  by 


GENEALOGIES.  649 

and  m,  149   Solomon,  b  March  31,    1744  ;  150  Isaac,  b  April 
16,  1746;   151  lhankful,  b  Sept.  25,  1747. 

98.    ASAHEL. 

ASAHEL,  son  of  Moses  and  Esther  Beach  of  Wallingford,  m 
Keziah  Royce,  Feb.  n,  1757.  He  removed  to  Waterbury, 
and  from  thence  to  Kingsbury,  N.  Y.,  in  1799. 

Children:   152  Esther;  153  Keziah. 

JOHN    JR. 

JOHN  Jr.,  son  of  John  Beach  of  Stratford,  was  among  the 
first  planters  of  Wallingford.  He  died  in  1709. 

Children:  154  Nathaniel;  155  Lettice,  b  Dec.  24,  1679,  m 
Wm.  Ward  ;  156  Mary,  b  Jan.  n,  1681,  d  Sept.  i,  1688 ;  157 
Hannah,  b  March  17,  1684,  m  Eliphalet  Parker,  Aug.  5,  1708  ; 

158  Thomas,  b  Feb.  14,  1686,  m  Hannah  Atwater,  May  9,  1711; 

159  John,  b  Oct.  15,  1690,  m  Mary  Royce,  Feb.  22,  1717  ;  160 
Samuel,  b  Nov.  29,  1696,  m  Phebe  Tyler,  April  29,  1718. 

1 60.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  BEACH,  son  of  John  Jr.,  m  Phebe  Tyler.  Family 
mostly  settled  at  North  Haven. 

Children:  161  Beulah,  b  March  i,  1719;  162  Rhoda,  b 
Nov.  26,  1720;  163  Zopher,  b  Feb.  10,  1723;  164  Phebe,  b 
Jan.  2,  1725  ;  165  Benoni,  d  June  5,  1738  ;  166  Esther,  b  Jan. 
6,  1733  ;  167  Eunice,  b  Jan.  27,  1735  ;  168  Pamtneas,  b  Jan. 
X5>  X737  >  l(>9  Hannah,  b  Nov.  8,  1739;  170  Daniel,  b.  March 
24,  1740. 

159.  JOHN. 

JOHN  BEACH,  son  of  John,  married  Mary  Royce,  Feb.  22, 
1718-9. 

Children:  i"jiAdna,b  Jan.  n,  1718,  m  Hannah  Miles; 
172  Edmund,  b  Feb.  18,  1720;  173  Linus,  b  Dec.  5,  1721  ; 
174  Amos,  b  Jan.  3,  1724;  175  Mary,  b  April  28,  1726;  176 
Jacob,  b  Dec.  5,  1728;  177  Royce,  b  Oct.  13,  1733  ;  178  Sam- 
uel, b  Dec.  22,  1729  ;  179  Baldwin,  b  July  26,  1736. 


650  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFOKD. 

158.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS  BEACH,  son  of  John,  m  Sarah   Sanforcl,  Feb.  19, 

1712.     She  died,  and  he  married  Lois . 

Children:  by  ist  marriage,  180  Barnabas,  b  July  i,   1716  ; 

181  Abel,  b  May  12,    1728,  d  May  7,  1729.     By  2d   marriage, 

182  Amos,  b  Oct.  14,  1747;  183  John,  b  Oct.    15,  1744;   184 
Lois,  b  July  i,  1749;  185  Adna,  b  May  17,  1759. 


BARTHOLOMEW.- 

DANIEL. 

DANIEL  AND  SARAH  BARTHOLOMEW  are  the  first  of  the 
name  in  Wallingford.  Of  their  origin  and  subsequent  his- 
tory, nothing  has  come  to  my  knowledge.  The  records  in  rela- 
tion to  this  family  as  well  as  many  others,  have  been  so  kept 
as  to  render  it  almost  impossible  to  trace  them. 

Children:   i   Samuel,  b  April   n,  173552  Reuben,  b  Sept. 
19,  1736;  3    William,\>  Feb.    i,   1738;  4  Jacob,  b  June   u, 
1740;  5  Susannah,  b  April  n,  1745. 
JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH    BARTHOLOMEW   m    Mary ,  Jan.    13,    1741  ; 

probably  a  brother  of  Daniel. 

Children:  6  Hannah,  b  Jan.  29,  1742  ;  7  Andrew,  b  Nov. 
24,  1744;  8  Joseph,  b  Sept.  6,  1746;  9  Jonathan,  b  May  6, 
1751  ;  10  Joseph,  b  Aug.  25,  1752. 

TIMOTHY. 

TIMOTHY  BARTHOLOMEW  m  Mary  Hull,  July  12,  1737;  m 
2nd,  Abigail  Phelps,  Jan.  n,  1742. 
Child:   u  Timothy,  b  Aug.  n,  1745. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  AND  JERUSHA  BARTHOLOMEW  of  Wallingford,  had 
12  John  Porter,  b  Nov.  10,  1740. 


i   For  collateral  branches,  see  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  I.  120-130. 


GENEALOGIES.  65  I 

BEADLES.- 

NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  BEADLES  came  to  Wallingford,  probably  soon 
after  the  commencement  of  the  last  century,  and  located  him- 
self on  a  farm  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  and  near  the  line 
which  divides  Cheshire  from  Wallingford.  The  house  is  still 
standing,  and  is  the  first  house  north  of  the  residence  of  the 
late  John  Cook.  He  died  about  1764.  Elizabeth,  his  wife, 
died  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  i  Nathaniel^  Dec.  15,  1703,  m  Elizabeth  Hitch- 
cock, Nov.  10,  1726;  2  Mary,  b  Sept.  18,  1708;  3  Josiah,  b 
Aug.  3,  1711 ;  4  Samuel  Sharp,  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
1757,  estate  settled  in  1763,  died  Jan.  5,  1762. 

I.    CAPT.    NATHANIEL. 

CAPT.  NATHANIEL  BEADLES,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Eliza- 
beth Beadles,  married  Elizabeth  Hitchcock,  Nov.  10,  1726. 
He  died  Feb.  10,  1762. 

Children  :  5-6  Elizabeth  and  Susannah  (twins),  b  Sept.  17, 
T727  >  7  John,  was  a  captain  of  the  militia;  8  Hannah; 
9  Sarah;  10  Lois,  b  1743,  m  John  Hull,  she  died  Sept.  6, 
1802,  3£.  59  ;  ii  Mehitable;  12  Nathaniel,  died  March  4,  1763. 

7.  CAPT.  JOHN. 

CAPT.  JOHN  BEADLES,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth 
Beadles  of  Wallingford,  m  daughter  of  John  Barker.  They 
had  a  large  family,  some  of  whom  settled  in  the  State  of 
New  York. 

Children:  13  John;  14  Henry,  m Blakeslee,  dau.  of 

Joseph  ;  15  Alfred,  m  -  -  Byington,  and  settled  in  Cheshire, 
a  wagon  maker. 


I  For   collateral   branches     see    Hinman's   Conn.    Settlers,    164,  165  ; 
Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  I.   144,  145. 


652  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

BELLAMY.' 

MATTHEW. 

MATTHEW  BELLAMY  ( a  weaver ),  the  ancestor  of  those  of 
the  name  in  Wallingford,  appears  first  at  Fairfield,  Conn., 
then  at  Killingworth,  where  he  married  Sarah  Wood,  Sept. 
26,  1705.  She  died  March  8,  1721.  He  married  for  his 
second  wife,  Mary  Johnson,  May  31,  1722.  He  died  June  7, 
1752,  ae.  77  years.  Mary  died  May  10,  1730,  ae.  66  years.  By 
ist  marriage ; 

Children:  i  Afar}',  b  Sept.  5,  1706,  m  Benjamin. Gray,  May 
10,  1731;  2  Matthew,  b  June  i,  1708,  m  Rachel  Clark,  Sept. 

14,  1754,  ae.  46;  3  John,  b  Jan.  26,  1713,  m  Martha-    -;  4 
James,  b  Sept.  29,    1716  ;  5  Joseph,  D.  D.,  b  Feb.   20,  1719, 
grad.  at  Yale;  6  Samuel,  b  Jan.  18,  1721.     By  2d  marriage,  7, 
8,   Sarah  and  Anna,  b  Jan.    25,   1722  ;  9  Moses,  b  June  29, 
1725,  m  Elizabeth  Martin,  Dec.  8,  1762  ;   10  Aaron,  b  July  23, 
1728,  m  Desire   Parker,  Dec.   20,   1753;  n  Hannah,  b  May 
!?>  I731- 

2.    MATTHEW. 

MATTHEW  BELLAMY,  m  Rachel  Clark,  Jan.  26,  1734,  by 
Rev.  Samuel  Hall  of  Cheshire. 

Children:   12  Thankful,  b  Nov.  23,  1734;  13  Lois,\>  Jan. 

15,  1737;  14  Ann,  b  Feb.   n,   1738;  15   Reuben,  b  Dec.  31, 
1742  ;  16  Matthew,  b  Feb.  9,  1745  ;  17  Asa,  b  Dec.  19,  1753  ; 
18  Silas,  b  Jan.  14,  1755. 

5.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BELLAMY,  D.  D.,  settled  as  Pastor  over  the  Con- 
gregational church  at  Bethlem,  in  1740;  married  Frances 
Sherman  of  New  Haven,  April,  27,  1744.  She  died  Aug.  30, 
1785.  He  married  2d,  the  widow  of  Rev.  Andrew  Storrs  of 
Watertown,  Conn.  He  died  March  6,  1760. 

Children:   19  Lucy,  b  Aug.    i,    1745,   m  Abijah  Gurnsey, 


i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Cothren's  Hist.   Woodbury,  507  ;  Hin- 
man's  Conn.  Settlers,  182-5 ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  J.  160-1. 


GENEALOGIES.  653 

Aug.,  1772;  20  Rebecca,  b  Oct.   15,   1747,  m  Rev.  Mr.  Hunt, 
of  Preston,  Conn.;  21  Daniel^  Nov.  10,  1750,  d  May,  1826; 

22  Jonathan,  b  Nov.    18,   1752,  d  at  Oxford,  N.  J.,  in  1777; 

23  Samuel,  b  March  13,  1756,  d  Nov.  n,  1802  ;  24  Elizabeth 
b  Dec.  23,  1759,  m  Charles   Sheldon,  of  Springfield,  Mass.; 
25   William,  b  June  28,  1770;  26  Joseph  Sherman,  b  1773. 

TO.  AARON. 

AARON  BELLAMY,  m  Desire  Parker,  Dec.  20,  1753.  He 
resided  in  the  southwest  part  of  Cheshire  on  the  farm  late  the 
property  of  Elias  Gaylord  Jr.,  and  at  this  time  (  1869 ),  the 
property  of  Amos  Rice. 

Children:  27  Rhoda,  b  Oct.  30,  1754;  28  Desire,  b  July  3, 
X758  ',  29  Mary, b  April  18,  1761. 


BENHAM.' 

1.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BENHAM  came  from  New  Haven  to  Wallingford 
in  1670,  with  the  first  settlers  in  the  village,  and  some  of  his 
children  were  born  after  his  removal  there.  The  name  of  his 
wife  who  died  in  Wallingford  was  Winifred.  He  died  in  1702. 

Children:  i  Mary;  2  Joseph,  b  May  25,  1659,  m  Hannah 
Ives,  Aug.  17,  1682;  3  Sarah,  b  1660,  d  1668;  4  Johan- 
nah,  b  July  25,  1762;  5  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  13,  1664;  6 
John,  b  Dec.  28,  1666,  d  1670;  7  John,  b  Nov.  3,  1671,  in 
Wallingford ;  8  Mary,  b  May  18,  1673  '>  9  Samuel,  b  May  12, 
1673  >  IO  Sarah,  b  Sept.  6,  1676;  n  James,  b  about  1679,  d 
1745  ;  12  Winifred,  b  Aug.  21,  1684. 

2.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BENHAM,  Jr.  m  Hannah  Ives,  Aug.  17,  1672,  and 
settled  in  Wallingford. 

Children:   13  Mary,  b  May   18,   1683;  14   Joseph,  b  Dec. 


I   For  collateral  branches,  see  Hinman's  Conn.  Settlers,  195,  196  ;  Sav- 
age's Gen.  Diet,  I.  155. 


654  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

15,  1685,  m  Hope,  dau.  of  Samuel  Cook  ;  15  Abigail,  b  April 
14,  1688,  d  1741. 

II.    JAMES. 

JAMES  BENHAM,  m  Esther  Preston,  Dec.  9,  1702,  in  Wall- 
ingford.  She  died  a  widow  July  3,  1764. 

Children:  14  Jehiel,  b  Feb.  23,  1703-4,  d  July  9,  1780,  ae. 
76;  15  Sarah,  b  April  12,  1706,  m  Henry  Hotchkiss,  Nov. 
23'  r736  ;  16  Esther,  b  March  18,  1709  ;  17  Samuel,  b  Nov. 
9,  1711,  m  Phebe ;  18  John,  b  Dec.  17,  1714,  m  Mary 

— ;  19  Lydia,  b  Jan.  9,  1717  ;  20  Mary,  b  July  27,  1719  ; 
21  Eunice,  b  Aug.  5,  1723. 

14.   JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BENHAM,  3d,  married  Hope,  dau.  of  Samuel  and 
Hope  Cook.  She  died  Jan.  31,  1731. 

Children  :  22  Hannah,  b  Dec.  2,  1708,  m  Samuel  Beach, 
March  23,  1732  ;  23  Esther,  b  March  18,  1709  ;  24  Joseph, 

b  April  5,  1711,  m  Mary ;  25  Enos,  b   Sept.  8,  1713,  m 

Anna  —   — ;  26  Thankful,  b  Feb.  14,   1716;  27  Phebe,  b  May 
20,   1718,  m  Robert  Austin  ;  28  John,  b  Oct.   4,   1723;  29 
Lois,  b  April  30,  1727  ;  30  Esther,  b  March  22,  1730. 
17.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  BENHAM  m  Phebe ,  she  died,  and  he  married 

Dorothy  Hotchkiss,  Dec.  27,  1742. 

Children:  31  Esther,  b   March   4,  1737;  32  Oliver,  b  July 

30,  1743,  m  Dorothy . 

18.  JOHN. 

JOHN  BENHAM  m  Mary  Curtis,  Sept.  23,  1747. 

Children:  34  John,  b  July  15,  1750;  35  Mary,  b  Nov.  6, 
1752  ;  36  Hope,  b  Dec.  21,  1754. 

SERG'T   JOSEPH. 

SERG'T  JOSEPH  BENHAM,  m  Mary  Curtis,  April  5,  1732, 
and  2d,  Mary  Bunnell,  Aug.  3, 1735.  He  died  April  18,  1754. 

Children:  37  Benjamin,  b  May  23,  1733;  38  Reuben,  b 
Sept.  30,  1734,  m  Abigail  Clark  Sept.  10,  1758;  39  Asa,  b 
June  10,  1736;  40  Shradrack,  b  Jan.  14,  1736  ;  41  Martha,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  655 

Aug.  n,  1737,  m  Benjamin  Cook,  Aug.  2,  1759  ;  42  Nathaniel, 
b  Jan.  18,  1739  ;  43  Abigail,  b  Jan.  14,  1740,  d  Nov.  i,  1743  ; 
44  James,  b  Feb.  i,  1745  ;  45  Daniel,  b  July  31,  1758,  d  May 
16,  1761. 

26.    ENOS. 

ENOS  BENHAM  m  Anna  Hull  Aug.  3,  1741. 

Children  :  46  Asaph,  b  Dec.  23,  1741 ;  47  Enos,  b  April  6, 
1744,  d  May  2,  1751  ;  48  Molly,  b  Nov.  16,  1746,  d  Sept.  8, 
*753  ;  49  Samuel,  b  Oct.  i,  1749,  d  Jan.  5,  1751 ;  50  Polly,  b 
March  i,  1752  ;  51  Theophilus,  d  Feb.  i,  1759  ;  52  Samuel,  b 
March  8,  1758  ;  53  Molly,  d  June  29,  1748  ;  54  Anna,  b  Aug. 
29>  T755>  d  Sept.  29,  1760;  55  Enos,  b  Nov.  5,  1761,  d  May 
2,  1760. 

39.  REUBEN. 

REUBEN  BENHAM  m  Abigail  Clark,  Sept.  10,  1758. 

Child:  56  Reuben,  b  June  9,  1761. 

NATHAN. 

NATHAN  BENHAM  married  Mary . 

Children:  57  Hannah,\>  Jan.  9,  1722  ;  58  Patience,  b  Dec. 
23,  1723  ;  59  Ebenezer,\>  Oct.  31,  1726,  m  Elizabeth  Hotch- 
kiss  Nov.  23,  1750;  60  Joel,  b  March  2,  1730,  m  Esther 
Andrews. 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BENHAM  m  Em.  Curtis  Jan.  7,  1735. 

Children:  61  Sarah,  b  Oct.  26,  1735,  d  Dec.  29,  1736; 
62  Isaac,  b  Aug  29,  1736 ;  63  Samuel,  b  June  8,  1755,  d  April 
22,  1759;  64,  Uri,  b  Dec.  15,  1751.  He  settled  on  a  farm 
near  the  Honey-pot  brook  in  Cheshire;  65  Sarah,  b  Dec.  25, 
1741  ;  66  Elizabeth,  b  March  23,  1745,  d  Aug.  10,  1758;  67 
Em.,  b  June  5,  1745,  d  May  20,  1751  ;  68  Lois,  b  July  13,  1750; 
69  Elisha,  b  Nov.  17,  1753. 

60.  JOEL. 

JOEL  BENHAM,  married  Esther  Andrews,  Dec.  7,  1752,111  2d, 
Elizabeth . 

Children :  70  James,  b  Oct.  26,  1753  ;  71  Elizabeth,  b  Mar. 


656  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

7>  I75S>  72  Ebenezer,  b  July  21,   1756;  73   Lyman,  by  2nd 
wife,  b  Oct.  i,  1760. 

59.    EBENEZER. 

EBEN"EZER  BENHAM  married  Elizabeth  Hotchkiss  Nov.  23, 
1780. 

Child:  74  Sarah,  b  Sept.  18,  1763. 

62.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  BENHAM    married  Lucy  Cook,  May  n,  1758. 
Child:  75  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  19,  1758. 


BLAKESLEE.' 

The  name  of  Blakeslee,  on  the  early  records,  is  written  in 
twenty-five  or  more  different  ways.  It  is  now  generally 
spelled  as  above. 

There  is  a  tradition  among  the  descendants  that  two  broth- 
ers of  the  name  of  Blakeslee  came  from  the  west  of  England, 
designing  to  settle  in  the  Plymouth  Colony,  and  that  one  of 
them  died  on  the  passage.  The  other  came  to  Plymouth, 
where  he  died  in  the  early  days  of  the  Colony,  leaving  one 
son,  who  was  placed  with  a  blacksmith  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  learn  the  trade.  It  is  also  asserted  that  the  brothers 
brought  an  anvil  with  them,  and  that  it  was  seen  but  a  few 
years  since  in  Roxbury,  Conn. 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  and  Elizabeth  Blakeslee  appear  to  be  the  first 
of  the  name  in  Wallingford  ;  they  were  in  the  place  about  the 
year  1712  ;  of  their  history  very  little  now  appears. 

Children:  i  Obedience,  b  June  13,  1713,  m  Joshua  How;  2 
Jemima,  b  Oct.  13,  1717  ;  3  Susannah,  b  March  15,  1719,  m 
Andrew  Parker,  April  27,  1736;  ^Elizabeth,  b  July  8,  1721, 
m  Gamaliel  Parker  ;  5  Abigail,  b  Sept.  8,  1723,  m  Elijah  Oak- 
ley;  6  Zerita/i,b  Jan.  16,  1726,  m  Nathaniel  Ives,  Nov.  8, 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Bronson's  Hist.  Waterbury,  469-77 ; 
Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  I.  189-190. 


GENEALOGIES.  657 

1744  ;  7  Phebe,  b  Nov.  i,  1728  ;  8  Thankful,  b  Nov.  26,  1729, 
m   Justus   Hoalt,   April    26,   1849;  9   Hannah;  10  Joseph,  b 
April    i,    1732  ;   n    Miriam,  b  Oct.  4,   1735',  m  Joshua  How 
Oct.  14,  1756;  12  Phebe,  b  July  i,  1744. 
10.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BLAKESLEE  married  Lois  Ives,  April  i,  1757. 

Children:  13  Elizabeth,  b  July  14,  1758;  14-15  Lois  and 
Joseph  (twins  ),  b  Jan.  9,  1762  ;  16  Joseph,  b  1766,  d  Dec  19, 
1831,  ae.  65  ;  17 


BRISTOL.' 

HENRY. 

HENRY  BRISTOL  was  in  Wallingford  in  the  early  part  of 
the  last  century,  and  settled  in  the  parish  of  New  Cheshire, 
where  he  died,  1750  ;  m  Desire  Bristol. 

Children  :  i  Jonathan,  b  Dec.  27,  1725  ;  2  Lydia,  b  March 
16,  1728  ;  3  Desire,  m  Thomas  Brooks,  Feb.  12,  1728  ;  4 
Austin,  d  before  his  father,  1750  ;  5  Henry,  d  before  his 
father,  1748  ;  6  Amos,  m  Joanna  Parker  of  Wallingford  ;  7 
Simeon,  graduated  at  Yale  College  ;  8  Gideon,  b  1722,  d  July 
15,  1747,  ae.  25  ;  9  Augustus,  b  1720,  d  Feb.  4,  1742,  as.  22. 

I  JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  BRISTOL  m  Elizabeth ,  m  2nd,  Susannah 

Peck,  Oct.  1 6,  1761. 

Children  :   10  Gideon,  b  June  n,  1755  >  JI  Lowly,  b  Feb.  20, 

X753  j  I2  Jonathan,  b  August  i,  1760,  m  Thankful . 

5  HENRY. 

HENRY  and  Lois  Bristol,  of  Cheshire  in  Wallingford  ;  he 
died  1748-9. 

Children  :  13  Mary,  b  March  12,  1742  ;  14  Sarah,  b  June 
10,  1744;  15  Damaris ;  \6Henry. 


i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Redfield's  Gen.  of  the  Kedfield  family,  36. 


658  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

6.    AMOS. 

AMOS  and  Joanna  (  Parker)  Bristol. 

Children:  17  Thomas,  b  March  28,  1741;  18  Augustus,  b 
July  19,  1743  ;  19  Hannah,  b  March  20,  1745  ;  20  Amos,  b 
May  6,  1751  ;  21  Ezra,  b  January  9,  1753  ;  22  Reuben,  b 
Oct.  i,  1755  ;  23  Lydia,\>  Sept.  15,  1757  ;  24  Lucy,  b  Sept. 
10,  1759. 

BROCKETT.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  BROCKETT  came  to  Wallingford  with  John  Moss  from 
New  Haven,  in  1667  or  1668,  and  was  chosen  by  the  people 
of  New  Haven  as  one  of  the  committee  to  manage  the  affairs 
of  the  settlement.  He  was  frequently  called  to  fill  many  of 
the  public  offices  of  the  village,  and  after  its  incorporation,  to 
represent  the  town  in  the  General  Court.  His  house  lot  wa,s 
No.  i,  at  the  extreme  south  end  of  the  village,  extending  from 
the  Old  Colony  road  east  toward  Wharton's  Brook,  twenty 
rods  wide  and  forty  rods  long  ;  subsequently  it  was  extended 
to  the  Brook.  The  land  on  which  now  stands  the  house  of 
the  heirs  of  the  late  Edward  Hall,  is  a  part  of  this  grant. 
He  died  March  12,  1689,  ae.  80  years. 

Children :  i  John,  b  in  England,  was  a  physician,  and  set- 
tled near  Muddy  river  in  North  Haven;  2  Benjamin,  b  1648, 
m  Lydia  Elcock,  he  died  May  22,  1679;  3  Abigail,  b  March 
10,  1649  ;  4  Samuel,\*  Jan.  14,  1650,  m  Sarah  Bradley,  May  21, 
1682  ;  5  Jabez,  b  Oct.  24,  1654,  m  Dorothy  Lyman,  Nov.  20, 
1691  ;  6  Silence,  m  Joseph  Bradley  ;  7  Mary,  m  William  Pen- 
nington  of  New  Jersey. 

i.  JOHN. 

DR.  JOHN  BROCKETT  m  Elizabeth  ,   and  settled   at 

Muddy  River  as  a  farmer  and  physician,  and  remained   there 

i   For  collateral  branches,  see  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  I.  257,  258. 


GENEALOGIES.  659 

during  his  life- time.  He  died  1720.  He  settled  the  estate  of 
his  father  in  1689-90.  At  his  death  he  gave  all  his  property 
to  his  widow  Elizabeth,  by  will.  He  had  a  son  Moses,  b 
April  23,  1679. 

2.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  BROCKETT  m  Lydia  Elcock,  Dec.  16,  1720. 

Children:  8  Martha,  b  Oct.  2,  1721;  9  Zilla,  b  June  17, 
1723,  d  March  20,  1737;  10  Alice,  b  Feb.  12,  1725;  n 
Hezekiah,  b  Dec.  31,  1727  ;  12  Lydia,  b  March  14,  1729,  d 
Nov.  17,  1729;  13  Lydia,  d  March  7,  1731^  14  Benjamin,  b 
May  2,  1733  ;  15  Zenieh,  d  March  21,  1737  ;  16  Lydia,  b 
March  20,  1737  ;  17  Sarah. 

4.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  BROCKETT  m  Sarah  Bradley,  Nov.  21,  1682. 

Children:  18  Samuel,  b  Feb.  15,  1682,  m  Rachel  Brown, 
April  15,  1699  ;  19  Daniel,  b  Sept.  30,  1684  ;  20  John,  b  Nov. 
8,  1685,  m  Huldah  Ells;  21  Joseph,  b  Oct.  25,  1688;  22 
Josiah,  b  July  25,  1691;  23  Alice,  b  April  23,  1693;  24. 
Josiah,  b  July  25,  1698,  m  Deborah  Abbott. 

5.    JABEZ. 

JABEZ  BROCKET,  m  Dorothy  Lyman,  Nov.  20,   1691. 

Children:  25  Joseph,  b  Sept.  17,  1692  ;  26-27  James  and 
Dorothy  (twins),  b  March  16,  1695  j  2^  Mary,  b  March  16, 
1699;  29  an  infant  dau.,  b  May  14,  1696,  d  June  10,  1696; 
30  Gz/W>,  b  July  5,  1697  ;  33  Gideon,  b  April  15,  1699,  d  May 
8>  1705  ;  32  Andrew,  b  July  6,  1701. 

18.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  BROCKETT  m  Rachel  Brown,  April  15,  1699;  she 
died  Jan.  24,  1718.  He  married  Elizabeth  How,  Aug.  5,  1718. 
Children:  33  Titus,  b  June  28,  1700,  m  Mary  Turhand  ; 
34  Sarah,  b  Aug.  26,  1702;  35  Isaac,  b  Sept.  3,  1705,  m 
Mary  Sedgwick,  June  16,  1733  ;  36  Rachel,  b  March  20,  1708; 
37  Abigail,  b  Feb.  u,  1711  ;  38  Samuel,  b  June  21,  1714. 

20.  JOHN. 
JOHN  BROCKETT  married  Huldah  Ells,  March  i,  1711. 


660  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  39  Daniel,  b  April  3,  1712,  m  Rachel  —  — ;  40 
Darid,  b  Nov.  28,  1714;  41  Anna,  b  Feb.  2,  1715,  m  Gideon 
Hotchkiss,  Jan.  18,  1737;  42  Christopher,  b  April  3,  1718 ; 
43  Mehitable,  b  April  3,  1719  ;  44  Elisha,  b  May  31,  1726  ; 
45  John,\>  Feb.  14,  1728. 

24.  JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH  BROCKETT  m  Deborah  Abbot,  Nov.  16,  1725.   He  m 

2nd,  Mary ,  who  survived  him  and  m  Captain  Isaac  Bron- 

son  of  Waterbury,  Feb.  13,  1755,  she  d  Aug.  i,  1816. 

Children  by  ist  wife  :  46  Hannah,  b  Sept.  22,  1725  ;by  2nd, 
47  y°b>  b  Sept.  20,  1727,  m  Martha  Ebenathe;  48  Sarah, 
b  Dec.  7,  1728,  m  James  Bronson,  Aug.  22,  1750 ;  49  Abigail, 
b  July  23,  1732  ;  50  Mary,  b  Feb.  22,  1735  >  51  -Elizabeth,  b 
April  15,  1736. 

33.    TITUS. 

TITUS  BROCKETT  m  Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  Turhand,  of 
Wallingford,  Feb.  12,  1728.  He  was  one  of  the  most  active 
Episcopalians  in  the  place,  and  was  one  of  the  four  largest 
contributors  toward  the  erection  of  the  second  church  edifice, 
in  1762,  which,  until  within  a  few  years,  occupied  the  lot  on 
the  corner  opposite  the  Isaac  Peck  house,  on  which  a  school- 
house  is  about  being  erected,  the  lot  having  been  given  to  the 
town  for  that  purpose  by  the  late  Moses  Yale  Beach  Esq. 
Mr.  Brockett  died  July  29,  1773,  ae.  74  years.  His  wife  died 
May  i,  1777,  ae.  64  years. 

Child:    52    Turhand,  b  March  7,   1733,  d  May  23,   1738; 

The  disease  of  which  Mr.  Titus  Brockett  died  was  small- 
pox. He  was  a  member  of  Parson  Andrews'  Episcopal 
church,  and  a  strong  Tory.  Parties  had  been  formed  for 
and  against  the  British  Government.  In  Wallingford  they 
ran  extremely  high,  and  just  two  years  before,  Rev.  Mr  An- 
drews delivered  his  celebrated  Fast-day  sermon,  that  compelled 
him  to  leave  for  Nova  Scotia.  At  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Brockett 
the  Whigs  would  not  have  him  buried  with  other  members 
of  the  family,  but  compelled  Turhand  Kirtland  and  two 
others,  to  have  the  grave  dug  on  a  wet,  springy  place,  directly 


GENEALOGIES.  66 1 

under  the  east  fence  of  the  burying-ground,  so  that  the"  water 
immediately  filled  the  grave,  though  in  mid-summer.  It  was 
therefore  necessary  to  sink  the  coffin  with  two  rails  till  the 
earth  could  be  returned.  For  a  long  time  these  rails  remained 
standing  up  out  of  the  grave,  and  did  not  decay.  Some  of 
the  family  supposed  that  the  timber  was  supernaturally 
preserved,  as  a  testimony  against  the  wicked  whigs. 
35.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  BROCKETT  married  Mary  Sedgwick,  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Ruth  Sedgwick  of  Hartford,  June  16,  1731.  She 
died  Jan.  19,  1734.  He  married  Elizabeth  Culver,  Feb.  25, 
1737,  who  after  his  death  married  Daniel  Frisbie,  May  4, 
1748.  He  died  Oct.  18,  1746.  He  was  an  ardent  churchman. 

Child  by  ist  marriage:  53  Rachel,  b  May  23,  1732,  m  Con- 
stant Kirtland.  Children  by  2d  marriage  :  54  Ruth,  b  Feb. 
3>  T73^;  55  Esther,  b  Oct.  6,  1739;  56  Hannah,  b  Oct.  6, 
1741 ;  57  Ruth,  b  Oct.  26,  1744. 

38.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  BROCKETT  married  Ruth .  He  was  a  son  of 

Samuel  and  Rachel  Brockett. 

Children:  58  Eunice,  b  Jan.  15,  1744  ;  59  Zuer,  b  Mar.  24, 
1746;  60  Joel,  b  June  14,  1749;  61  Joel,  b  July  28,  1750; 
62  Zenas,  b  July  12,  1752  ;  63  Benjamin,  b  Oct.  i,  1760. 

39.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  BROCKETT,  son  of  John  and  Huldah,  m  Rachel . 

Children:  64  Daniel,  b  July  3,  1737;  65  Daniel,  b  April 
13,  1740. 

45-  JOHN. 

JOHN  BROCKETT,  son  of  John  and  Huldah  Brockett,  mar- 
ried Jemima . 

Children:  66  Christopher,  b  June  2,  1749  ;  67  Susannah,  b 
Nov.  17,  1750. 

47-  JOB- 
JOB  BROCKETT,  son  of  Josiah  and  Deborah  Brockett,  m 
Martha  Ebernathe. 

Child  :  68  Lucretia,  b  July  27,  1756. 
T  T  « 


662  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

BROWN.' 
FRANCIS. 

FRANCIS  BROWN  married  Mary  Edwards,  in  England,  and 
came  over  to  America,  and  to  New  Haven,  in  advance  of  the 
colony ;  was  one  of  the  company  that  spent  the  winter  of 
1637-8  in  a  hut  which  they  had  erected  on  the  east  corner 
of  what  is  now  College  and  George-sts.  He  was  one  of  the 
subscribers  to  the  colony  compact,  or  constitution,  in  1639. 

Children  :  i  Lydia ;  2  John  ;  3  Eleazer ;  4  Samuel ' ;  5  Eb- 
enezer. 

4.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  married  Mercy  Tuttle,  May  2,  1667,  ar>d  was  one  of 
the  original  subscribers  for  the  settlement  of  the  village  of 
Wallingford.  Lot  No.  7,  west  side  of  the  Main  street,  was  as- 
signed to  him  for  his  encouragement,  as  a  house  lot.  But 
it  does  not  appear  that  he  ever  built  upon  it ;  why  he  did  not 
is  unknown.  This  lot  was  subsequently  assigned  to  John 
Moss,  who  built  a  house  upon  it ;  and  it  remained  in  the  family 
until  the  death  of  the  late  Ebenezer  Morse,  a  few  years  since. 
In  1850  Moses  Y.  Beach  purchased  this  lot,  and  erected  that 
elegant  mansion,  now  known  as  the  Beach  House,  upon  it. 
Samuel  Brown  died  in  Wallingford,  Nov.  4,  1691,  ae.  46  yrs. 

Children:  6  Abigail,  b  March  n,  1669,  d  young;  7  Sarah, 
b  Aug.  8,  1672  ;  8  Rachel,  b  April  14,  1677  ;  9  Francis,  b  Oct. 
7,  1679;  10  Gideon,  b  July  12,  1685;  n  Samuel,  b  Oct.  29, 
1699. 2 


BUNNEL.3 

PETER. 

PETER  BUNNEL  came  from  England  in  the  May-flower,  with 
the  Pilgrims,  and  landed  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1620. 


1  Durrie  refers  to  45  works  for  collateral  branches. 

2  Bronson  in  Hist,  of  Waterbury  gives  descendants  of  above. 

3  For  collateral  branches,  see  Hinman's  Conn,  settlers,  405,  406. 


GENEALOGIES.  663 

RICHARD. 

RICHARD  BUNNEL  came  from  England  in  1630,  and  settled 
at  Watertown,  Mass. 

BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  BUNNEL  was  an  early  settler  in  Wallingford  ; 
was  made  a  freeman  in  1670.  He  was  at  New  Haven  in 
1668,  and  possibly  previous  to  that  date.  He  married  Mary 
Brooks,  and  had  a  daughter,  i  Lydia,  b  Aug.  27,  1713. 

2.   ABNER. 

ABNER  BUNNEL,  born  in  1676. 

Children  :  3  Abner ;   4  David ;   5  Enos,  m  Truelove , 

she  d  May  7,  1717,  ag.  22  ;  6  Ebenezer,  b  1716. 

NATHANIEL. 

ENSIGN  NATHANIEL  BUNNEL  was  an  early  settler  in  that 
part  of  Wallingford  now  Cheshire,  where  he  married  Desire, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Peck,  May  10,  1709.  She  was  born 
Aug.  26,  1687,  and  died  in  1721.  He  married  Mary  Brooks, 
Feb.  17,  1726,  and  died  of  small  pox,  May  4,  1732,  ae.  46  yrs. 
He  appears  to  have  been  the  ancestor  of  all  who  have  gone 
from  Cheshire  that  bear  the  name  of  Bunnel. 

Children:  7  Desire,  b  March  26,  1711  ;  8  Ebenezer,  b  May 
21,  1713,  m  Lydia  Clark;  9  Benjamin,  b  April  16,  1715;  10 
Parmineas,  b  March  i,  1717  ;  11,12,  Jared  and  Desire  (twins), 
b  June  25,  1719  ;  13  Abner,  b  March  24,  1721,  m  Elizabeth 
Preston,  Feb.  19,  1746  ;  14  Joseph,  b  Jan.  17,  1723.  By 
2nd  marriage:  15  Patience,  b  Nov.  28,  1726;  16  Hezekiah,  b 

Nov.  21,  1727,  m  Esther ;  17  Rachel,  b  Nov.  15,  1728, 

m  Samuel  Thompson,  June  27,  1747;  18  Rebecca,  b  Jan.  6, 
1730;  19  Stephen,  b  July  6,  1731. 

8.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  BUNNEL  m  Lydia  Clark  of  Cheshire,  1738. 

Children:  20  Nathaniel,  b  June  4,  1739  ',  21  Jared,  b  Oct. 
6,  1741  ;  22  Lydia,  b  May  4,  1744  ;  23  Israel,  b  March  17, 
1747  ;  24  Ebenezer,  b  Feb.  15,  1750,  d  March  i,  1756;  25 


664  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Lydia,  b  Jan.    26,    1753;  26   Hannah,  b  April  n,  1756;  27 
Desire,  b  Jan.  7,  1759  ;     28  Miriam,  b  March  20,  1762. 

9.     BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  BUNNEL  married  Lydia  Fox,  Dec.  22,  1743. 
Children:   29   Benjamin,  b    July   15,    1747;  30   Samuel,   b 
Jan.  7,  1750. 

IO.    PARMINEAS. 

PARMINIAS  BUNNEL  m  Rachel  Curtis,  Sept.  20,  1739. 
After  his  death  she  married  Samuel  Thompson,  June  7,  1741. 

Children:  31  Desire,  b  May  19,  1740;  32  Parmineas,  b 
Jan.,  1742  ;  33  Mary,  b  Jan.  6,  1745  ;  34  John,  b  April  18, 
X746  ;  35  Rachel,  b  July  2,  1748  ;  36  Desire,  b  Nov.  7,  1750  ; 
36  Damaris,  b  June  30,  1752  ;  38  John,  b  July  25,  1754. 

13    ABNER. 

ABNER  BUNNEL  m  Elizabeth  Preston,  Feb.  19,  1756. 

Children:  39  David,  b  Dec.  2,  1747  ;  40  Abner,  b  Nov.  18, 
1749  ;  41  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  20,  1751  ;  42  Enos,  b  May  15, 
1753,  m  Naomi,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Hannah  Atwater  ;  43 
Reuben,  b  Feb.  22,  1755  ;  44  Samuel,  b  May  12,  1757  ;  45 
Esther,  b  March  26,  1759  ;  46  Jehiel,  b  Oct.  6,  1763 

14.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  BUNNEL  m   Hannah  Hotchkiss,  Feb.  28,  1745. 
Children:  47  Eunice,  b  May  23,   1745  ;  48  Miriam,   b  May 


l6.    HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH  BUNNEL  m  Esther  -  . 

Children:  49  Nathaniel,  b  Jan.  23.  1734,  m  Lois  Rice,  June 
17^759;  5°  Titus,  b  Nov.  9,  1735  ;  51  Esther,  b  Nov.  31, 
1737- 

19.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  BUNNEL  married  Mary  Hendrick,  Sept.  26,  1752. 

Children  :  52  Lois,  b  July  i,  1754;  53   Mary,  b  March  27, 

1756  ;  54  Levi,  b  July  19,  1759;  55  Eunice,  b  June  10,  1761. 


GENEALOGIES.  665 

23.    ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  BUNNEL  married  Jerusha  Dowd,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Dowd  of  Middletown.  He  was  a  large  landholder  in 
Cheshire,  and  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  active  men  in 
the  town,  and  for  many  consecutive  years  served  as  selectman, 
and  in  various  other  offices  in  the  gift  of  his  fellow- townsmen. 
His  death  was  greatly  lamented  by  all  who  knew  him,  and 
especially  by  his  neighbors  and  friends. 

Children:  56  Nathaniel,  d  in  Cheshire  ;  57  Rufus ;  58  Vir- 
gil;  59  Israel;  60  J 'air us,  d  in  New  Haven;  61  Ebenezer ; 
62  Dennis ;  63  Hannah  ;  64  Jerusha,  m  Doct.  Pierre  E.  Bran- 
don. 


CANNON. 

LYMAN. 

LYMAN  CANNON,  married ,  a  daughter  of  the  late 

Elisha  Smith,  of  Wallingford.  He  carried  on  the  tin  busi- 
ness with  considerable  success  during  his  whole  life  in 
Wallingford.  He  was  a  Deacon  in  the  Congregational 
church. 

Children  :  Burdett,  d  in  Wallingford  ;  William,  resided  in 
New  Haven  ;  James,  d  in  New  Haven  in  1868 ;  i  daughter. 

CARTER. 

This  name  appears  in  Wallingford  before  1738,  in  the  per- 
sons of  William  and  Anna  Carter.  They  had  a  daughter  born 
Nov.  20,  1738,  and  a  son,  William,  born  Nov.  14,  1748,  and 
perhaps  others.  Dea.  Salmon  Carter  was  one  of  the  old  in- 
habitants sixty  years  ago,  in  Wallingford.  He  carried  on  cabi- 
net making  and  a  small  store.  He  by  close  application  to  busi- 
ness and  rigid  economy  in  all  his  affairs,  accumulated  a  very 

handsome  estate.     He  married Hough,   daughter  of 

Joseph  and Hough,  of  Wallingford.     In  appearance 

he  was  a  sedate,  and  remarkably  dignified  man  in  his  manners 


666  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

and  address,  but  little  seen  in  the  public  streets,  except  on 
business 

Children :  i  Salome,  d  unm. ;  2  Betsey,  m  Lyman  Collins, 
of  Meriden  ;  3  William,  m  wid.  Hiram  Yale,  of  Wallingford, 
left  no  children. 


CARRINGTON.' 

This  family  is  one  of  great  antiquity.  Sir  Michael  Carring- 
ton,  who  was  a  standard  bearer  to  Richard  I.,  1189,  is  the  first 
of  whom  I  find  any  record.  His  grandson  Sir  William  Car- 
rington  was  an  officer  under  Edward  I.,  1272-1307.  Sir 
Edmund  Carrington,  Kt.,  was  an  officer  under  Edward  II., 
1307-27.  Sir  William  Carrington,  Kt,  temp,  of  Edward 
III.  1327-77.  Sir  Thomas  Carrington,  Kt,  Steward  (of  the 
household)  to  Edward  III.,  was  the  father  of  John  Carrington, 
who  in  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.  for  his  ad- 
herence to  Richard  II.  ( who  was  deposed )  was  compelled  to 
flee  from  his  country,  and  on  returning  assumed  for  disguise  the 
name  of  Smith.  He  died  1446,  and  was  father  of  Hugh  (  Car- 
rington )  Smith,  who  appears  to  have  been  the  father  of  (  1445- 
1500)  Sir  John  Carrington  Smith,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer, 
temp.  Henry  VIII.,  whose  fourth  son  (  1509-47)  Francis  (Car- 
rington )  Smith,  of  Ashley  Tolville,  Leicester,  was  great  grand- 
father of  Charles  (  Carrington  )  Smith,  who  was  created  Oct. 
31,  1643,  Lord  C ,  Baron  of  "Wotton  Warren  "  in  War- 
wickshire, 4th  of  Nov.,  following  Viscount  Carrington  in  the 
Peerage  of  Ireland,  was  murdered  by  his  valet  at  Pontoise  in 
France,  Feb.  21,  1664,  and  was  succeeded  by  Francis  Car- 
rington Smith,  2d  Baron  and  Viscount.  He  died  in  1705. 
Charles,  his  son,  died  young,  in  May,  1706.  The  title  and 
honor  thus  became  extinct. 

John   Carrington   was   an  early   settler  in  Farmington,  and 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  338  ;  Camp- 
bell's Hist.  Virginia,  624-625;  Foot's  Hist.  Virginia,  2nd  series,  575; 
Hinman's  Conn.  Settlers,  491-492  ;  Mead's  Hist,  of  Old  Churches  and 
Families  of  Virginia,  n.  29. 


GENEALOGIES.  667 

one  of  the  "  eighty-four  proprietors"  in  1672.  He  signed  the 
articles  for  the  settlement  of  Mattatuck,  Waterbury,  in  1674, 
and  appears  to  have  joined  the  new  plantation  early;  for  he 
is  named  in  all  the  divisions  of  fences.  It  appears  that  for 
some  cause  he  did  not  fully  comply  with  the  conditions  of  the 
new  plantation  covenant,  and  was  consequently  declared  to 
have  forfeited  his  rights,  Feb.  6,  1682.  But  little  is  known  of 
him.  He  died  in  the  early  part  of  1690,  leaving  a  widow 
who  died  before  the  inventory  of  his  effects  was  rendered, 
June  30,  1690.  His  son  John  was  the  administrator,  and  the 
estate  amounted  to  ^120  us.  John  had  ,£23,  and  each  of 
the  other  children  had  £12  ;  their  guardians  were  instructed 
to  put  out  the  three  youngest,  and  not  to  be  governed  or  over- 
ruled by  John  the  administrator.  John's  brothers  were  Ebe- 
nezer,  Samuel  and  Ezekiel.  John  Carrington's  house-lot  of 
two  acres  was  on  West  Main-sr.,  the  south  side,  about  where 
Leavenworth  street  now  runs.  It  was  bounded  north  and 
south  on  the  highway,  east  on  Timothy  Stanley,  west  on 
George  Scott.  It  was  sold  in  1710,  by  the  heirs  to  Timothy 
Stanley  and  George  Scott,  for  ^"12. 

Children:  i  John,  b  1667,  d  1692  in  Farmington,  he  was 
a  cooper;  2  Mary,  b  1672,  m  William  Parsons  of  Farming- 
ton,  Ct.  ;  3  Hannah,  b  1675,  m  Joshua  Holcombe  of  Sims- 
bury,  Ct. ;  4  Clark,  b  1678,  m  Sarah  Higason,  and  lived  in 
Farmington  :  5  Elizabeth,  b  1682,  m  John  Hoskins  of  Wind- 
sor ;  6  Ebenezer,  b  1687,  removed  to  Hartford,  d  in  Waterbury, 
had  no  issue. 

I.  JOHN. 

JOHN  CARRINGTON,  first  of  Waterbury,  married  Miss 

Hunn.  from  Mass.  He  married  for  his  second  wife  Miss . 

He  lived  on  a  farm  at  Red  Stone  Hill  in  Farmington,  where 
he  died. 

Children  by  ist  marriage :  7  Nathaniel,  m,  had  no  issue,  d 
on  the  old  homestead  ;  8  John,  m  Mabel  Beach  in  New  York, 
was  a  merchant  in  Goshen,  d  a  young  man ;  9  Jeremiah,  b 
1746,  m  Mindwell  Cook  and  settled  in  Wallingford,  where 


668  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

he  kept  a  tavern  a  great   number  of  years;  10   Deborah,  m 

Rice,  she  died  at  Onondaga,  N.  Y.,  a  woman  of  great 

worth;  u  Keziah,  m  ist,  —  -  Munson,  2d,  Esq.  Oliver  Stan- 
ley of  Wallingford ;  12  "Martha,  m  Fisk  Beach  of  Goshen, 
brother  of  Mabel,  had  8  children.  By  2d  marriage  :  13  Jona- 
than, b  1748,  m  Azubah  Burns  of  Bristol,  d  1733  ';  r4  Solomon, 
d  in  the  old  prison  ship  New  York  ;  1 5  Phineas,  d  supposed 
in  the  service  of  the  U.  States ;  16  David. 

8.  JOHN. 

JOHN  CARRINGTON,  son  of  John  and Hunn  Car- 

rington,  married  Mabel  Beach,  of  Goshen,  Conn.  He  was  a 
merchant  in  Goshen.  He  died  of  a  fever  in  New  York  while 
a  young  man. 

Children:  17  Harvey,  m  Catlin,  children,  John 

and  Lucia;  18  Elisha,  m  Judy  Thompson,  she  died  leaving 
7  daughters  and  i  son  ;  19  Miles,  resides  in  Augusta  N.  Y., 
is  accounted  a  good  man ;  20  Anna,  m  a  lawyer  named 
Dawes,  had  2  children,  she  died  young;  21  Mabel,  m.,  and 
lived  in  humble  circumstances. 

JEREMIAH. 

JEREMIAH  CARRINGTON,  son  of  John  and Hunn 

Carrington,  married  Mindwell  Cook,  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Jerusha,  of  Wallingford,  and  was  the  keeper  of  the  hotel 
now  kept  by  Dwight  Hall  in  the  village  of  Wallingford,  for  a 
number  of  years.  He  died  Dec.  17,  1812,  ae.  66  years. 
She  died  Jan.  7,  1813,  ae.  64  years. 

Children:  22  James,  b  1770,  d  July  6,  1836,  ae.  66,  m  Patty 
McLean,  she  died  March  12,  1836,  ae.  64;  23  Liverius,  b  1778, 
d  Dec.  22,  1848,  ae.  70. 

22.    JAMES. 

JAMES  CARRINGTON,  son  of  Capt.  Jeremiah  and  Mindwell 
Carrington,  m  Patty  McLean  of  Wallingford.  He  was  an 
energetic  and  thorough  business  man,  and  for  many  years 
was  in  the  employ  of  Eli  Whitney  Esq.,  as  superintendent  of 
the  Gun  Factory  at  Whitneyville.  He  was  Postmaster  at 


GENEALOGIES.  669 

Wallingford  many  years,  and  leader  of  the  singing  in  the  old 
three-story  meeting-house,  being  a  fine  musician,  and  possessed 
of  a  remarkably  full,  well-toned  bass  voice. 

Children:  24  Miles,  now  of  Mobile,  Ala. ;  25  James  Whit- 
ney, Astoria,  N.  Y.;  and  several  daughters. 

23.  LIVERIUS. 

LIVERIUS  CARRINGTON,  son  of  Capt.  Jeremiah  and  Mind- 
well  Carrington,  m  ist,  Thankful  Hall,  2nd,  Eliza  Kirtland, 
3d,  Sarah  Kirtland  Yale,  wid.  of  Selden  Yale,  and  sister  to 
Eliza,  his  2nd  wife.  He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Kirtland 
of  Wallingford.  Not  liking  the  professsion  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  the  late  George  B.  Kirtland,  and  entered  the 
mercantile  business,  in  which  he  continued  until  his  decease 
in  1840. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  27  William,  b  about  1807, 
successor  to  the  old  firm,  C.  &  K.  ;  28  Anna,  and  an  infant, 
both  of  whom  died,  Anna  at  the  age  of  17.  Children  by 
2nd  marriage:  29  Sarah  K. ;  30  Anna,  m  Joel  Peck,  late 
deceased.  Children  by  3d  marriage:  31  Kirtland,  business 
clerk ;  32  Ellen. 


CLARK.' 

I.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  CLARK,  son  of  James,  of  New  Haven,  born 
Nov.  29,  1651,  m  Sarah,  daughter  of  James  Peck,  of  New 
Haven,  May  6,  1678  ;  she  died  May  20,  1696,  ae.  37  years. 
He  died  April  30,  1721,  ge.  70  years.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Royce  for  his  2nd  wife,  Dec.  22,  1696.  He  was  the  first  of 
this  name  in  Wallingford. 

Children :  by  ist  m,  i  Caleb,  b  March  6,  1678  ;  2  Sarah,  b 
Aug.  20,  1681,  m  Isaac  Cook,  Oct.  u,  1706;  3  Josiah,\> 
Feb.  6,  1683,  m  Mary  Burr;  4  Stephen,  b  Dec.  18,  1686;  5 
__ i *_ 

I  Durrie  refers  to  fifty-two  works  containing  notices  of  the  Clark 
family. 


6/O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Hannah,  b  Aug.  18,  1689,  d  before  her  father  ;  6  Sylvanus,  b 
Feb.  i,  1691-2,  m  Damaris  Hitchcock  in  1717  ;  7  Obadiah,  b 
Oct.  17,  1694,  d  before  his  father  ;  8  Stephen,  b  Dec.  7,  1696, 
d  Mar.  25,  1750.  By  2nd  marriage:  9  Eliphalet,  b  Dec.  28, 
1697  ;  10  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  24,  1698,  d  before  her  father  ;  n 
Susannah,  b  April  29,  1700,  d  before  her  father  ;  12  Caleb,  b 
Sept.  26,  1701,  m  Lois  How,  Jan.  19,  1722  ;  13  Phebe,  b  May 

20,  1703  ;  14  Daniel,  b  Feb.  7,  1712,  m  Elizabeth ,  she  d 

April  17,  1755  ;  15  Abigail,  b  June  8,  1705  ;   16  James,  b  Sept. 
29,  1713,  d  before  his  father;   17  Susannah,  b  Sept.  30,  1717  ; 
18  Sarah,  b  Sept.  24,  1721,  d  June  18,  1722. 

3.  JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH  CLARK,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah  Clark  of 
Wallingford,  m  Mary  Burr,  April  21,  1710. 

Children:  19  Solomon,  b  March  6,  1711  ;  20  Mary,  b  Mar. 
22,  1723. 

6.    SYLVANUS. 

SYLVANUS  CLARK,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah  Clark,  mar- 
ried Damaris  Hitchcock,  April  22,  1717. 

Children:  21  Jonah,  b  Jan.  31,  1718;  22  Thankful,  b  Dec. 

21,  1719,  m  James  Curtis,  Nov.  n,  1738. 

8.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  CLARK,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah  Clark,  m 
Lydia  Hotchkiss  of  Cheshire.  She  died  Nov.  i,  1737,  ae.  41. 
He  died  Nov.  25,  1750,  ae.  64  years,  at  Cheshire.  His  sec- 
ond wife  was  Ruth . 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  23  Lydia,  b  Nov.  25,  1718;  24 
Sarah,  b  Sept.  24,  1721  ;  25  Andmv,  b  Oct.  24,  1727,  m 
Mehitable  Tuttle,  Feb.  7,  1748.  Children  by  2nd  marriage : 
26  Desmania,  b  Sept.  26,  1751  ;  27  Amasa,  b  Nov.  25,  1753  ; 
28  Mary,  b  Oct.  4,  1756;  29  Stephen,  b  Dec.  16,  1785,  m 
Mehitable ;  30  Lew,  b  Jan.  n,  1761. 

12.  CALEB. 

CALEB,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  Clark,  married  Lois 
How,  Jan.  19,  1722. 


GENEALOGIES.  6/1 

Children :  31  Margery,  b  April  14,  1723  ;  32  Eunice,  b  Mar. 
23*  J72S  ;  33  Phebe,  b  Mar.  i,  1728  ;  34  Lois,  b  Aug.  31,  1730. 

14.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  Clark,  married 
Elizabeth  Miles,  Sept.  17,  1741;  she  died  April  17,  1755. 
He  m  again  in  1741  ;  he  died  Aug.  17,  1774,  as.  63  yrs. 

Children  :  35  Lois,  b  Nov.  12,  1743  ;  36  Archibald,  b  Sept. 
i,  1745-6,  m  Polly  Ives,  of  North  Haven;  37  Ebenezer; 
38  Daniel,  was  a  town  pauper  for  years  ;  39  Abigail;  40  James. 
25.  ANDREW. 

ANDREW,  son  of  Stephen  and  Lydia  Clark,  m  Mehitable 
Tuttle,  Feb.  7,  1748-9. 

Children  :  41,  Stephen,  b  Jan.  16,  1749  ;  42  Lydia,  b  March 
23,  1752  ;  43  Mehitable,  b  Aug.  21,  1758. 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  CLARK  married  Mindwell  Rowe,    Aug.   29,   1749. 
Children  :  44  Sylvanus,  b  Oct.  4,  1750;  45  Josiah,  b  Aug. 
8,  1752. 

ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  CLARK  married  Martha  Tyler,  Oct.  5,  1721. 

Children:  46  Mary,  b  March  i,  1724;  47  Lydia,  b  March 
i,  1726  ;  48  Hannah,  b  Sept.  12,  1727  ;  49  Rufus,  b  March  i, 
1728;  50  Keziah,  b  Oct.  31,  1731. 


COOK.' 

The  ancestors  from  whom  most  of  the  Cooks  in  New 
England  trace  their  descent,  came  from  Herefordshire  and 
Kent,  in  England.  The  ancestral  branch  from  whom  those  of 
the  name  trace  their  origin,  now  resident  in  various  parts  of 
the  state,  came  from  Kent,  and  were  of  the  Puritan  stock. 


i  For  collateral  branches  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.,  207 ; 
Babson's  Hist.  Gloucester,  Mass.,  74;  Bronson's  Hist.  Waterbury,  485-7; 
Cope's  Record  of  Cope  family  of  Penn.,  44,  78,  79-82,  157,  175,  176; 
Fox's  Hist.  Dunstable,  Mass.,  242;  Freeman's  Hist.  Cape  Cod,  Mass.,  n. 
366,  389,  634,  642,  643  ;  Hinmans's  Conn.  Settlers,  698-703  ;  Hobart's 


6/2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORU. 

Henry  Cook  was  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  before  1640.  He  had 
sons,  Isaac,  John,  Henry  and  Samuel.  Isaac  is  supposed  to 
have  remained  at  Plymouth,  and  John  to  have  settled  at 
Middletown.  Henry  and  Samuel  settled  at  Wallingford,  and 
are  the  ancestors  of  most  of  the  name  of  Cook  in  Connec- 
ticut, and  of  many  in  various  parts  of  the  country. 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK  came  to  New  Haven  in  1663,  m  Hope, 
daughter  of  Edward  Parker  of  New  Haven,  May  2,  1667. 
They  went  to  Wallingford  in  April,  1670,  with  the  first  plant- 
ers. He  was,  perhaps,  the  first  and  only  shoemaker  and 
tanner  of  leather  in  the  place.  After  the  decease  of  his  wife 
Hope,  he  married  Mary  Roberts,  July  14,  1690.  He  was 
regarded  as  a  very  good  man  by  his  friends  and  neighbors, 
and  was  frequently  called  to  fill  offices  of  responsibility  and 
trust  in  the  village,  and  in  the  church  of  which  he  was  a 
member.  He  died  March,  1702.  He  left  an  estate  of  ,£340. 
His  widow  m  Jeremiah  How,  sen.,  April  9,  1705. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  i  Samuel,  b  March  3,  1667-8,  in 
New  Haven;  2  John,  b  Dec.  3,  1669,  in  New  Haven;  3 
Hannah,  b  March  3, 167 1-2,  in  Wallingford  ;  A,  Isaac,  b  March 
10,  1673,  d  April  7,  1673  ;  5  Mary,  b  April  23,  1675,  m 
Nathaniel  Ives,  April  5,  1699 ;  6  Elizabeth,  b  August  22, 
1677,  d  young;  7  Judith,  b  Feb.  29,  1679,  m  Jeremiah  How 
jr.,  April  20,  1704,  she  d  March  20,  1708  ;  8  Isaac,  b  Jan.  10, 
1681  ;  9  Joseph,  b  Feb.  25,  1683  ;  10  Hope,  b  Sept.  27,  1686, 
m  Joseph  Benham,  Dec.  18,  1706,  she  d  Jan.  30,  1731.  By 
2nd  marriage  :  n  Israel,  b  May  8,  1692  ;  12  Mabel,  b  June  30, 
1694;  13  Benjamin,  b  April  8,  1697,  d  1717,  unmarried,  was 

Hist.  Abingdon,  Mass.,  363-4;  Hollister's  Pawlet,  Vt.,  179,  180  ;  How- 
ell's  Hist.  Southampton,  L.  I.,  2IO-I2;  Judd  and  Boltwood's  Hist.  Hadley, 
Mass.,  465-471  ;  Kellogg's  Memorials  of  John  White,  77;  Kidder's  Hist. 
New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  352  ;  Mitchell's  Hist.  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  141  ;  Nash's 
Gen.  of  Nash  Fam.,  33, 34  ;  Stiles's  Hist.  Windsor,  Conn.,  572-4 ;  Savage's 
Gen.  Diet.,  I.  445-51  ;  Bond's  Hist,  and  Gen.  Watertown,  Mass.,  163,  164  ; 
Jackson's  Hist  Newton,  Mass.,  247-50. 


GENEALOGIES.  6/3 

a  tanner  and   currier;    14  Ephraim,  b    April  19,    1699;  15 
Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  10,  1701,  m  Adam  Mott,  Aug  28,  1717. 

I.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hope  Cook,  married 
Hannah  Ives,  daughter  of  William  of  New  Haven,  March 

3,  1692,  John  Moss  Esq.  officiating.     She  died  May  29,  1714. 
He  then  married  Elizabeth  Bedel,  of  Stratford.     He  died  Sept. 
1 8,  1725,  ae.  58  years,  at  Wallingford.   His  widow  married  Capt. 
Daniel   Harris,  of  Middletown,   Conn.     He  was  a  farmer  in 
the   western  part  of  the  township,   near  the  line  which  now 
divides  Cheshire  from  Wallingford.     Some  of  his  descendants 
are  still  occupying  the  same  land.     Estate,  ^"390. 

Children:  16  Hannah,  b  May  28,  1693,  m  Jeremiah  Hull, 
she  died  Nov.  22,  1735,  ae.  43  years  ;  17  Samuel,  b  March  5, 
1695  j  J8  Aaron,  b  Dec.  28,  1696  ;  19  Lydia,  b  Jan.  13,  1699, 
m  Daniel  Dutton,  d  Oct.  12,  1738;  20  Moses,  b  Jan. 

4,  1700,   d  Dec.   25,    1711;    21  Miriam,  b  Nov.  4,    1703,  m 
Benjamin    Curtis,    Dec.    12,    1727;    22    Thankful,  b  Dec.  24, 
1705,  d  Aug.   19,  1714  ;  23  Esther,  b  March  8,   1707,  m  Abel 
Yale,  July  22,  1730;  24  Eunice,  b   Feb.    25,  1709  ;  25  Susan- 
nah, b  Sept.  5,  1711,  m  Joseph  Cole,  Dec.  i,  1735  '•>  2&  Hope, 
d  Sept.  18,    1728.     By    2nd    marriage:  27    Moses,  b    Nov.  6, 
1716^  28  Thankful,  b  Nov.    14,  1718,    m  Stephen  Hotchkiss, 
Dec.    31,    1742  ;  29   Asaph,  b  June  23,  1720;  30  Hannah,  b 
Nov.  4,  1721,  m  Zephaniah  Hull,  of  Cheshire,  and  settled  at 
Bethlem. 

2.  JOHN. 

JOHN  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hope  Cook,  married  Han- 
nah Hall,  and  settled  in  the  western  part  of  the  township  near 
Scott's  Rock  in  Cheshire.  He  died  April  30,  1739,  ae. 
70  years. 

Children:  31  Ezekiel,b  April  20,  1700,  d  Nov.  7,  1722  ;  32 
Naomi,  b  Jan.  27,  1704,  d  Nov.  20,  1707;  33  John,  b  Aug. 
23>  I7°7»  d  Nov.  i,  1722;  34  Mary,  m  John  McKay,  she  d 
1763,  in  Cheshire,  Conn. 


6/4  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

8.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hope  Cook,  married 
Sarah  Curtis,  Oct.  n,  1705.  He  d  Feb.  i,  1712,  inWalling- 
ford.  His  widow  married  Caleb  Lewis,  in  1714.  Estate, 
£103. 

Children:  35  Sarah,  b  July  20,  1707  ;  36  Amos,  d  in  child- 
hood ;  37  Mindwell,  b  May,  1709,  m  Caleb  Evarts  of  Guilford, 
Conn. ;  38  Isaac,  b  July  22,  1710. 

9.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hope  Cook,  married 

Abigail .  After  her  death,  he  married  Eleanor  Johnson, 

Oct.  14,  1714,  and  remained  in  Wallingford  until  1743,  when 
in  the  autumn  of  that  year,  he  went  to  Goshen  in  Litchfield 
county,  and  was  among  the  earliest  and  most  prominent  men 
in  the  place.  He  died  Nov.  7,  1764,  ae.  82  years. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  39  Lois,  b  April  25,  1700,  d  in 
infancy;  40  Samuel,  b  Feb.  18,  1702  ;  41  Abigail,  b  Jan.  18, 
1703.  By  2d  marriage:  42  Phebe,\>  Oct.  7,  1715,  m  Eli  Petti- 
bone,  Feb.  21,  1751,  she  d  about  1767;  43  Benjamin,  b  Jan. 
5,  1718;  44  Daniel,  b  Aug.  19,  1720;  45  Walter,  b  Dec.  21, 
1722  ;  46  Joseph,  b  Jan.  18,  1726;  47  Lois,  b  May  23,  1729; 
48  Lambert,  d  at  Goshen;  49  Hannah,  b  Nov.  15,  1735,  m 
Roger  Pettibone,  Jan.  25,  1752,  she  d  April  29,  1763. 

II.    ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Cook,  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Clark  of  Wallingford,  Feb. 
22,  1717.  He  settled  in  what  is  now  Cheshire,  and  afterward 
moved  to  Vermont  with  some  of  his  children,  where  it  is  sup- 
posed he  died. 

Children:  50  Catharine,  b  July  3,  1718,  m  Isaiah  Smith, 
of  New  Haven,  May  20,  1750;  51  Ebenezer,  b  Dec.  13,  1719; 
52  Sarah,  b  May  5,  1722,  m  ist,  Jonathan  Hall,  Dec.  25,  1739, 
2d,  Jehiel  Andrus,  Jan.  16,  1745  ;  53  Deborah,  b  Oct.  i, 
1725,  m  Elisha  Perkins,  June  20,  1748  ;  54  Anna,  b  July  4, 
J727j  55  John,  b  1731,  bap.  in  Cheshire,  June,  1751;  56 


GENEALOGIES.  6/5 

Amos,  b  Dec.  5,  1734;  57  Benjamin,  b  about  1736 ;  58  Ashbel, 
b  May  6,  1738;  59  Charles,  doubtless  settled  in  Vermont;  60 
Ezekiel,  b  and  bap.  at  Cheshire,  June,  1751,  supposed  settled 
in  Vermont. 

14.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Cook,  married 
Lydia  Doolittle.  She  died  Dec.  25,  1785,  ae.  84  years  He 
died  March  22,  1774,  ae.  75  years.  He  was  licensed  by  the 
county  court,  April  24,  1727,  to  prosecute  the  business  of 
tanning  and  dressing  leather  in  Cheshire. 

Children:  61  Mary,  b  Feb.  13,  1723,  d  same  year;  62 
Mamre,  b  Dec.  21,  1725,  m  Daniel  Hotchkiss,  of  Cheshire; 
63  Lydia,  b  March  2,  1726,  m  Jason  Hitchcock,  Sept.  20, 
1741  ;  64  Mary,  b  April  7,  1728,  m  John  Smith  of  Cheshire; 
65  Ephraim,  b  April  7,  1730;  66  Tirzah,  b  Oct.  3,  1733, 
m  Samuel  Smith  of  Cheshire;  67  Elam,  b  Nov.  10,  1735; 
68  Elizabeth,  b  Feb.  10,  1738,  m  Ebenezer  Brown  of  Che- 
shire; 69  John,  b  Dec.  27,  1739;  70  Merriman,  b  1741,  d 
unmarried  in  Cheshire;  71  Thankful,  no  account  of  this 
person  recorded  ;  72  Phebe,  m  Timothy  Gaylord,  May  4,  1748. 

17.    CAPT.     SAMUEL. 

CAPT.  SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Ives 
Cook,  married  Hannah  Lewis,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and 
Elizabeth  Lewis,  of  Wallingford,  Feb.  8,  1721.  He  was  a 
wealthy  shipping  merchant,  from  the  port  of  New  Haven, 
where  he  died  Nov.  7,  1745  (  Thanksgiving  Day),  leaving  an 
estate  of  ^"29103.  He  was  buried  at  Cheshire,  where  a  fine 
altar  tomb  marks  his  resting  place.  His  benefactions  to  the 
church  and  poor  of  Cheshire  are  lasting  monuments  to  his 
memory  and  worth. 

Children:  73  Hannah,  b  Dec.  22,  1722,  m  Elnathan 
Beach.  She  died  May  18,  1754;  74  Rhoda,  b  Oct.  22,  1724, 
m  Benjamin  Hitchcock,  of  Cheshire,  Feb.  27,  1745 ;  75 
Damaris,  b  Nov.,  1726,  m  Rev.  Ebenezer  Boone,  of  Far- 
mington,  Dec.  19,  1750,  then  removed  to  Vermont;  76  Thad- 
deus,  b  Sept.  10,  1728  ;  77  Lowly,  b  May  10,  1730,  m  Andrew 


6/6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Hull  of  Cheshire,  Oct.  17,  1750;  78  Samuel,  b  Nov.  16, 
X733  }  79  Eunice,  b  June  29,  1735,  m  Samuel  Hull,  of  Che- 
shire, b  Feb.,  1755;  80  Levi,  b  Nov.  10,  1737,  m  Isaac  Ben- 
ham  of  Cheshire;  81  Aaron,  b  Nov.  30,  1739. 

Elnathan  Beach  was  a  partner  with  Capt.  Cook,  whose  dau. 
he  married.  Andrew  Hull  was  the  Hon.  father  of  the  late 
Gen.  Andrew  Hull  of  Cheshire,  and  great  grandfather  of 
Rear  Admiral  Andrew  Hull  Foote,  U.  S.  N.  Samuel  Hull 
was  brother  to  Andrew  Hull,  and  grandfather  to  the  late  Mrs. 
Jonathan  Law,  of  Cheshire  and  Hartford. 

1 8.  AARON. 

AARON  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  ( Ives )  Cook, 
married  ist,  Sarah,  daughter  of  James  Benham,  Nov.  14, 
1723.  He  married  2d,  Sarah  Hitchcock.  She  died  Aug.  n, 
1735,  and  for  his  3d  wife  he  married  Ruth  Burrage,  of  Strat- 
ford, Feb.  7,  1736.  He  was  a  very  large  landholder  in  the 
south-eastern  part  of  Wallingford,  Northford  survey.  He 
died  Oct.  14,  1756,  ae.  60  years.  Mrs.  Ruth  Cook  died  July 
2,  1786,  ae.  79  years. 

Children,  by  ist  m.:  82  Samuel,  b  Sept.  25,  1725,  d  before 
his  father;  83  Stephen,  b  Dec.  28,  1727  ;  84  Titus,  b  Feb.  25^ 
130;  85  Abel,  b  Feb.  23,  1732.  By  2d  marriage:  86  Sarah, 
b  June  2,  1735.  By  3d  marriage:  87  Lydia,  b  1736, m  Uriah 
Collins,  she  d  Jan.  9,  1793  ;  88  Ruth,  b  Sept.  7,  1738,  m 
William  Collins,  she  d  June  9,  1790;  89  Esther,  b  May  14, 
1740;  90  Elizabeth,  b  March  16,  1741-2,  d  Jan.  27,  1751; 
91  Aaron,  b  June  5,  1744;  92  Miriam,  b  June  30,  17  46,  d 
Dec.  i,  1750;  93  Lucy,  b  Sept.  20,  1748,  d  April  29,  1760; 
94  Elizabeth,  b  June  7,  1751,  d  Oct.  19,  1762. 

27.    MOSES. 

MOSES  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  m  Sarah 
Culver,  June  18,  1740,  and  went  to  Branford.  Subsequently 
he  went  to  Waterbury,  where  his  wife  died,  Jan.  4,  1760,  and 
he  afterwards  m  Dinah  Harrison,  widow  of  Benj.,  June  7, 
1762.  He  was  killed  by  Moses  Paul,  an  Indian,  in  the  town 


GENEALOGIES.  6/7 

of  Woodbridge,  Dec.  12,1771.  (Paul  was  executed  at  New 
Haven  in  June,  1772).  Mr.  Cook  was  ae.  54  years.  Mrs. 
Dinah  Cook  d  Oct.  4,  1792. 

Children  by  ist  m.  :  95  Charles,  b  June  3,  1742  ;  96  Moses, 
b  May  30,  1744,  in  Branford,  d  1832  ;  97  Sarah,  b  June  13, 
1747,  d  April  5,  1823  ;  98  Esther,  b  June  27,  1750,  m  Joseph 
Beebe,  she  d  in  Ohio,  1810;  99  Elizabeth,  b  May  15,  1752, 
m  Benj.  Baldwin,  she  d  1797  ;  100  Hannah,  b  Jan.  n,  1755, 
m  Titus  Bronson,  she  d  1841  ;  101  Lydia,  b  March  27,  1760, 
m Hickox. 

29.  ASAPH. 

ASAPH  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  m  Sarah 
Parker,  of  Wallingford,  and  went  to  Granville,  Mass.,  where 
he  remained  until  about  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  when 
he  removed  to  Granville,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d  in  1792  ;  she  d  in 
1818,  ae.  96  years. 

Children:  102  Samuel,  b  Aug.  18,  1744;  103  Amasa,  b 
1746,  m  Miriam  Loomis,  of  Granville,  N.  Y.,  subsequently  of 
Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.  ;  104  Asaph,  b  March  6,  1748  ;  105  Joseph, 
b  April  13,  1750  ;  1 06  Susannah,  b  April  13,  1750,  m  Ichabod 
Parker,  she  d  1770-  107  Sarah,  b  1752,  m  Wm  Meacham, 
2nd,  Zeruah  Everest,  she  d  1777  ;  108  Thankful,  b  1754,  m 
Gideon  Beebe,  of  Adams,  Mass. ;  109  Hannah,  b  June  5, 
1758  ;  no  Charles,  b  May  9,  1764 ;  in  Lois,  b  1766,  m  John 
Merrick,  of  Granville,  N.  Y. 

38.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  Cook,  m  Jerusha 
Sexton,  of  Wallingford,  Oct.  13,  1733.  He  died  March  16, 
1780,  •£.  80  years.  She  died  Oct.  13,  1795.  He  was  a  tanner 
and  currier  of  leather. 

Children:  112  Amos,  b  Dec.  5,  1734  ;  113  Jerusha,\>  Nov. 
19,  1736,  m  Gideon  Hosford,  Feb.  23,  1757;  114  Isaac,  b 
July  28,  1739  ;  115  Caleb,  b  Nov.  14,  1741  ;  116  Mindwell,  b 
Dec.  9,  1743,  d  Jan.  26,  1744;  117  Ambrose,  b  March  19, 
1744,  d  in  infancy  ;  1 18  Ambrose,  b  June  30,  1746  ;  1 19  Elihu, 
U  u 


6/8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

b  Aug.  16,  1747,  d  Aug.  31,  1747  ;   120  Mindwell,  b  April   20, 
1750,  m  Capt.  Jeremiah  Carrington,  of  Wallingford. 

43.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  COOK,  son  of  Joseph  and  Eleanor  Cook,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Munson,  Jan.  20,  1741.  She  was  celebrated 
in  her  day  as  a  skillful  midwife  in  Wallingford,  where  they 
lived  at  the  time  of  his  decease,  which  occurred  about  1790. 
He  was  a  weaver  and  farmer. 

Children:  121  Benjamin,  b  Oct.  8,  1743;  122  Martha,  m 
Col.  Isaac  Cook  of  Wallingford;  123  Joel,\>  Aug.  31,  1745,  d 
young;  124  Merriman,  b  Oct.  i,  1748;  125  Lois,  b  1752,  m 
Oliver  Doolittle,  Jan.  16,  1776  ;  126  Phebe,  b  May  3,  1756,  m 
Isaac  Doolittle  of  Wallingford. 

44.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  COOK.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Eleanor  Cook,  in 
Elizabeth  Pond,  Feb.  6,  1746.  He  moved  from  Wallingford 
to  Goshen,  where  she  died,  Sept.,  1791. 

Children:  127  Samuel,  b  Aug.  2,  1747,  in  Wallingford,  went 
to  Goshen,  Conn.  ;  128  Amasa,  b  Oct.  26,  1749  ;  129  Philip, 
b  Feb.  2,  1752  ;  130  Lois,  b  Feb.  27,  1754,  m  Joel  Gaylord, 
of  Goshen,  Conn. ;  131  Lydia,  b  Oct.  29,  1756,  m  Moses 
Bartholomew,  of  Goshen,  Conn.  ;  132  Daniel,  b  Aug.  18,  1761  ; 
133  Moses,  b  April  25,  1764  ;  134  John,  b  Sept.  8,  1767,  no 
report  from  him. 

45.  WALTER. 

WALTER  COOK,  son  of  Joseph  and  Eleanor  Cook,  m 
Reuema  Calling,  and  went  to  Goshen,  Conn.  Subsequently 
he  went  to  Richmond,  Mass.  He  was  a  farmer  and  shoe- 
maker. 

Children  :  135  Eunice,  b  Nov.  10,  1754,  in  Wallingford  ;  136 
Pitman,  b  June  28,  1757,  in  Wallingford;  137  Walter,  b  Sept. 
10,  1764,  in  Goshen;  138  John,  b  Oct.  2,  1767,  in  Goshen; 
139  Sinai,  b  Oct.  12,  1769,  in  Goshen  ;  140  Susannah,  b  Feb. 
26,  1790,  in  Goshen  ;  141  Lucy,  m  Abijah  Newton,  of  Goshen, 
Conn. 


GENEALOGIES.  679 

48.     LAMBERT. 

LAMBERT  COOK,  son  of  Joseph  and  P^learior  Cook, 

married  ist,  Abigail ,  and  settled  in  Goshen,  Conn.  She 

died  Oct.  8,  1758.  He  married  Mindwell  Loomis,  for  his  2nd 
wife,  Dec.  13,  1759.  He  died  at  Goshen,  Conn. 

Child  by  ist  marriage:  142  Mary,  b  July  17,  1757.  By 
2nd  marriage:  143  Abigail,  b  Jan.  25,  1760;  144  Joseph, \> 
Feb.  25,  1762  ;  145  Hannah,  b  Dec.  25,  1763  ;  146  infant,  b 
June  n,  1765,  d  ae.  i  day. 

51.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  COOK,  son  of  Israel  and  Elizabeth  Cook.  He 

married  Eunice .  This  family  left  Wallingford  soon  after 

the  war  of  the  Revolution. 

Children:  147  Ebenezer,  b  May  19,  1760;  148  Munson,\> 
March  i,  1762  ;  149  Eunice,  b  Feb.  28,  1766  ;  150  William,  b 
July  3,  1772. 

55-  JOHN- 
JOHN  COOK,  son  of  Israel  and   Elizabeth  Cook,  married 
Naomi  Abernathy,  and  removed  to  Guildhall,  Vermont.     She 
died  in  1809,  aged  about  75  years.     He  died  at  Guildhall  in 
1812,  aged  8 1  years. 

Children:  151  Benjamin,  b  Jan.  24,  1764;  152  Naomi,  b 
March  12,  1766,  m  Laban  Beach  ;  153  John,  b  March  16, 
1768,  d  at  Guildhall,  Vt. ;  154  Ruth,  b  Feb.  7,  1769;  155 
Lemuel,  b  Feb.  7,  1770;  156  Enos  A.,  b  Jan.  7,  1773;  157 
Raphael,  b  May  8,  1775  ;  158  Abigail,  b  May  2,  1777, 

d    at   Guildhall,   Vt.  ;  159   Anna,   b   July   4,    1779,  m 

Stoddard  ;  160  Beulah,  m  Eli  How,  she  died  in  1810;  161 
Zaaheus,  b  Sept.  13,  1781. 

57-    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  COOK,  son  of  Israel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  mar- 
ried Martha  Benham,  Aug.  2,  17-59,  a°d  doubtless  left  Wall- 
ingford soon  afterwards. 

Children:  162  Martha,  b  March  n,  1760,  in  Wallingford; 
163  Benjamin,  b  May  6,  1675. 


68O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

58.     ASHBEL. 

ASHBEL  COOK,  son  of  Israel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  married 

Rachel .  He  left  Wallingford  about  1768,  when  it  is 

supposed  he  went  to  Vermont. 

Children:  164  John;  165  Simeon,  d  young;  166  Israel;  167 
Ashbel;  168  Simeon;  169  Rice,  b  Aug.  12,  1780,  in  Rutland, 
Vt.  ;  170  Orel. 

65.    EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Lydia  Cook,  married 
Elizabeth  Hull,  Jan.  i,  1752.  He  was  a  farmer,  shoemaker, 
tanner  and  currier  of  leather  ;  he  died  in  Cheshire,  Conn., 
Jan.  18,  1789,  ae.  59  yrs. 

Children:  171  Lois,\>  Jan.,  1753,  d  Nov.  4,  1753,  ae.  10 
mos.  ;  172  Ephraim,  b  1754,  d  Dec.  2,  1764,  ae  10  yrs.  ;  173 
Lydia,  b  Dec.  20,  1756;  174  Anna,  b  Feb.  5,  1764;  175 
Urina,  b  1765,  d  Dec.  n,  1771,  ae.  6  yrs.;  176  Clarinda,  b 
1770,  d  Dec.  5,  1772,  ae.  2  yrs. 

67.  ELAM. 

ELAM  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Lydia  Cook,  married 
Abigail  Hall,  Jan.  8,  1761.  He  died  in  Cheshire,  Feb.  3, 
1808,  aged  73  years.  She  died  in  Ohio,  Sept.  26,  1816,  aged 
8 1  years. 

Children:  177  Merriman,  b  Nov.  12,  1761,  went  to  Barton, 
Ohio;  178  Samuel,  b  1764,  settled  in  Cheshire,  Conn.;  179 
Esther,  b  March,  1769,  m  John  Ford  of  Prospect,  and  went 
to  Ohio,  she  was  the  mother  of  Gov.  Ford  of  Ohio;  180 
Ephraim,  b  Dec.  21,  1775;  181  Elam,  b  1780,  settled  in 
Cheshire;  182  Joseph  H.,  b  Feb.  i,  1782;  183  Abigail,^ 
July  10,  1784,  married  Hon.  Peter  Hitchcock  of  Ohio,  for- 
merly of  Cheshire. 

69.    JOHN. 

JOHN  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Lydia  Cook,  married 

Obedience ;  he  died  in  Cheshire,  Oct.  2,  1764,  ae.  25 

yrs.  His  widow  married  Daniel  Ives,  Dec.  7,  1769. 

Child  :   184  Ephraim,  b  1763,  d  Oct.  2,  1765,  ae.  2  yrs. 


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76.    THADDEUS. 

COL.  THADDEUS  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Hannah 
Cook,  m  ist,  Lois,  daughter  of  Capt.  Elnathan  Beach,  of 
Cheshire,  Nov.  28,  1750.  She  died  April  4,  1753,  ae.  21  yrs. 
He  m  2nd,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Hall,  of  Che- 
shire. She  died  Sept.  5,  1774,  ae  44  years.  His  3d  wife  was 

Abigail ,  she  survived  him.  After  having  served  his 

country  during  the  Revolution,  under  the  brave  Gen.  Gates, 
and  his  townsmen  in  almost  every  office  of  trust  or  honor 
within  their  gift,  he  died  Feb.  27,  1800. 

Child  by  ist  marriage:  185  Lois,  b  April  i,  1753.  By 
2d  marriage:  186  Sarah,  b  July  23,  1755,  m  Dr.  Gould  Gift 
Norton,  of  Cheshire,  she  d  Sept.,  1838  ;  187  Samuel,  b  April 
19,  1758  ;  189  Eunice,  b  Jan.  15,  1761,  d  Feb.  26,  1776,  ae.  15 
yrs.  ;  190  Lucy,  b  1762,  m  Amos  Harrison  Ives.  She  d  Feb. 
30,  1836,  in  Cheshire  ;  191  Thaddeus,  b  May  3,  1764,  gradua- 
ted at  Yale,  1783,  d  Oct.  3,  1789  ;  192  Sally,  m  Nathan  Har- 
rison, of  New  Branford  ;  193  Clarissa,  m Hall,  and  had 

a  dau.,  Sukey  Hall. 

78.      SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Hannah  Cook,  m 
Jerusha  Hollingworth,  March  4,  1756.  It  was  the  intention 
of  his  father  that  he  should  receive  a  liberal  education  at  col- 
lege, but  for  some  cause  now  unknown,  he  gave  it  up,  and 
settled  on  a  farm  in  the  north  part  of  Cheshire,  where  he  d 
Jan.  5,  1800,  ae.  67  years. 

Children  :  194  Hannah,  b  April  20,  1758,  m  a  Mr.  Wright; 
195  Temperance,  b  Aug.  6,  1760  ;  196  Perez,  b  Dec.  i,  1762  ; 
197  Jerusha,  b  Jan.  7,  1767,  d  July  29,  1803  ;  198  Eunice,  b 
March  23,  1769;  199  Damaris,  b  Feb.  23,  1772  ;  200  Abigail, 
b  June  27,  1775,  m  Elkanah  Doolittle,  of  Cheshire.  She  d 
Dec.  1 6,  1800. 

8 1.  AARON. 

AARON  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Hannah  Cook,  m 
Mary,  dau.  of  Capt.  Cornelius  Brooks,  of  Cheshire.  He  d 
Sept.  29,  1776,  ae.  37  yrs.  She  d  Sept.  30,  1776,  ae.  38  yrs. 


682  HISTORY    OF    \VALLINGFORD. 

He  was  a  farmer,  about  three  and  one-half  miles  south-east  of 
Cheshire  meeting-house,  where  his  father  formerly  lived. 

Children:  201  Jerusha,  b  1757,  m  Robert  Hotchkiss.  She 
d  May  19,  1824;  202  Cornelius,  b  Oct.  9,  1763  ;  203  Sue,  in 
Samuel  Cook,  she  d  Dec.  24,  1824;  204  Aaron,  b  1768,  d 
in  Cheshire;  205  Stephen,  b  1771,  m  Eunice  Beadles,  of  Wall- 
ingford  ;  206  Mary,  m  Shelden  Spencer,  Esq. 

83.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Aaron  and  Sarah  Cook,  m 
ist,  Anna  Culver,  Dec  25,  1751.  After  her  decease  he  m 
Thankful  Preston,  March  2,  1771,  and  for  his  3d  wife  he  mar- 
ried Anna  Tyler.  Anna  his  ist  wife  died  Dec.  10,  1769. 
Mrs.  Thankful  his  2d  wife  died  Sept.  20,  1776,  and  Anna  his 
3d  wife  died  Sept.  23,  1817,  ae.  80  years. 

Children  by  ist  wife:  207  Samuel,  b  Oct.  22,  1752;  208 
Stephen,  b  March  25,  1755,  went  to  Vermont;  209  Anna,  b 
Oct.  5,  1757  ;  210  Elihu,  b  July  2,  1760,  went  to  Vermont; 

211  Ruth,  b  June  30,    1763,  d  ae.  90  yrs.     By  2d  marriage: 

212  Lyman,  b  June  30,   1772,   went  to  Ohio;  213  Jared,  b 
Aug.  9,  1775.     By  3d  marriage:  214  Lemuel,  b  Sept.  2,  1779  ; 
215  Malachi,  b  Aug.  28,  1781. 

84.  TITUS. 

TITUS  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Aaron  and  Jerusha  Cook,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Merriman,  Jan.  18,  1753.  She  died  Feb.  16, 
1795.  He  died  April  4,  1809,  ae.  80  years,  and  was  buried 
in  Northford,  Conn. 

Children:  216  Sarah,  b  Nov.  14,  1753;  217  Jerusha,  b 
May  27,  1757  ;  218,  219  Lucy  and  Titus,  b  April  23, 
1761,  d  in  childhood;  220  Abigail,  b  July  19.  1763;  221 
Esther,  b  July  21,  1765  ;  222  Caleb,  was  accidentally  killed  ; 
223  Sally ;  224  Titus,  b  Nov.  7,  1775;  225  Lydia,  b  April  i. 
1778. 

85.    ABEL. 

ABEL  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Aaron  and  Sarah  Cook,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Dea.  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  P.  Atwater 


GENEALOGIES.  683 

of  Wallingford,  Nov.  16,  1757.  She  was  born  Dec.  30, 
1735,  and  died  Jan.  13,  1774,  ae.  39.  He  died  Aug.  10,  1776, 
ae.  44  years. 

Children:  226  Atwater,  b  Nov.  3,  1758;  227  Porter,  b 
July  27,  1760;  228  Elizabeth,  b  March  13,  1763;  229  Abel, 
b  March  27,  1765;  230  Chester,  b  Aug.  13,  1767,  d  young; 
231  Daniel  M.,  b  Feb.  16,  1770;  232  Mary,  b  April  2,  1773, 
m  Col.  Eliakim  Hall,  d  Dec.  i,  1839  ;  233  Chester,  b  Oct.  6, 
1775- 

91.    AARON. 

AARON  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Aaron  and  Ruth  B.  Cook,  mar- 
ried ist,  Lucretia  Dudley.  She  died  April  16,  1771,  ae.  27 
years.  He  married  2d,  Elizabeth  Taintor.  She  died  April 
24,  1816,  ae.  65  years.  He  died  Sept.  14,  1825,  ae.  80  years, 
and  was  interred  in  Northford  grave-yard. 

Children  ;  234  Oliver  Dudley,  b  1766,  grad.  at  Yale  College, 
X735i  253  Aaron,  b  1768;  236  Kilborn,  b  1771,  settled  in 
North  Guilford,  Conn.  By  2nd  marriage :  237  Increase,  b 
1773,  grad.  at  Yale  College,  1793  ;  238  Nathaniel,  b  1775,  m 
Susan  Baldwin  ;  239  Lucretia,  b  1780,  d  Nov.  14,  1844;  240 
Apollos,  b  1786,  settled  at  Cattskill,  N.  Y. ;  241  Thomas  Burrage; 
242  Elizabeth,  b  1776,  m  Joshua  Atwater,  she  d  Apr.  4,  1842, 
as.  66  years ;  243  Lydia,  m  Doct.  Amos  G.  Hull ;  244 
Henrietta. 

95.  CHARLES. 

CHARLES  COOK,  son  of  Moses  and  Sarah  Cook,  married 
Sybil  Munson,  Aug.  i,  1764.  He  resided  severally  in  New 
Haven,  Waterbury  and  Watertown,  Conn.  He  died  in  1797, 
33.  55  years. 

Children:  245  James  Munson,  b   June    n,    1765,    in  New 
Haven;  246  Sarah,  b  Dec.  22,  1766. 
96.  MOSES. 

MOSES  COOK,  son  of  Moses  and  Sarah  Cook,  married 
Jemima  Upson  of  Waterbury,  March  4,  1766.  He  was  a 
musician  during  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  died  Dec.  25, 
1831.  She  died  March  6,  1821. 


684  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children  :  247  Joseph,  b  March  4,  1767  ;  248  Lucy,  b  Sept. 
29,  1769,  d  unmarried,  Dec.  8,  1835  •>  249  Daniel,  b  Sept.  5, 
J773j  25°  Hannah,  b  March  5,  1775,  m  Horatio  Upson, 
Waterbury ;  251  Anna,  b  March  8,  1778,  m  Mark  Leaven- 
worth  ;  252  Elias,  b  Dec.  26,  1783,  m  2nd,  Mrs.  Charry 
Bartholomew. 

102.   SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Asaph  and  Sarah  Parker  Cook,  m 
Chloe  Atwater,  daughter  of  Titus  and  Margarette,  of  Che- 
shire. He  went  with  his  father  to  Granville,  Mass.,  and  sub- 
sequently to  Granville,  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y.  He  died  in 
1823,  ae.  79  years. 

Child :  253  Moses,  settled  at  Hartford,  Washington  Co., 
N.  Y. 

104.  ASAPH. 

ASAPH  COOK,  son  of  Asaph  and  Sarah  Parker  Cook,  mar- 
ried Thankful  Parker,  June  17,  1776  ;  she  was  born  in  Wall- 
ingford,  April,  1776.  They  removed  to  Granville,  N.  Y.  In 
1818  they  went  to  Ridgefielcl,  Four  Corners,  Ohio,  where  he 
died  in  1826,  ae.  78.  He  was  at  the  battle  of  Lexington, 
Mass.,  as  were  several  of  his  brothers.  His  widow  died  in 
1819. 

Children:   254  Elutheras,  b  March  21,  1777,  d  Nov.,  1780; 

255  Hannah,  b  Feb.  25,    1779,  m  Lewis  Stone,  Aug.  3,  1839  ; 

256  Asaph,  b  March  23,  1781,  d  August  2,  1842  ;  257  Rhoda, 
b  January  7,  1784,  d  Sept.   30,   1805  ;    258  Chloe,  b  July  21, 
1786,  d  Oct.,   1845  j  259  Elutheras,  b  Dec.   25,  1787,  d  Dec. 
27,  1864;    260   Sarah,  b  Jan.   2,    1790,   d   March,  1829  ;  261 
Thankful  P.,  b  April  26,   1792,  d   unmarried,   Aug.  3,    1858; 
262  Erastus,  b  Feb.  6,  1795,  d  July  30,  1849;  263   Edwin,  b 
Aug.  25,  1797,  d  Nov.  3,  1807  ;  264  Israel,  b  Dec.  4,  1801,   d 
unmarried,  Jan.  6,  1854  ;  265  Elmira,  b  Oct.   15,  1803,  d   un- 
married, Jan.  10,  1852. 

105.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  COOK,  son  of  Asaph  and  Sarah  Parker  Cook,  went 
early  in  life  with  his  father  and  family  to  Granville,  N.  Y. ; 


•  GENEALOGIES.  685 

thence  to  Hartford,  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y.  ;  and  in  1803  to 
Adams,  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  from  there  in  1805  to  live  with 
his  sons  in  Ohio.  He  died  at  Oxford,  Erie  Co.,  Ohio,  ae 
nearly  86  yrs.  The  name  of  his  wife  was  Rachel  Langdon. 
I  have  ascertained  the  names  of  only  two  of  their  children, 
to  wit : 

266  Chauncey,  b  1775,  resided  in  Erie  Co.,  Ohio;  267 
Charles  L.,  b  1778. 

IIO.    CHARLES. 

CHARLES  COOK,  son  of  Asaph  and  Sarah  Parker  Cook, 
married  Elizabeth  Curtis  of  Granville,  N.  Y.,  daughter  of 
David  Curtis  ;  he  died  at  Sackett's  Harbor,  N.  Y.,  May  13, 
1855,  ae.  91  yrs. 

Children:  268  Betsey,  b  Feb.  4,  1791,  m  Rev.  E.  Rossiter, 
she  died  Nov.,  1833  ;  269  Daniel  C.,  b  May  20,  1793,  d  1813, 
was  a  physician  ;  270  Horace,  b  Nov.  5,  1775;  271  Charles,  b 
May  12,  1778  ;  272  Elisha,  b  April  12,  1801  ;  273  Thecla 
Louisa,  b  Nov.  10,  1802,  m  B.  F.  Darrow,  1831,  cl  1832  ;  274 
Laura  E.,  b  Sept.  10,  1804,  m  Ephraim  Read,  settled  in  Ohio  ; 
275  Hiram  E.,  b  Jan.  15,  1807,  d  Aug.,  1822,  was  a  physician. 

112.    AMOS. 

AMOS  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Jerusha  Cook,  married 
Rhoda,  daughter  of  Gideon  Hosford,  Feb.  23,  1757;  she  died 
May  10,  1810.  He  died  at  Wallingford. 

Children:  276  Elihn,  b  April  25,  1757;  277  Rhoda,  b 
April  16,  1761,  m  John  Davis  ;  278  Roswell,  b  Dec.  6,  1764  ; 
279  Uri  H.,  b  Jan.  19,  1767,  supposed  to  have  settled  in  Nor- 
way, Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1789  ;  280  Amos,  b  Nov.  29,  1768  ; 
281  Luanda,  b  Oct.  31,  1771,  m  Stephen  Hart  in  1790  ;  282 
Sybil,  b  Oct.  10,  1778,  m  Thomas  Welton,  Jan.  3,  1797  ;  283 
Lyman,  b  Sept.  21,  1780  ;  284  Desire,  b  March  5,  1783. 

114.  ISAAC. 

Col.  ISAAC  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Jerusha  Cook,  married 
Martha,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Cook,  March  6,  1760  ;  he  was 


686  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

in    the   service    of    his    country    during   the    Revolution,    as 
Colonel.     He  died  June,  1810,  ae.  71  yrs. 

Children:  285  Joel,  b  Oct.  12,  1760,  a  distinguished  officer 
in  the  war  of  1812;  286  Lemuel,  b  March  17,  1762;  287 
James,  b  Jan  29,  1764,  m  Chloe  Royce,  May  4,  1786;  288 
Lucy,  b  Jan.  29,  1766  ;  289  Isaac,  b  July  16,  1768,  settled  at 
Chillicothe,  Ohio;  260  Martha,  b  June  30,  1770  ;  291  Mind- 
well,  b  July  17,  1772,  m  Asahel  Barham,  Jan.  6,  1791  ;  292 
Phebe,  b  Feb.  9,  1777,  m  David  Stocking,  1805. 
115.  CALEB. 

CALEB  COOK  Esq.,  son  of  Isaac  and  Jerusha  Cook,  mar- 
ried Abigail  Finch,  Jan.  12,  1764.  She  died  Dec.  22,  1794. 
He  then  married  Mrs.  Lydia  Foot.  She  died  May  31,  ae.  89. 
He  was  a  magistrate  for  many  years,  and  died  in  his  native 
town,  Nov.  17,  1821,  ae.  80  years. 

Children  :  293  Viney,  b  Nov.  26,  1764,  m  Abel  Cook,  Dec. 
19,  1790;  294  Augustus,  b  Jan.  25,  1767  ;  295  Caleb,  b  July 
27,  1768,  d  young;  296  Abigail,  b  Nov.  8,  1769  ;  297  Nabby, 
b  April  10,  1777,  m  Ira  Hall,  she  d  1859  ;  298  Betsey,  b  Feb. 
18,  1779,  d  unmarried,  Jan.,  1859  ;  299  Mary  Ann,  b  Aug.  23, 
1783 ;  300,  301,  Caleb  and  Amelia,  b  June  4,  1786,  the  former 
m  Sarah  Eaton,  the  latter  d  Aug.  31,  1786. 

1 1 8.  AMBROSE. 

AMBROSE  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Jerusha  Cook,  married 
Esther  Peck.  He  died  at  the  age  of  78,  March  5,  1824. 
She  died  Sept.  13,  1822,  ae.  78. 

Children:  302  Chauncey,  b  Feb.  i,  1767,  m  Eunice  Dutton ; 
303  Samuel,  b  July  8,  1769,  m  Martha  Cook;  304  Jerusha, 
b  April  25,  1771,  m  Hunn  Munson,  Esq.  ;  305  Abigail,  b  Apr. 
9,  1773,  supposed  died  young;  306  Charles,  b  April  26,  1775, 
m  Sylvia,  dau.  of  Elihu  Yale;  307  Esther,  b  Oct.  9,  1777,  m 
Benajah,  son  of  Stephen  Yale  ;  308  Lydia,  b  Oct.  13,  1779,  m 
Andrew  Hall,  M.  D.  ;  309  francy,  b  Nov.  13,  1782,  m  Richard 
Hall  ;  310  Orrin,  b  Feb.  14,  1784,  m  Miss  —  -  Stone,  of 
Guilford,  Conn.;  311  Diana,  b  Nov.  28,  1786,  m  Andrew 
Bartholomew. 


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121.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  COOK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Hannah  Cook,  mar- 
ried April  19,  1770,  Esther  Rice,  dau.  of  Reuben  Rice  of 
Wallingford.  He  died  1821,  ae.  78  years.  He  was  a  large, 
corpulent  man. 

Children:  312  Hannah,  m  Linus  Hall;  313  Rice,  went 
west,  m  a  Miss  Twiss:  314  Keziah,  b  Jan.  27,  1774;  315 
Munson,  b  Aug.  27,  1776;  316  Daniel,  d  about  1860,  in  west- 
ern New  York;  317  Betsey,  &  unmarried;  318  Charlotte,  b 
Oct.  26,  1787,  m  John  Malone. 

124.     MERRIMAN. 

MERRIMAN  COOK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Hannah  Cook,  m 
Mary  Osborn,  May  2,  1768.  He  went  to  Malta,  Saratoga  Co., 
N.  Y.  He  died  Sept.  27,  1827,  ae.  80,  and  she  died  May  20, 
1832,  ae.  83  years. 

Children:  319  Joseph,  b  Sept.  i,  1768,  m  Mary  Ann  Tol- 
man  ;  320  Eunice,  b  Dec.,  1770,  m  John  Scarrit ;  321  Lydia,  b 
1773,  m  Benj.  Hall,  d  Nov.  8,  1856;  322  Polly,\>  March,  1775, 
m  Samuel  Hall ;  323  Elihu,  b  May  i,  1777,  m  Sarah  Cooley ; 
324  Susannah,  b  May  9,  1779,  m  Isaac  Darrow  ;  325  Lois,  b 
May  27,  1782,  m  Amy  Hulin;  325  1-2  Samuel,  m  ist,  Mary 
Culver,  2d,  Sally  Galpin  ;  326  Lyman,  b  Sept.  16,  1783;  327 
Catharine,  b  1786,  d  1796  ;  328  Marcus,  b  1789  ;  329  Sherlock, 
b  1781,  m  Milly  Thurston. 

128.  AMASA. 

AM  ASA  COOK,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  married 
(  after  his  removal  to  Goshen  )  Rachel  Norton,  March  5,  1772. 
She  died  Dec.  17,  1819.  He  died  Dec.  4,  1821,  ae.  72  years. 

Children  :  330  Sally,  b  Dec.  28,  1772,  m  Samuel  Chamber- 
lain, she  d  Aug.  i,  1828  ;  331  infant,  b  Oct.  28,  1774,  d  same 
day. 

129.  PHILIP. 

PHILIP  COOK,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  married 
Thankful  Tuttle,  of  Goshen,  Conn.  He  removed  to  Nassau, 


688  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

N.  Y.,  where  she  died  Jan.  9,  1816,  ae.  64.     He  died  March 
26,  1825,  ae.  73  years. 

Children:  332  Samuel,  b  March  4,  1776  ;  333  Augustus,  b 
Jan.  25,  1778,  deaf  and  dumb,  d  1843;  334  Erastus,  b  Dec 
!8,  1779;  335  Silas,  b  Nov.  22,  1781,  d  Aug.  24,  1811  ;  336 
Gratia  T.,  b  Oct.  27,  1784,  d  unm.  Oct.  4,  1840;  337  Laura 
H.,  b  Jan.  4,  1787,  m  Samuel  McLellan,  M.  D. 

132.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  COOK,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  married 
Eliza  Porter,  of  Goshen.  He  died  near  the  south-west  corner 
of  the  town. 

Children:  338  Amasa,  he  was  killed  by  a  cart,  1817  ;  339 
Phineas,  m  Irene  Churchill. 

133.    MOSES. 

MOSES  COOK,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  married 
Lydia  Thompson.  She  died  Jan.  21,  1821,  as.  72  years.  He 
died  Feb.  23,  1841,  ae.  77  years. 

Children:  340  George,  b  July  24,  1791  ;  341  Harriet,  b  May 
25,  1794,  m  Samuel  Cook  ;  342  Betsey,  b  March  6,  1797  ;  343 
Frederick,  b  Nov.  9,  1801  ;  344  Moses,  b  March  2,  1808. 

151.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN,  son  of  John  and  Naomi  Cook,  married  Charity 
Elliott,  of  Guildhall,  Vt.  He  died  May,  1843. 

Children:  345  Elias,  b  Sept.  29,  1798;  346  Naomi,  b  May 
25,  1800,  d  unm.  June  15,  1818  ;  347  Benjamin,  b  April  17, 
1802  ;  348  Charity,  b  April  8,  1804,  d  unm.  April,  1820;  349 
Ira,\>  Feb.  23,  1806;  350  Abigail,  b  Sept.  16,  1808;  351 
Esther,  b  Feb.  12,  1811,  m  Isaac  Brooks  ;  352  Anderson,  b 
March  30,  1813,  m  Catherine  M.  Cramer  ;  353  Selina,  b  April 
7,  1816,  m  Frederick  Rich,  of  Petersham  •  354  Lorenzo,  b 
April  15,  1819,  d  unm.  June  6,  1855  ;  355  Semantha,  b  June 
18,  1822,  m  Marshall  Twitchell,  d  Dec.  i,  1854. 
155.  LEMUEL. 

LEMUEL  COOK,  son  of  John  and  Naomi  Cook,  married  Han- 
nah Gustin,  and  settled  at  Guildhall,  Vt.  She  died  June  i,  1828. 


GENEALOGIES.  689 

Children :  356   Thomas,  b  May  7,  1802,  d  at  the  west ;  357 

Mary,  b  Aug   6,  1805,  m Cheney,  May   i,   1831  ;  358 

Beulah,  b  Dec.  22,  1808,  m  1831,  d  June  8,  1846;  359  Dr. 
Raphael,  b  May  5,  1810,  d  Aug.,  1834,  ae.  24  yrs ;  360  Re- 
becca, b  March  31,  1813,  d  Feb.  5,  1831,  at  Guildhall,  Vt.;  361 
Lemuel,  b  Nov.  20,  1817,  d  Feb.  12,  1855,  ae.  38  yrs;  362 
Adelphia,  b  Jan.  13,  1824,  m  Dec.,  1855. 

156.  ENOS. 

ENOS  A.  COOK,  son  of  John  and  Naomi  Cook,  m  Susan 
Palmer,  at  Granby,  Vt.  After  his  decease  she  went  to  New 
Portage,  Ohio,  with  her  children,  of  which  the  following  are 
a  part,  viz.  : 

363  Raphael,  d  in  Vermont ;  364  Enos  A.,  residence  un- 
known ;  365  Orrin,  m  Harriet  Cook  ;  366  Ambrose,  resi- 
dence in  1862,  Spencer,  Medina  Co.,  Ohio. 

157.    RAPHAEL. 

RAPHAEL  COOK,  son  of  John  and  Naomi  Cook,  m  Sally 
Fox,  of  Canada.  He  died  at  Guildhall,  Vt.  His  widow  m 
Eli  Howe,  of  Guildhall. 

Children  :  367  Moses  M.,  is  a  printer  by  profession ;  368 
Naomi,  went  to  Stanstead,  Canada  East. 

1 6 1.    ZACCHEUS. 

ZACCHEUS  COOK,  son  of  John  and  Naomi  Cook,  of  Wall- 
ingford  and  Guildhall,  married  Phebe  Elliot,  and  settled  at 
Dryden,  N.  Y.,  and  probably  died  there. 

Children:  366  John,  resided  at  Guildhall,  Vt. ;  370  Har- 
riet, m  Orrin  Cook,  son  of  Enos. 

169.  RICE. 

RICE  COOK,  son  of  Ashbel  and  Rachel  Cook,  was  born  at 
Rutland,  Vt,  removed  to  Stillwater,  N.  Y.  Married  Ann 

— .     He  lived  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  in  1837. 

Children:  371  Mary  Ann ;  372  Sarah  Ann  ;  373  Rachel; 
374  Rebecca;  375  Lydia  Lorraine;  376  Adeline  Ann;  377 
Chas.  Rice,  b  Aug.  14,  1820,  in  Stillwater;  378  Julia  Ann. 


6QO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

177.      MERRIMAN. 

MERRIMAN  COOK,  son  of  Elam  and  Abigail  Hall  Cook,  m 
Sally,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Mary  Bradley,  Aug.  8,  1781. 
She  died  April  n,  1812.  He  married  Betsey  Hubbarcl,  May 
2,  1815  ;  she  died  May  7,  1837.  He  left  Cheshire,  his  native 
place,  in  1809,  and  settled  at  Burton,  Ohio,  where  he  died 
Aug.  25,  1858.  Betsey,  his  wife,  died  May  7,  1857.  He  was 
a  tanner  and  currier  by  trade,  shoemaker,  &c.,  &c. 

Children:  379    John,  b  Dec.  27,  1782,  in  Cheshire,  Conn.; 
380  Hiram,  b    March    21,    1781,  in  Cheshire,   Conn.  ;   381 
Soalma,  b  Feb.  24,  1792,  m  Adolphus  Carlton ;  382   Eleazer, 
b  Aug.  30,  1799,  in  Cheshire,  Conn. 
178.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Elam  and  Abigail  Cook,  married 
Sue,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Mary  Cook;  he  died  Oct.  10, 
1800,  ae.  37  ;  she  died  Dec.  24,  1843. 

Children:  383    Clara,  b  May  12,  1784,  m  Bellina  Plum  of 
Cheshire,  she  died  Oct.  28,  1848;  384  Samuel,  b  1786;  385 
Samanda,  b  Nov.  6,  1788,  m  Silas  Curtis,  Dec.,  1806. 
180.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  COOK,  son  of  Elam  and  Abigail  Cook,  married 
Sukey,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Susan  Ives  of  North  Haven, 
Oct.  16,  1799;  he  removed  to  Burton,  Ohio,  in  1814,  and 
died  there  Jan.  29,  1854  ;  she  died  Dec.  29,  1843. 

Children  :  286  Stephen  I.  C.,  b  April  6,  1800  ;  387  Marietta, 
b  March  4,  1802,  m  John  Eldridge  ;  388  Harriet,  b  Sept.  27, 
1804,  m  Oliver  Mastick;  389  Sally,  b  June  4,  1807;  390 
Julia  Ann,  b  June  27,  1809,  died  Sept.  12,  1809  ;  391  Horace, 
b  Sept.  n,  1811  ;  392  Esther  E.,  b  Oct.  12  1813,  m  Asa  Carl  ; 
393  Samuel,  b  Dec.  i,  1815,  d  June  25,  1816  ;  394  Larinia, 
b  Aug.  n,  1819,  d  June  24,  1850. 

181.  ELAM. 

ELAM  COOK,  son  of  Elam  and  Abigail  Cook,  married  Rebec- 
ca Bradley,  Oct.  20,  1799.  She  died  Nov  9,  1829,  ae.  51 
years.  He  died  March  17,  1830,  ae.  51  years. 


GENEALOGIES.  69! 

Children:  395  Marius,  b  July  19,  1800,  d  Aug.  2,  1804; 
396  Ethelbert,  b  Oct.  30,  1801 ;  397  Mariah,  b  May  28,  1804, 
m  Allen  Lounsbury ;  398  Abigail,  b  Aug.  29,  1806,  m  Perez 
Sanforcl  of  Prospect;  399  Rebecca,  b  March  7,  1809,  m  Orrin 
Brooks,  Meriden ;  400  Emetine,  b  Sept.  17,  1811,  m  Charles  R. 
Miles,  Cheshire  ;  401  Elam,  b  Aug.  15,  1815. 

182.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  H.  COOK,  son  of  Elam  and  Abigail  Cook,  married 
Lucinda  Hitchcock  of  Cheshire,  in  1794.  They  went  to 
Sharon,  Conn.,  and  from  thence  to  Litchfield,  Ohio. 

Children :  402  Matilda,  m  Rev.  Gad  Smith  ;  403  Lucius, 
m  Cornelia  Sturges. 

187.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Thaddeus  and  Sarah  Cook,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Constant  Kirtland  of  Wallingford.  He 
was  a  thrifty  farmer  in  the  western  part  of  the  town.  He  died 
Sept.  27,  1824,  ae.  66.  His  widow  died  March  10,  1839,  ae. 
82  years 

Children  :  404  Russel,  b  Sept.  8,  -1778,  m Hall  of  Che- 
shire ;  405  Eunice,  b  Aug.  24,  1780,  m  Elias  Ford  Esq.,  late 
of  Naugatuck  ;  406  Billious,  b  Sept.  29,  1782,  m  Sarah  Mun- 
son  of  Wallingford  ;  407  Harriet,  b  May  17,  1785,  m  Ira  Yale 
Esq.,  of  Wallingford  ;  408  Turhand  K.,  b  1787,  m  Catharine 
Van  Bryan  of  Catskill ;  409  Samuel,  b  Feb.  28,  1788,  m  Mar- 
tha Culver  of  Wallingford  ;  410  Thaddeus,  b  April  3,  1791,  m 
ist,  Julia  Cook,  2d,  Sylvia  Hall,  3d,  Thankful  Hall,  4th,  Mar- 
tha Hall;  411  George,  b  April  17,  1794,  m  Lavinia  Culver  of 
Wallingford;  412  friend,  b  Nov.  i.  1797,  m  Emily  Atwater 
of  Wallingford;  413  John,  b  Dec.  2,  1799,  m  Mary  Munson 
of  Northford. 

196.  PEREZ. 

PEREZ  Cook,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jerusha  Cook,  married 
Nancy  E.  Ely  of  Saybrook.  He  died  July  23,  1820,  ae.  57 
years.  She  married  Calvin  Ely,  and  died  in  New  Haven. 

Children:  414  Samuel  D.  F.  S.,  d  Jan.  20,  1820;  415 
Virgilius  G.,  d  in  New  Haven,  Ct.  ;  416  Louisa  F.  S ,  m 


692  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Augustus   Barnes   at  New   Haven;    417   Nancy  Ely,  m  Dr. 
Miller,  she  died  in  1850. 

202.    CORNELIUS. 

CORNELIUS  BROOKS  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Mary 
(  Brooks)  Cook,  married  Louisa  Hotchkiss  of  Cheshire.  He 
died  Sept.  i,  1827,  ae.  64  years.  She  died  Aug.  4,  1832,  ae. 
67  years. 

Children:  418  Rufus,  b  1790;  419  Charlotte,  m  ist,  Elam 
Dickerman,  2nd,  Mr.  Platt ;  420,  Brooks,  b  1798  ;  421  Polly, 
m  Asa  Bradley  of  Hamden. 

204.  AARON. 

AARON  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Mary  B.  Cook,  married 
Betsey  Preston  of  Wallingford.  He  died  July  16,  1817,  ae.  44 
years.  She  died  March  26,  1820,  ae.  52  years. 

Children:  422  Amasa,  b  1791,  d  unmarried  Dec.  18,  1831  ; 
423  Hannah ;  424  Aaron;  425  Laura,  m  Marshall  Ives  of 
Cheshire  ;  426  Alfred ;  427  infant,  b  1806,  d  April  23,  1806  ; 
428  Betsey,  b  1808,  d  April  6,  1808;  429  Sedgwick,  d  in 
Windham,  N.  Y.,  leaving  a  family ;  430  Stephen,  d  in  Che- 
shire ;  431  Samuel,  b  Dec.,  1816,  d  Jan.  29,  1816  ;  432  infant, 
d  March  14,  1834. 

205.  STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Mary  Brooks  Cook, 
married  Eunice,  daughter  of  John  Bradley,  of  Wallingford. 
He  died  Sept.  4,  1800,  ae.  29.  She  died  Oct.  18,  1800,  ae. 
27  years. 

Children:  433  Sarah,  b  1793,  d  unmarried;  434  Julia,  b 
1794,  m  Thaddeus  Cook  of  Wallingford  ;  435  Mary,  m  ist, 
Merrit  Tuttle,  2d,  Wm.  Todd,  Jr.  ;  436  Stephen,  b  June  n, 
1800,  d  in  Mass.,  buried  in  North  Haven. 

207.   SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Anna  (  Culver  )  Cook, 
m  —  —  Smith,  and  after  her  death  he  married  Abigail  Mallory 
of  East  Haven.  She  died  Nov.  4,  1851,  aged  91.  He  died 
May  12,  1823,  ae.  71  years. 


GENEALOGIES.  693 

Child  by  ist  marriage  :  437  Rachel.  By  ad  marriage:  438 
Lowly,  b  May  18,  1782,  m  Amos  Bird,  Dec.  13,  1797;  439 
Electa,  b  Jan.  n,  1785,  m  Canfield  Downs,  Oct.,  1822;  440 
Hubbard,  b  Aug.  26,  1787,  in  Wallingford ;  441  Roxanna,  b 
May  10,  1788,  m  Newton  Hecock,  1814;  442  Stephen,  b  1790, 
d  ae.  3  yrs.  ;  443  Per  Una,  b  May,  1795,  d  1813;  444  Harriet, 
b  Dec.  25,  1797,  m  Samuel  Washburn ;  445  Ruth,  b  1802,  d 
May  16,  1826 ;  446  Charry,  b  1804,  d  1808. 

208.  STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  COOK,  son  of  Capt.  Stephen  and  Anna  Cook,  m 
Sylvia  Meigs,  April  20,  1777.  She  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
May  27,  1760,  and  died  at  Adams'  Basin,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  7,  1849, 
ae.  90.  He  died  at  Chateaugay,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  28,  1829,  ae. 
75  years. 

Children :  447  Chauncey,  b  March  9,  1778,  resides  in 
Ottawa,  Illinois  ;  448  Solomon,  b  April  i,  1780,  resides  in 
Grand  Rapids  ;  449  Betsey,  b  Sept.  10,  1782,  d  August  2, 
1800;  450  Rebecca,  b  August  2,  1785,  d  August  7,  1825; 
451  Sylvia,  b  Feb.  3,  1788,  m  J.  Morton  of  Erie,  Penn.  ;  452 

Sally,  b  June  5,  1790,  m  S.  M.  Moon  of  ,  N.   Y. ;  453 

Patty,  b  Feb.  5,  1793,  resides  near  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  a  widow; 
454 Stephen,\)  March  15,  1796, res.  atOberlin,  Ohio;  455  Anna, 
b  Feb.  i,  1799,  res.  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.  ;  456  Betsey,  b  July  13, 
1802,  m  C.  D.  Graves,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  ;  457  Lyman,  b  Mar. 
20,  1804,  res.  at  Rochester,  N.  Y. ;  458  Nelson,  b  Sept.  24, 
1806,  res.  at  Half  Day,  Illinois. 

210.  ELIHU. 

ELIHU  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Anna  Cook,  married 
Lois  Thorp,  and  removed  to  New  Haven,  Vt.,  afterwards  to 
Illinois.  One  son  only  returned  to  me. 

Child  :  458  1-2  Sherlock. 

212.    LYMAN. 

Dr.  LYMAN   COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Thankful  Cook,  m 
Sarah  Lyon,  and  went  to  Westchester  Co.,  N.  Y.     He  was  aid 
to  Gen.   Thomas  with  rank   of  Colonel  in   1807,    and    also 
V  v 


694  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

sheriff  of  the  county  of  Westchester  six  years.     He   died  at 
Painesville,  Ohio. 

Child  :  459  Caroline,  b  Sept.  6,  1797,  m  Stephen  Matthews 
of  Painesville,  Ohio,  Aug.  n,  1824. 
213.   JARED. 

MAJ.  JARED  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Thankful  Cook, 
married  Lucy  Munson,  Feb.  28,  1819.  He  died  Aug.  14, 
1828,  ae.  53  years.  She  was  burned  to  death  in  1869. 

Children:  460  George  Lambert,  b  Nov.  21,  1819,  d  Jan.  2, 
1820;  461  Jared Philos,  b  Feb.  i,  1822. 

214.  LEMUEL. 

LEMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Anna  Tyler  Cook, 
married  Mrs.  Hannah  Sears,  formerly  Bunnel,  in  1813.  He 
married,  2nd,  Sinai  Bunnel,  in  1825.  He  died  Sept.  3,  1841, 
ae.  62,  at  Northford. 

Child:  462  Augustine, \>  1814,  m  S.  B.  Hoadley  of  New 
Haven. 

215.  MALACHI. 

MALACHI  COOK  Esq.,  son  of  Stephen  and  Anna  Cook, 
married  Sarah  Taintor,  Dec.  25,  1802  ;  he  died  May  27, 
1858,  ae.  77  yrs.  She  died  Nov.  9,  1852,  ae.  69  yrs.  He  was 
a  side  judge  of  New  Haven  County  Court  for  several  years. 

Children:  463  Emily  Cecilia,  b  April  21,  1803,  m  Thomas 
R.  Lindsley  ;  464  Homer  L.  M.,  b  April  3,  1805  ;  465  Virgil, 
b  June  22,  1808;  466  Ossian,  b  Nov.  19,  1810;  467  Her- 
mine  C.,  b  June  4,  1813,  m  Gilbert  Buck  ;  468  Grace  T.,  b 
Sept.  16,  1815  ;  469  Henrietta  A.,  b  Sept.  3,  1817,  m  George 
Butler;  470  Ellen,  b  Oct.  21,  1819,  m  Alexander  Brainard  ; 
471  Sarah  Delia,  b  Jan.  19,  1823;  472  Harriet  E.,  b  Oct. 
23,  1827,  m  Bennet  Atwood. 

224.  TITUS. 

TITUS  COOK,  son  of  Titus  and  Sarah  Cook,  m  Lucy  Leete 
of  Guilford,  Conn. ;  he  died  in  Wallingford. 

Children :  473  Julia,  m  George  Bull  of  Wallingford ;  474 
Lucretia,  m  Weber  of  Wallingford ;  475  Jared  JR. ; 


GENEALOGIES.  695 

476  Leverett,  resides  in   Meriden,    m  Hotchkiss   of 

Cheshire  ;  477  Andrew ;  478  Louisa,  m  Henry  Lane. 

226.  ATWATER. 

ATWATER  COOK,  son  of  Abel  and  Mary  Atwater  Cook,  m 
Mary  Bartholomew.  He  went  to  Sheffield,  Mass. ;  from 
thence  to  Salisbury,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died, 
June  29,  1839,  ae.  80  yrs.  She  died  July  2,  1844,  ae.  86  yrs. 

Children :  479  Roxilana,  b  Sept.  25,  1777,  d  Sept.  15,  1852  ; 
480  Rosanna,  b  April  14,  1782  ;  481  Mary,  b  April  3,  1784,  d 
Jan.  13,  1853  ;  482  Thaddeus  R.,  b  July  23,  1786 ;  483  Julia, 
b  July  23,  1788  ;  484  Friend,  b  Jan.  27,  1792  ;  485  Atwater 
H.  W.,  b  Dec.  17,  1795,  d  Feb.  4,  1853  ;  486  Betsey,  b  April 
19,  1798;  487  Abel,  b  Sept.  27,  1801,  d  ae.  21  yrs  ;  488  Delia, 

b  Sept.  4,  1806. 

227.  PORTER. 

PORTER  COOK,  son  of  Abel  and  Mary  Cook,  married  Sally 
Jarvis,  in  1785  ;  he  died  Dec.  26,  1848,  ae.  89.  She  died 
Oct.  31,  1841,  ae.  81  yrs. 

Children  :  489  Alfred,  b  Feb  5,  1786  ;  490  Merrick,  b   May 
18,  1788;  491  Randall,  b  July  19,  1790;  492  Philo,  b  Sept. 
30,  1792  ;  493  Sally,  b  Feb.  22,  1795,  d  in  Ohio;  494  Frank- 
lin, b  April  i,  1797,  d  in  Wallingford. 
229.   ABEL. 

ABEL  COOK,  son  of  Abel  and  Mary  Cook,  married  Mamre 
Bliss  ;  she  died  Dec.  19,  1790.  He  died  May  23,  1828,  ae.  63 
years.  His  2d  wife,  Viney  Cook,  died  Dec.  28,  1848,  ae.  83 
years,  all  buried  in  Northford  cemetery. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  495  Bliss,  b  April  25,  1787,  d 
April  28,  1823,  ae.  36.  By  2d  marriage:  496 Leverett,  b  Jan. 
3,  1794;  497  Cornelia,  b  Feb.  21,  1797,  m  Wm.  Everts,  of 
Northford ;  498  Marietta,  b  Sept.  8,  1 799,  m  Timothy  Bar- 
tholomew;  499  Emily,  b  July  23,  1802,  m  Chas.  M.  Fowler; 
500  Philander,  b  Oct.  13,  1804 ;  501  Jennette,  b  May  5,  1807, 
d  Nov.  12,  1832. 

233.    CHESTER. 

CHESTER  COOK,  son  of  Abel  and  Mary  Cook,  married  ist, 


696  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Thankful  Hall,  of  Wallingford  ;  2d,  Polly  Norton,   widow  of 
Jesse  Street.     Mr.  Cook  was  a  farmer  and  shoemaker. 

Children  by  i st  marriage:  502  Caroline,  b  Sept.  5,  1801, 
m  Orrin  Andrews,  of  Wallingford  ;  503  Manila,  b  Nov.  17, 
1803,  m  Sherlock  Avery,  of  Wallingford  ;  504  Hiram,  b  April 

27,  1805,  in Marks. 

231.    DAVID. 

CAPT.  DAVID  M.  COOK,  son  of  Abel  and  Mary  Cook,  married 
Elizabeth  Day  Hall;  she  died  Dec.,  1855.  He  died  1857,  ae. 
91  years.  He  was  frequently  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of 
the  State,  and  selectman  of  the  town.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
shoemaker. 

Children:  505  Betsey,  b  May,    1797,  m  Philo   Hall,   she   d 
1858;  506    Eliakim,    b    Nov.   8,  1801,    d    in  childhood ;  507 
Elijah,  b  Nov.  28,  1804,   d  in  childhood  ;  508  Maria,  b  June 
23,  1805,  m  Willis  Todd,  and  d  in  Northford. 
234.   OLIVER. 

OLIVER  DUDLEY  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Lucretia  Dudley 
'  Cook,  graduated  for  the  ministry  at  Yale  College,  in  1793. 
He  married  Sophia  Pratt,  and  settled  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
where  he  became  an  extensive  bookseller  and  binder,  accu- 
mulated a  very  large  estate,  and  died  April  24,  1833,  ae.  67 
years.  His  wife  died  March  20,  1833,  ae  58  years. 

Children  :  509  Edward  P.,  b  1800,  d  Sept.    18,  1846  ;  510 
Oliver  D.,  d  Oct    24,  1831  ;  511  a  dau.,  m  Wm.  Hammersley. 
236.   KILBORN. 

KILBORN  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Lucretia  Dudley  Cook, 
m  Emma  Williams;  she  was  born  March  8,  1771,  and  died  in 
Illinois,  in  1835.  He  died  suddenly  at  North  Guilford,  June 
9,  1832. 

Children  1512  Eunice,  b  Sept.  29,  1796,  m  Abram  Coan,  she 
d  May  28,  1859  ;  513  Margaretta,  b  Dec.  30,  1798,  d  June  3, 
1834;  514  Aaron  Dudley,  resides  in  Illinois  ;  515  Bertha,  m 
Nath'l  Bartlett ;  516  Lucretia  Ann,  m.  Erastus  Benton  ;  517 
Increase  W.,  b  Feb.,  1807,  d  1847  ;  518  Caroline  Jenette,  m 
Erastus  Benton. 


GENEALOGIES.  697 

240.  APOLLOS. 

APOLLOS  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Lucretia  D.  Cook,  mar- 
ried Ruth,  daughter  of  Capt.  Caleb  Atwater,  of  Wallingford, 
Nov.  22,  1813,  and  settled  at  Catskill,  N.  Y.  He  died  July 
6,  1832,  ae,  46  years. 

Children:  519  Mary  A.,  b  Dec.  5,  1814,  m  George  Griffing, 
May  20,  1845  j  52°  James,  b  July  4,  1817,  d  Jan.  6,  1842  ; 
521  Frederick,  b  March  19,  1819  ;  522  Caroline  E.,  b  April  5, 
1821,  in  Rev.  Frank  Olmsted  ;  523  John  A.,  b  Oct.  23,  1823  ; 
524  Emily  H.,  b  Feb.  25,  1826;  525  Edward  H.,  b  June  24, 
1828,  d  May  28,  1835  ;  526  Francis  H.,  b  March  16,  1831. 

241.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  B.  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Lucretia  (Dudley) 
Cook,  m  Catherine,  dau.  of  Capt.  Caleb  Atwater,  and  went 
to  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died. 

Children  :  527  Frances  H.  ;  528  Mary  A.;  529  Ruth  A.  ; 
53°  John  C. ;  531  Franklin  H. ;  532  Atwater. 

247.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  COOK,  son  of  Moses  and  Jemima  Upson,  married 
Anna  Bronson,  Aug.  i,  1792.  She  was  born  Dec.  25,  1770, 
and  died  Nov.  25,  1855.  He  died  Nov.  26,  1855,  ae.  87  yrs., 
just  10  hours  before  his  wife  died. 

Children:  533  Edward  B.,  b  March  18,  1793  ;  534  Samuel, 
b  Dec.  12,  1794;  535  Susan  J.,  b  Oct  25,  1797,  m  Mark 
Leavenworth,  Dec.  16,  1821 ;  536  Sarah  L.,  b  Oct.  29,  1799, 
m  Salome  Austin  of  Southington;  537  Nancy,  b  Nov.  16, 
1801,  m  Wm.  Scoville  of  Middletown,  1828  ;  538  Nathan,  b 
Jan.,  1804  !  539  George,  b  April  8,  1806,  d  July  19,  1815  ;  540 
George  William,  b  Feb.  28,  1811. 

249.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  COOK,  son  of  Moses  and  Jemima  Cook,  married 
Sally  Sperry,  of  Waterbury,  Nov.  25,  1799.  He  died  Dec. 
20,  1857,  ae.  85  years.  She  died  Nov.  13,  1861,  ae.  83  years. 

Children:  541.  Marcus,  b  Sept.  12,  1800,  d   Feb    9,  1831  ; 


698  HISTORY    O1--    WALLINGFORD. 

542  Sarah  P.,  b  Aug.  i,  1804,   m  Thomas  B.   Segur,  in  1826  ; 

543  Moses  Stiles,  b  1812,  resides  in  Waterbury,  Conn. 

259.    ELUTHEROS. 

ELUTHEROS  COOK,  son  of  Asaph  and  Sarah  Parker  Cook, 
married  Martha  Caswell,  of  Salem,  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y. 
He  was  a  lawyer  in  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y.,  before  his  re- 
moval to  Sandusky,  Ohio.  He  was  frequently  a  member  of 
the  Ohio  Legislature,  and  was  a  member  of  Congress  from 
1831  to  1833.  He  died  at  Sandusky,  Ohio,  Dec.  27,  1864. 

Children:  544  Sarah  E.,  b  Jan.  16,  1816,  m  Wm  More- 
head;  545  Pitt,  b  July  23,  1819  ;  546  Jay,  b  Aug.  10,  1821, 
banker  in  Philadelphia;  547  Henry  D.,  b  Nov.  25,  1825; 
548  Elutheros,  b  Dec.  20,  1828,  d  Oct.,  1850,  ae.  22  ;  549 
Catherine  E.,  b  Sept.  15,  1831,  d  Oct.,  1834,  ae.  3. 
262.  ERASTUS. 

ERASTUS  COOK,  son  of  Asaph  and  Sarah  P.  Cook,  married 
Fanny  Anderson,  Nov.  10,  1826.  He  went  to  Sandusky  City, 
Ohio,  and  was  postmaster  there  from  1836-41.  He  died 
in  1849. 

Children:  550   James  W.,  b  1830;  551  George  A.,  b  1840; 
552  Emma  E.,  b  1843  j  they  all  resided  in  Sandusky. 
270.   HORACE. 

HORACE  COOK,  son  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  mar- 
ried Roxanna  Thomas,  Dec.  20,  1824,  and  located  himself 
at  Sackett's  Harbor,  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Children:  553  Horace  Nelson,  b  Oct.  26,  1825,  d  Sept.  17, 
1848,  ae.  23  ;  554   John  Spafford,  b  June  15,  1828. 
271.  CHARLES. 

CHARLES  COOK,  son  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  Cook,  mar- 
ried Harriet  Cunningham,  and  resided  at  Roberts  Corners, 
N.  Y. 

Children:  555  Elizabeth;  556  Charles;  557  Curtis; 
558  Harriet. 

272.   ELISHA. 

ELISHA    COOK,   son  of   Charles  and   Elizabeth  Cook,  re- 


GENEALOGIES.  699 

moved  from   Sackett's   Harbor  to  Huron  Co.,  Ohio.,  where 
he  died  in  1852,  ae.  51  years. 

Children :  559  Elizabeth,  b  1835  ;  560  Charles,  b  1838,  d 
Feb.,  1853  ;  561  Elisha,  b  1840. 

280  AMOS. 

AMOS  COOK,  son  of  Amos  and  Rhoda  Cook,  married 
Sabrina  Mix. 

Children:   562  Amos;  563  Rhoda;  564   Orrin. 
283.   LYMAN. 

LYMAN  COOK,  son  of  Amos  and  Rhoda  Cook,  married,  and 
left  Wallingford  in  early  life. 

Children:  565  Lyman  W.;  566  Sidney  H. 
285.  JOEL. 

Capt.  JOEL  COOK,  son  of  Col.  Isaac  and  Martha  Cook  of 
Wallingford,  m  Rebecca  Hart,  Jan.  i,  1784.  He  entered  the 
army  of  the  Revolution  with  his  father  in  1776,  and  served 
through  the  war.  In  1812  he  was  a  distinguished  officer 
under  Gen.  Harrison,  in  many  hard  fought  battles  with  the 
Indians.  He  died  at  (  Deer  Park  )  Babylon,  L.  I.,  Dec.  18, 
1851,  ae.  92  years. 

Children  :  567  Lucy,  b  April  5,  1785,  m  James  Calstead, 
July  22,  1804;  568  Minerva,  b  June  18,  1789  ;  569  Leander, 
b  March  10,  1792,  d  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  570  Patty,  b  Nov. 

27,  1794;  571  Rebecca,  b  April  5,  1798  ;  572  Phebe,  b  Jan  5, 
1 80 1  ;  573  Jennette,  b  July  8,  1804  ;  574  Joel  Wilcox,  b  April 

28,  1808,  res.  in  Babylon,  L.  I. 

286.  LEMUEL. 

LEMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Col.  Isaac  and  Martha  Cook,  m 
Betsey  Bates  in  1784.  He  removed  to  Lewiston,  Niagara  Co., 
N.  Y.,  in  1793.  She  died  Sept.,  1821. 

Children:  575  Lathrop,\>  Nov.  23,  1785,  in  Wallingford; 
576  Bates,  b  Dec.  23,  1787  ;  577  Laura,  died  in  infancy  in 
Wallingford;  578  Laura,  b  May  13,  1792,  in  Wallingford; 
579  Betsey,  b  June  30,  1794;  580  Amelia,  b  Sept.  5,  1796; 
581  Isaac  C.,  b  1803  ;  582  Amanda  M.,  b  Nov.  6,  1805. 


7OO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

287.    JAMES. 

JAMES  COOK,  son  of  Col.  Isaac  and  Martha  Cook,  married 
Chloe  Royce,  May  4,  1786  He  was  a  seaman,  and  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  lost  or  died  at  sea  previous  to  1813. 

Children,  all  born  in  Wallingford:  583  Miles ;  584  Melissa; 
585  Angelina;  586  Lucinda ;  587  Chloe;  588  Eliza. 
289.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  COOK  Esq.,  son  of  Isaac  and  Martha  Cook,  married 
Margaretta  Scott,  in  1792.  He  emigrated  to  Chillicothe,  Ohio, 
in  1791,  and  was  made  an  associate  judge  of  the  court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas.  He  died  Jan.  22,  1844. 

Children:  589  Eliza,  b  Oct.  21,  1793,  d  Aug.  3,  1799; 
590  Martha,  b  June  23,  1794,  d  June  24,  1796  ;  591  Isaac 
T,  b  March  6,  1797;  592  Lucy,  b  Feb.  n,  1799,  d  March 
28,  1800;  593  Marietta,  b  March  9,  1801,  m  James  Webb, 
M.  D. ;  594  Matthew  Scott,  b  April  9,  1803 ;  595  Elizabeth,  b 
March  27,  1805,  m  John  Nelson  ;  596  William,  b  April  18, 
1807  ;  597  John  Joseph,  b  May  28,  1809  ;  598  Lucy  Hall,  b 
May  25,  1811;  599  Phebe,  b  Aug.  8,  1813,  m  Wm.  McKell, 
May  26,  1836;  600  Margaretta  Scott,  b  April  9,  1817,  m 
Moses  Boggs,  Aug.  3,  1841. 

294.  AUGUSTUS. 

CAPT.  AUGUSTUS  COOK,  son  of  Caleb  and  Abigail  Cook, 
m  Sybel  Beach,  of  Goshen,  Sept.  2,  1790;  she  died  Sept.  28, 
1792,  ae.  22  years.  He  married  Sarah  Button,  June  30,  1793; 
she  died  April  28,  1854,  ae.  80  years.  He  died  at  Middle- 
town,  Conn.,  where  he  had  resided  many  years,  April  18, 
1866,  ae.  79  years.  He  was  a  manufacturer  of  shoes. 

Children:  601  Luther  Dutton,  b  June  21,  1794;  602  Sybil 
B.,  b  June  23,  1797,  m  Wm.  R.  Catting,  and  d  Oct.  25,  1825  ; 
603  Margaretta,  b  Jan.  12,  1800,  m  Wm.  S.  Camp,  Esq.,  of  Mid- 
dletown ;  604  Sarah,  b  May  22,  1811,  m  Samuel  Stearns,  Esq., 
of  Middletown  ;  605  Catharine,  b  May  22,  1813,  d  Sept.  23, 
1813  ;  606  Catharine,  b  Dec.  30,  1814,  m  Peter  Lanman,  she 
d  Jan.  4,  1834. 


GENEALOGIES.  /OI 

300.    CALEB. 

CALEB  COOK,  Esq.,  son  of  Caleb  and  Abigail  Cook,  m 
Amelia,  daughter  of  Jared  and  Rhoda  Lewis,  Oct.  16,  1808. 
He  left  Wallingford  and  settled  at  Richland,  Oswego  Co., 
N.  Y.  He  died  at  Sandusky,  Ohio,  on  his  return  from  a  visit  to 
his  children  at  the  West,  in  July,  1852,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Oakland  cemetery.  She  died  at  Pulaski,  Oswego  Co.,  N.  Y., 
June  8,  1840. 

Children:  607  Louisa  C.,  b  July  10,  1809,  m  Rev.  Henry 
Maltby ;  608  Lewis,  b  March  15,  1811;  609  Henry  C.,  b 
Sept.  n,  1813,  d  at  Sidney,  Ohio;  610  Frederick,  b  June  n, 
1815;  611  Juliet,  b  June  28,  1817,  m  C.  Preston,  she  d 
in  1852  ;  612  Edward  H.,  d  ae.  4  yrs.  ;  613  Margaretta,  b 
May  25,  1819,  d  Oct.  23,  1820;  614  Augustus,  b  Nov.  3, 
1823,  d  Nov  2,  1848;  615  William  C.,  b  July  27,  1825,  re- 
sides in  Richland,  N.  Y. ;  616  Henrietta,  b  1828,  d  in  Wall- 
ingford ;  617  Henry  Atwater,  b  March  i,  1832,  d  in  infancy. 

302.    CHAUNCEY. 

CHAUNCEY  COOK,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Esther  Peck  Cook, 
married  Eunice  Button  of  Wallingford.  He  kept  a  tavern 
in  Wallingford  and  in  New  Haven  for  a  long  time,  and  died 
in  the  latter  place  Jan.  22,  1827,  ae.  60  years.  His  widow 
died  at  the  residence  of  her  son  Charles  C.,  in  Ohio. 

Children:  618  Laura,  b  Oct.  25,  1791,  m  Orrin  Winchell, 
of  New  Haven  ;  619  Charles  C.,  b  Jan.  22,  1799,  is  a  phy- 
sician in  Ohio;  620  Chauncey,\>  Nov.  30,  1811,  d  July  6,  1812. 
303.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Esther  Cook,  m  Mar- 
tha, daughter  of  Benjamin  Cook,  Aug.  i,  1792.  He  died 
Aug.  30,  1826,  aged  57.  He  was  a  shoemaker. 

Children:  621  John  Milton,  b  Feb.  i,  1795;  622  Martha 
A.,  b  Oct.  25,  1805,  m  Elihu  Hall,  Wallingford ;  623  Lucy  A., 
b  Oct.  25,  1805. 

306.  CHARLES. 

CHARLES  COOK,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Esther  P.  Cook,  m 


7<D2  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Sylvia,  daughter  of  Elihu  and  Lucretia  Yale  ;  she  died  at 
Wallingford,  Feb.  i,  1825.  He  died  at  Cuyahoga  Falls,  Ohio, 
June,  1845,  aged  70  years. 

Children  :  624  Otis,  b  April  8,  1797,  m Butler,  of  Rocky 

Hill;  625  Smat,b  Sept.  17,  1798,  m  John  Miller  White,  of 
Middlefield,  Conn.;  626  Peter,  b  July  16,  1800;  627, 
Thomas,  b  Feb.  i,  1802,  d  in  1862,  ae.  60  ;  628  Charles,  b  Aug. 
13,  1804,  res.  in  Hartford,  Conn.  ;  629  Orrin,  b  May  8,  1808, 
had  no  family,  d  at  Cuyahoga  Falls,  Ohio ;  630  Hemy,  b  Feb. 
12,  1810,  d  1865-6;  631  Isaac,  b  Aug.  17,  1813,  d  at  St.  Jago, 
Cuba,  W.  I. 

315.  MUNSON. 

CAPT.  MUNSON  COOK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Esther  Rice 
Cook,  married  Thankful  Austin,  Sept.  4,  1796.  They  went 
to  Middletown,  Ct.  ;  afterwards  they  came  to  Cheshire,  Ct., 
where  she  died,  Dec.  24,  1853.  He  died  Aug.  18, 1862,35.  86. 

Children  :  632  Samantha,  b  Sept.  4,  1797,  d  May  31,  1819  ; 
633  Charles  B.,  b  Sept.  27,  1799,  d  Jan.  31,  1850 ;  634  Betsey, 
b  July  4,  1801,  d  Oct.  3,  1820  ;  635  Caroline,  b  June  8,  1803, 
d  March  9,  1826;  636  Hobart,\>  Aug.  7,  1805,  d  Oct.  21, 
1807  ;  637  Hobart  M.,  b  July  9,  1807  ;  638  Emetine,  b  May 
8,  1809,  d  March  i,  1826  ;  639  Nathan  R.,  b  Aug.  10,  1811  ; 
640  Eliza  Ann,  b  May  i,  1813,  m  James  R.  Hall ;  641  Ozias 
A.,  b  Dec.  18,  1814;  642  Oliver  W.,  b  March  21,  1817; 
643  Philander,  b  July  3,  1819  ;  644  Joel,  b  Oct.  15,  1820  ; 
645  Henry  H.,  b  April  17,  1823,  d  July  18,  1825. 

316.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  COOK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Esther  Cook,  married 
ist,  Mary  Thorp,  June  13,  1799.  After  her  decease  he  mar- 
ried Catherine:  Smith,  daughter  of  Stanton  Smith,  April  22, 
1822.  He  moved  to  the  State  of  New  York  and  died  there 
in  1860. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  646  Phebe,  b  Aug.  14,  1801 ; 
647  Alma  R.,  b  June.  23,  1805  ;  648  Maria,  b  May  15,  1807; 
640  Elizur,  b  Oct.  9,  1810;  650  Alexander,  b  March  n, 


GENEALOGIES.  703 

1813.     By  2cl  marriage:  651  Hiram,  b   Feb.   20,    1823.     By 
3d  marriage  :   John,  is  a  sailor. 

319.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Mary  Cook,  married 
Mary  A.  Talman,  Nov.  30,  1774,  and  went  to  Saratoga 
Springs,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  living  a  few  years  since,  at  the 
age  of  94  years.  His  wife  died  April  4,  1860,  ae.  86  years. 

Children:  652  Ransom,  b  Nov.  8,  1794,  in  Wallingford ; 
653  Marcus,  b  Nov.  25,  1796,  in  Norwich,  Ct.  ;  654  Andrew, 
b  Jan.  18,  1799,  in  Norwich,  Ct.  ;  655  Mary  A.,  b  Nov.  23, 
1800,  in  Norwich,  Ct. ;  656  Harvey,  b  April  15,  1803,  at 
Half  Moon,  Saratoga  Co.,  N.  Y.  ;  657  Joseph,  b  Nov.  i, 
1805,  d  July  i,  1808;  658  Nelson,  b  Oct.  8,  1808,  d  in 
Saratoga  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  659  Truman,  b  Oct.  25,  1810;  660  Eli, 
b  July  15,  1814,  d.  at  Milton,  N.  Y.,  April  20,  1816;  661 
Julia  E.,  b  Aug.  14,  1817,  res.  at  Milton,  N.  Y. 
323.  ELIHU. 

ELIHU  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Mary  Cook,  married 
Sarah  Cooley,  of  Wallingford,  in  1798.  He  died  in  1855,  ae. 
79  years.  She  died  several  years  since.  He  was  a  hatter 
at  Ballston,  Saratoga  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Children:  662  Eliza,  m  Mr.  Davis;  663  Harriet;  664 
Merriman,  supposed  to  be  now  living  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

325    1-2.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Mary  Cook,  married 
Mary,  dau.  of  Charles  Culver,  of  Wallingford.  She  died  in 
1838.  He  married  Sally  Galpin,  and  resides  at  Northum- 
berland, Saratoga  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Children  :  665  Amanda,  m  James  Van  Byring,  d  1854 ;  666 
Lydia,  m  Reuben  Wait;  667  Patty;  668  James ;  669  Charles, 
d  33.  24  yrs.  ;  670  Samuel,  b  March  27,  1819;  671  Alfred,  b 

1824.     By   2d  wife  :  672  Elizabeth,  m  R B ,  in  1830  ; 

673  George. 

326.  LYMAN. 

LYMAN  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Mary  Cook,  married 
Amy  Hulin,  and  settled  at  Malta,  Saratoga  Co.,  N.  Y. 


704  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  674  Alena,  b  Jan.  31,  1809,  m  ist,  Joseph  Gor- 
man, Aug.  17,  1826,  ad,  Samuel  Hall;  675  Mary  E.,  b  April 
22,  1811,  m  Oliver  Lockwood,  July  3,  1832  ;  676  Charles  H., 
b  July  20,  1813;  677  Delia  A.,  b  Nov.  26,  1815,  m  Henry 
Warring,  Jan.  9,  1839  ;  678  Edmond,  b  May  3,  1818,  d  Aug 
3,  1818  ;  679  Lyman  IV.,  b  June  4,  1820;  680  Betsey  M.,  b 
May  12,  1822,  d  Nov.  26,  1826  ;  681  Edwin  D.,  b  July  25, 
1824;  682  Henry  M.,  b  Feb.  18,  1827,  d  Dec.  26,  1827  ;  683 
John  C.,  b  Feb.  21,  1829,  d  Feb.  10,  1831  ;  684  Sarah,  b 
July  n,  1833. 

329.    SHERLOCK. 

SHERLOCK  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Mary  Cook,  mar- 
ried Milly  Thurston  about  1812.  They  removed  to  Western, 
N.  Y.,  and  he  is  supposed  to  have  died  there  in  1850.  Only 
four  of  his  children  are  supposed  to  be  living — present  resi- 
dence unknown. 

332.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Philip  and  Thankful  T.  Cook,  mar- 
ried Fanny  Fuller  of  Sandisfield,  Mass.,  Feb.  20,  1803.  They 
went  to  Nassau,  N.  Y.,  and  from  thence  to  Ballston  Spa, 
where  he  died  May  15,  1815.  His  2nd  wife,  Harriet  Cook  of 
Goshen,  Ct.,  died  April  15,  1828. 

.   Children :  685    James  M.,  b  Nov.  19,   1807.     By   2d  mar- 
riage :  686  Samuel  H.,  b  July  18,  1823. 
334.  ERASTUS. 

ERASTUS  COOK,  son  of  Philip  and  Thankful  T.  Cook, 
married  Jerusha  Hewins  of  Richmond,  Mass.,  in  1800.  He 
died  at  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  1850. 

Children :  686  Althea,  b  March  18,  1801  :  686  1-2  Maria  T., 
b  April  19,  1802  ;  687  Amanda,  d  young  ;  688  Silas;  689  Joseph. 
338.  AMASA. 

AMASA  COOK,  son  of  Daniel  and  Eliza  Cook,  married  ist, 
Polly  Churchill.  2nd,  Sally  Rowe.  He  was  accidentally 
killed  by  a  cart,  while  entering  his  barn  with  a  load  of  hay, 
in  1817. 

Child :  690  Philip,  b  in  Goshen,  Ct. 


GENEALOGIES.  705 

339.    PHINEAS. 

PHINEAS  COOK,  son  of  Daniel  and  Eliza  Cook,  married 
Irene  Churchill,  and  removed  to  Michigan  in  1836  or  1837. 

Children:  691  Betsey;    692   Daniel,  m  Mary   Kirby ;    693 
Eliza,  m  Salmon   Hall  ;    694  Darius,  m  Jane  Adams  ;   695 
Mary  Ann  ;  696  Plumas  ,'697  Harriet. 
340.  GEORGE. 

GEORGE  COOK,  son  of  Moses  and  Lydia  Cook,  married 
Roxy  Grant,  of  Norfolk.  She  died  Oct.  24,  1841,  ae.  47  yrs. 
He  died  in  1864. 

Children  :  698  Caroline  M.,  b  June  10,  1818  ;  699  Ralph  F., 
b  May  10,  1821,  has  resided  in  New  London,  and  Goshen, 
Conn. 

343.    FREDERICK. 

FREDERICK  COOK,  son  of  Moses  and  Roxy  Cook,  married 
Louisa  McKinley  of  Georgia,  in  April,  1827,  and  settled  at 
Lexington,  Ga.,  where  he  died  April  4,  1843. 

Child  :  700  Maria  Elizabeth,  b  Feb.  28,  1828,  m  Alexander 
Allen. 

344.     MOSES. 

MOSES  COOK,  son  of  Moses  and  Roxy  Cook,  married 
Emily  M.  Beecher  of  Goshen.  He  is  an  inn-keeper  near  the 
center  of  Goshen. 

Children:  701  Harriet  E.,  b  Oct.  17,  1832;  702  Emily, 
b  May  7,  1834  ;  703  Frederick  A.,  b  Jan.  27,  1838,  ist  Lieut. 
2nd  Conn.  Artillery;  704  Moses,  b  March  26,  1842,  d  1863, 
Sergt.  of  2nd  Comp.  Artillery ;  705  William  R.,  b  July  4, 
1852  ;  706  George  B.,  b  May  17,  1855,  ist  Lieut.  Comp.  D, 
4th  Reg.  Conn,  volunteers. 

345.  ELIAS. 

ELIAS  COOK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Charity  E  Cook  of 
Guildhall,  Vt,  married  Maria  Brookins,  May  26,  1825.  He 
had  been  a  teacher  in  various  parts  of  the  country  ;  is  at  this 
time  a  resident  of  Ware,  Hocking  Co.,  Ohio. 

Children:  707   Caroline  E.,   b    March    12,    1826,   m  Peter 


/O6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Smith,  May  2,  1832  ;  708  Martha  A.,  b  May  10,  1827;  709 
Helen  S.,  b  May  28,  1829,  m  Wm.  Comstock,  June  16,  1849  > 
710  Raphael  G.,  b  Jan.  17.  1832,  d  Sept.,  1833  ;  711  Raphael 
E.,  b  June  7,  1833,  U.  S.  Army,  1862  ;  712  Cyrus  B.,  b  Dec. 
i,  1834;  713  Harriet  E.,  b  Sept.  6,  1836,  m  James  Parden, 
March,  1857  ;  714  Albert  F.,  b  Sept.  5,  1840  ;  715  Emma  L., 
b  Dec.,  1842. 

347-    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  COOK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Charity  L.  Cook, 
m  Betsey ;  residence,  Petersham,  Mass. 

Children  ;  716  Harriet  S.,  b  April  23,  1830,  has  been  twice 
married;  717  Sandford  B.,  b  May  6,  1832  ;  718  George  O.,  b 
Oct.  14,  1834;  719  Charles  Elliot,  b  Sept.  6,  1836;  720 
Mary  Elizabeth,  b  April  30,  1839,  m  Nathan  Knowlton. 

349.    IRA. 

IRA  COOK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Charity  E.  Cook,  married 
Lucy  Clapp,  Oct,  3,  1837,  and  settled  at  Athol  Depot,  Mass., 
as  a  boot  and  shoemaker.  He  married  for  2d  wife,  Sarah 
Kimball,  May  10,  1853.  His  first  wife  died  March  12,  1852. 
Children:  721  Eliza  Jane,  b  Sept.  13,  1838,  m  Samuel  Searls, 
May  7,  1857  ;  722  Vernon  Stiles,  b  April  2,  1841,  in  U.  S. 
Army,  1862  ;  723  Lucy  Ellen,  b  Dec.  30,  1845,  d  in  1852. 
By  2nd  marriage :  724  Sarah  Ellen,  b  Oct.  18,  1855. 

379.  JOHN. 

JOHN  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Sally  Cook  of  Cheshire , 
Ct,  married  Meroa,  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Thankful  Smith 
of  Cheshire,  March,  1804.  He  went  to  Ohio  and  settled  at 
Burton  in  1806,  where  he  died  March  21,  1848. 

Children:   725   Nabby,  b  Aug.    16,    1805,  d  Oct.  23,  1806; 
726  Harriet  E.,  b  Aug.  20,  1807,  m  His  Excellency  Seabury 
Todd,   Esq.,  of  Ohio;  727   Josiah  S.,  b  May  10,  1810  ;  728, 
Sally  R.,  b  Feb.  25,  1815,  m  Geo.  Boughton. 
380.  HIRAM. 

HIRAM  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Sally  Cook,  of  Che- 
shire, married  Lucinda,  dau.  of  Ichabod  and  Lydia  Hitch- 


GENEALOGIES.  *]£>'] 

cock   of  Cheshire.     They   removed    to    Ohio    in    1815,    and 
settled  in  Burton,  Ohio. 

Children:   729  Sally  A.,  b  July  10,  1807,  m   Raymond  Gay- 
lord;  730  Lydia,  b  Aug.  3,  1816,  m  Sherman  Goodwin,  M.  D.; 
731  Eliza  A.,  b  Sept.  8,  1818,  m  Peter  Hitchcock,  Esq.  ;  732 
Sarilla,  b  Dec.  20,  1827,  m  Richard  Dayton,  she  d  in  1833. 
382.  ELZAR. 

ELZAR  COOK,  son  of  Merriman  and  Sally  Cook,  married 
Maria  Beard  of  Huntington,  Conn.  He  went  to  Ohio  in 
1807,  at  the  age  of  eight  years. 

Child  :  733  Elizabeth,  b  March  24,   1830. 
384.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sue  Cook  of  Cheshire, 
m  Esther  Curtis,  Feb.  17,  1817.  He  was  deputy  sheriff  for  a 
number  of  years  at  Cheshire,  where  he  died  Feb.  19,  1859,35. 
68  years. 

Children:  734  Samuel,  died  young;  735  Robert  If.,  b  Dec. 
18,  1823. 

386.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  J.  C.,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Sukey  Cook,  married 
Lucinda  Dudley  of  North  Guilford,  Conn.,  Jan.  i,  1828. 

Children:    736  Abigail,    b     Dec.    23,    1829,   d    March    18, 
x^33  ')  737   Samuel  D.,    b    April    14,    1832  ;    738   Abigail,    b 
Aug.  18,  1836,  d  Sept.    12,   1842  ;  739    Celestina,  b   March  7, 
1440;  740  Ephraim  F.,\>  Feb.  21,  1843. 
391.  HORACE. 

HORACE  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Sukey  Cook,  married 
Lydia  E.  Hickox,  Dec.  15,  1842,  res.  in  Burton,  Ohio. 

Children:  741  Melissa  N.,  b  July  24,  1845;  742  Sarah,  b 
Aug.  8,  1849;  743  Eliza  N.,  b  Jan.  8,  1852. 

396.    ETHELBERT. 

ETHELBERT  COOK,  son  of  Elam  and  Rebecca  B.  Cook  of 
Cheshire,  Conn.,  married  Philander  Sanford  of  Prospect ;  he 
died  March  7,  1853  ;  she  died  Nov.  8,  1854. 

Child:  7 44 Lauren  E.,  b  April  17,  1833,  m  Carrie  Perkins, 
Nov.  12,  1860. 


/O8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

401.    ELAM. 

ELAM  COOK,  son  of  Elam  and  Rebecca  Cook  of  Cheshire, 
Ct,  m  Lois,  daughter  of  Jesse  and  Eliza  Humiston  of  said 
town. 

Children:  745  Eliza  A.,  b  Feb.  6,  1842  ;    746    Theodore  A., 
b  March  17,  1845  ;  747  Amelia  R.,  b  Feb.  8,  1856. 
404.  RUSSEL. 

RUSSEL  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  K.  Cook  of  Wall- 
ingford,  married  Miss  Hall  of  Cheshire,  where  he  resided  for 
some  time.     From  Cheshire  he  went,  it  is  supposed,  to  Ohio, 
where  it  is  supposed  by  his  friends  that  he  died. 
406.  BILLIOUS. 

BILLIOUS  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  R.  Cook,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Munson,  daughter  of  Elizabeth.  He  died  July  25, 
1828,  ae.  45  years.  She  died  May  4,  1855,  ae.  70  years. 

Children  :  748  Chauncey  M.,  b  Oct.  10,  1805  ;  749  Mary 
K.,  b  Jan.  i,  1807,  m  Edwin  L.  Hall ;  750  Russel,  b  Oct.  21, 
1809;  751  Sarah,  b  April  30,  1811,  m  Horace  Tuttle  of 
Hamden,  Ct.  ;  752  Turhand  K.,  b  July  n,  1817  ;  753  Jane 
R.,  b  March  6,  1819,  m  Ambrose  Todd  of  Fair  Haven,  Ct.  ; 
754  Emily,  b  1824,  died  in  infancy. 

408.  TURHAND. 

TURHAND  K.  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  K.  Cook,  mar- 
ried Catharine  Van  Bergen  of  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  and  resided  there 
until  his  decease.  He  was  a  merchant,  inn-keeper  and  clerk 
of  the  county  of  Greene,  N.  Y.  He  died  December  3d,  1851, 
aged  64  years.  He  married  Catharine  A.  Allen,  for  his  3d 
wife,  in  January,  1848. 

Children:  755  Ann  Eliza,  b  Nov.  26,   1827,  was  at  Cincin- 
nati in  .1856  ;  756  Mary  Kirtland,  b  August  3,    1829,  mar- 
ried Charles  J.  Russin  1847  ;  757   Wm.  Van  Bur  en,  b  March, 
1831,  d  Sept  24,  1849  j  758  John  Washburton,  b  Dec.  7,  1839. 
409.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  K.  Cook,  married 
Martha  Culver,  daughter  of  Benjamin.  He  was  three  years 


GENEALOGIES. 

high  sheriff  of  New  Haven  county,  postmaster  and  town 
clerk  of  Wallingford.  He  died  Dec.  18,  1843,  K-  55  years,  at 
Cheshire.  His  remains  were  interred  in  Wallingford.  His 
widow  died  at  the  house  of  her  son  Samuel  A.  Cook,  in 
Waterbury,  July  6,  1861,  ae.  67  years. 

Children :  759  Delos  Ford,  d  in  Wallingford  of  consump- 
tion; 760  Henry  A.,  m  Delia  Cook,  dau.  of  Benj.  T. ;  761 
Harriet,  m  Wm.  Frisbie  of  Branford,  she  d  Dec.  26,  1860 ; 

762   Kirtland,  b  1822,  m  Tuttle,   d  at  Cheshire;  763 

Samuel  A.,  m  Lucinda  Hitchcock  ;  764  William,  res.  at 
Pond  Hill,  Wallingford. 

410.  THADDEUS. 

COL.  THADDEUS  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  K.  Cook, 
married  ist,  Julia  Cook,  daughter  of  Stephen,  of  Cheshire; 
2d,  Sylvia  Hall,  dau.  of  Andrew  and  Diana  Hall ;  3d,  Thank- 
ful, and  4th,  Martha  Hall.  The  two  last  were  daughters  of 
Josiah  Hall,  of  Wallingford. 

Child  by  first  marriage:  765  Julia,  m  ist,  Horace  Tuttle, 
2d,  Wm.  Francis.  Child  by  2d  marriage:  766  Catherine,  m 
David  Hall  of  Wallingford.  Children  by  4th  marriage  :  767 
Caroline,  m  Rev.  Benjamin  Paddock,  of  Detroit,  Michigan  ; 
768  Sarah,  m  O.  Ives  Martin,  of  Wallingford  ;  769  Emma,  m 
Edwin  F.  Cook,  son  of  Leander ;  770  Francelia,  b  Oct.  12, 
1825,  d  Feb.  25,  1836. 

411.  GEORGE. 

GEORGE  COOK.,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Kirtland  Cook, 
married  Lavinia,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Culver.  He  died  at 
Wallingford,  Feb.  18,  1844.  She  died  Nov.,  1869. 

Children:  771  Mary  K.,  b  May  24,  1821;  772  Eliza,  b 
Feb.  20,  1823,  m  Frederic  Bartholomew,  d  July  24,  1862,  ae. 
41  yrs. ;  773  Lavinia,  m  Samuel  Parmelee  ;  774  Martha;  775 
infant,  died  at  Cheshire;  776  Fanny,  m  Emery  Morse,  March 
i,  1855. 

412.  FRIEND. 

Dr.  FRIEND  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  K.  Cook,  grad- 
uated at  Union  College,  studied  medicine  with   Dr.  N.  Smith 
W  w 


7IO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

of  New  Haven,  commenced  practice  at  Windsor,  Conn. 
He  married  Emily,  dau.  of  Dea.  Joshua  Atwater,  of  Walling- 
ford.  Afterwards  he  practiced  his  profession  there  until  he 
removed  to  Atwater,  Ohio,  where  she  died.  He  married 
Sarah  Folger  Reynolds  for  his  second  wife.  He  died  of  a 
cancer  in  the  stomach,  after  a  long  and  distressing  illness, 
Feb.  8,  1857. 

Children :  777  Helen  A.,  b  Nov.  12,  1825,  d  Feb.  i,  1827,  in 
Wallingford  ;  778  Joshua  A.,  b  Sept.  29,  1829,  d  Nov.  i, 
1844,  in  Ohio;  779  Frances  A.,  b  N^ov,  25,  1833,  d  July  20, 
1834,  in  Wallingford;  780  Emma  G.,b  Nov.  29,  1836;  781 
Frances  /,  b  May  18,  1840  ;  782  William  Shelton,  b  July  13, 
1862,  d  Dec.  31,  1848,  in  Ohio.  Child  by  2d  marriage,  783 
Henry  M.,  b  March,  1848. 

413.  JOHN. 

JOHN  COOK,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  K.  Cook,  married 
Mary  Munson,  June  25,  1823.  He  died  Jan.  i,  1858,  ae.  57 
years. 

Children :    784    Samuel  M.,    m   -      -  Bartholomew ;     785 
Mary  K.,  m  Tilton  E.  Doolittle  Esq. ;   786   Ellen,   m  Charles 
Jones  of  Wallingford;  787  George,  d  Nov.    17,  1869. 
418.  RUFUS. 

RUFUS  Cook,  son  of  Cornelius  B.  and  Mary  B.  Cook, 
married  Betsey  Curtis.  He  died  Aug.  12,  1826,  ae.  36  years, 
at  Cheshire,  Conn. 

Children:  788  Cornelius  B.,  b  Dec.  15,  1810;  789  Rufus, 
b  July  5,  1812  :  790  Maroa,  m  Russel  B.  Ives.  She  died  at 
Cheshire,  Conn. 

420.  BROOKS. 

BROOKS  COOK,  son  of  Cornelius  B.  and  Mary  Cook,  m 
Sarah,  dau.  of  Jonah  Hotchkiss,  of  Cheshire.  He  died 
Sept.  23,  1824,  ae  26.  She  died  Sept.  n,  1843,  ae.  45  years. 

Children  :  791  Mary,  d  in  Cheshire  ;  792  Louisa,  m  George 
Pardee  ;  793  Amelia,  m  Leverett  Goodyear,  of  Hamden, 
Conn. 


GENEALOGIES.  71  I 

427.     AARON. 

AARON  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Betsey  Cook,  married 
Emily,  dau.  of  Seth  Hitchcock.  He  died  in  Cheshire. 

Children  :  794  Elizabeth,  m  Asahel  Talmadge,  of  Cheshire  ; 
795  Julius;  796  Mary;  797  Melissa,  m  Robert  Lyman ;  798 
Julia  M.,  m  Wm.  F.  Thompkins. 

426.    ALFRED. 

ALFRED  COOK,  son  of  Aaron  and  Mary  Cook  of  Cheshire. 
He  went  to  Windham,  Greene  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  married  his 
wife.  He  has  children,  and  is  now  (  1869  )  in  Cheshire,  Conn. 

436.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Emma  Cook,  married 
Julia  E.  Smith,  of  North  Haven  ;  he  died  Oct.  21,  1840,  ae. 
40  yrs.  His  widow  m  Willis  Smith,  Esq.,  of  Meriden. 

Children:  799  Julia  E.,  b  Sept.  27,  1831,  m  Daniel 
Wright;  800  Sarah  E.,  b  Aug.  10,  1827,  m  Edward  Cowell  ; 
801  Leander  D.,  b  Jan.  22,  1825,  d  Oct.  17,  1854,  ae.  29  ;  802 

Stephen  C.,  b  March  28,  1834,  m Baldwin  of  New 

Haven ;  803  Eunice  C.,  b  Aug.  21,  1836,  m  John  Riker  ;  804 
Edson  L.,  b  April  5,  1840. 

440.     HUBBARD. 

HUBBARD  COOK,  son  of  Samuel,  in  Abigail  Dorman,  Oct. 
15,  1811.  She  died  Jan.  2,  1853,  and  he  married  Ardelia 
Hinman,  Sept.  15,  1853. 

Children  :  805  Carlisle  D.,  resides  in  Milwaukie,  Wiscon- 
sin ;  806  Jennette,  b  April  30,  1813,  m  Job  C.  Phelps,  Jan. 
i,  1839;  807  Caroline  M.,  b  Sept.  25,  1818,  m  Harrison  O. 
Smith,  Oct.  i,  1842  ;  808  Emily  A.,  b  Feb.  28,  1821  ;  809 
Delia,  b  Dec.  16,  1824,  d  Aug.  4,  1842 ;  810  Margaret,  b 
April  20,  1826;  811  Ruth,  b  Nov.  3,  1828,  m  Claxton  Har- 
rington, Oct.  16,  1850  ;  812  Fanny  D.,  b  Aug.  17,  1832. 

447-    CHAUNCEY. 

REV.  CHAUNCEY  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sylvia  M.  Cook 
of  Wallingford,  married  Mary  Carpenter,  Jan.  8,  1812  ;  she 
died  Dec.  15,  1814,  at  Adams,  N.  Y.,  ae.  23.  He  afterwards 


712  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

married  Almira  Cassitt,  May  n,  1850  ;  she  died  Dec.  21,  1842. 
Child  by  ist  marriage:  813  Eliza,  b  Oct.  21,  1812,  m  Chas. 
Campbell,  she  d  June  2,  1847.  By  2d  marriage  :  814  Burton 
C.,  b  May  n,  1819,  m  Elizabeth  Hunt;  815  Mary,  b  July  7, 
1824;  816  Sarah,  m  West  Morse,  Dec.  2,  1847. 

454.  STEPHEN. 

REV.  STEPHEN  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sylvia  M.  Cook, 
married  Janet  Wyse,  Feb.  10,  1819,  resides  at  Oberlin,  Ohio. 

Children:  817  William  W.,  b  April  2,  1820;  818  James 
N.,  b  Sept.  7,  1821;  819  John  F.,  b  May  21,  1823;  820 
Julia  A.,  b  Jan.  21,  1826. 

458.  NELSON. 

REV.  NELSON  COOK,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sylvia  M.  Cook, 
married  Mercy  Eliza  Heath,  Jan.  i,  1831  ;  she  died  Aug.  9, 
1854.  He  married  2d,  Elizabeth  Arbella  Leeds,  Aug.  27, 
1843;  residence,  Half  Day,  Lake  Co.,  Illinois. 

Children:  821  Susan F.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1845,  d  May  15,  1847  ; 
822  Gurdon  L.,  b  March  5,  1846,  d  Aug.  27,  1848  ;  823  Otis 
N.,  b  Oct.  6,  1848,  d  same  day;  824  Lyman  M.,  b  Jan.  23, 
1850;  825  Love  Ann,  b  May  27,  1852;  826  Burton  H.,  b 
Aug.  i,  1854. 

HENRY. 

HENRY  COOK,  a  brother  of  Samuel,  came  into  Wallingford 
about  1674,  and  I  suppose  he  married  his  wife  Mary  there, 
but  at  what  date  does  not  appear.  Of  his  history  little  can 
be  learned,  except  that  he  was  a  farmer,  and  was  frequently 
elected  to  offices  of  trust  and  responsibility  by  his  townsmen. 
That  he  was  a  brother  of  the  first  Samuel  there  is  no  doubt, 
as  it  is  clearly  shown  by  the  records  of  Wallingford.  He 
died  in  1705,  ae.  51  years.  His  widow  Mary  died  Oct.  31, 
1718. 

Children:  i  Mary,  b  1679,  m  Nathaniel  Rexford,  July  7, 
1708;  2  Jane,  b  1681,  m  Jehiel  Preston,  July  7,  1708;  3 
Henry,  b  1683 ;  4  John,  b  1684 ;  5  Hannah,  b  1687,  m 
Timothy  Beach,  Nov.  26,  1713  ;  6  Isaac,  b  1693;  7  Elizabeth, 


GENEALOGIES.  713 

b  1694,  m  Adam  Mott,  Aug.  28,  1717  ;  8  Jonathan,  b  1698  ; 
9  David,  b  1701,  settled  in  Wallingford  where  he  died;  10 
Jedediah,  b  1703. 

3.   HENRY. 

HENRY  COOK,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Cook,  married  ist? 

Experience .  She  died  Oct.  8,  1809.  He  married  2d, 

Mary  (Wheadon)  Frost,  dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Frost,  of 
Branford,  in  1710.  From  Branford  he  went  to  Waterbury  in 
1728,  and  was  there  admitted  an  inhabitant.  His  residence 
was  near  the  line  of  Litchfield. 

Children:  n  Sarah,  b  May  5,  1720  ;  12  Ebenezer,  b  March 
5,  1721;  13  Henry,  b  Aug.  17,  1723;  14  Thankful,  b  June, 
1725,  bap.  in  Cheshire,  June  20,  1725  ;  15  Jonathan,  admitted 
a  freeman  from  Northbury,  in  1748. 

4.   JOHN. 

JOHN  COOK,  son  of  Mary  and  Henry  Cook,  married  Abigail, 
dau.  of  Daniel  Johnson  of  Wallingford,  Dec.  12,  1710.  He 
died  Aug.  15,  1761,  ae.  77  years.  She  died  Aug.  15,  1761,  ae. 
8 1  years. 

Children:  16  Dinah,  b  1714;  17  Sarah,  bjan.  7,  1717; 
1 8  Mary,  b  Sept.  26,  1719;  19  Tryphenia,  b  1722  ;  20  Benja- 
min, b  April  22,  1725,  m  Hannah  Thorp,  resided  in  the 
eastern  part  of  Wallingford,  on  the  old  Durham  road ;  2 1 
John,  b  Oct.  23,  1727. 

6.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC    COOK,    son   of   Henry   and    Mary   of  Wallingford, 

married  Hannah ,  and  removed  to  Branford,  where  he 

died. 

Children:  22  Isaac  Jr.,  b  July  19,  1716,  d  at  Branford, 
1760;  23  Demetrius,  b  April  23,  1718,  d  at  Branford; 
24  Uzzel,  b  May  9,  1722;  25  Anna,  b  June  24,  1724;  26 
Waitstill,  b  Jan.  28,  1727  ;  27  Jerusha,  b  Nov.  19,  1736. 

8.  JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  COOK,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Cook,  of  Wall- 
ingford, married  Ruth,  daughter  of  William  Luddington  of 


714  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

North  Haven,  June   15,    1735.     They  settled   at   Northbury 
( then  a  Parish  from  Waterbury ),  now  Plymouth. 

Children:  28   Jonathan,  b   March   29,    1736;  29    Jesse,  b 
Feb.  i,  1739,  d  1784;  30  Titus,  b   May  2,  1741  ;  31  Sarah,  b 
Oct.  31,  1744]  32  Abel,  b  May  18,  1747. 
9.    DAVID. 

Capt.  DAVID  COOK,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Cook,  of  Wall- 
ingford.  He  married  ist,  Rebecca  Wilson  ;  after  her  decease 
he  married  Mary  Lamson,  of  Boston.  He  was  a  very  exten- 
sive ship  owner,  and  was  largely  engaged  in  commerce,  sailing 
from  the  port  of  New  Haven  one  ship  and  three  brigs.  In 
religion  he  was  a  zealous  friend  of  the  church  of  England. 
He  generously  paid  one-quarter  of  the  cost  of  building  the 
old  church  which  was  erected  in  the  old  Mix  Lane,  just  oppo- 
site the  residence  of  the  late  Isaac  Peck.  He  also  presented 
the  church  an  organ ;  this  same  organ  was  a  few  years  since 
sold  to  the  Episcopal  church  in  North  Haven,  and  in  1869 
they  sold  it  to  Wm.  P.  Gardner,  an  organ  builder  in  New  Ha- 
ven. This  organ  was  more  than  one  hundred  years  old,  and 
perhaps  the  oldest  in  the  state. 

Children:  33  David,  b  1723,  res.  in  Woodbridge  and  New 
Haven;  34  Rachel,  b  March  19,  1724,  m  Samuel  Munson,  he 
d  1748  ;  35  Leah,  b  1726,  m  Phineas  Peck,  she  cl  in  Walling- 
ford  ;  36  Phineas,  b  April  3,  1729,  settled  in  Middletown  or 
Durham;  37  Wilson,  b  April  21,  1730,  left  Wallingford  during 
the  Revolutionary  war  and  settled  in  Middletown ;  38  Jesse, 
b  July  8,  1732  ;  39  Rebecca,  b  April  7,  1734,  m  Rev.  Ichabod 
Camp  and  went  to  Nova  Scotia  ;  40  Jedediah,  b  April  4,  1735, 
res.  in  New  Haven  ;  41  Benjamin,  b  April  3,  1739  ;  42  Na- 
thaniel, b  May  31,  1740;  43  Ephraim,  b  1744,  res.,  in  Wall- 
ingford. 

10.     JEDEDIAH. 

JEDEDIAH  COOK,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Cook,  of  Wall- 
ingford, married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Arthur  Rexford,  Aug.  10, 
1727.  He  was  a  mariner,  and  resided  in  New  Haven.  His 
dwelling  house  was  on  the  south-west  corner  of  State  and 


GENEALOGIES.  715 

Chapel-sts.,  New  Haven.    I  have  ascertained  the  name  of  one 
child  only. 

Child :  44  Mary,  b  Oct.  7,  1728,  in  New  Haven. 

12.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  COOK,  son  of  Henry  and  Experience  Cook,  of 
Waterbury,  Conn.,  married  Phebe,  daughter  of  Moses  Blakes- 
lee,  May  10,  1744. 

Children:  45  Huldah,  b  April  26,  1744;  46  Joel,  b  Aug.  5, 
1746  ;  47  Justus,  b  May  25,  1748,  grad.  at  Yale  College  ;  48 
Jonah,  b  Aug.  n,  1750;  49  Eric,  b  Oct.  20,  1752  ;  50  Rozell, 
b  May  i,  1755,  grad.  at  Yale  College;  51  Nise,  b  April  17, 
J758  ;  52  Arba,  b  April  4,  1760;  53  Lucinda,  b  Sept.  20, 
1764;  54  Uri ;  55  Ebenezer,  a  Cong,  clergyman  at  Montville, 
Conn. 

13.      HENRY. 

HENRY  COOK,  son  of  Henry  and  Experience  Cook,  mar- 
ried Hannah,  dau.  of  Nathan  Benham,  Nov.  7,  1745,  and 
settled  at  Northbury,  now  Plymouth,  Conn. 

Children:  56  Thankful,  b  June  12,  1747  ;  57  Mary,  b  March 
30,  1748,  d  June  n,  1760;  58  Sarah,  b  March  5,  1750,  d 
June  15,  1760;  59  Zuba,  b  Dec.  24,  1751,  d  June  17,  1760; 
60  Lemuel,  b  Dec.  7,  1754,  d  June  24,  1760  ;  61  Selah,  b  Dec. 
J9?  J756,  he  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war;  62 
Trueworthy,  b  Sept.  29,  1759,  settled  with  his  brother 
Selah,  in  Onondaga  Co.,  N.  Y.  in  1792. 

15.    JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  COOK,  son  of  Henry  and  Experience  Cook, 
married  Hannah,  dau.  of  Nathan  Benham,  Nov.  7,  1745,  and 
settled  at  Northbury,  Plymouth,  in  1748.  No  account  of  this 
family  has  been  received. 

22.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Cook,  of  Branford, 
married  Mary  Hubbard,  of  Guilford,  Nov.  14,  1739.  He 
died  March  22,  1760,  ae.  44  years. 

Children:  63  Isaac,  b  Oct.  i,  1740,  d  1744;  64  Isaac,  b 
March  14,  1747,  d  Nov.  24,  1748  ;  65  Rachel,  b  Nov.  12,  1751. 


7l6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

23.    DEMETRIUS. 

DEMETRIUS  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Cook,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Rogers,  of  Branford,  Conn.,  April  26,  1739. 
They  both  died  at  Stony  Creek,  Branford.  and  were  buried  in 
a  small  grave-yard  at  a  place  called  Damascus. 

Children:  66  Demetrius,  b  Jan  6,  1740;  67  Elizabeth,  b 
April  23,  1753;  68  Elihu,\)QcL  n,  1755;  69  Jerusha,  b 
Jan.  19,  1760. 

24.  UZZEL. 

UZZEL  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Cook,  married 
Zeruah  Barns,  of  East  Hampton,  L.  I.,  May  20,  1745,  and 
settled  in  Branford,  where  they  died. 

Children:  70  Desire,  b  Dec.  29,  1745  ;  71  Lydia,  b  March 
6,  175°;  72  Abraham,  b  June  i,  1754;  73  Isaac,  b  Oct.  9, 
*757j  74  Uzzel,  b  July  21,  1761;  75  Patience,  b  May  13,  1764. 

26.    WAITSTILL. 

WAITSTILL  COOK,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Cook,  married 
Elizabeth . 

Children  :  76  Jane,  b  April  10,  1751;  77  Hannah,  b  March 
n,  1753;  78  Jacob,  b  July  15,  1755  ;  79  Ebenezer  H.,  b  Sept. 
6,  1759  ;  80  William,  b  May  9,  1762  ;  81  Elizabeth,  b  March 
13,  1764;  82  John,  b  May  14,  1768  ;  83  Huldah,  b  May  14, 
1768  ;  84  Benjamin,  b  April  6,  1771. 

43.   EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  COOK  was  a  son  of  Capt.  David  and  Mary  Cook. 
He  was  a  magistrate  for  a  long  term  of  years,  and  was  re- 
garded as  a  sound,  able  and  discriminating  judge  by  all  who 
had  occasion  to  employ  his  services  or  come  before  him.  He 
died  Feb.  12,  1826,  ae.  82  yrs.  Mrs.  Phebe,  his  wife,  died 
Nov.  26,  1816,  ae.  73  yrs.  She  was  a  daughter  of  John  Tyler 
of  Wallingford,  and  a  sister  of  the  Rev.  John  Tyler,  late  of 
Norwich,  and  an  Episcopal  clergyman. 

Children  :  85  Phineas,  b  Oct.  6,  1765,  d  Nov.  9,  1765  ;  86 
Elizabeth,  b  April  24,  1766;  87  Ephraim,  b  March  i, 
1768,  m  Sarah  Lewis,  dau.  of  Samuel ;  88  Darius,  b  Aug.  8, 


GENEALOGIES.  7 1  / 

1769,   d  Dec.  28,  1791 ;  89  Lyman,  b  Nov.  17,  1770,  d  April 
9»  J773  j  9°  Mary,  b  Oct.  24,  1772,  m  Charles  Rogers,  d  Nov. 

9,  1840;  91  Sylvia,  b  Dec.  8,  1774,  m  Charles  Clock  of  Cats- 
kill,  N.  Y. ;  92  Phineas  Lyman,  b  June  22,    1776,  d  in  the 
West  Indies,   May  8,    1801  ;  93  Lucius,  b  Oct.  15,  1777  ;  94 
Benjamin  Tyler,  b  May  30,  1778,  m   Diana   Hull  ;  95   Electa, 
b  April  9,  1780,  d  May  i,  1780  ;  96  George,  b  Oct.   16,   1783  ; 
97  Nathaniel,  b  April  17,  1786,  m  Caroline  Ward,  of  Middle- 
town,  Conn. 

87.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  COOK  Jr.,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Phebe  Cook, 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Lewis.  She  died  Dec. 

10,  1849.     He  died   at  Williamsburgh,  L.  I.,  Feb.,  1868,  ae. 
90  yrs. 

Childreh :  98  Dr.  Purcell,  d  in  N.  Y.,  Dec.  24,  1860,  no  fam- 
ily ;  99  Darius,  d  at  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  ae.  24  yrs  ;  100  Lyman,  a 
wealthy  retired  merchant  in  N.  Y.  city ;  101  Mary,  unm.  in  N. 
Y.  city ;  102  Sarah  Ann,  d  in  1854,  at  Williamsburgh,  L.  I. ;  103 
Dr.  Chauncey,  resides  in  Williamsburgh,  N.  Y. ;  194  Delia,  d 
at  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  ae.  24  yrs. 

93.  LUCIUS. 

Lucius  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Phebe  Cook,  married 
ist,  Ruth  Churchill  ;  after  her  death  he  married  Mrs.  Phebe 
Ward,  of  Middletown,  and  settled  there.  He  died  in  1845, 
ae.  79  yrs. 

Child  by  ist  marriage :  105  Lucius,  resides  at  Yellow  Banks, 
Illinois.  Children  by  2d  marriage:  106  Wilson;  107  Ben- 
jamin, d  a  young  man  ;  108  Lucina,  m  Mr.  Coe,  of  Middlefield, 
Conn. 

94.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  TYLER  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Phebe  Cook, 
married  Diana,  daughter  of  John  and  Lois  Hull.  Mr.  Cook 
died  Jan.  30,  1851,  ae.  73  years.  He  was  a  large  man,  weigh- 
ing nearly  300  pounds. 


/l8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  109  William,  b  March  3,  1803,  m  Julia  Foster 
of  Meriden,  Ct. ;  no  Edward,  b  Feb.  3,  1805  ;  TII  George, 
b  1807,  d  in  Chicago,  Illinois;  112  John  Tyler,  b  July  12, 
1810,  d  May  29,  1811,  in  Wallingford  ;  113  John  Tyler;  114 
Emetine,  m  Lorenzo  Williams,  of  Rocky  Hill;  115  Augustus; 
116  Joel;  117  Delia,  m  Henry  A.  Cook,  of  Wallingford  ;  118 
Phebe,  b  1817,  d  Feb.  24,  1817,  ae.  2  weeks  ;  119  David,  b  1823, 
d  Jan.  25,  1826,  ae.  2  yrs.,  9  mos.  ;  120  Julia,  b  1829,  d  May 
6,  1829. 

96.    GEORGE. 

GEORGE  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Phebe  Cook,  married 
Betsey  Pierce  of  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  where  he  resided  for  some 
time,  after  which  he  removed  to  Newburg,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
died  Aug.  12,  1819,  ae.  36  years. 

Children:  121  Sylvester,  was  drowned  in  Hudson  river; 
122  Alexander ;  123  George  Henry,  d  at  Burlington,  N.  J.  ; 
124  Maria,  m  John  Tyler  Cook  ;  125  Catherine,  m  Lewis 
Germain,  of  N.  J. 

97.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  COOK,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Phebe  Cook,  mar- 
ried Caroline  Ward,  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  after  which  he 
came  to  reside  on  the  old  homestead  of  his  father,  where  he 
remained  for  several  years,  teaching  school  in  the  winter,  and 
working  the  farm  in  the  summer.  He  sold  the  old  homestead, 
and  removed  his  family  to  Earlville,  Illinois,  where  he  died 
April  24,  1855,  ae.  69  years. 

Children:  126  Nelson,  b  March  15,  1815;  127  Emily,  b 
Sept.  5,  1817,  m  Elias  Newton,  Dec.  24,  1825;  128  Phebe 
Tyler,  b  Feb.  7,  1819,  m  Nehemiah  Rice  Ives,  1839,  and 
Warren  Baker,  in  1852;  129  Sylvester,  b  Feb.  7,  1821;  130 
Caroline,  b  Nov.  14,  1823,  m  Hiram  Taft,  Dec.  i,  1845  ;  131 
Lyman,  b  Nov.  12,  1828  ;  132  Ann  M.,  b  Jan.  12,  1831,  m 
Jas.  Ballard,  of  Earlville,  July  4,  1850  ;  133  David  R.,  b 
Nov.  9,  1836. 


GENEALOGIES.  719 

COWLES,  OR  COLES  FAMILY.' 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  COLES  married  Abigail  Royce,  July  13,  1699.  She 
died  May  24,  1714.  He  afterwards  married  Mary  Wapels, 
May  19,  1717,  and  for  his  third  wife,  he  married  widow  Ann 
Yale,  Aug.  7,  1715.  She  died  Feb.  27,  1715.  This  appears 
to  be  one  of  the  first  families  of  the  name  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  i  Louis,  b  April  25,  1700;  2  Samuel,  b  Dec.  10, 
1701,  d  Feb.  18,  1704;  3  Abigail,  b  Jan.  17,  1702-3  ;  ^Samuel, 
b  Feb.  2,  1705,  d  Feb.  15,  1705  ;  5  Hannah,  b  April  n,  1706  ; 

6  Eunice,  b   April  28,  1708,   m   Moses  Curtis,  Nov.  9,  1726  ; 

7  Joseph,  b  March    i,  1710;   SSamue/,b  March   14,    1712; 

9  Hannah    Waulch,    adopted    daughter,    d   Aug.    18,  1721; 

10  Benjamin,  b   Feb.   23,    1715,  by  Ann,  3d  wife. 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  COLES  married  Sarah  Conger,  July  27,  1688.  He 
married  2d,  Experience  Gaylord,  Dec.  22,  1721.  This  William 
was  also  among  the  early  settlers,  and  doubtless  a  brother  of 
the  above  Joseph. 

Children  :  n  Samuel,  b  May  7,  1688  ;  12  John,  b  May  28, 
1691,  m  Mary—  — ;  13  Sarah,  b  Oct.  14,  1693;  J4  William, 
b  Feb.  15,  1696  ;  15  James,  b  March  7,  1707  ;  16  Thomas,  b 
Sept.  10,  1719.  By  2d  marriage:  17  Phineas,  b  Jan.  20, 
1724;  18  Phebe,  b  1726:  19  Thomas,  b  Sept.  10,  1722;  20 
Experience,  b  March  16,  1728  ;  21  David,  b  Oct.  29,  1730. 

7.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  COLES  married  Eunice . 

Child  by  Minclwell,  ist  wife  :  22  Ebenezer,  b  Feb.  26,  1718. 
By  Eunice,  2d  wife:  23  Timothy,  b  April  18,  1737,  lived  in 
Meriden,  had  a  son  Joel. 


i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist,  of  New  Britain,  230,  231, 
272  ;  Doolittle's  Hist.  Belchertown,  Mass.,  270  ;  Judd  and  Boltwood's 
Hist,  and  Gen.  of  Hadley,  Mass.,  471-3  ;  Morse's  Memorial  of  Morses, 
166  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  I.  466. 


/2O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

II.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  COLES  married  ist,  Mercy  Scranton,  Aug.  5,  1725  ; 
2d,  Martha  Brooks,  Sept.  25,  1734;  3d,  Susannah  Cook,  Dec. 

i,  1735- 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  24  Moses,  b  June  16,  1726;  25 
Mercy ,  b  Aug.  10,  1729.  By  2d  marriage:  26  Samuel,  b  July 
3°,  J735- 

12.    JOHN. 

JOHN  COLES  married  Mary ,  Nov.  20,  1717.     He  died 

1761. 

Children:  27  Mary,  b  Nov.  20,  1717;  28  Comfort,  b  Sept. 
12,  1718  ;  29  Dinah,  b  March  12,  1720  ;  30  Mary,  b  Sept.  15, 
1721  ;  31  Lydia,  b  Oct.  i,  1723  ;  32  Timothy,  b  Oct.  17,  1726, 
res.  in  Meriden ;  33  John,  b  Feb.  i,  1727  ;  34  Prudence,  b 
March  26,  1729  ;  35  Thankful,  b  Feb.  6,  1731  ;  36  Sarah,  b 
March  21,  1733. 

22.   EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  COLES. 

Children:  37  Elisha,  merchant  and  manufacturer;  38  Ebe- 
nezer,  marble-cutter  and  stone-mason. 


.  CULVER.1 

JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA  CULVER,  with  Elizabeth  Ford,  his  wife,  to  whom  he 
was  married  Dec.  23,  1676,  were  among  the  first  planters  in 
Wallingford.  He  was  a  son  of  Edward  Culver,  Sen.,  of 
Dedham,  Mass.,  New  London,  Groton  and  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  had  three  brothers  in  the  vicinity  of  New  London, 
who  were  heads  of  families  at  the  time  of  his  settling  in  Wall- 
ingford. He  died  April  23,  1713,  ae.  70  yrs. 

Children:  i  Elizabeth,  d  May  2,  1676,  at  New  Haven, 
Conn.  ;  2  Ann,  d  Sept.  8,  1677,  at  New  Haven,  Conn. ;  3-4 


i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Caulkins'  Hist,  of  New  London,  309,  310; 
Howell's  Hist,  of  Southampton,  L.  I.,  217,  218;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  I. 
482,  483. 


GENEALOGIES.  /2 1 

Joshua  and  Samuel  ( twins ),  b  Sept.  21,  1684;  5  Abigail,  b 
Dec.  26,  1686  ;  6  Sarah,  b  Jan.  23,  1688 ;  7  Ephraim,  b  Sept. 
7,  1692. 

3.    JOSHUA. 

SERGT.  JOSHUA  and  Catharine  Culver,  m  April  23,  1713. 
He  died  June  14,  1730,  ae.  46  yrs. 

Children  :  8  Benjamin,  b  Sept.  3,  1716;  9  Stephen,  b  Jan. 
24,  1718,  d  July  6,  1721  ;  10  Samuel,  b  May  10,  1720;  n 
Stephen,  b  May  19,  1722  ;  12  Joshua,  b  May  20,  1729  ;  13 
Daniel,  b  Sept.  i,  1723;  14  Titus,  b  April  7,  1725;  15 
Joshua,  b  April  15,  1727,  d  July  16,  1729. 
4.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  CULVER  married  ist,  Sarah,  2d,  Ruth  Sedgwick, 
Jan.  3,  1728. 

Children:  16  Elizabeth,  b  Feb.  12,  1715;  17  Sarah,  b 
Dec.  23,  1716;  18  Abigail,  b  Dec.  17,  1718;  19  Esther,  b 
March  17,  1721,  d  May  5,  1741  ;  20  £"#/<?£,  b  Feb.  18,  1723, 

m  Lois ;  21   Anna,  b  Oct.  3,  1732,  d  Nov.  21,  1733; 

22  Enoch,  b  Jan.  30,  1725  ;  23  Ebenezer,  b  Dec.  9,  1726. 
By  2d  marriage  :  24  Samuel,\)  Sept.  25,  1728. 

8.  BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  CULVER  m  Lydia . 

Children:  24  Joshua,  b  Nov,  i,  1741,  d;  25  Joshua,}) 
April  4,  1743. 

9.  STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  CULVER  m  Eunice . 

Children:  26  Jesse,  b  April  4,  1748  ;  27  Esther,  b  June  24, 
1750;  28  Eunice,  b  March  19,  1753;  29  Dan,  b  May  12, 
1756  ;  3°  Jesse,  b  April  4,  1758. 

13.     DANIEL. 

DANIEL  CULVER  married  Patience . 

Child:  31  Samuel,  b  May  24,  1747. 
20.  CALEB. 

CALEB  CULVER  married  Lois . 

Children:  32  Ruth,  b  Jan.  10,  1746  ;  33  Ruth,  b  Nov.   25, 


722  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

J75T  5  34  Josiah,  b  Sept.  7,  1748  ;  35    Samuel,  b  July  5,  1750. 

22.    ENOCH. 

ENOCH  CULVER  married  Lois . 

Children:  36  Esther,   b  July   24,    1751;  37   Lois,  b   June 

4, 


CURTIS.' 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  CURTIS  embarked  in  the  ship  Lion,  June  22, 
1632,  and  landed  Dec.  16,  1632,  at  Scituate,  Mass.  He 
brought  with  him  four  children,  Thomas,  Mary,  John,  and 
Philip.  He  removed  with  his  family  to  Roxbury,  Mass., 
whence  they  removed  to  Stratford,  Conn.  By  the  records  of 
Stratford,  it  appears  that  the  father  of  these  must  have  died 
before  the  removal  of  the  family  thither,  and  that  previous  to 
that  event,  a  son  William  had  been  born  to  him,  as  the  first  of 
the  name  that  appears  on  those  records  are  John,  William, 
and  their  mother,  widow  Elizabeth  Curtis.  It  is  stated  that 
at  the  date  of  their  removal  to  Stratford,  John  was  about  28 
years  of  age,  and  William  about  18.  Thomas  died  in  Mass., 
"  7th  month,  1650 ;"  widow  Elizabeth  died  in  1658.  Will 
proved,  Nov.  4,  1658. 

John  married  ist,  Elizabeth ,  who  died  in  1682  ;  2cl, 

Margaret ,  who  died  in  1714.  He  died  Dec.  6,  1707, 

ae.  96  years. 

Children:   i    John,  b  1642  ;  2  Israel,  b  1644;  3  Elizabeth, 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Bradbury's  Hist.  Kennebunkport,  Me.,  235, 
236;  Brown's  Gen.  W.  Simsbury,  Conn.,  Settlers,  31-4;  Cothren's  Hist. 
Woodbury,  Conn.,  531-9;  Deane's  Hist.  Scituate,  Mass.,  251-4 ;  Dod's 
Hist.  E.  Haven,  Conn.,  115;  Draper's  Hist.  Spencer,  Mass.,  183; 
Eaton's  Hist.  Thomaston,  Me.,  197;  Ellis's  Hist.  Roxbury,  Mass.,  94; 
Hinman's  Conn.  Settlers,  776-88;  Kingman's  N.  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  476; 
Mitchell's  Hist.  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  144 ;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  xvi. 
137  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  I.  484-8  ;  Winsor's  Hist.  Duxbury,  Mass.,  249; 
Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.,  247  ;  Barry's  Hist.  Hanover,  Mass., 
272-88. 


GENEALOGIES.  723 

b  1647  ;  4  Thomas,  b  1648;  5  Joseph,  b  1650;  6  Benjamin, 
b  1652  ;  7  Hannah,  b  1654. 

4.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS  CURTIS  married  Mary  ,  June  9,  1674. 

He  was  born  in  Stratford,  but  removed  to  Wallingford. 

Children;  8  Mary,  b  Oct.  13,  1675;  9  Nathaniel,  b  May 
14,  1677,  m  Sarah  Hall;  10  Samuel,  b  Feb.  3,  1678,  m  Eliza- 
beth Frederick,  Jan.  4,  1705  ;  u  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  n,  1680, 
m  Nathaniel  Hall;  12  Hannah,  b  Dec.  3,  1682,  d  Oct.  12, 

I7°3  j  I3  Thomas,  b  Aug.  16,  1685,  m  Mary ;  14 

Sarah,  b  Oct.  i,  1687,  m  James  Parker  in  1705  ;  15  Abigail, 
b  Nov.  3,  1689,  m  Joseph  Hall,  1709  ;  16  Joseph,  b  Aug.  10, 
1691,  d  Jan.  n,  1713;  17  J em ima,  b  Jan.  15,  1694,  m  Na- 
thaniel Beach;  18  Rebecca,  b  Aug.  21,  1697,  m  Lambert 
Johnson;  19  John,\)  Sept.  18,  1699,  m  Jemima  Abernathy, 
1723. 

9.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  CURTIS,  m  ist,  Sarah  Hall,  April  6,  1697. 
She  died  Dec.  13,  1700.  He  married  2nd,  Sarah  How,  July 
9,  1702. 

Children:  20  Benjamin,  b  April  27,  1703,  m  Jemima 
Munson,  1727;  21  Hannah,  b  Feb.  19,  1705;  22  Moses,  b 
Aug.  4,  1706  ;  23  Nathan,  b  May  19,  1709,  m  Esther  Merriani; 

24  Jacob,  b  Aug.  23,  1710,  m  Abigail ;  25  Sarah,  b  Mar. 

30,  1712  ;  26  Abigail,  b  April  9,  1713  ;  27  Lydia,  b  March  20, 
1714;  28  Comfort,  b  Oct.  30,  1716;  29  Nathaniel,  b  July  i, 

1718,  m  Lois . 

10.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  CURTIS,  married  to  Elizabeth  Curtis,  by  Justice 
Hall,  Jan.  3,  1704-5. 

Children:  30  Titus,  b  Jan.  28,  1733,  d  Jan.,  1733  ;  31  Mary, 
b  Nov.  8,  1736  ;  32  Comfort,  b  June  25.  1744  ;  33  Enos,  b  Jan. 
27,  1746;  34  Lois,  b  March  i,  1752. 
1 6.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  CURTIS,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Curtis,  married 
Rebecca . 


724  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  35  Sybil,  b  April  12,  1750;  36  Jeptha,  b  March 
21,  1752. 

19.    JOHN. 

JOHN  CURTIS,  m  Jemima  Abernathy,  1723. 

Children:  37  John,  b  Feb.  3,  1735;  38  Giles,  b  Jan.  4, 
1737;  39  Jemima,\)  March  18,  1739;  40  Elizabeth,  b  April 
n,  1741  ;  41  Sarah,  b  June  28,  1744. 

20.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  CURTIS,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah  Curtis, 
married  Miriam . 

Children:  42  Esther,  b  Oct.  2,  1728;  43  Abel,  b  Dec.  22, 
1729  ;  44  Susannah,  b  Nov.  9,  1732  ;  45  Lois,  b  Sept.  30, 
1733  ;  46  Benjamin,  b  Oct.  27,  1735  ;  47  Mariam,  b  Aug.  30, 
1737  ;  48  Sarah,  b  May  29,  1739  ;  49  Aaron,  b  Nov.  8,  1744. 

23.    NATHAN. 

NATHAN  and  Esther  Curtis. 

Children  :  50  Moses,  b  May  8,  1741 ;  51  Amos,  b  March  24, 
X743  >  52  Esther,  b  March  7,  1745. 

24.  JACOB. 

JACOB  and  Abigail  Curtis. 
Child  :  53  Jacob,  b  Oct.  i,  1738. 

29.      NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  CURTIS  married  Lois . 

Children:  54  Eunice,  b   April    12,    1750;  55   Nathaniel,  b 
June  13,  1756;  56  Jacob,  b  Sept.  14,  1758. 
33.   ENOS. 

ENOS  CURTIS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Curtis,  mar- 
ried Mary  Yale,  May  28,  1733. 

Children:  57    Titus,  b  Jan.    28,    1733,   d  Jan.,   1733;    58 
Mary,  b   Nov.    8,    1736;  59    Comfort,  b  June  25,    1744;  60 
Enos,  b  June  27,  1746;  61  Lois,  b  March  i,  1752. 
RICHARD. 

RICHARD  CURTIS,  who  was  among  the  first  planters  in 
Wallingford,  was  the  father  of  Isaac  Curtis,  who  married 


GENEALOGIES.  725 

Sarah  Ford,  of  Branford,  Aug.  13,  1682,  and  died  July  15, 
1712.  Richard  Curtis  died  in  Wallingford,  Sept.  17,  1681,  ae. 
70  years.  Estate,  ^50. 

Children:  62  Isaac,  b  Nov.  6,  1683  ;  63  Sarah,  b  June  n, 
1685  ;  64  Joseph,  b  July  18,  1689,  m  Ann  Stevens,  Jan.  n, 
I7I3  j  65  Ebenezer,  b  Oct.  6,  1691,  d  July  20,  1717  ;  66  Isaac, 
b  March  8,  1693-4,  m  Abigail  Tuttle ;  67  Elizabeth,  b  Aug.  10, 
1701  ;  68  Benjamin,  b  March  2,  1702-3  ;  69  Moses,  b  Aug.  9, 
1706  ;  70  Phebe,  d  Aug.  5,  1718  ;  71  Joshua,  d  July  20,  1719. 
62.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  CURTIS  married  Abigail  Tuttle  ;  she  died,  and  he 
married  Mary  Tuttle,  Oct.  i,  1729. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  72  David,  b  Aug.  7,  1707  ;  73 
Phebe,  b  April  4,  1718;  74  Joshua,  b  April  26,  1719;  75 
Ebenezer,  b  Jan.  17,  1720. 

64.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  CURTIS,  m  Ann  Stephens,  Jan.  n,  1713. 

Children:  76  Philip,  b  July  20,  1727;  77  Joseph,  b  Sept. 
31,  1719;  78  Johanna,  b  June  i,  1723  ;  79  Peter,  m  Christi- 
ana Parker,  Nov.  22,  1732. 

68.  BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  CURTIS  married  Joanna  Munson,  of  New  Haven. 

Children:  80  Asa,  b  May  n,    1731;  81  Elizabeth,  b    Dec. 
24,  1732  ;  82  Asa,  b  Feb.  13,  1740. 
79.  PETER. 

PETER  CURTIS,  son  of  Joseph  and  Ann  Curtis,  married 
Christiana  . 

Children:  83  Abner,  b  Aug.  8,  1738;  84  Achsah,  b  Oct.  5, 
T739  >  85  Mary,  b  June  6,  1741  ;  86  Silas,  b  Jan.  21,  1744; 
87  Eunice,  b  April  2,  1746;  88  Jesse,  b  April  2,  1748;  89 
Daniel,  b  Feb.  21,  1750 ;  90  Amos,  b  April  4,  1752. 

TITUS. 

TITUS  CURTIS,  married  Mary  . 

Children:  91  Gideon,  m Merriman;92  Thomas;^ 

Rachel;  94  Margaretta ;  95  Mary;  96  Phebe. 
X  x 


726  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

DAVIDSON. 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  DAVIDSON  was  the  first  of  the  name  in  Walling- 
ford,  where  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Zachariah  How, 
Oct.  6,  1741.  After  the  decease  of  Mr.  How,  he  became  the 
owner,  probably  through  his  wife,  of  the  farm  of  Mr.  How, 
which  is  the  same  that  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  the  heirs 
of  the  late  Samuel  Davidson  and  Zachariah  Davidson,  west 
of  the  Falls  plain,  near  South  Meriden  or  Hanover. 

Children:  i  Anna,  b  Dec.  21,  1742;  2  Elizabeth,  b  Dec. 
23,  1744;  3  William,  b  June  6,  1747  ;  4  Andrew,^  Aug.  19, 
X749  j  5  John,  b  Sept.  10,  1751  ;  6  James,  b  Oct.  6,  1753. 


DOOLITTLE.' 

ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  DOOLITTLE,  the  emigrant,  was  the  progenitor  of 
all  who  bear  the  name  of  Doolittle  in  this  country.  Himself 
and  his  brother  John  were  in  Massachusetts  very  early. 
John  died  childless  at  Salem,  Mass.  Abraham  was  in  New 
Haven  before  1642,  and  the  owner  of  a  house.  In  1644,  ne 
took  the  freeman's  oath,  and  was  made  the  chief  executive 
officer  (or  sheriff)  of  the  county.  He  was  chosen  by  the 
people  of  New  Haven  as  one  of  the  Committee  to  superin- 
tend the  affairs  of  the  new  settlement,  then  (1669)  just  com- 
menced at  the  village.  The  name  of  the  village  was  changed 
to  that  of  Wallingford,  and  was  incorporated  May  12,  1670, 
by  an  act  of  the  general  court,  then  sitting  at  Hartford.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  who  settled  in  the  place,  and  was  there  be- 
fore its  incorporation,  some  two  or  three  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  vigilance  committee  in  the  time  of  "  King 
Philip's  war."  His  dwelling  was  fortified  during  this  time  by 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn., 
324 ;  Doolittle's  Hist.  Belchertown,  Mass.,  273-7  ;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen. 
Reg.,  vi.  293 ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  11.  59. 


GENEALOGIES.  J2J 

a  picket  fort,  against  any  attack  which  might  be  made  by  the 
Indians.  He  was  several  times  chosen  a  deputy  from  New 
Haven,  and  afterwards  from  Wallingford,  to  the  general 
court.  He  was  several  times  elected  townsman,  or  select- 
man, and  appears  to  have  been  a  very  valuable  and  highly 
respected  citizen.  He  died  Aug  n,  1690,  ae.  70  years.  He 
left  an  estate  of  ^342.  His  ist  wife  dying,  he  married 
Abigail  Moss,  July  2,  1663.  She  died  Nov.  5,  1710,  ae.  69  yrs. 
Children  by  ist  marriage:  i  Abraham,  b  Feb.  12,  1649,  d 
Nov.  10,  1732,  ae.  83  years  ;  2  Elizabeth,  b  April  12,  1652  ;  3 
Mary,  b  Feb.  22,  1653  ;  4  John,  b  June  14,  1655,  m  Mary 
Peck,  Feb.  3,  1682.  By  2d  m  :  5  Samuel,  b  July  7,  1665  ;  6, 
Joseph,  b  Feb.  12,  1666;  7  Abigail,  b  Feb.  26,  1668-9;  8 
Ebenezer,  b  July  6,  1672,  d  Dec.  6,  1711 ;  9  Mary,  b  March  4, 
1673,  m  Solomon  Goff,  Jan.,  1713;  10  Daniel,  b  Dec.  29, 
1675  ;  ii  Theophilus,  b  July  28,  1678. 

I.    ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  DOOLITTLE,  Jr.,  married  ist,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Wm.  Hoult,  of  New  Haven,  Nov.  9,  1680.  He  died  Dec.  15, 
1732,  ae.  83  years.  He  married  for  his  2d  wife,  Ruth  Lothrop, 
of  New  London,  Feb.  12,  1689.  She  died  without  issue. 
His  3d  wife  was  Elizabeth  Thorp,  to  whom  he  was  married 
by  Rev.  Mr.  Street,  June  5,  1695.  She  died  in  1736,  ae.  60 
years. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  12  John,  b  Aug.  13,  1681,  m 
Mary  Frederick,  Feb.  28,  1705  ;  13  Abraham,  b  March  27, 
1684,  m  Mary  Lewis,  Aug.  10,  1710;  14  Sarah,  b  Feb.  5, 

1686  ;  15  Susannah,  b  April  15,  1688,  m Armstrong. 

By  3d  marriage:  16  Thorp,  b  Feb.  15,  1696;  17  Samuel,  b 
March  14,  1698;  18  Joseph,  b  March  13,  1700,  m  Rachel 
Cole,  Dec.  15,  1726;  19  Thomas,  b  May  17,  1705,  m  Sarah 
Abernathy  ;  20  Lydia,  b  June  26,  1710,  m  John  Joyce. 

4.  JOHN. 

JOHN  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Abigail  Doolittle, 
married  Mary  Peck,  Feb.  13,  1682.  He  married  2d,  Grace 
Blakeslee,  Jan.  29,  1717. 


728  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  21  Esther,  b  Jan.  24,  1683;  22  Samuel,  b  Feb. 

4,  1685  ;  23   Sarah,  b   Feb.    15,  1686 ;  24  Susannah,  b   April 

5,  1688;  25  Benjamin,  b  July   10,  1695,  grad-  at   Yale,  1716  ; 
26  Susannah,  b   Feb.  24,  1706 ;  27  Eunice,  b   May  30,  1707  ; 
28  John,  b  Feb.  6,  1712. 

5.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Abigail  Doolit- 

tle,  married  ist,  Mary ,  2d,  Eunice  -  — ,  and  settled  at 

Middletown,  Conn. 

Children:  30  Jonathan,  b  Aug.  21,  1689;  31  Samuel,  b 
Aug.  3,  1691,  m  Jane  Wheeler,  Aug.  i,  1714;  32  Mary,  b 
Nov.  24,  1693;  33  Abraham,  b  Sept.  21,  1695;  34  Abigail, 
b  1697  ;  35  Martha,  b  April  6,  1698 ;  36  Hannah,  b  Oct.  29, 
1700;  37  Thankful,  b  June  3,  1702;  38  Joseph,  b  June  20, 
1704,  m  Mary  Hitchcock,  May  24,  1729  ;  39  Nathaniel,  b  Jan. 
15,  1706,  d  of  small  pox ;  40  Esther,  b  July  16,  1709  ;  41 
Abel,  b  May  15,  1724;  42  Benjamin,  b  Jan.  17,  1730. 

6.  JOSEPH. 

CAPT.  JOSEPH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Abigail 
Doolittle,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
Brown  ;  she  was  born  Aug.  8,  1672,  and  married  by  Thomas 
Yale,  Esq.,  April  24,  1690.  He  died  May  15,  1733,  ae.  66 
years.  His  2d  wife  was  Elizabeth  Hoult,  whom  he  married 
Oct.  5,  1720  ;  she  died  June  3,  1768,  ae.-73  years. 

Children:  43  Isaac,  b  Aug.  13,  1721  ;  44  Enos,  b  March  2, 

1727,  m  Mary  ,  he  d  in  1756.  By  2d  marriage:  45 

Dinah,  b  April  24,  1729-  46  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  3,  1731,  d 
April  13,  1731 ;  47  Ichabod,  b  Aug.  21,  1732  ;  48  Sarah,  b 
Dec.  27,  1735. 

8.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Abigail  Doo- 
little, married  Hannah,  only  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Han- 
nah Hall,  April  6,  1697.  She  was  born  March  n,  1673,  and 
died  July  27,  1758.  He  died  Dec.  6,  1711;  settled  in 
Cheshire. 

Children:  ^Hannah,  b   1699;  50   Ebenezer,  b   April    15, 


GENEALOGIES. 

1700,  m  Lydia  Warner,  June  n,  1728;  51  Moses,  b  1702,  d 
April  10,  1781,  m  Ruth  Richardson;  52  Sarah,  b  1704;  53 
Caleb,  b  Feb.  3,  1706,  d  1781 :  54  Joshua,  b  March  2,  1708; 
55  Zadock,  b  March  17,  1711. 

10.   DANIEL. 

DANIEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Abigail  Doolittle, 
married  to  Hannah  Cornwall  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  by  Mr. 
Hamlin.  After  the  birth  of  their  first  child  they  removed  to 
Middletown,  and  after  a  residence  of  a  few  years  in  that 
place  they  returned  to  Wallingford,  where  he  died,  in  1755,  ae. 
80  yrs.  She  died  Jan.  16,  1736. 

Children:  56  Hannah,  b  Jan.  27,  1699,  m  Joseph  Doolittle, 
Sept.  10,  1722  ;  57  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  15,  1700;  59  Matthew,  b 
April  1 6,  1703  ;  60  Dinah,  b  Oct.  4,  17 — ,  d  Sept.  14,  1719  ; 
61  Daniel,  b  Feb.  3, 1707,  d  Sept.,  1791,  ae.  84  yrs. ;  62  Joseph, 
b  July  3,  1709  ;  63  Stephen,  b  Sept.  14,  1710;  64  Abigail,  b 
May  6,  1712  ;  65  Ezra,  b  July  24,  1718,  d  Oct.  24,  1744,  at 
Cheshire,  Conn. 

II.      THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Abigail 
Doolittle,  married  to  Thankful,  dau.  of  David  Hall,  by  Mr. 
Street,  Jan.  5,  1698.  She  died  June  2,  1715.  He  died  March 
26,  1740,  ae.  62  yrs.  He  married  Elizabeth  Howe  for  his 
2d  wife. 

Children:  67  Thankful,  b  May  2,  1700,  m  Timothy  Page; 
68  Sarah,  b  June  i,  1703,  m  Isaac  Tuttle,  she  d  1713;  69 
Henry,  b  1704,  d  1733,  ae.  29  yrs.;  70  Theophilus,  b  June  20, 
1709,  m  Sarah  Dorcher  (  or  Dorchester),  Nov.  15,  1738  ;  71 
Solomon,  b  Aug.  13,  1713,  m  Eunice  Hall,  Feb.  24,  17 — ;  72 
Benjamin,  b  Sept.  28,  1723. 

12.    JOHN. 

JOHN  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  Jr.  and  Mercy  Doolittle, 
married  Mary  Frederick,  of  New  Haven,  Feb.  28,  1705  ;  he 
married  2d,  Mary  Lewis.  He  died  1745. 

Children:  73  Benjamin,  b  July  10,  1705  ;  74  Susannah,  b 
Feb.  24,  1707  ;  75  Eunice,  b  May  30,  1709  ;  76  John,  b  Feb. 


73O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

6, 1712,  m  Hannah  —  —  ;  77  Phebe,  b  Nov.  26,  1713,  m  Josiah 
Mix;  78  Frederick  T.,  b  Oct.  20,  1715,  d  Sept.  2,  1746;  79 
Obed,  b  Oct.  2,  1717,  d  Nov.  4,  1746,  ae.  29  yrs. ;  80  Nathan, 
b  July  22,  1720,  d  Aug.  20,  1728  ;  8r  Mary,  b  Oct.  26,  1723, 
d  Dec.  21,  1724;  82  Keziah,  b  Jan.  31,  1728,  d  Sept.  22, 
1746;  83  Patience,  b  June  17,  1732. 

13.    ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  Jr.  and  Mercy 
Doolittle,  married  Mary  Lewis,  Aug.  10,  1710.  He  died  May 
10,  1733. 

Children:  84,85  Ezekiah,  Josiah,  b  May  25,  1711;  86 
Dinah,  d  Sept.  14,  1719587  Zebulon,  b  March  i,  1712,  d  March 
i,  1714;  88  Ambrose,  b  Nov.  23,  1719,  m  Martha  Munson  ; 

89  Nathan,  b  July  22,    1720;  89   1-2  Mary,  b  Dec.  15,  1727; 

90  Abraham,  b  Aug.  29,  1728  ;  81  Deliverance,  b  Nov.  9,  1730. 

17.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth 
(Thorp)  Doolittle,  married  Jane  Wheeler,  Aug.  i,  1714. 

Children:  92  Sarah,  b  Sept.  24,  1714;  93  Joseph,  b  May  4, 

1715  ;  94  Samuel,  b  Feb.  28,  1725,  m  Eunice ;  95  Mehit- 

able,  b  Sept.  23,  1726;  96  Benjamin,  b  Jan.  17,  1730. 

1 8.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth  Doo- 
little, married  ist,  Rachel  Covvles,  March  14,  1728.  He  mar- 
ried 2nd,  Martha  Hitchcock,  Feb.  5,  1735. 

Children  :  97  Dinah,  b  April  24,  1729  ;  98  Ichabod,  b  Aug. 
31,  1731  ;  99  Sarah,  b  Dec.  27,  1735  \  IO°  7oseph,  b  Jan. 
25,  1738. 

19.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth 
Doolittle,  married  Sarah  Abernathy,  May  27,  1730.  He  re- 
sided in  Waterbury  in  1764,  was  a  Tory  in  the  Revolution,  and 
joined  the  English.  He  went  to  Nova  Scotia  with  his  brother 
James.  He  married  his  second  wife,  Hannah  Fenn,  March 


GENEALOGIES.  731 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  101  Thomas,  b  1729,  died  in 
Cheshire,  Nov.  19,  1760;  102  Anna,  b  Dec.  20,  1730;  103 
Samuel,  b  Dec.  29,  1731,  d  Jan.  n,  1732;  104  Jemima,  b 
Dec.  31,  1732  ;  105  Esther,  b  Aug.  30,  1734.  By  2d  marriage: 
106  James,  b  Feb.  7,  1734;  107  Hannah,  b  Oct.  12,  1735  \ 
108  Catherine,  b  Jan.  10,  1738 ;  109  Thomas,  b  Jan.  22, 
1742. 

22.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Doolittle, 

married  Mehitable ,  and  settled  in  Northfield,  Mass., 

where  he  died  in  1736. 

Children:  no  Mary,  b  June  16,  1712;  in  Ephraim ; 
112  Moses ;  113  Mindwell,  b  June  15,  1715. 

25.    BENJAMIN. 

REV.  BENJAMIN  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Doo- 
little, grad.  at  Yale  in  1716,  married  Lydia  Todd,  Oct.  14, 
1717,  and  settled  in  the  ministry  at  Northfield,  Mass.,  in  1718. 
He  died  suddenly  Jan.  9,  1748,  ae.  53  years,  having  been  set- 
tled in  the  ministry  about  30  years.  His  widow  died  June 
16,  1790,  ae.  92  years. 

Children:  114  Olive,  b  Oct.  28,  1718;  115  Lydia,  b  Aug. 
24,  1720;  116  Charles,  b  July  31,  1722;  117  Eunice,  b  July 
31,  1734;  118  Susannah,  b  June  13,  1726;  119  Lucius,  b 
May  16,  1728;  120  Chloe,  b  May  4,  1730;  121  Lucy,  b  Feb. 
27,  1731  ;  122  Thankful,  b  Jan.  20,  1733;  123  Amzi,  b  Nov. 
i5>  t737  ;  124  Lucy,  b  July  15,  1741. 

28.    JOHN. 

JOHN  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  John  and  Mary,  married  Hannah 
.  He  died  in  Wallingford  in  1746-7,  as.  35. 

Children:   125  Philemon,   b  Feb.  25,  1740,  m  Lydia   Hall, 
Jan.    5,   1757;  126  Eunice,  b  Jan.  31,   1741;   127  Margery; 
128  Hannah,  b   May  12,   1744;  129.  Titus,  b  June  12,  1745, 
m  Mary,  dau.  of  Dr.  Lewis,  Nov.  20,  1764. 
31.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Doolittle, 
married  Elizabeth . 


732  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  130  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  2,  1755;  131  Ephraim,\> 
Sept.  30,  1756  ;  132  George,  b  Jan.  14,  1759. 

33.     ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Doolittle, 
married  Damaris . 

Child:   133  Abraham,  b  Nov.,  1754. 
38.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Doolittle, 
married  Mary  Hitchcock,  May  24,  1729.  She  died,  and  he 
married  Mary  Strickland,  at  Middletown,  Conn.,  May  24,  1739. 

Children:  134  Mary,  d  young;  135  Elizabeth,  d  young; 
136  Joseph,  d  in  Middletown,  Aug.  6,  1771 ;  137  Seth,  b  Jan. 
4,  1745,  m  Hannah  Dow,  Feb.  4,  1768;  138  Abisha,  d  in 
Cheshire  about  1837,  no  family;  139  Mary;  140  Elizabeth; 
141  Joseph;  142  Jared,  d  July  13,  1769  ;  143  Joel,  b  July  7, 
1769. 

42.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Doolittle, 
married  Elizabeth . 

Children:  144  Benjamin,  b  July  15,  1753;  145  Sarah,  b 
Feb.  21,  1756. 

43.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  and  Sarah  Doo- 
little, was  a  brass  founder  in  New  Haven,  where  he  died,  Feb. 
13,  1800,  ae.  99.  He  married  Phebe  Cook.  He  was  the  an- 
cestor of  Gov.  English  on  the  maternal  side. 

Child  :  Jesse,  b  Feb.  25,  .1777. 

44.  ENOS. 

ENOS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  and  Sarah  Doolittle, 
married  Mary .  He  died  Oct.  27,  1756,  ae.  22  years. 

Children:  147  Keziah,  b  June  27,  1748;  148  Katharine,  b 
Aug.  17,  1749;  149  John,  b  Dec.  31,  1754,  d  July  8,  1756; 
150  Patience,  b  May  4,  1756. 

50.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah,  mar- 


GENEALOGIES.  733 

ried  Lydia  Warner,  June  n,  1728,   and  settled  in  Cheshire. 
He  died  May  20,  1774,  ae.  74  years. 

Children:  151  Ruth,  b  Aug.  20,  1735;  152  Ebenezer,  b 
Oct.  12, 1736  ;  153  Jesse,  b  Aug.  12,  1738  ;  154  Zopher,  b  Aug. 
7,  1740. 

51.    MOSES. 

MOSES  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah,  married 
ist,  Ruth  Hills;  2d,  Lydia  Richardson,  March  23,  1720,  died 
April  10,  1781,  ae.  79  years,  at  Cheshire. 

Children:  155  Thomas,  b  Feb.  8,  1730,  d  April  13,  1731  ; 
156  Hannah,  b  Nov.  9,  1731  ;  157  Eunice,  b  Oct.  27,  1733; 
158  Damaris,  b  May  28,  1735. 

53.  CALEB. 

CALEB  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah,  married 
Tamar  Thompson,  April  24,  1734.  They  settled  in  the  south- 
west part  of  Cheshire,  on  land  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
Julius  Brooks,  Esq.,  and  others.  He  died  March  n,  1781,  ae. 
75  years. 

Children:  159  Joseph,  b  April  30,  1734,  was  a  farmer  in 
Cheshire,  near  where  the  present  Joseph  Doolittle  lives ;  160 
Caleb,  b  Jan.  5,  1735,  settled  in  Westwoods,  Hamden,  left 
sons  and  daughters;  161  Tamar,  b  Aug.  12, 1736;  162  Benja- 
min, b  March  5,  1738,  settled  in  Cheshire  one-half  mile  west 
of  the  village  ;  163  Lois,  b  April  8,  1746  ;  164  Amos,  was  a 
farmer  in  the  south-west  part  of  Cheshire;  165  Ephraim,  b 
June  15,  1754. 

54.     JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah,  mar- 
ried Martha  Hitchcock,  Feb.  5,  1735,  died  Nov.  15,  1779, 
ae.  71  years.  Having  no  children,  he  gave  all  his  property 
to  Joshua  Doolittle  Waterman,  son  of  the  Rev.  Simeon  Water- 
man, of  Plymouth,  Conn. 

55.    ZADOCK. 

ZADOCK  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah,  mar- 
ried Rhoda . 

Children:    166  Hannah,  b  July  22,   1740;  167  Lydia,  b 


734  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

March  3,  1742  ;  168  Rhoda,  b  June  28,  1744  ;  169  Eunice,  b 
Sept.  5,  1746  ;  170  Zachariah,  b  May  13,  1749  ;  171  Sarah,  b 
Sept.  24,  1751. 

61.   DANIEL. 

DANIEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah,  married 
Elizabeth  Dayton  and  settled  in  North  Haven,  two  miles 
north  of  the  center,  on  the  Wallingford  road.  He  died  Sept., 
1791,  ae.  84. 

Children:   172  Giles,  b  Nov.  6,  1734  ;   173  Michael,  b  April 

12,  1738;   174    Oliver,  b  Oct.    14,    1742,  m  Cook;   175 

Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  8,  1745  ;  176  John,  b  Jan.  15,  1747  ;  177 
Johnson,  d  in  Wallingford;  178  Ezra,  b  Jan.  3,  1752,  d  in 
Cheshire. 

62.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Daniel   and  Hannah,  married 

Mary . 

Children:    179    Joseph,   b  Jan.     15.    1757  ;    180    Walter,  b 
March  27,  1759  ;   181    Joel,  b  Jan.  7,  1761. 

63.   STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah,  married 

Anna ,  May  n,  1737.  He  died  Nov.  8,  1772,  ae.  64. 

She  died  Nov.  27,  1797,  ae.  92  years. 

Children  :  182  Anna,  b  April  27,  1738  ;  183  Abigail,  b  Jan. 
21,  1741  ;  184  Ruth,  b  Oct.  29,  1742  ;  185  Stephen,  b  Jan.  15, 
1745,  d  Nov.  30,  1745. 

65.    EZRA. 

EZRA  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah,  married 
Hannah .  He  died  Oct.  24,  1844,  in  Cheshire. 

Children :  186  Hannah,  d  in  1747  ;  187  Hannah,  b  May  21, 
1748. 

70.    THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Thankful, 
married  Sarah  Dorcher,  Nov.  15,  1738. 

Children:  188  Susannah,  b  Aug.  2,  1739;  189,  190  Solo- 
mon and  Theophilus,  b  Jan.  8,  1741,  d  Jan.  25,  1741  ;  191 


GENEALOGIES.  735 

Theophilus,  b  Feb.  5,  1742  ;   192  Solomon,  b  March  24.    1746  ; 

J93  Josiah,  b  July  n,    1748,   married   Damaris  ;    194 

Sarah,  b  April  10,  1750;  195  Elizabeth,  b  June   i,  1751  ;   196 
Stephen,  b  July  12,  1752  ;  197  Isaac,  b  Aug.  27,  1754. 
71.    SOLOMON. 

SOLOMON  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Theopilus  and  Thankful, 
married,  ist,  Eunice  Hall ;  2nd,  Jerusha  Tyler,  Feb.  13,  1734. 

Children  :  198  Daniel,  b  Oct.  4,  1706  ;  199  Theophilus,  b 
March  19,  1769  ;  200  Sarah,  b  Feb.  5,  1752  ;  201  Lucy,  b 
July  18,  1778;  202  Joel,  b  Sept.  16,  1781. 

84.    EZEKIAH. 

EZEKIAH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mary  Doolittle, 
m  Hepzibah . 

Children:  203  Barnabas,  b  Jan.  8,  1736;  204  Mehitable,  b 
Feb.  28,  1738  ;  205  Hepzibah,  b  Aug.  14,  1741  ;  206  Hezekiah, 
b  May  4,  1742  ;  207  Anthony,  b  Jan.  31,  1744;  208  Mary,  b 
Feb.  25,  1750. 

85.    JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mary  Doolittle, 
married  Damaris . 

Children:  209  Josiah,  b  July  17,  1769^  July  30,  1769; 
210  Stephen,  b  March  24,  1771. 

87.  ZEBULON. 

ZEBULON,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mary  Doolittle,  married 
Mary . 

Children:  211  Mary,  b  Jan.  i,  1741  ;  212  Sarah,  b  April  7, 
J745  ;  2I3  John,  b  May  24,  1748. 

88.  AMBROSE. 

AMBROSE  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mary,  married 
Martha  Munson,  daughter  of  William  and  Rebecca  Munson, 
of  Cheshire.  He  died  in  Cheshire,  Sept.  25,  1781,  ae.  74 
years. 

Children:  214  Ambrose,  b  Dec.  12,  1751;  215  Amos,  b 
May  8,  1754;  216  Martha,  b  Aug.  30,  1756;  217  Eunice,  b 
June  21,  1758;  218  Abner,  b  July  27,  1760;  219  Lois;  220 
Thankful;  221,  222  Samuel  and  Silas,  b  March  28,  1763,  both 


736  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

d  same  day ;  223  Reuben,  b  May  i,  1766  ;  224  Lcnvly,  b  June 
9,  1769;  225  Mary  Ann,  b  Feb.  23,  1771;  226  Eliakim,b 
Aug.  29,  1772. 

94.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane,  married 
Eunice . 

Child:  227  Samuel,  b  April  n,  1749. 
125.  PHILEMON. 

PHILEMON  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married 
Lydia  Hall,  Jan.  5,  1757.  Supposed  to  have  died  in  western 
New  York. 

Children  :  229  Phebe,  b  May  25,  1759,  in  Wallingford  ;  230^?- 

ziah,  b  April  20,  1760,  in  Wallingford;  231   Lydia,  b  Oct.  22, 

1761;  232  John  F.,  b  Feb.  n,   1767;  233  Rice,  b  Aug.    27, 

1769  ;  234  Jared ';  235  Jesse ;  236  Patience;  237  Hannah. 

129.  TITUS. 

TITUS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married  Mary 
Lewis,  daughter  of  Dr.  Lewis  of  Wallingford,  Nov.  20,  1764. 
He  died  atWestfield,  Mass.,  Nov.  23,  1818,  ae.  73  years. 

Children  ;  239  John,  b  Jan.,  1765,  d  in  early  life  unm. ;  240 
Elizabeth,  b  1767,  m  Abraham  Bradley  of  Russell,  Mass.,  she 
d  April  28,  1831 ;  241  Titus,  was  a  farmer  at  Westfield, 
Mass.,  m  Mary  Tracy  in  1794,  and  had  ten  children,  mostly 
deceased;  242  Mary,  b  1769,  m  Noble  Fowler  of  Southwick, 
Mass.,  she  d  March  n,  1747 ;  243  Joel,  b  1774,  grad.  at  Yale 
College,  1799,  was  a  lawyer;  244  Amasa,  b  1776,  m  Mary 
Hitchcock  of  Cheshire  ;  245  Martha,  m  Solomon  Gillette  of 
Colchester,  Conn. ;  246  Mark,  a  lawyer  in  Belchertown  ,Mass., 
grad.  at  Yale  College  in  1804,  m  ist,  Betsey  A.  Smith,  and  2d, 
Sarah  T.  Reuberteau,  he  d  in  1818,  Nov.  23,  leaving  no  sons. 

152.   EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Lydia  Warner 
Doolittle,  owned  and  occupied  the  farm  late  the  property  of 
Landa  Bristol,  of  Cheshire. 

Children :  247  ElkanaK,  d  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  ;  248  Ama- 
ryllis, m  Landa  Bristol,  of  Cheshire. 


GENEALOGIES.  737 

l6o.  CALEB. 

CALEB  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Caleb  and  Tamar,  married  in 
West  Woods,  Hamden. 

Children:  249  Caleb;  250  Jesse;  251  Tamar,  m 

Wooden. 

162.   BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Caleb  and  Tamar. 
Child:  252  Joseph  /.,  d  in  Prospect. 

164.  AMOS. 

AMOS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Caleb  and  Tamar,  married  and 
settled  in  the  southwestern  part  of  Cheshire,  on  the  farm 
now  belonging  to  the  heirs  of  his  grandson,  Amos  Doolittle, 
late  of  Cheshire,  deceased.  He  died  March  23,  1808,  ae. 

75  yrs.     His  wife,  Mrs.  Abigail  ,  died  July  28,  1827, 

ae.  88  yrs. 

Children:  253  Olive,  b  March  30,  1761  ;  254  Amos,  b  1767, 
d  May  21,  1816,  ae.  49  yrs. ;  Lois  his  wife  d  March  27,  1828, 
ae.  57  yrs.  ;  probably  Alexander  and  others. 
165.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Caleb  and  Tamar,  married 
Christiana  Thorp,  and  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Julius  Brook,  Esq.,  in  the  southwest  district  of  Cheshire.  He 
also  owned  the  mills  since  known  as  Gaylord's  mills.  His 
widow  married  Thaddeus  Rich,  late  of  Cheshire,  deceased. 

Children:  255  Julia;  256  Rispah,  b  1800,  d  as.  50  yrs. 
178.  EZRA. 

EZRA  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth,  married 
Sarah  Hall,  and  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  his  son 
Levi,  in  the  north  part  of  Cheshire.  He  died  suddenly  on 
the  first  Monday  in  April,  1829. 

Children:  257  Ezra,  b  May  8,  1776,  settled  in  Barkham- 

stead,  and  died  there:  258  Leonard;  259  Levi,  m 

Tuttle,  of  Cheshire;  260  Sarah,  m  Benjamin  Dowd  Doo- 
little; 261  Betsey;  262  Eunice. 


738  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

192.     SOLOMON. 

SOLOMON  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Eunice  Hall,  Feb.  24,  1768. 

Children:  263  Theophilus,  b  March  19,  1769,  m  Abiah 
Atwater;  264  Sarah,  b  Feb.  5,  1772  ;  265  Lucy,  b  July  18, 
1778  ;  266  Joel,  b  Sept.  16,  1781. 

214.      AMBROSE. 

AMBROSE  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Martha,  mar- 
ried Miss Dowd  of  Middletown,  Conn.  He  died  in 

Cheshire,  Conn. 

Child  :  267  Benjamin  Dowd,  b  1775,  d  May  13,  1845,  £e- 
70  yrs.  He  m  Sarah  Doolittle,  she  d  July  30,  1826,  ae. 
44  yrs. 

215.    AMOS. 

AMOS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Martha,  married 
Abigail  Ives  of  Cheshire,  Conn.,  dau.  of  Joel  Ives.  He  was 
a  distinguished  engraver  and  artist.  His  dwelling  occupied 
a  portion  of  the  lot  on  the  northwest  corner  of  College  and 
Elm  Streets,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Child:  267  Mary  Ann. 

2l8.    ABNER. 

ABNER  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Martha,  married. 
He  resided  in  the  old   homestead  in  Cheshire,  Conn.,  until 
his  death  ;  he  had  several  daughters. 
221.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Martha,  married. 
He  was  insane,  and  died  in  Cheshire,  Conn. 

Children :     268    Calvin,     m     Matilda   Wincher,     he    d    in 

Cheshire,   Conn. ;    269    Alfred,  m  Brown,  and   d   in 

Cheshire,  Conn.  ;  270  Aaron,  married,  has  a    large   family  in 
Cheshire,  Conn. 

222.    SILAS. 

SILAS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Martha.  He  went 
to  Vermont,  became  insane  and  died  the  same  hour  and  min- 
ute that  his  brother  died  at  Cheshire. 


GENEALOGIES.  739 

231.     AM  AS  A. 

AMASA  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Titus  and  Mary,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Amasa  Hitchcock,  of  Cheshire.  He  died  in 
1825,  ae.  49  years. 

Children:  232  Amasa  Lewis,  resides  in  Cheshire,  on  the 
old  Lewis  farm  ;  233  Mary,  m  Reuben  Palmer,  of  Spring- 
field, Mass. 

247.    ELKANAH. 

ELKANAH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and ,  mar- 
ried ist, Cook,  of  Cheshire.  She  died  and  he  married  his 

2d  wife  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 
He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  College. 

Children :  234  Milton,  d  at  Cheshire,  Conn.  ;  235  Edward, 
d  at  Cheshire  ;  236  Warren;  237  JVm.  A.,  d  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York. 

254.    AMOS. 

AMOS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Amos  and  Abigail,  married  Lois 

.     He  died  May  21,  1816,  ae.  49  yrs.     She  died   March 

27,  1828,  ae.  57  yrs. 

Child  :  238  Amos,  b  1797,  d  at  Cheshire  about  1867,  ae.  70. 
241.  TITUS. 

TITUS  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Titus  and  Mary  Doolittle,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Rev.  Stephen  Tracey,  of  Norwich,  Mass., 
in  1794,  and  had  children,  most  of  whom  have  died  ;  no  sons 
are  living.  His  wife  died  in  1843.  He  was  living  at  Paines- 
ville,  Ohio,  in  1852. 

243.   JOEL. 

JOEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Titus  and  Mary  Doolittle,  mairied 
Sarah  P.  Fitch,  of  Pawlet.  He  graduated  at  Yale  in 
1799,  and  was  tutor  in  Middlebury  college,  Vermont.  He 
studied  law  and  settled  at  Middlebury  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  after  having  filled  with  honor  many  offices  in  the  gift 
of  the  people,  as  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court,  etc.  He  died 
March  9,  1841,  ae.  67  yrs.  He  left  four  sons  and  two 
daughters.  The  three  sons  are  in  Ohio. 


74O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  279  John;  280  Titus;  281  Charles  Hubbard; 
282  Joel;  283  Sarah;  284  Elizabeth. 

244.  AM  AS  A. 

AM  ASA  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Titus  and  Mary  Lewis  Doolittle, 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Amasa  Hitchcock  of  Cheshire. 
He  died  in  1825,  ae.  49  years. 

Children  :  285  Amasa  Lewis,  now  living  in  Cheshire ;  286 
Mary,  resides  in  Springfield,  Mass.  She  married  Reuben 
Palmer. 

246.  MARK. 

MARK  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Titus  and  Mary  Doolittle,  grad- 
uated at  Yale  college,  1804 ;  studied  law  and  settled  at  Bel- 
chertown,  Mass.  He  married  for  his  first  wife  Betesy  Matilda 
Smith,  daughter  of  Daniel  Smith  Esq.,  of  West  Haven,  Vt. 
She  died  Nov.  14,  1814,  ae.  28.  He  married  his  2nd  wife, 
Sarah  T.  Reuberteau,  of  Newburyport. 

Children  :  287  Lucy  Maria,  m  Dr.  Horatio  Thompson,  of 
Belchertown,  Mass.,  1834  ;  288  Betsey  Matilda,  b  May,  1814, 
m  John  Strong,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1857,  residence  in 
Addison,  N.  Y.  By  second  marriage,  289  Sarah  Lorena,  d 
July  29,  1849,  ae.  18  ;  290  Wm.  C.,  d  in  childhood. 
108.  ENSIGN. 

ENSIGN  JOSEPH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Joseph  and  Rachel, 
married  Martha  Hitchcock,  and  was  a  farmer  on  the  west 
side  of  the  river  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  291  Joseph;  292  Walter;  293  Joel;  294  Reu- 
ben. 

291.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  DOOLITTLE,  son  of  Joseph  and  Martha. 

Children  :    295  Jared,  was  a  merchant  in  New    Haven  ; 
Nathaniel,  was   the   owner   of  the  mills   at  Quinnipiac ;    29 
Patty,  m  Oliver  Deming,  of  New  Haven. 
293.  JOEL. 

JOEL  DOOLITTLE,  son  of   Joseph  and  Martha. 

Children  :  298  Joel,  b  1790,  is  living  at  North  Haven  ;  299 


GENEALOGIES.  74! 

Lucy,  no  further  information  about  her  appears  on  the  records. 

294.    REUBEN. 

REUBEN  DOOLITTLE  was  a  farmer  in  the  south-westerly 
part  of  the  town  of  Wallingford. 

Children:  300  Rufus;  301  Almon ;  302  Rhoda,  m  Augustus 
Hall  Esq.,  of  Wallingford. 


DUDLEY. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  and  Lois  Dudley,  came  into  Wallingford  about  the 
year  1750,  and  settled  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  a  short 
distance  below  the  present  residence  of  Street  Jones,  Esq., 
who  is  the  present  owner  of  the  old  Dudley  house.  Of 
their  history  very  little  is  now  known. 

JEDEDIAH. 

JEDEDIAH  DUDLEY,  their  son,  was  born  in  Wallingford, 

Jan.  i,  1759,  married ,  and  occupied  the  house  of  his 

father  until  his  decease. 

Children :  i  John,  d  in  Branford,  buried  in  Wallingford, 
1869;  2  Caleb,  d  in  Wallingford ;  3  Elias,  m  Laura  Preston, 
and  died  in  Cheshire  ;  4  Jedediah,  d  unm.,  and  was  insane 
several  years  ;  5  Isaac,  d  ;  6  a  daughter. 


DUTTON.' 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  DUTTON,  the  ancestor  of  the  family  of  that  name 
in  Wallingford,  was  of  Machimoodus,  or  East  Haddam.  He 
purchased  land  in  Wallingford  in  1718  and  1719,  which  he 
gave  to  his  sons,  whose  names  are  as  follows : 

i  Benjamin,  b  1696,  m  Mary  ;  2  David,  m  Lydia 

Cook ;  3  Thomas,  m  Abigail  Merriman. 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Hill's  Hist.  Mason,  N.  H.,  201  ;  Savage's 
Gen.  Diet,  n.  84,  85. 
Y  Y 


742  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

I.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  BUTTON,  married  Mary ,  had  children  born 

in  Wallingford.  He  died  in  Cheshire  Parish,  Jan.  27,  1791, 
se.  95  yrs.  She  died  Oct.  27,  1785,  ae.  80  yrs. 

Children  :  4  Joseph,  b  Jan.  5,  1720  ;  5  Benjamin,  b  March 
10,  1723  ;  6  Susannah,  b  June  17,  1725  ;  7  John,  b  Jan.  23, 
1730;  8  Sarah,  b  Dec.  6,  1735;  9  Charles,  b  1736,  d  Sept. 
19,  1829,  ae.  93  yrs. ;  10  Elizabeth,  b  July  25,  1737  ;  n  Eunice, 
b  April  5,  1739  ;  12  Daniel,  b  Nov.  30,  1740. 
2.  DAVID. 

DAVID  DUTTON  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Hope  Cook,  Sept.  14,  1722.  She  died  Oct.  12,  1735,  ae-  4°- 
He  married  Sarah  Doolittle,  Feb.  21,  1739. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  13  Mary,  b  July  16,  1723,  m 
Gideon  Royce,  Oct.  4,  1743  ;  14  Charles,  b  Oct.  30,  1727,  m 
Eunice  Jones,  1761,  he  d  Oct.  9,  1789  ;  15  Jesse,  b  Dec.  24, 
1729,  d  Feb.  4,  1745,  at  Cape  Breton,  in  the  old  French  war; 
1 6  Ambrose,  b  March  30,  1732  ;  17  Joel,  b  March  20,  1734  ; 

18  Lydia,  b  Oct.  27,  1738,  d  Sept.  27,  1739.     By  2cl  marriage  : 

19  David,  b  June  23,  1741  ;  20  Amos,  b  Oct.  13,  1745,  d  Oct. 
3,  1788,  as.  6 1  ;  21  Jonathan,  b  Jan.  25,  1743-4. 

3.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS  DUTTON  married  Abigail  Merriman,  May  6,  1729. 

Children:  22  John,  b  Feb.,  1730;  23  Abigail,  b  Jan.  8, 
1732  ;  24  Thomas,  b  Jan.  31,  1735  >  25  Samuel,  b  Jan.  24, 
1737  ;  26  Lois,  b  Aug.  8,  1738  ;  27  Matthew,  b  Nov.  n,  1740  ; 
28  John,  b  April  3,  1743 ;  29,  30  Amasa,  and  Asahel,  b  July 
30,  1745;  31  Nathaniel,  b  June  18,  1747  ;  32  Phebe,  b  Oct. 
n,  1749  ;  33  Asahel,  b  Feb.  2,  1753. 

4.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  DUTTON,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary,  of  Walling- 
ford, married  Elizabeth .  She  died  Jan.  25,  1700,  ae. 

72.  He  died  in  Southington,  Ct.,Oct.  26,  1788,35.  68  years,  and 
was  buried  at  Plantsville,  Southington,  by  the  side  of  his  wife. 

Child:  34  Mindwell,  b  May  18,  1746,  m  in  Wallingford. 


GENEALOGIES.  743 

5.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  BUTTON,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary,  m  Abigail 
Jones,  March  16,  1747. 

Children:  35  Eunice,  b  April  5,  1749  ;  36  Abigail,  b  Nov. 
21,  1750. 

14.    CHARLES. 

CHARLES  BUTTON,  son  of  Baniel  and  Lydia  Button,  mar- 
ried Eunice  Jones,  1761.  He  died  Oct.  9,  1781. 

Children  :  37  Jesse,  settled  in  the  State  of  Maine  •  38  Amos, 
b  June  3,  1767,  d  March  21,  1845,  ae.  73  years  ;  39  Charles, 
d  in  Ohio  where  he  resided. 


FENN.i 

EDWARD. 

EDWARD  FENN  married  Mary  Thorp,  Nov.  15,  1688.  He 
died  Feb.  2,  1728,  ae.  84  yrs.  She  died  July  24,  1725,  and 
he  married  Abigail  Williams,  Jan.  26,  1726.  He  belonged 
in  Wallingford. 

Children:  i  Mary,  b  Sept.  27,  1689  ;  2  Hannah,  b  Feb.  4, 
1698,  d  Feb.  14,  1698  ;  3  Theophilus,  b  Jan.  31,  1689  ;  4 
Elizabeth,  b  April  29,  1692;  5  Sarah,  b  Nov.  24,  1694; 
6  Theophilus,  b  Jan.  28,  1698,  m  Martha—  — ;  7  John,  b 

March  23,  1702,  m  Sarah ;  8  Hannah,  b  Bee.  13,  1704; 

9  Thomas,  b  Sept.  13,  1707,  m  Lydia  -  — ;  10  Naomi,  b 
May  10,  1712,  m  Samuel  Frost,  March  21,  1723. 

6.    THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  FENN,  m  Martha  Boolittle,  May  24,  1722. 

Children:  10  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  25,  1723;  n  Edward,  b 
Sept.  2,  1732  ;  12  Martha,  b  Sept.  23,  1725  ;  13  Bethiah,  b 
Feb,  18,  1728;  14  Benjamin,  b  Aug.  3,  1730;  15  Phebe,  b 
Feb.  12,  1735  >  J6  Theophilus,  b  Feb.  20,  1737,  d  Nov.  8, 
1737;  17  Eunice,  b  March  16,  1741;  18  Susannah,  b  Sept. 
28,  1746. 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  n.  151,  152. 


744  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

7.     JOHN. 

JOHN  FENN  married  Sarah . 

Children:  20  Mary,  b  Dec.  4,  1730521  John,  b  July  15, 
1732  :  22  Lois,  b  Aug.  2,  1735  >  23  Samuel,  b  Sept.  10,  1739  ; 
24  Amos,  b  May  30,  1745. 

9.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  FENN,  married  Lydia  Ackley,  March  22,  1731. 
She  died  Dec.  4,  1741.  He  married,  2d,  Christina . 

Children  by  i st  marriage:  25  Lydia,  b  July  n,  1733;  26 
Thomas,  b  Dec.  i,  1735  ;  27  Samuel,  b  Dec.  27,  1737;  28 
Hannah,  b  March  24,  1740.  By  2d  marriage  :  29  Esther,  b 
Oct.  20,  1743;  30  Theophilus,  b  June  29,  1744. 


FOOT.' 

ROBERT. 

ROBERT  FOOT  was  first  of  Wethersfield,  afterwards  of  that 
part  of  New  Haven  now  known  as  Wallingford,  and  in  1678 
and  thereafter,  until  his  death  at  Branford,  was  married  to 

Sarah   ,  1659.     After   his  decease,  his  widow  married 

Aaron  Blatchley  of  Branford,  in  1686.  Mr.  Foot  was  a  son  of 
Nathaniel  Foot,  the  settler.  He  died  suddenly  in  1681,  ae.  52. 
John  Foot,  the  sixth  child  of  Robert  and  Sarah,  was  born  at 

Branford,  July  24,  1670.     He  married  Mary ,  and  had 

seven  children.     He  died  in  1713,  ae.  43. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  FOOT,  fourth  child  of  John  and  Mary  Foot,  was  born 
in  1700,  and  settled  in  North  Branford.  He  married  ist,  Eliza- 
beth Frisbee,  Dec.  25,  1733  ;  she  died  Feb.  3,  1737,  ae.  22. 
He  married  2d,  Abigail  Frisbee,  Aug.  16,  1738.  He  died  Jan. 
26,  1777,  ae.  77.  His  widow  Abigail  died  May,  1779,  ae.  67. 


i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Brown's  Gen.  W.  Simsbury,  Conn.,  53- 
56 ;  Caulkins'  Hist.  New  London,  Conn.,  308 ;  Goodwin's  Foote  Family 
Gen.  ;  Judd  and  Boltwood's  Hist,  and  Gen.  of  Hadley,  Mass.,  494  ;  Mat- 
thews' Hist.  Cornwall,  Vt.,  285  ;  Nash's  Gen.  of  Nash  Family,  42  ;  N.  E. 
Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  ix.  272;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  n.  179-82. 


GENEALOGIES.  745 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  i  Jonathan,  b  Jan.  23,  1737,  d 
in  North  Branford,  1801.  By  2d  marriage  :  2  John,  b  April  5, 
1742,  in  North  Branford,  m  Abigail,  dau.  of  Rev.  Samuel 
Hall,  of  ( Cheshire )  Wallingford,  granddaughter  of  Gov. 
Jonathan  Law,  who  cl  Nov.  19,  1788,  ae.  39,  m  Eunice,  dau.  of 
John  Hall,  Esq.,  Apr.  28,  1761,  was  grad.  at  Yale 
College  in  1765,  studied  Divinity,  and  succeeded  Rev.  Mr. 
Hall  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Cheshire,  d 
Aug.  31,  1813,  ae.  71,  his  wife  Eunice  d  Jan.  31,  1817  ;  3 
Abigail  Sarah  Hall,  b  Jan.  2,  1769,  d  Jan  20,  1775  ;  4  Mary 
Ann,  b  Sept.  21,  1770,  d  Sept.  25,  1775  ;  5  Lucinda,  b  May 
19,  1772,  m  Dr.  Thomas  T.  Cornwall,  and  was  mother  to 
Hon.  Edward  A.  Cornwall,  of  Cheshire  ;  6  John  Alfred,  b 
Jan.  2,  1774,  d  Aug.  25,  1794,  ae.  20;  7  Abigail  M.  A.,  b 
Sept.  16,  1776,  d  Aug.  9,  1778,  ae.  22  ;  8  Wm.  Lambert,  b 
Oct.  10,  1778,  was  a  physician  in  Cheshire;  9  Samuel  Augus- 
tus, b  Nov.  8,  1780,  mem.  of  Congress,  Senator  in  Congress, 
and  Gov.  of  Conn. ;  10  Roderick,  b  Dec.  15,  1782,  d  May  16, 
1791,  ae.  8;  ii  Matilda,  b  May  6,  1785,  d  Oct.  9,  1787. 

8.  WILLIAM. 

DR.  WM.  LAMBERT  FOOT,  son  of  Rev.  John,  was  a  promi- 
nent man  in  his  native  town,  was  town  clerk  and  judge  of  the 
Probate  court,  and  practiced  his  profession,  until  a  short 
time  before  his  death.  He  married  Mary,  dau.  of  Capt.  Dan 
Scoville  of  Saybrook,  March,  1801.  Both  died  in  Cheshire. 

Children:  12  William  L.,  M.  D.,  b  Nov.  21,  1802,  m  Mary 
Butler  of  Branford  in  1827  :  13  Mary  A.,  b  May  23,  1806; 
14  Abigail  H.,  b  April  28,  1808,  m  Edward  Doolittle,  he  died 
March  4,  1837,  ae.  29;  15  Scoville  D.,  b  April  10,  1810,  m 
Martha  Whiting,  of  Milford,  Conn.,  June,  1836,  she  was  born 
1807  ;  16  Eliza  S.,  b  June  29,  1812  ;  17  John  L.,  b  Sept.  14, 
1817,  merchant  in  Cheshire. 

9.  SAMUEL. 

His  Excellency  SAMUEL  A.  FOOT,  son  of  Rev.  John  and 
Abigail,  married  Eudocia  Hull,  daughter  of  General  Andrew 
and  Elizabeth  Mary  Ann  Hull,  of  Cheshire.  He  died  Sept 


746  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1 6,  1846,  in  his  66th  year.  She  died  at  the  residence  of  her 
son  John  A.  Foot  Esq.,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Jan.  12,  1849,  ae.  66 
years.  Her  remains  were  brought  to  Cheshire  for  interment. 

Children:  18  John  Alfred,  b  Nov.  22,  1803,  attorney  at 
Cleveland,  Ohio;  19  Andrew  Hull,  b  Sept.  12,  1806,  Rear 
Admiral  U.  S.  N.,  now  deceased  ;  20  Roderick  A.,  b  Oct.  i, 
1808,  d  Feb.  24,  1810  ;  21  Augustus  Edwin,  b  Dec.  31,  1810, 
cashier  at  Cleveland,  Ohio;  22  Wm.  Henry,  b  Feb.  i,  1817, 
d  March  6,  1827  ;  23  Edward  Dorr,  b  Feb.  3,  1820,  d  Feb. 
9,  1831. 

BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  FOOT,  of  Wallingford,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary 
Foot,  of  Branford,  who  was  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  Foot, 
of  Northford,  who  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  Foot, 
of  Northford,  who  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Sarah  Foot,  of 
New  Haven,  Wallingford  and  Branford,  who  was  the  son  of 
Nathaniel  the  settler,  was  born  at  Northford,  Conn.,  Aug.  i, 
1778,  and  was  the  youngest  but  one  of  thirteen  children.  He 
married,  ist,  Sally  P.,  daughter  of  Joel  Hall,  April  24,  1803  ; 
she  died,  July  24,  1804,  ae.  25  years  ;  2d,  Betsey,  daughter 
of  Andrew  Hall,  June  2,  1805,  she  died  Sept.  20,  1831,  ae. 
44  years;  3d,  Mrs.  Harriet,  widow  of  Willis  Humaston,  and 
daughter  of  Newbury  Button,  of  North  Haven,  May  3,  1832. 
He  died  in  Wallingford,  Nov.,  1869,  as.  91  years. 

Children  by  ist  marriage :  24  Sally  H.,  b  Feb.,  1804,  d 
May  13,  1804.  Children  by  2d  marriage:  25  Andrew  H.,  b 
Nov.  15,  1806,  m  Frances,  dau.  of  Simon  Hoadley  of  New 
Haven;  26  Henry  A.,  b  July  14,  1809,  d  Oct.  2,  1818;  27 
James,  b  Aug.  15,  1811,  m  Emeline  Slead  of  Wallingford, 
Oct.  8,  1834;  28  Sally  H.,  b  Jan.  16,  1815,  m  Charles  B.  Hall 
of  Wallingford,  Oct.  i,  1835  ;  29  Benjamin,  b  Oct.  18,  1817,  m 
Sarah,  dau.  of  Kiel  Hall  of  Wallingford,  Nov.  19,  1840 ;  30 
Henry  Clay,  b  June  19,  1820,  m  Catherine  W.,  dau.  of  Hiel 
Hall,  Aug.  17,  1842,  she  resided  in  Philadelphia,  d  in  1868. 


GENEALOGIES.  747 

GAYLORD.' 

WILLIAM. 

DEA.  WILLIAM  GAYLORD,  a  leading  man  of  Windsor,  Conn., 
was  the  father  of  Walter  Gaylord,  whose  son  Joseph  was 
born  May  13,  1649,  and  married  July  14,  1670,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  John  Stanley  of  Farmington,  Conn.  It  is  not  exactly 
clear  as  to  whether  he  went  from  Windsor  to  Farmington,  or 
Waterbury  first ;  but  it  is  certain  that  he  was  at  Mattatuck 
(Waterbury),  in  the  spring  of  1678,  having  been  previously 
accepted  as  an  inhabitant,  Jan.  17,  1677.  He  had  a  threa 
acre  lot  on  the  corner  of  East  and  North  Main-sts.,  which 
then  bounded  north  on  John  Stanley.  He  sold  his  house  and 
lot  Feb.  2,  1703,  reserving  a  quarter  of  an  acre  on  which  his 
son  Joseph  had  built  a  house,  after  which  he  resided  at  a 
place  called  Breakneck,  built  a  house  there,  and  had  twenty 
acres  of  land  which  he  sold  Feb.  26,  1705  or  1706.  As  no 
traces  of  him  are  found  in  Waterbury  after  this  date,  it  is 
quite  probable  that  he  went  to  Durham  in  1706,  where  several 
of  his  family  had  previously  gone,  and  we  find  him  there  in 
the  early  part  of  1706.  He  died  in  Durham  previous  to  1713. 
His  children  were, 

i  Sarah,  b  July  n,  1671,  m  Thomas  Judd,  Jr.  ;  2  Joseph,  b 
April  22,  1673  or  1674,  m  Feb.  28,  1699,  to  Mary,  dau.  of 
Joseph  Hickox,  deceased,  of  Woodbury,  she  was  born  May 
25,  1678. 

2.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  GAYLORD  went  to  Durham  about  the  year  1705  or 
1706.  He  built  a  house  at  Buckshill  in  1703  or  1704,  which 
he  sold  to  Richard  Welton. 

Children:  3  Elizabeth;  4  Joseph,  d  in  infancy  ;  5  Thankful, 
all  b  in  Waterbury. 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Judd  and  Boltwood's  Hist,  of  Hadley, 
Mass.,  497,  498;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  II.  238,  239;  Stiles'  Hist.  Windsor, 
Conn.,'  623-7. 


748  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  GAYLORD,  born  April  12,  1677,  resided  at  Buckshill, 
adjoining  his  brother  Joseph,  on  a  place  he  bought  of  John 
Warner.  He  went  to  Durham,  and  subsequently  to  Walling- 
ford,  where  he  died  in  1753,  in  what  is  now  Cheshire.  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Gaylord  his  wife,  died  in  Cheshire,  Dec.  19,  1751, 
ae.  73  yrs.  He  left  an  estate  of  ^1995  in  Wallingford,  and 
of  ^"560  in  Farmington,  Conn. 

Children:  6  Samuel;    7   Edward;  8  Timothy;  9  Nathan; 
10  Joseph;  n  John,  m  Thankful ;  and  five  daugh- 
ters, one  of  whom,  12  Sarah,  d  April  14,  1735. 
WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  GAYLORD  had  a  ,£40  propriety  set  out  to  him  in 
Waterbury,  in  1701,  which  he  forfeited,  and  removed  to 
Woodbury,  where  he  joined  the  church,  Jan.  13,  1706.  Sub- 
sequently he  went  to  New  Milford,  where  he  died  about  1753. 
His  will  was  proved  Nov.  23,  1753,  in  which  his  wife  Mercy 
and  six  children  were  named.  Joanna,  his  first  wife,  joined 
the  church  in  Woodbury,  Dec.  7,  1712.  His  son  Nathan,  of 
New  Milford,  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  Bronson, 
who  was  a  son  of  Isaac  Bronson. 

Children :  13  Benjamin,  resided  in  Durham  and  Wall- 
ingford, was  in  Wallingford  in  1722  ;  14  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  21, 
1680,  m  Joseph  Hickox,  son  of  Samuel ;  15  Mary,  m  Stephen 
Welton,  she  d  July  18,  1719;  16  Joanna,  m  Robert  Royce 
of  Wallingford,  in  1716,  or  before;  17  Ruth,  m'  Stephen 
Hickox,  and  settled  in  Durham. 

13.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  GAYLORD,  m  ist,  Jerusha  Frisbie  of  Branford, 
Conn.,  Jan.  28,  1729.  She  died  May  n,  1734.  He  married 
2d,  Mary  Ashley,  Feb.  14,  1738. 

Children:  18  Levi,  b  Jan.  10,  1730;  19  Jerusha,  b  July  i, 
1731  ;  20  Enos,  b  Jan.  27,  1733,  d  Jan.,  1734. 

6.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  GAYLORD,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth,  married 
Thankful  Munson,  Aug.  19,  1729. 


GENEALOGIES.  749 

Children  :  21  Agnes,  b  June  5,  1730  ;  22  Justus,  b  Mar.  12, 
X732  j  23  Annie,  b  April  24,  1734;  24  Mamre,  b  March  3, 
1736- 

7.  EDWARD. 

EDWARD  GAYLORD,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth,  m  Mehita- 
ble  Brooks,  Aug.  16,  1733,  at  Cheshire,  Conn. 

Children:  55  Jesse,  b  Feb.  23,  1734,  d;  26  Jesse,  b  Sept. 
10,  1735- 

8.  TIMOTHY. 

TIMOTHY  GAYLORD,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth,  m  Prudence 
Royce,  April  25,  1733. 

Children:  27  Prudence,  b  Jan.  31,  1734;  28  Timothy,  b 
May  3,  1735,  d;  29  Timothy,  b  Aug.  i,  1736;  30  Royce,\> 
July  17,  1737  ;  31  Reuben,  b  June  17,  1742. 

9.  NATHAN. 

NATHAN  GAYLORD,  b  1724,  d  at  Cheshire,  Conn.,  July  2, 
1802,  ae.  78. 

Children :  33  John,  d  in  Wallingford  ;  34  Nathan,  d  in 
Cheshire  ;  35  Elias,  d  in  Cheshire,  m Hitchcock. 

10.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  GAYLORD,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth,  married 
Elizabeth  Rich,  Nov.  9,  1738. 

Child:  32  Charles,  b  Sept  22,  1739,  in  Wallingford  or 
Cheshire. . 

33.  JOHN. 

JOHN  GAYLORD  resided  on  Parker's  farms  in  Wallingford, 
in  the  house  now  owned  by  Silas  Y.  Andrews. 

Child :  36  John,  m Tuttle,  had  a  son  David  T.  and 

a  daughter. 

34.    NATHAN. 

NATHAN  died  in  Cheshire,  and  was  the  owner  of  the  old 
mills  in  the  south  part  of  the  town. 

Children:  37  Titus,  d  in  Cheshire;  38  Hannah,  m  Ebenezer 
Atwater ;  39  Jerusha,  m  Rufus  Plum  ;  40  Nathan,  m 


75O  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Bradley  ;  41  Eveline,  m  Billious  Brooks  ;  42  Enos,  is  living  in 
Prospect,  m  Celia  Moss. 

35.  ELIAS. 

ELIAS  GAYLORD,  married  ist,  —  -  Hitchcock.  She  died 
and  he  married  2d,  a  widow  Thorp. 

Children:  43  Horace,  m  Bradley;  44  E/ias,  m 

Amanda  Bristol ;  45  Hannah,  m  George  Bristol. 


HALL.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL  senior,  (the  emigrant),  appears  first,  at  Boston, 
and  afterwards  at  New  Haven.  He  evidently  was  not  an 
original  settler  at  New  Haven,  as  his  name  does  not  appear 
in  any  list  which  I  have  been  able  to  discover  until  after  1650. 
From  whence  he  came  is  uncertain.  The  name  (Hall)  is  a 
difficult  one  to  trace,  on  account  of  the  great  number  of 
original  settlers  of  that  name,  28  having  come  to  America 
previous  to  1660,  of  whom  seven  bore  the  name  of  John. 

That  John  Hall  of  Boston,   New  Haven  and   Wallingford 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Adams'  Haven  Genealogy,  2d  part,  27, 
28  ;  Bouton's  Hist.  Concord,  N.  H.,  707,  708 ;  Brooke's  Hist.  Medford, 
Mass.,  517-27;  Clarke's  Hist.  Norton,  Mass.,  82,  83;  Draper's  Hist 
Spencer,  Mass.,  211,  212;  Eaton's  Annals  of  Warren,  Me.,  396,  397; 
Eaton's  Hist.  Thomaston,  Me.,  247-50 ;  Freeman's  Hist.  Cape  Cod,  Mass., 
n.  137,  202,  209,  214,  507,  589,  707-9,  717;  Goodwin's  Gen.  of  Foote 
family,  107,  108 ;  Hill's  Hist.  Mason,  N.  H.,  203  ;  Hinman's  Conn.  Set- 
tlers, isted.,  170-8;  Hudson's  Hist.  Lexington,  Mass.,  83;  Jackson's  Hist. 
Newton,  Mass.,  295-7  ;  Kellogg's  Memorials  of  Elder  John  White,  33  ; 
Kingman's  Hist.  North  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  529,  530 ;  Lewis  and  New- 
hall's  Hist.  Lynn,  Mass.,  120;  Littell's  Passaic  Valley  Gen.,  160-4;  Mat- 
thews' Hist.  Cornwall,  Vt,  286;  Mitchell's  Hist.  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  169, 
170;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  vi.  259,  260;  xm.  15,  16  ;  xv.  59,  381, 
382 ;  New  Hampshire  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.,  vn.  381,  382  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet, 
n.  332-9;  Sewell's  Hist.  Woburn,  Mass.,  616;  Stiles'  Hist.  Windsor, 
Ct,  651  ;  Thurston's  Hist.  Winthrop,  Me.,  186 ;  Ward's  Hist.  Shrews- 
bury, Mass.,  304,  305  ;  Whitmore's  Gen.  of  Hall  family;  Winsor's  Hist 
Duxbury,  Mass.,  263,  264. 


GENEALOGIES.  75  I 

was  an  emigrant,  appears  quite  evident,  from  his  having  sons 
old  enough  to  be  married  in  1666.  Removed  to  Wallingford 
after  the  settlement  had  commenced,  which  accounts  for  the 
non-appearance  of  his  name  on  the  first  Plantation  covenant, 
in  1669-70.  His  sons  John,  Thomas  and  Samuel,  were  sign- 
ers to  that  instrument.  His  name  appears  on  the  covenant 
of  1672,  and  it  is  quite  certain  that  he  had  then  been  some- 
time in  the  place.  In  1675,  himself  and  his  son  John  were 
chosen  selectmen  of  Wallingford. 

John  Hall  senior,  was  freed  from  training  in  1665,  being 
then  in  his  6oth  year,  and  was  most  certainly  in  New  Haven 
as  early  as  1639,  and  at  Wallingford  about  the  year  1670, 
with  the  early  settlers  there.  He  died  early  in  the  year  1676, 
ae.  71  years.  The  maiden  name  of  his  wife  was  Jane 
Woolen. 

Children  :   i  John,  baptized  Aug.  9,  1646,  d  Sept.  2,  1721 ; 

2  Richard,  b  July  n,  1645,  m  Hannah ;  3   Samuel,  b 

May  21,  1646,  d  March  5,  1725  •  4  Sarah,  baptized  Aug.  9, 
1646,  at  New  Haven;  5  Thomas,  b  March  25,  1649;  6  Jona- 
than, b  April  5,  1651  ;  7  David,  b  March  18,  1652,  d  July  17, 
1727,  ae.  75  yrs. 

I.    RICHARD. 

RICHARD  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Hall,  married 
Hannah .  He  died  in  1726,  in  New  Haven. 

Children:  8  Samuet,  b  Aug.  2,  1700,  m  Hannah  Brown; 
9  Hannah,  b  Jan.  31,  1702;  10  John,  b  Jan.  17,  1714,  m 
Abiah  Macomber ;  n  Jonathan,  grad.  at  Yale  in  1737;  12 
Mary,  b  March  19,  1712,  d  young  and  before  her  father. 

2.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Hall,  went  to  Wall- 
ingford with  the  first  planters  in  1670.  He  married  Hannah 
Walker,  May,  1668,  and  died  March  5,  1725,  ae.  77  years. 
She  died  Dec.  20,  1728. 

Children:  13  John,  b  Dec.  23,  1670,  m  Mary  Lyman ;  14 
Hannah,  b  March  u,  1673,  m  Ebenezer  Doolittle;  15  Sarah. 
b  June  20,  1677,  d  March  18,  1712  ;  16  Samuel,  b  Dec.  10, 


752  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1680,  d  June  15,  1770,  ae.  90  yrs;  17   Theophilus,  b  Feb.  5, 
1686  ;  1 8  Elizabeth,  b  March  6,  1690,  m  John  Moss. 

4.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Hall,  married  Grace 
— ,  June  5,  1673,  she  died   May  i,  1731 ;  he  died  Sept.  17, 
1731,  ae.  62  years,  5  mos.  and  17  days. 

Children:  19  Abigail,  b  Jan.  7,  1674,  m  John  Tyler;  20 
Thomas,  b  July  17,  1676,  m  Abigail,  dau.  of  John  Atwater; 
21  Mary,  b  Nov.  22,  1677  ;  22  Jonathan,  b  July  25,  1679,  m 
Dinah  Andrews,  May  12,  1703  ;  23  Joseph,  b  July  8,  1681,  m 
Bertha  Terrel,  Nov.  13,  1706  ;  24  Esther,  b  Feb.  23,  1682,  m 
Benoni  Atkins;  25  Benjamin,  b  April  19,  1684,  m  Mary  Ives  ; 
26  Peter,  b  Dec.  28,  1686,  m  Rebecca  Bartholomew ;  27  Dan- 
iel, b  Jan.  27,  1689  ;  28  Rebecca,  b  Jan.  6,  1691,  m  Daniel 
Holt,  who  was  b  Oct.  6,  1689  ;  29  Israel,  b  Oct.  8,  1696,  m 
Abigail  Palmer. 

5.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Hall,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Edward  Parker,  at  New  Haven,  Dec.  6,  1666. 
They  settled  in  Wallingford  with  the  first  planters,  in  1670. 
He  died  Sept.  2,  1721,  ae.  86  yrs.  She  died  Sept.  22,  1725. 

Children:  30  Elizabeth,  b  Aug.  n,  1670,  in  New  Haven  ; 
31  Daniel,  b  July  26,  1672,  m  Thankful  Lyman,  March  15, 
1693  ;  32  Mary,  b  June  23, 1675  ;  33  Nathaniel,\>  Feb.  8,  1677, 
m  Elizabeth  Curtis  ;  34  John,  b  March  14,  1681,  m  Elizabeth 
Royce  ;  35  Lydia,  b  Jan.  21,  1683;  36  Samuel,  b  Dec.  24, 
1686,  d  Nov.  i,  1689  ;  37  Esther,  b  Aug.  30,  1693  >  3^  Caleb, 
b  Sept.  14,  1697. 

7.    DAVID. 

DAVID  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Hall,  married  Mary 
Rutherford,  of  New  Haven,  Nov.  n,  1670;  2d,  Sarah  Rock- 
well, Dec.  24,  1676.  She  died  Nov.  3,  1732  ;  he  died  July  7, 
1727,  ae.  76  yrs. 

Children:  39  Daniel,  b  Aug.  9,  1672,  d  Jan.  13,  1673  ',  4° 
Rutherford,  b  April  20,  1675.  By  2d  marriage :  41  John,  b 
May  9,  1678,  m  Thankful  Doolittle  ;  42  Thankful,  b  Dec.  29, 


GENEALOGIES.  753 

1679;  43  Sarah,  b  Dec.  28,  1681,  m  Nathaniel  Curtis  ;  44 
Ruth,  b  Nov.  10,  1685  ;  45  Jerusha,  b  Oct.  28,  1687,  m  John 
Mattoon,  Oct.  20,  1706;  46  Mabel,  b  Aug.  15,  1691;  47 
David,  b  Dec.  i,  1693,  m  Martha  Doolittle,  April  20,  1721. 

13.   JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah,  married  Mary 
Lyman  ;  she  died  Oct.  16,  1740;  he  died  April  29,  1730,  ae. 
60  yrs.  Rev.  Mr.  Whittelsey  preached  his  funeral  sermon. 

Children :  48  John,  b  Sept.  13,  1679  ;  49  Esther,  b  Aug. 
30,  1694;  50  Samuel,  b  Oct.  4,  1695  >  51  Caleb,  b  Sept.  14, 
1697,  graduated  at  Yale;  52  Eunice,  b  March  7,  1700;  53 
J?enjamin,b  Aug.  28,  1702;  ^Benjamin,  b  Dec.  17,  1704; 
55  Sarah,  b  April  15,  1706  ;  56  Eliakim,  b  Aug.  9,  1711  ;  56 
Elihu,  b  Feb.  17,  1714,  graduated  at  Yale,  was  King's  Attor- 
ney in  1770,  d  in  London  ;  58  Nancy. 

1 6.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HALL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Hall,  married 
Sue,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Esther  Royce  ;  2d,  Bridget 

— ;  he  died  June  15,  1770,  ae.  90  yrs. 

Children:  59  Theophilus,  b  April  i,  1707;  60  Samuel,  b 
June  8,  1709  ;  61  Hannah,  b  July  15,  1711  ;  62  Sarah,  b  Dec. 

6,  1713  ;  63  Mehitable,  b  April  25,  1716;' 64   Esther,  b   Nov. 

7,  I7I9- 

20.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Grace  Hall,  married 
Abigail  Atwater,  April  26,  1710;  he  died  Aug.  27,  1741. 

Children:  65  Thomas,  b  March  10,  1712,  m  Lydia  Curtis, 
April  24,  1734;  66  Phineas,  b  April  12,  1715;  67  Abigail,  b 
April  12,  1719,  d  Jan.  12,  1737  ;  68  Joshua,  b  May  23,  1722. 

22.  JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Grace  Hall,  married 
Dinah  Andrews,  May  12,  1703;  he  was  born  July  25,  1679, 
d  Jan.  15,  1760,  ae.  80  years  and  17  days;  she  was  born 
1684,  and  died  at  the  age  of  79  yrs.,  2  mos.  and  29  days. 


754  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  69  David,  b  Oct.    16,  1705,  m  Sept.  23,  1731,  to 

Alice ;  7®  Jonathan,  b  Jan.  13,  1708,  m  Dec.  15,   1739,10 

Sarah,  dau.  of  John  Cook;  71  Joseph,  b  May  31,  1710,  m 
April  19,  1736,10  Hannah  Scoville ;  72  Anna,  b  Jan.  18, 
1713  ;  73  Isaac,  b  July  n,  1714,  m  Nov.  5,  1739,  d  March  7, 
1781,  m  Mary  Moss  ;  74  Phebe,  b  Feb.  12,  1717,  d  May  14, 
*735  >  75  Ezekiel,  b  May  13,  1719,  rn  Anna  Andrews,  Oct. 
29,  1763;  76  Thankful,  b  Sept.  20,  1722^7  Benjamin,  b 
Oct.  20,  1725;  78  Temperance,  b  April  16,  1727. 

23.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Grace  Hall,  married 
Bertha  Terrel,  Nov.  13,  1706  ;  she  died  Dec.  28,  1753  ;  he 
died  Nov.  3,  1748. 

Children:  79  Temperance,  b  July  15,  1714,  d  Dec.  7,  1716; 
80  Joseph,  b  Sept.  23,  1718,  d  Sept.  6,  1737  ;  81  Ephraim,  b 

April  25,  1723,  m  ist,  Eunice ,  she  d  May  9,  1763,  he 

m  2d,  Chloe  Moss,  Oct.  13,  1763. 

25.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Grace  Hall,  married 
Mary  Ives,  Dec.  27,  1752. 

Children:  82  Benjamin,  b  Sept.  25,  1753,  d  Oct.  8,  1755; 
83  Eliab,  b  Feb.  17,  1755,  d  in  camp  during  the  Revolution, 
at  N.  Y. ;  84  Benjamin,  b  Nov.  3,  1756. 

26.   PETER. 

PETER  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Grace  Hall,  married 
Rebecca  Bartholomew,  Oct.  19,  1732  ;  he  died  Sept.  25,  1798, 
ae.  90  yrs.  She  died  Oct.  31,  1798,  ae.  87  yrs. 

Children  :  85  Susannah,  b  Feb.  26,  1733  ;  86  Hiel,  b  May  6, 
1735;  87  Abigail,  b  May  15,  1737;  88  Rebecca,  b  July  3, 
1740 ;  89  Eunice,  b  Nov.  8,  1742  ;  90  Josiah,  b  July  3,  1743  ; 

91  Peter,  b  June  7,  1748,  d  as  shown   by  date   on  stone,  —  ; 

92  Andrew,   b   Sept.    16,    1750,  d  Oct.  14,  1776;  93  Anna,  b 
March  30,    1753  ;  94  Keziah,  b  June   16,   1755  ;  95   Lois,   b 
Sept.  25,  1757. 


GENEALOGIES.  755 

27.     DANIEL. 

•  DANIEL  HALL,   son  of  Thomas  and  Grace   Hall,  married 
Martha  Doolittle,  April  20,  1721. 

Children:  96  Abraham,  b  Jan.  27,  1722,  m  Sarah  Doolittle; 

97  John,  b  Jan.  29,  1724,  d  in  Meriden,  May  13,  1795,26.  72  ; 

98  Hannah,  b  Sept.  n,  1725,  m  Benjamin  Tyler,  of  Branford  ; 

99  Daniel,  b  June  i,  1727  ;   100  Martha,   b   June    14,    1729  ; 
101  Samuel,  b  May  5,  1731  ;  102  Mary,  b  Sept.    7,  1733  ;  103 
Abigail,  b  April  27,  1739. 

29.   ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Grace  Hall,  m  Abigail 
Powell,  April  u,  1721. 

Children:  104,  105  Sarah,  and  Israel,  b  March  14,  1722  ; 
106  Enos,  b  March  30,  1726  ;  107  Israel,  b  Oct.  22,  1728  ; 
108  Abigail,  b  Mar.  22,  1731,  d  Aug.  5,  1743;  109  Jotham,\> 
Feb.  6,  1737  ;  no  Abigail,  b  Julys,  1744;  in  Mary,  b  June 
23,  1749;  112  Eunice,  b  Feb.  6,  1751. 

31.     DANIEL. 

DANIEL  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Hall,  married  Thank- 
ful Lyman,  March  15,  1693. 

Children  :  113  Daniel,  b  Jan.  4,  1693,  d  ;  ii^Daniel,\}  Feb. 
19,  1695,  d  1727  ;  115  Samuel,  b  Nov.  5,  1697  ;  116  Silence,  b 
Oct.  6,  1699  ;  117  Presented,  b  Jan.  15,  1700,  was  an  imbecile, 
his  brother  Abraham  had  the  care  of  him  ;  118  Sarah,  b  June 
2i,  1703  ;  119  Benjamin,  b  Dec.  17,  1704  ;  150  Jacob,  b  1705  ; 
121  David,  b  Oct.  16,  1706  ;  122  Abraham,  b  Feb.  5,  1709,  d 
Sept.  16,  1761,  ae.  53. 

33.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Hall,  married 
Elizabeth  Curtis,  May,  1699;  he  died  Aug.  16,  1757.  She 
died  Sept.  30,  1735,  and  he  married  Lydia  Johnson,  Sept  15, 
1736. 

Children:  123  Amos,  b  Jan.  24,  1700,  m  Ruth  Royce ;  124 
Margaretta,  b  Dec.  21,  1701,  d  Oct.  30,  1707;  125  Caleb,  b 
Jan.  3,  1703,  d  May  n,  1766,  ae.  62  yrs. ;  126  Moses,  b  June 


756  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

6,  1706,  d  Feb.  15,  1765,  ae.  59  yrs.  ;  127  Mary,  b  Oct.  30, 
1707;  128  Nathaniel,  b  April  17,  1711,  d  Dec.  18,  1727;  129 
fames,  b  April  23,  1713;  130  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  22,  1715; 
131  Desire,  b  June  19,  1719  ;  132  Harmon,  b  Oct.  17,  1720. 
34-  JOHN. 

DBA.  JOHN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Hall,  married 
Elizabeth  Rice,  June  28,  1707.  He  died  April  27,  1766,  ae. 
86.  She  died  Sept.  2,  1755,  K.  66  years. 

Children:  133,  134  Isaac  and  Peter,  b  July  22,  1709,  the 

latter  m  Rebecca ,  he  d  Sept.  25,  1798;  135  John,  b 

Dec.  28,  1712;  136  Abel;  137  Asahel,\>  Jan.  19,1717;  138 
Royce,  b  Dec.  26,  1718,  grad.  at  Yale,  1737,  d  May  29,  1752  ; 
139  Abigail,  b  March  7,  1723  ;  140  Elizabeth,  b  July  9,  1725  ; 

141  Benjamin,  b  April  4,  1728,  m  Phebe  Hall,  d  Dec.  n,  1806  ; 

142  Elisha,  b  Sept.  15,  1730;  143  Sarah,  b  Aug.  25,  1732. 

47.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  Hall,  was  born 
Dec.  i,  1693,  married  Martha  Doolittle,  April  20,  1721. 

Children:  144  Abraham,  b  Jan.  27,  1722,  m  Sarah  Doolit- 
tle ;  145  John,  b  Jan.  29,  1724,  settled  in  Meriden ;  146 
Hannah,  b  Sept.  n,  1725,  m  Benajah  Tyler;  147  Daniel,  b 
June  i,  1727,  settled  in  Meriden;  148  Martha,  b  June  14, 
1729;  149  Samuel,  b  May  5,  1731;  150  Mary,  b  Sept.  7, 
1733  ;  JS1  Abigail,  b  April  27,  1739. 

48.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Lyman  Hall,  married 
Mary  Street,  March  5,  1716.  She  died  Oct.  12,  1778,  aged 
8 1  years.  He  died  June  18,  1773,  ae.  80  years. 

Children  :  152  Hannah,  b  Jan.  29,  1717  ;  153  John,&  April 
25>  :737J  X54  Etmice,  m  Dr.  Dickinson  of  Middletown, 
Conn. ;  155  Lyman,  Gov.,  b  April  12,  1724,  signed  the  De- 
claration of  Independence  ;  156  Street,  b  Nov.  12,  1721,  d  in 

Wallingford  ;  157  Susannah,  b  April  9,  1726,  m Whittel- 

sey ;  158  Giles,  b  Feb.  18,  1733,  d  March  n,  1789,  ae.  56; 
159  Rhoda,  b  April  14,  1734,  d  Aug.  23,  1751,  ae.  17  ;  160 
Mary,  m Foote. 


GENEALOGIES.  757 

50.    SAMUEL. 

REV.  SAMUEL  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Lyman  Hall, 
grad.  at  Yale  in  1716,  married  Anna  Law,  Jan.  25,  1727,  and 
was  settled  as  a  minister  over  the  Congregational  church  at 
Cheshire  in  1724.  He  died  Feb.  26,  1776.  She  was  born 
in  Milford,  Aug.  i,  1702,  died  Aug.  23,  1775. 

Children:  161  Samuel,  b  July  23,  1727,  d  Aug.  23,  1727; 
162  Jonathan,  b  July  n,  1728,  d  July  12,  1728;  163  Benoni, 
b  Nov.  4,  1729,  d  Nov.  19,  1729  ;  164  Lucy,  b  Sept.  n,  1730, 
m  Chas.  Whittelsey;  165  Samuel,  b  Jan.  n,  1732,  d  May  19, 
1732;  166  Ann,  b  May  10,  1733;  167  Samuel,  b  May  31, 
1735,  grad.  at  Yale  ;  168  Mary,  b  Nov,  5,  1736  ;  169  Brenton, 
b  April  2,  1738,  d  Nov.  25,  1720,  ae.  82  ;  170  Elisha,  b 
March  10,  1740,  grad.  at  Yale  in  1764  ;  171  Sarah,  b  Aug.  8, 
1742  ;  172  Jonathan,  b  July  19,  1745,  settled  in  Cheshire, 
kept  a  tavern;  173  Abigail,  b  Dec.  7,  1748,  m  Rev.  John 
Foote  of  Cheshire. 

51.  CALEB. 

CALEB  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Lyman  Hall,  married 
Damaris  Atwater,  May  15,  1721;  he  died  July  27,  1749; 
she  died  July  29,  1762,  ae.  64  years. 

Children  :  174  Damaris,  b  Nov.  25,  1722,  d  Feb.  22,  1740; 
175  Stephen,  b  Nov.  7,  1724,  m  Ruth  Miles  in  1762,  d  July 
27,  1749;  176  Ruth,  b  April  26,  1729;  177  Caleb,  b  Aug. 
29,  1731,  grad.  at  Yale  in  1752  ;  178  Jeremiah,  b  Sept.  i, 
1733,  d  Sept.  4,  1740;  179  Lydia,  b  Aug.  26,  1730;  180  Timo- 
thy, m  Abigail  Miles. 

54.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Lyman  Hall, 
married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Chauncey,  of 
Durham,  Feb.  20,  1727,  and  settled  in  Cheshire  on  the  place 
now  known  as  the  Law  farm. 

Children:  181  Benjamin,  b  Nov.  22,  1727,  d  Dec.  3,  1727  ; 

182   Charles  Chauncey,   b   Dec.   12,  1728,  d  Dec.  20,  1776,  ae. 

48;  183  Sarah,  b   July  20,   1730,   m  Thaddeus    Cook;  184 

Dorothy,  b  Feb.   29,  1732,  d  May  13,  1737  ;  185  Dorothy,  m 

Z  z 


758  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Charles,  son  of  John  Peck;  186  Abigail,  b  Oct.  IT,  1733,  d 
April  15,  1737  ;  187  Benjamin,  b  Sept.  27,  1736,  grad.  at  Yale 
in  1754,  d  1786,  £e.  50  ;  188  Abigail,  b  May  i,  1737,  m  Moses 
Moss  ;  189  Eunice,  b  March  4,  1742,  m  Rev.  Mr.  Waterman. 

56.  ELIAKIM. 

ELIAKIM  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Lyman  Hall,  mar- 
ried Ruth  Dickerman  Oct.  17,  1734  ;  she  died  Dec.  18,  1752, 

and  he  married  Elizabeth ;  she  died  Aug.  9,  1803  ; 

he  died  April  19,  1794,  ag.  80  years. 

Children  :  190  Isaac,  b  Nov.  4,  1735  ;  191  Mary,  b  Nov. 
6,  1737;  192  Eliakim,  b  Feb.  13,  1740;  193  Hezekiah,  b 
July  13,  1743;  194  Ruth,  b  May  i,  1750. 

57.    ELIHU. 

COL.  ELIHU  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Lyman  Hall, 
married  Lois  Whittelsey,  Jan.  2,  1734,  was  King's  Attorney 
in  1750;  went  to  England  and  died  in  London  in  1784,  ae. 
70;  his  widow  died  Sept.  29,  1780,  ae.  66  yrs;  he  was  a 
grad.  of  Yale  College. 

Children:  195  Lois,  b  May  n,  1735;  196  Hezekiah,  b 
May  4,  1737  ;  197  Sarah,  b  July  24,  1729  ;  198  John,  b  Jan. 
18,  1739,  m  Mary  Jones  ;  199  Damaris,  b  Oct.  6,  1741  ;  200 
Elihu,  b  Aug.  13,  1744;  201  Elihu,  b  March  15,  1745,  m 

Sarah ;  202  Eunice,  b  March  2,  1749;  203  Lucy,  b  Nov. 

14,  1781  ;  204  Eunice,  b  Aug.  n,  1754. 

59.     THEOPHILUS. 

REV.  THEOPHILUS  HALL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Love  Hall, 
married  Hannah  Avery,  May  21,  1734,  graduated  at  Yale  in 
1727,  was  ordained  Oct.  29,  1729,  and  was  the  first  settled 
minister  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Meriden ;  he  died 
March  25,  1769,  ae.  60  yrs.,  in  the  thirty-eighth  year  of  his 
ministry. 

Children:  205  Hannah,  b  March  u,  1735  ;  206  Theophilus, 
b  Aug.  5,  1736,  d  May  9,  1739;  207  Avery,  b  Dec.  2,  1737, 
he  was  a  clergyman;  208  Samuel,  b  July  16,  1739;  209, 
210  Theophilus  and  Lucy,  b  Aug.  26,  1741,  the  former  married 


GENEALOGIES.  759 

Elizabeth  Couch,  d  May  17,  1804,  ae.  63  yrs  ;  211  Elisha,  b 
1742,  d  Jan.  2,  1757,  ae.  9  yrs;  212  Mary,  b  June  24,  1743  ; 
213  Elisha,  b  March  3,  1745,  m  Ann  Hopkins,  Feb.  25, 
1767  ;  214  Mehitable,  b  1751,  d  Sept.  n,  1767. 

60.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HALL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Love  Hall,  was  born 
June  8,  1709.  He  married  Sarah  Hull,  Dec.  7,  1732  ;  he 
died  Dec.  24,  1771. 

Children:  Samuel,  b  July  n,  1732,  d  in  infancy  ;  215  Heze- 
kiah,  b  Dec.  27,  1733;  216  Louisa,  b  June  30,  1736;  217 
Sarah,  b  Dec.  5,  1737;  218  Esther,  b  Jan.  21,  1740;  219 
Love,  b  April  30,  1742  ;  220  Elizabeth,  b  Jan  23,  1745  ;  221 
Samuel,  b  Feb.  28,  1750,  d  Feb.  27,  1821  ;  222  Damaris,  b 
Jan.  23,  1754. 

65.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  Hall,  married 
Lydia  Curtis.  She  died  Sept.  24,  1777.  He  was  born  March 
12,  1712. 

Children:  223  Ambrose,  b  Feb.  3,  1735  ;  224  Titus,  b  June 
28,  1737,  d  May  i,  1773;  225  Abigail,  b  Aug.  27,  1741  ;  226 
Thomas,  b  Dec.  28,  1743;  227  Amasa,  b  Feb.  9,  1746;  228 
Lydia,  b  Sept.  6,  1749  ;  229  Rhoda,  b  June  6,  1753. 

66.  PHINEAS. 

PHINEAS  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  Hall,  married 
Anna . 

Children:  230  Abigail;  231  Thankful;  232  Phineas ;  233 
Levi;  234  Eunice;  235  Barnabas;  236  Annis. 

68.    JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  Hall,  married 
Hannah . 

Children:  237  Susannah,  b  Nov.  16,  1742;  238  Medad,  b 
July  26,  1743  ;  239  Abigail,  b  April  25,  1745  ;  240,  241  Giles, 
and  Abigail,  b  Feb.  24,  1747  ;  242  Samuel,  b  Jan.  29,  1749  ; 
243  Joshua,  b  Sept.  9,  1767. 


760  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

69.     DAVID. 

DAVID  HALL,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Dinah  Andrews  Hall, 
married  Alice  Hale,  Sept.  23,  1730  ;  he  died  about  1755. 

Children:  244  Alice,  b  Sept.  8,  1731  ;  245  David,  b  Nov. 
2,  1732,  d  March  21,  1795,  ae.  63  ;  246  Benijah,  b  Feb.  12, 
1734,  left  no  family;  247  Asaph,  b  June  n,  1735  •>  24^  Sates, 
b  Dec.  5,  1736  ;  249  Phebe,  b  June  24,  1739  ;  250  Lois,  b  Feb. 
2,  1741,  d  Nov.  n,  1760;  251  Elkanah,  b  Oct.  20,  1742,  d 
Nov.  30,  1763  ;  252  Lucy,  b  July  24,  1744. 

70.    JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  HALL,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Dinah  Hall,  married 
Sarah  Cook,  Dec.  15,  1739;  she  died  Aug.  12,  1740;  he 

married  2d,  Abigail ,  and  she  died  Nov.  19,  1779  ;  he 

married  3d,  Jerusha  Gaylord. 

Child  :  253  Sarah,  b  Aug.  12,  1740,  d  Aug.  13,  1740. 

71.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HALL,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Dinah  Hall,  married 
ist,  Abigail  Judd  ;  she  died  July  31,  1751,26.  39;  he  mar- 
ried 2d,  Rebecca  Plum,  Nov.  7,  1753  ;  she  died  Feb.  24, 
1769,  ae.  47  yrs. 

Children:  254  Phebe,  b  March  26,  1738;  255,  Phebe, 
256,  Abigail,  b  March  30,  1740 ;  257  Esther,  b  July  21,  1742  ; 
258  Esther,  b  March  19,  1743  ;  259  Joseph,  b  July  9,  1746; 
260  David,  b  June  20,  1758  ;  261  Phebe,  b  Sept.  15,  1761. 

73.    ISAAC. 

DR.  ISAAC  HALL,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Dinah  Hall,  was 
the  first  physician  of  Meriden.  He  married  Mary  Morse, 
Nov.  5,  1739;  died  March  7,  1781,  ae.  66  years.  She  died 
Oct.  9,  1791,  as.  74  years. 

Children:  262  Mary,  b  Oct.  6,  1742,  m  John  Ives,  grand- 
father of  Rev.  Dr.  Levi  Silliman  Ives ;  263  Isaac,  b  May  7, 
1745,  m  Lois  Buckley;  264  Joel,  b  April  3,  1747,  d  Oct.  22, 
1748;  265  Esther,  b  March  18,  1751 ;  266  Elizabeth,  b  June 
n,  1752  ;  267  Jonathan,  b  Dec.  n,  1757,  m  Martha  Collins, 
he  died  June  6,  1832. 


GENEALOGIES.  /6l 

75.    EZEKIEL. 

EZEKIEL  HALL,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Dinah  Hall,  married 
Annah  Andrews,  Oct.  20,  1743. 

Children:  268  Ezekiel,  b  Oct.  24,  1744;  269  Titus,  b  Oct. 
19,  1746,  d  Sept.  4,  1748;  270  Eben,  b  May  25,  1749; 
271  Benijah,  b  1762,  m  Ruth . 

77.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HALL,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Dinah  Hall,  married 
Mary  Ives,  Dec.  27,  1752. 

Children:  272  Benjamin,  b  Sept.  25,  1753  ;  273  Eliab,  b 
Feb.  17,  1755  j  274  Benjamin,\)  Nov.  3,  1756. 

81.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  HALL,  son  of  Joseph  and  Bertha  Hall,  married 

Eunice .  She  died  May  9,  1763,  and  he  married  Chloe 

Moss,  Oct.  13,  1763. 

Children:  275  Temperance,  b  Aug.  10,  1764.  By  2nd  mar- 
riage :  276  Joseph,  b  March  17,  1776  ;  277  Ephraim,  b  Oct.  5, 
1768;  278  Chloe,  b  Nov.  13,  1770;  279  Comfort,  b  Feb.  25, 
1773,  settled  on  a  farm  in  Middletown,  Westfield  society, 
where  he  died  ;  280  Reuben,  b  1775;  281  David  Moss,  b  Oct. 

24,  1777  ;  282  Content,  b   March    15,    1780  ;    283    Bethiah,  b 
March  27,  1782. 

86.    KIEL. 
HIEL  HALL,   son   of  Peter   and    Rebecca   Hall,  married 

Catharine   ;  she   died   June  4,  1788,   ae.   42   yrs ;  he 

died  Sept.  7,  1707,  ae.  73  yrs. 

Children:  284  Josiah,  b  1774,  d  Dec.  15,  1821,  ae.  47; 
285  Catharine,  b  Jan.  2,  1776;  286  Andrew,  b  1777,  d  June 

25,  1812,  ae.  35  ;  287  Chauncey,  b  Sept.   8,   1778,  m   Marilla 
Hall;  288  Peter,  b  May  31,   1780,  m  Delight  Kirtland;  289 
Hiel,  b  Feb.  7,  1782,  m  Sarah  Kirtland  ;  290  Rice,  b  May  2, 
1784  ;  291  Justus,  d  Feb.  14,  1777. 

91.  PETER. 
PETER  HALL,  son  of  Peter   and    Rebecca  Hall,  married 


762  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Lydia  Brown  of  Cheshire,  March  17,  1774.     She  died  May  2, 
1805,  ae.  52.     He  died  Sept.  25,  1732,  ae.  86  yrs. 

Children:  292  Jesse;  293  Wooster ;  294  Roxy,  b  1779,  d 
Sept.  26,  1756;  295  Marcus;  296  Major  Atwater,  b  July  18, 
1785,  d  March  28,  1848  ;  297  Philo,  m  Thankful  Morse  ;  298 
Albert;  299  Peter  Ufford,  din  Southington,  in  1836;  300 
Sally  ;  301  Betsey. 

92.   ANDREW. 

ANDREW  HALL,  son  of  Peter  and  Rebecca  Hall,  married 
Sept.  16,  1750,  Thankful .  She  died  Oct.  14,  1776. 

Children:  302  John  Todd ;  303  Merritt ;  304  Charry ;  305 
Anna,  b  Feb.  3,  1773  ;  306  Thankful,  b  Aug.  4,  1776. 

9'6.     ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Abigail  Hall,  married 
Sarah  Doolittle,  May  5,  1741  ;  he  died  Sept.  16,  1761,  ae.  53 
yrs.  She  died  March  14,  1781,  ae.  77  yrs. 

Children:  307  Eldad,   b  Feb.  4,  1742  ;  308  Medad,  b  July 

26,  1745  ;  309  Bildad,  b  Sept.  3,  1747  ;  310   Isaac,  b  July  26, 
1749;  311  fsaac,  b  Aug.  u,  1753. 

107.     ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  HALL,  son  of  Israel  and  Abigail  Powell  Hall,  mar- 
ried Eunice  Rice,  Feb.  26,  1778. 

Children  :  312  Elisha,  b  Dec.  26,  1778 ;  313  Eunice,  b  Jan. 
6,  1787. 

109.    JOTHAM. 

JOTHAM  HALL,  son  of  Israel  and  Abigail  Powell  Hall, 
married  Elizabeth . 

Children:  Sarah,  b  May  u,  1758;  314  Jotham,  b  March 
i,  1761  ;  315  Elizabeth,  b  Aug.  27,  1763;  316  George,  b  April 

27,  1768;  317  Mary,  b  Sept.  23,   1770;  318   Joseph,\>  July 
23,  1773  ;  3*9  Chloe,  b  July  n,  1775. 

120.    JACOB. 

JACOB  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Thankful  Hall,  married 
Elizabeth  Royce,  Dec.  21,  1726. 

Children:  320  Phebe,  b   Dec.   26,   1727;  321  Mindwell,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  763 

May  21,  1730;  322  Jacob,  b  July  20,  1731  ;  323  Giles,  b  June 
7,  1732  ;  324  Lydia,  b  April  20,  1736  ;  325  Daniel,  b  July  21, 
1738;  326  Daniel,\)  Nov.  17,    1740,  d  Oct.   24,   1789;  327 
Thankful,  b  July  29,  1744;  328  Z0/V,  b  Nov.  5,  1746. 
121.   DAVID. 

DAVID  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Thankful  Hall,  married 
Alice ;  he  was  born  Feb.  19,  1695. 

Children:  329  David,  b  Nov.  2,  1732,  d  March  2,  1795,  ae- 

63,  m   Thankful ;  330  Benajah,\>   Feb.    12,    1734;  331 

Asaph,  b  June  15,  1735 ;  332  Kate,  b  Dec.  5,  1736;  333  Phebe, 
b  June  24,  1737  ;  334  Lucy,  b  July  25,  1747,  ae.  51. 

123.    AMOS. 

AMOS  HALL,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  was 
born  Jan.  24,  1700;  he  married  Ruth  Royce,  June  8,  1720. 
She  died  Feb.  2,  1775,  ae-  75-  He  died  Nov.  30,  1752,  ae. 
52  years. 

Children :  335  Reuben,  b  Dec.  20,  1721,  m  Mary ;  336 

Amos,\)  Sept.  9,  1722,  d  Dec.  24,  1782,  ae.  31  yrs. ;  337 
Eunice,\>  Aug.  21,  1724,  m  Abner  Avered  ;  338  Lois,  b  Oct. 
26,  1727,  m  Caleb  Culver;  339  Moses,  b  Aug.  25,  1735,  m 
Elizabeth  How,  Dec.  21,  1726,  she  d  and  he  m  Elizabeth 
Johnson,  March  20,  1754. 

125.  CALEB. 

CALEB  HALL,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  was 
born  Jan.  3,  1703,  m  Esther  Umberfield,  May  n,  1726;  he 
died  May  n,  1766,  ae.  62  yrs. 

Children:  340  Margaret,  b  March  28,  1727,  d  Nov.  14, 
1749  ;  341  Esther,  b  April  24,  1729,  m  Ichabod  Lewis;  342 
Nathaniel,  b  April  8,  1732;  343  Caleb,  b  Sept.  12,  1734;  344 
Moses,  b  May  13,  1736;  345  Lydia,  b  July  9,  1738;  346 
Desire,  b  June  20,  1740,  m  Moses  Holt;  347  Sarah,  b  April 
10,  1742,  m  Noah  Todd ;  348  Margaret,  b  Aug.  31,  1744; 
349  Titus,  b  Aug.  16,  1746;  350  Rhoda,  b  June  15,  1748,  d 
Oct.  10,  17—;  351  Jonah,  b  Feb.  23,  1749-50;  352  Rhoda, 
b  July  4,  1753;  353  Lucretia,  b  Feb.  16,  1757. 


764  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

126.    MOSES. 

MOSES  HALL,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  was 
born  June  6,  1706,  married  Elizabeth  Howe,  Dec.  21,  1726. 
He  married  2d,  Phebe  -  .  He  died  Feb.  15,  1765, 
ae.  59.  His  will  gave  his  property  to  Caleb  and  Heman  his 
brothers,  and  to  Amos,  Moses  and  Miles,  his  cousins.  No 
children. 

129.   JAMES. 

JAMES  HALL,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  Curtis  Hall, 
was  born  Aug.  23,  1713,  married  Hannah  Cook,  Sept.  15,  1735. 

Children:  354  Miles,  b  Oct.  17,  1736;  355  Bethia,  b  April 
13,  1740  ;  356  Phebe,  b  Nov.  16,  1741  ;  357  James,  b  July  22, 
J743;  358  Olive,  b  May  20,  1745. 
133.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  was  born 
July  23,  1709,  married  Mary  Moss  Nov.  5,  1739.  She  died 
Oct.  9,  1721,  ae.  75.  He  died  March  7,  1781. 

Children:  359  Mary,  b  Oct.  5,  1742  ;  360  Isaac,  b  March 
7,  1745;  361  Joel,  b  April  3.  1747,  d  Oct.  22,  1748;  362 
Esther,  b  March  18,  1751  ;  363  Elizabeth,  b  June  n,  1752; 
364  Jonathan,  b  Nov.  8,  1755,  d  1756,  ae.  ten  mos.  ;  365 
Jonathan,  b  Dec.  n,  1757. 

135.  JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  born  Dec. 
28,  1712,  married  Abigail  Russel,  June  n,  1739,  died  May 


Children:  366  Elias,  b  March  10,  1740;  367  Jared,  b 
July  19,  1741  ;  368  Abigail,  b  Oct.  16,  1743  ;  369  John,  b 
Dec.  6,  1744  ;  370  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  28,  1745  ;  371  William, 
b  June  15,  1747  ;  372  Mary,  b  Jan.  23,  1749  ;  373  Eunice,  b 
July  6,  1751  ;  374  Anna  C.,b  Aug.  15,  1755  ;  375  Benjamin,  b 
July  2,  1757,  m  Lydia  -  . 

136.    ABEL. 

ABEL  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  married 
Ruth  Johnson,  May  12,  1743. 


GENEALOGIES.  765 

Children:  376  Elizabeth,  b  Feb.  12,  1743-4  ;  377  Abel,  b 
Oct.  12,  1745  ;  378  Ruth,  bOct.  19,  1748  ;  379  Rice,  b  May 
28,  1750  ;  380  John,  b  Dec.  23,  1751,  m  Hannah  Atwater ; 
381  Lucy,  b  Oct.  3,  1753  ;  382  Esther,  b  July  10,  1754;  383 

Hezekiah,  b  April  20,  1757,  m  Susannah ;  384  Simon,  b 

Oct.  6,  1759  ;  385  Daniel  Johnson,  b  July  4,  1761  ;  386  Mary, 
b  July  17,  1764. 

137.  ASAHEL. 

ASAHEL  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  born  June 
19,  1717,  m  Sarah  Goldsmith,  July  29,  17 — .  She  died  Feb. 
25,  1784.  He  died  Nov.  n,  1795. 

Children  :  387  Catharine,  b  Aug.  6,  1739  :  388  Joel,  b  May 
21,  1741  ;  389  Sarah,  b  March  5,  1743  ;  390  Asahel,  b  March 
15,  1745,  d  April  20,  1745  ;  391  Jerusha,  b  Aug.  31,  1746,  d 
March  10,  1752  ;  392  Sarah,  b  June  9,  1748,  d  Dec.  25, 
1747  ;  393  Asahel,  b  July  16,  1750,  d  March  4,  1752  ;  394 
Mehitable,  b  March  13,  1753  ;  395  Aaron,  b  July  28,  1755,  d 
Oct.  6,  1756  ;  396  Charles,  b  Nov.  12,  1757  ;  397  Asahel,  b 
Jan.  14,  1759,  m  Ruth  Johnson,  Sept.  21,  1786  ;  398  Aaron, 
b  Nov.  4,  1760  ;  399  Sarah,  d  Feb.  5,  1749. 

141.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  born 
April  4.  1728,  died  Dec.  n,  1806,  ae.  79  ;  he  married  Phebe 
Hall,  she  died  Dec.  12,  1779. 

Children:    400  Susannah,  b  Jan.    15,  1759;    401  Bede,   b 
Sept.    16,   1764;  402  Statira,  b   March   20,   1766;  403  Ben- 
jamin, b  June  30,  1767  ;  404  Samuel,  b  April  19,  1771. 
142.    ELISHA. 

SERGT.  ELISHA  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Royce 
Hall,  born  Sept.  15,  1730,  married  Thankful  Atwater,  June  14, 
1755.  He  died  Jan.  19,  1800,  ae.  70  yrs.  She  died  Jan.  28, 
1792,  ae.  59  yrs. 

Children:  405  Phebe,  b  Feb.  10,  1756,  m  Parmelee, 

of  Durham  ;  406  Sarah,  b    Aprils,    I75^>  m  John  Fields,  of 
Cheshire;  407  Joseph,  b  July  25,  1759,   m  Mercy   Cornwall, 


766  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

May  31,  1799;  408  Lydia,  b  July  17,  1761,  m Curtis, 

and  went  to  Durham  ;  409  Sally,  b  Dec  8,  1763  ;  410  Elizabeth, 
b  Oct.  3,  1765,  m  Benjamin  Hall  ;  411  Hannah,  b  Jan.  26, 
1769;  412  John,  b  July  13,  1770,  m  Grace  D.  Hall;  413 
Eunice,  b  Aug.  i,  1772,  m  Miles,  son  of  Nicholas  Peck. 

144.     ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Martha  Hall,  was 
born  June  27,  1722,  married  Mary  Prindle,  June  23,  1746. 
She  died  May  12,  1747.  For  his  second  wife  he  married 
Hannah .  He  died  1757. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  414  Mary,  b  May  10,  1747. 
By  2 d  marriage  :  415  Rufus,  b  July  25,  1751  ;  416  Sarah; 
417  Josiah;  418  Abraham. 

145.  JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Martha  Hall,  born  Jan.  29, 
1724,  settled  in  Meriden,  married  Elizabeth  Prindle,  May  4, 
1749  ;  he  died  May  13,  1795,  ae.  72  yrs.  She  died  Oct  21, 
1802,  ae.  71  yrs. 

Children  :  419  Prindle,  b  June  30,  1750,  d  Dec.  6,  1821  ; 
420  John,  b  May  8,  1752,  d  1764;  421  Mary,  b  Sept.  10, 
1754,  d  March  i,  1825  ;  422  Elizabeth,  b  April  20,  1757,  died 
March  30,  1847;  423  Sarah,  b  May  11,1759,  d  1760;  424 
David,  b  Sept.  16,  1761,  d  Aug.  3,  1843  ;  425  Sarah,  b  Feb. 
13,  1764,  d  1777  ;  426  Abigail,  b  Feb.  24,  1766,  d  Oct.  28, 
1828;  427  John,  b  Jan.  9,  1768,  d  April  21,  1851;  428 
Joseph,  b  Oct.  28,  1770,  d  March  13,  1831,  m  Hannah  —  —  j 
429  Jedutham,  April  25,  1773,  d  July  9,  1851  ;  430  Isaac,  b 
May  28,  1776,  d  Jan.  i,  1838. 

149.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Martha  Hall,  was  born 
May  5,  1731,  married  Mamre  Ives,  Aug.  28,  1755. 

Children:  431  Jesse,  b  Jan.  24,  1757;  432  Sarah,  b  Jan. 
24,  i7S8  5  433  Samuel,  b  July  4,  1760. 

155.  LYMAN. 

LYMAN  HALL,  son   of  John  and  Mary  Street  Hall,  was 


GENEALOGIES.  767 

graduated  at  Yale  college  in  1747,  Representative  in  Congress 
from  the  state  of  Georgia,  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence in  1776.     He.  died  in   1791,  he  left  no  children, 
was  Governor  of  the  state  of  Georgia  in  1790. 
156.  STREET. 

COL.  STREET  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Street  Hall, 
was  born  Nov.  12,  1721.  He  died  1809;  he  married  Hannah 
Fowler,  June  30,  1748. 

Children:  434  Hannah,  b  July  3,  1751;  435  Anna,  b  Feb. 
28,  1753,  d  Dec.  24,  1755;  436  Thaddeus,  b  Feb.  28,  1757; 
437  Rebecca,  b  Feb.  15,  1758;  438  Street  T.,  b  Feb.  26,  1762  ; 
439  Mary  A.,  b  June  9,  1764  ;  440 . 

158.  GILES. 

GILES  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Street  Hall,  was 
born  Feb.  18,  1733,  married  ist,  Martha  Robinson,  Nov.,  1759, 
m  2d,  Thankful  Merriman,  of  Wallingford.  He  died  March 
17,  1789,  ae.  41  yrs.  Mrs.  Thankful  died  July  14,  1796,  ae. 
47  years. 

Children:  441  Lucy,  b  April  n,  1771;  442  David  M.,  b 
1773,  d  April  21,  1792;  443  Martha  R.,  b  Aug.  22,  1777; 
444  Mary  Street,  b  March  17,  1780;  445  John,  b  July  27, 
1782  ;  446  Hannah,  b  1783  ;  447  Elizabeth,  b  May  2,  1785  ; 
447  Giles,  b  June  7,  1788;  449  Lois,  b  Feb.  82,  1789  ;  450 
John,  b  April  20,  1793,  d  Feb.  26,  1835,  ae.  53  yrs. 

169.    BRENTON. 

BRENTON  HALL,  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  and  Ann  Hall,  was 
born  April  2,  1738,  married  Lament  Collins,  Feb.  18,  1762, 
and  settled  in  the  eastern  part  of  Meriden,  where  he  died 

Nov.  25,  1820,  ae.  82  yrs.  His  2d  wife  Abigail ,  died 

May  5,  1837,  ae.  88  yrs. 

Children:  451  Wm  Brenton,  b  May  31,  1764;  452  Collins, 
b  Jan.  8,  1766  ;  453  Samuel,  b  June  10,  1768 ;  454  Lament,  b 
July  14,  1776  ;  455  Joab. 

170.     ELISHA. 

ELISHA  HALL,   son   of   Rev.    Samuel   and   Ann   Hall    of 


768  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Cheshire,  Conn.,  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1774.  He 
married  for  his  2 d  wife,  Oct.  22,  1795,  Lois,  widow  of  Jesse 
Street,  and  daughter  of  Col.  Thaddeus  Cook.  She  was 
mother  of  Col.  Thaddeus  Street,  late  of  Cheshire. 

172.    JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  HALL,  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  and  Ann  Hall,  mar- 
ried Mary  .  He  was  a  farmer  and  inn-keeper  in 

Cheshire,  for  many  years. 

Children:  456  Millicent ;  457  Lucy ;  458  George;  459  Sal- 
mon; 460  Leverett ;  461  Sylvester. 

177.    CALEB. 

CALEB  HALL,  son  of  Caleb  and  Damaris  Hall.  He  grad- 
uated at  Yale  College  in  1752,  studied  medicine  and  became 
a  physician.  He  married  Prudence  Holt.  She  died  Nov. 
30,  1807,  ae.  67  yrs.  He  died  Sept.  21,  1783,  ae.  67  yrs. 

Children:  462  Caleb  Johnson,  b  Sept.  22,  1763;  463 
Augustus,  b  Aug.  16,  1765  :  464  Abigail,  b  Jan.  29,  1767,  m 
ist,  Lemuel  Carrington,  2d,  Nehemiah  Rice  ;  465  Eunice,  b 
Aug.  24,  1770  ;  466  Benjamin,  b  July  26,  1772  ;  467  Horatio 
Gates,  b  Jan.  17,  1778,  d  at  Wallingford  ;  468,  469  George  and 
Damaris,  b  Feb.  10,  1782. 

1 80.    TIMOTHY. 

TIMOTHY  HALL,  son  of  Caleb  and  Damaris  Hall,  married 
Abigail  Miles,  and  settled  on  Cheshire  street;  he  was  a 
farmer.  She  died  Nov.  22,  1748.  He  married  Athildred 
Parker,  June  10,  1748-9. 

Children:  470  Jeremiah,  b  April  20,  1750;  471  Aaron,  b 
June  27,  1751  ;  472  Timothy,  b  Oct.  13,  1752  ;  473  Amasa,  b 
Dec.  7,  1754;  473  1-2  Abigail,  b  Dec.  5,  1756;  474  Archi- 
bald, b  May  23,  1758  •  475  Zenas,  b  June  8,  d  Nov.  6,  1759  ; 
476  Zenas,  b  Oct.  7,  1759;  477  Josiah,  b  Nov.  6,  1761; 
478  Aaron. 

182.    CHARLES. 

CHARLES  CHAUNCEY  HALL,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Abigail 
Hall,  married  Lydia  Holt,  Dec.  5,  1751,  and  died  at. Cheshire. 


GENEALOGIES.  769 

Children :  479  Abigail,  b  July  8,  1753  ;  480  Benjamin  Holt, 
b  Oct.  6,  1754,  died  at  Cheshire,  a  farmer;  481  Lydia,  b  May 

26,  1755 ;  482   Charles  C.,  b  March  9,  1762,  died  at  Cheshire, 
a  farmer;  483  Rachel,  b  July  4,  1764;  484  Charlotte,  b  Jan. 
20,   1769;  485  Lyman,  b  Jan.   4,   1761,  died  at  Cheshire,  a 
farmer. 

187.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HALL,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Abigail  Hall,  born 
at  Cheshire,  Sept.  27,  1736,  grad.  at  Yale  in  1754,  married 
Mary  Ives,  Dec.  27,  1752.  He  built  the  house  late  the  prop- 
erty of  Wm.  Law,  Esq.,  and  more  recently  of  Sheldon 
Spencer,  Esq. 

Children:  486  Eliab,  b  Feb.   17,   1755;  4^7  Benjamin,  d 
Oct.  8,  1755  ;  488  Benjamin,  b  Nov.  3,  1756. 
190.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  HALL,  son  of  Eliakim  and  Ruth  Hall,  was  born 
Nov.  4.  1737,  married  Esther  Mosely,  Dec.  i,  1764,  died 
Feb.  7,  1796,  ae.  61.  His  widow  Esther,  died  March  22,  1827, 
ae.  86  yrs. 

Children  :  489,  490  Abner  and  Elizabeth,  b  April  28,  1764, 
d  in  infancy ;  491  Esther,  b  Dec.  15,  1765  ;  492  Mary,  b  Nov. 
24,  1767;  493,  494  Elizabeth,  and  Eliakim,  b  Jan.  21,  1770; 
495  Dickerman,  b  1774,  d  Sept.  18,  1838,  ae.  64  yrs.  ;  496 
Isaac,  b  July  19,  1776,  went  to  Wallingford,  Vt. ;  497  Abigail, 
b  Nov.  22,  1778  ;  498  Day,  b  Aug.  20,  1781  ;  499  Lyman,  b 
March  31,  1784. 

192.    ELIAKIM. 

ELIAKIM  HALL,  Esq.,  son  of  Eliakim  and  Ruth  Hall,  was 
born  Feb.  13,  1740,  married  Eunice  Morse,  May  29,  1769. 

She  died  July  18,  1789  ;  he  married  2d,  Sarah ,  she  died 

Sept.  27,  1806,  ae.  56  yrs.     He  died  Sept.  6,  1806,  ae.  67  yrs. 

Children:  500  Eunice,  b  Feb.  19,  1770;  501  Pamelia,\> 
Dec.  13,  1771  ;  502  Sarah,  b  June  19,  1773  ;  503  John  Morse, 
b  May  25,  1775,  d  Dec.  n,  1837,  ae.  62  yrs. ;  504  Phebe,  b 
Dec.  8,  1777  ;  505  Sophia,  b  Dec.  i,  1782  ;  506  Electa,  b  Oct. 

27,  1785  ;  507  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  29,  1788. 


77O  HISTORY   OF    WALLINGFORD. 

193.    HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH  HALL,  son  of  Eliakim  and  Ruth  Hall,  was  born 
July  13,  1743,  married  Elizabeth  Merriman,  Oct.  30,  1769  ; 
he  died  Sept.  7,  1815,  ae.  73  yrs.  She  died  Nov.  21,  1801, 
ae.  50  yrs. 

Children:  508  Ruth,  b  Feb.  8,  1771,  m  Nehemiah  Rice; 
509  Elizabeth,  b  March  14,  1772,  m  David  M.  Cook;  510 
Thankful,  b  May  25,  1775,  m  Chester  Cook;  511  Hope,\> 
Sept.  26,  1780,  m  Samuel  Francis;  512  Lucy,  b  Oct.  9,  1782, 
m  Jacob  Francis;  513  Ophelia,  b  March  i,  1785;  514 
Nathan,\>1&Qv.  6,  1788,  d  Aug.  18,  1741,  ae.  53  yrs;  515 
Laura,  b  1792. 

198.  JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  Elihu  and  Lois  Hall,  married  Mary 
Jones,  Oct.  19,  1772. 

Child:  516  Nicholas  Street,  b  March  27,  1773. 

201.     ELIHU. 

ELIHU  HALL,  son  of  Elihu  and  Lois  Hall,  was  born  Mar. 

15,  1795,  m  Sarah  .  This  person  commenced  life 

with  a  large  fortune,  his  possessions  being  much  larger  than 
those  of  most  young  men.  For  many  years  he  owned  large 
tracts  of  land  in  Wallingford,  and  the  whole  township  of  Guild- 
hall, in  the  State  of  Vermont,  besides  slaves,  horses,  cattle,  etc. 
His  entire  want  of  economy  and  tact  in  the  management  of 
his  business  cost  him  in  a  few  years  his  whole  estate,  and  he 
died  a  subject  of  the  town's  charge.  His  wife  died  some 
years  before  him. 

Children:  517  John,  b  May  20,  1774,  left  Wallingford ;  518 
Frederick,  b  Jan.  8,  1777;  519  Lois,  b  June  18,  1779;  520 
Louisa,  m  a  Mr.  Armour,  and  died  in  New  Haven,  May 
i,  1850. 

207.    AVERY. 

AVERY  HALL,  son  of  Rev.  Theophilus  and  Hannah  Hall 
of  Meriden,  was  b  Dec.  2,  1737.  He  settled  in  the  ministry 
at  Rochester,  New  Hampshire. 


•    GENEALOGIES.  7/1 

208.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HALL,  son  of  Rev.  Theophilus  and  Hannah  Hall 
of  Meriden,  married  Eunice  Lee,  Feb.  10,  1757. 

Children:  521  Samuel,  b  May  27,  1759  ;  522  Eunice,  b 
April  16,  1765  ;  523  Caleb,  b  Nov.  9,  1768  ;  524  Eunice,  b 
June  22,  1770. 

209.  THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  HALL,  son  of  Rev.  Theophilus  and  Hannah 
Hall,  m  Elizabeth  Couch,  March  10,  1768.  He  died  May 
17,  1804,  ae.  63.  She  died  March  n,  1824,  ae.  74,  in  Meriden. 

Children:  525  Mehitable,  b  March  23,  1769,  died  Sept.  30, 
1776  ;  526  Clarissa,  b  April  3,  1771  ;  527  Theophilus,  b  April 
20,  1773,  d  Sept.  26,  1815,  ae.  62  yrs. ;  528  Mehitable,  b  Aug. 
4,  1777;  529  Avery,  b  May  25,  1779;  530,  531  Hatinah 
and  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  20,  1782. 

213.    ELISHA. 

ELISHA  HALL,  son  of  Rev.  Theophilus  and  Hannah  Hall,  mar- 
ried Ann  Hopkins,  June  25,  1767.     He  died  March  13,  1759. 

Children:  532  Luther  Ehsha,  b  Sept.  3,  1770;  533  Ann 
Law,  b  Dec.  20,  1772  ;  534  Sylvester,  b  May  13,  1778. 

221.    SAMUEL. 

DBA.  SAMUEL  HALL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  Hall,  b  Feb. 
28,  1750,  m  Elizabeth  Parsons,  May  10,  1774.  He  died  Feb. 
27,  1821,  ae.  71.  She  died  Sept.  27,  1823,  ae.  71  yrs. 

Children:  535  Samuel,  b  Dec.   2,    1776;    536   Hezekiah,  b 
June  n,  1778;  537    George,  b  Aug.    13,    1780;  538   Marilla, 
b  Dec.  28,  1782,  married  Chauncey  Hall ;  539  Richard,  b  Jan. 
26,  1785  ;  540  jfared,  b  Au5.  24,  1792,  d  April  24,  1861. 
224.  TITUS. 

TITUS  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Lydia  Hall,  was  one  of 
the  first  separates  in  Wallingford ;  he  married  Elizabeth 
Mack,  Aug.  23,  1762,  and  died  in  1773,  ae.  36. 

Children:  541  Thomas;  542  Elizabeth,  b  Feb.  25,  1765; 
543  Titus,  b  July  30,  1767  ;  544  Elias,  b  Aug.  24,  1769  ;  545 
Lydia,  b  April  17,  1771. 


772  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

227.    AM  ASA. 

AMASA  HALL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Lydia  Hall,  married 
Dinah  Ives,  Dec.  15,  1775. 

Children:  546,  547  Major  and  Phebe,  b  Feb.  17,  1775; 
548  Hannah,  b  Feb.  17,  1777. 

232.  PHINEAS. 

PHINEAS  HALL,  son  of  Phineas  and  Annah  Hall,  born 
April  12,  1715,  married  Agnes  Yale,  Nov.  18,  1774,  a  widow. 

Children;  549  Mary,  b  July  28,  1775;  550  Abigail;  551 
Thankful;  552  Phineas ;  553  Levi;  554  Eunice;  555  Bar- 
nabas ;  556  Annis. 

240.    GILES. 

GILES  HALL,  son  of  Joshua  and  Hannah  Hall,  was  born 
Feb.  24,  1747,  married  Lois  Ives. 

Children:  557  Abel,  b  Dec.  10,  1778,  d  at  Atwater,  Ohio; 
558  Sarah,  b  Aug.  20,  1780;  559  Giles,  d  April  21,  1791  ; 
560  Joshua;  561  Lois,  m  Andrew  Andrews;  562  Lucy ;  563 
Hannah;  564  John. 

243.  JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA  HALL,  son  of  Joshua  and  Hannah  Hall. 

Children:  565  Susannah,  b  Nov.  16,  1742;  566  Abigail,  b 
April  25,  1745;  567  Giles,  b  Feb.  24,  1747;  568  Samuel,  b 
Jan.  29,  1749. 

245.    DAVID. 

DAVID  HALL,  son  of  David  and  Alice  Hall.  He  died  1795, 
ae.  63  years. 

Child:  569  Elkanah,\>  Nov.  30,  1767. 

247.   ASAPH. 

ASAPH  HALL,  son  of  David  and  Alice  Hall. 
Children:  570  Benajah,\>  1762;  571   Asa;  572  daughter, 
m  —    —  Hopson. 

267.    JONATHAN. 

DR.  JONATHAN  HALL,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Hall,  resi- 
dence Meriden,  Ct.,  married  Martha  Collins,  May  14,  1777. 
He  died  June  6,  1832,  ae.  54.  She  died  May,  1841,  ae.  83,  in 


GENEALOGIES.  773 

the  state  of  New  York.  He  settled  at  New  Hartford,  N.  Y., 
in  1787. 

Children  :  573  Isaac,  b  Feb.  22,  1778  ;  574  Keturah,  b  Nov 
17,  1780;  575  Sylvia,  b  Sept.  18,  1782;  576  Jonathan,  b 
Aug.  14,  1784 ;  577  Eli,  b  May  14,  1786  ;  578  Ira,  b  July  10, 
X788  ;  579  Mary  Moss,  b  April  12,  1790  ;  580  Agnes  Collins, 
b  Aug.  6,  1793  ;  581  Amos  Hull,  b  Feb.  13,  1796;  582  Jede- 
diah  Sanger,  b  Nov.  2,  1797  ;  583  Sarah  T.,  b  May  6,  1799. 
269.  TITUS. 

TITUS  HALL,  son  of  Ezekiel  and  Anna  Hall,  was  born  Oct. 
19,  1746,  married  Olive  Barnes,  Nov.  26,  1767. 

Children:  584  Abigail,  b  Sept.  21,  1768  ;  585  Caleb,  b  Jan. 
n,  1771  ;  586  Lucy,  b  Dec.  14,  1775  ;  587  Caleb,  b  Aug.  27, 
1781 ;  588  Ransley,  b  Feb.  7,  1784. 

271.    BENAJAH. 

BENAJAH  HALL,  son  of  Ezekiel  and  Annah  Hall,  was  born 
1762,  married  Ruth  Francis,  Aug.  19,  1784. 

Children:  589  Orrin,  b  June  5,  1785  ;  590  Esther,  b  June 
13,  1787  ;  591  Ruth,  b  Aug.  25,  1789  ;  592  Nancy,  b  Nov.  9, 
J792;  593  Martha,  b  July  13,  1795;  594  Philo,  b  May  13, 
T79^;  595  Jacob,  b  April  5,  1801  ;  596  Joseph,  b  Oct.  17, 
1803  ;  597  Joel,  b  Nov.  3,  1806  ;  598  Lovineas,  b  July  21,  1810. 

274.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HALL,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Hall,  married 
Phebe , 'April  28,  1757,  settled  at  Plymouth. 

Children:  599  Benjamin;  600  Mary,  b  Jan.  29,  1758;  601 
Andrews,  b  Aug.  15,  1759;  602  Mary,  b  Aug.  6,  1761;  603 

Phebe,  b  Aug.  20,  1763,  m •  Hart ;  604  Linus,  b  Sept.  25, 

1765 ;  605,  606  David,  Jonathan,  b  Nov.  17,  1761  ;  607 
Erastus,  b  .Feb.  12,  1770;  608  Adnah,  b  May  8,  1772;  609 
Salmon,  b  1774;  610  Eliab,  b  Dec.  n,  1776,  settled  in  North 
Killingworth ;  611  Grace  Denison,  b  May  5,  1776;  612 
Asaph,  b  Oct.  i,  1781. 

280.  REUBEN. 

REUBEN  HALL,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Chloe  Hall,  b  Feb., 
1735,  m  Sally  Miller,  May  25,  1797. 

A  A  A 


774  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  613  Alma,  b  March  23,  1798;  614  Horace,  b 
April  17,  1800;  615  Milla,  b  Jan.  8,  1802  ;  616  Eli,  M.  D., 
b  Nov.  5,  1803  ;  617  William,  b  Feb.  21,  1806  ;  618  Reighly, 
b  April  i,  1808. 

281.  DAVID. 

DAVID  Moss  HALL,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Chloe  Hall, 
married  Mindwell .  He  left  Wallingford. 

Child:  619    Orrilla,  b  Nov.  5,  1800. 
284.    JOSIAH. 

DEA.  JOSIAH  HALL,  son  of  Hiel  and  Catherine  Hall,  mar- 
ried Martha  Hall,  daughter  of  Giles  Hall,  April  2,  1793. 

Children:  620  Thankful,  b  May  23,  1796,  m  Thaddeus 
Cook;  621  Catherine,  b  May  18,  1798  •  622  Eliza,  b  May  15, 
1800,  died;  623  Eliza,})  July  25,  1801  ;  624  Edward  L.,  b 
May  13,  1804,  m  Mary  K.  Cook,  dau.  of  Billious  Cook;  625 
George  Chauncey,  b  April  19,  1706  ;  626  Martha  R.,  b  Oct.  19, 
1808,  m  Thaddeus  Cook  ;  627  Josiah,  b  June  15,  1812  ;  628 
Ogden,  b  Sept.  13,  1815  ;  629  David  M.,  b  May  27,  1818,  m 
Catherine  Cook;  630  James,  b  April  n,  1821. 
286.  ANDREW. 

DR.  ANDREW  HALL,  son  of  Hiel  and  Catherine  Hall, 
married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Ambrose  Cook,  Sept.  n,  1803. 

Children:  631  Alexander  W.,  b  May  28,  1805;  632  Sarah 
R.,  b  Oct.  14,  1806.  m  Medad  W.  Munson,  Esq.  ;  633  Andrew 
C.,  b  June  7,  1810,  d  in  Phila.,  interred  in  Wall.  ;  635  Frank- 
lin D.,  b  Sept.  20,  1811. 

287.    CHAUNCEY. 

CHAUNCEY  HALL,  son  of  Hiel  and  Catherine  Hall,  married 
Marilla,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Catherine  Hall,  Feb.  6, 
1803. 

Children:  635  Henry  C.,  b  Jan.  19,  1804  ;  636  Samuel  R., 
b  Nov.  n,  1805  ;  637  Elihu,  b  June  2,  1807,  m  Martha,  dau. 
of  Samuel  Cook;  638  Lucretia,  b  Dec.  i,  1809  ;  639  Louisa, 
b  Jan,  29,  1812  ;  640  Lucy  A.,  b  April  18,  1814,  m  Ira  Yale, 
Jr.;  641  Sufaey,b]vly  12,  1816;  642  Elizabeth;  643  Mari- 
etta; 644  Celia. 


GENEALOGIES.  775 

288.    PETER. 

PETER  HALL,  son  of   Hiel  and  Catherine   Hall,  married 
Delight  Kirtland,  Sept.  8,  1808. 
Child  :  645  Charles,  m  Miss  Foote. 
290.   RICE. 

DR.  RICE  HALL,  son  of  Hiel  and  Catherine  Hall,  married 
Esther  Hall,  Nov.  19,  1806. 

Children:  646  Hiel  Beverly,  b  Feb.  18,  1811;  647  John 
M. ;  648  Marilla,  b  May  25,  1813;  649  Ophelia,  b  June  2, 
1818  ;  650  Henrietta  E.,  b  Aug.  8,  1815  ;  651  Elizur  Rice, 
b  June  25,  1821  ;  652  Philander. 

293.  WOOSTER. 

WOOSTER  HALL,  son  of  Peter  and  Lydia  Hall,  married 
Chloe  Cooley,  July  27,  1806. 

Children  :  653   Samuel  B.,  b  Sept.   20,  1808  ;  654  Lydia,  b 
Nov.  16,  1810;  655  Lydia;  656  Asahel,  b  May  3,  1812  ;  657 
Dinah,  b  Oct.  7,  1814  ;  658  Lois,  b  Feb.  14,  1817. 
326.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  HALL,  son  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  married 
Sarah  Atwater,  Oct.  7,  1761. 

Children:  659  Mary,  b  June  24,  1762;  660  Elizabeth,  b 
June  21,  1764;  661  Lemuel,  b  March  20,  1766  ;  662  Aaron,  b 
May  2,  1768  ;  663,  664  Ira,  and  Asa,  b  Aug.  18,  1770  ;  665 
Joshua,  b  Aug  5,  1772  ;  666  Abigail,  b  Dec.  16,  1776;  667 
Lemuel,  b  May  2,  1779,  d  in  New  Haven,  Conn. ;  668  Sally,  b 
June  8,  1781  ;  669  Patty,  b  Sept.  3,  1783 ;  670  Alma,  b  Nov. 
15,  1785  ;  671  Phebe,  b  Aug.  21,  1787. 
329  DAVID. 

DAVID  HALL,  son  of  David  and  Thankful  (Morse)  Hall, 
was  born  Nov.  2,  1732,  died  March  25,  1825.  She  died  Sept. 
24,  1826,  ae.  61. 

Children:  672  Aimer,  b  Sept.  10,  1793,  d  in  Wallingford  ; 
673  Alethea,  b  Oct.  n,  1795,  m  Wooster  Martin  ;  674  Char- 
lotte,  b  July  24,  1791,  m—  — Lindley  ;  675  Stephen,  went 
west,  supposed  to  Ohio. 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

335-     REUBEN. 

REUBEN  HALL,  son  of  Amos  and  Ruth  Hall,  married 
Mary .  He  was  born  Dec.  20,  1721. 

Children:  676  Mary,  b  Oct.  17,  1742;  677  Elizabeth,  b 
Feb.  12,  1743  ;  678  Abel,  b  Oct.  12,  1745. 

AMOS. 

AMOS  HALL,  SON  of  Asaph  and  Ruth  Hall,  died  Dec.  24, 
1782,  ae.  31  years. 

Children:  679  Reuben;  680  Moses;  68 1  Eunice;  682  Louis. 
336.  MOSES. 

MOSES  HALL,  son  of  Amos  and  Ruth  Hall. 

Children:  683  Moses,  b  Dec.  26,  1754  ;  684  Enos,  b  March 
8,  1756. 

342.   NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  HALL,  son  of  Caleb  and  Esther  Hall,  born 
April  8,  1732,  married  Lydia .  She  died  Jan.  15.  1760. 

Child  :  685  Lurena,  b  Feb.  21,  1759. 
343.  CALEB. 

CALEB  HALL,  son  of  Caleb  and  Esther  Hall,  b  Sept.  12, 1734. 

Child:  686  Susannah,  b  Feb.  8,  1759. 
349.  TITUS. 

TITUS  HALL,  son  of  Caleb  and  Esther  Hall,  was  born  Aug. 
16,  1746,  married  Olive  Barnes,  Nov.  26,  1767. 

Children:  687  Abigail,  b  Sept.  21,  1768;  688  Caleb,  b  Jan. 

21,  1771,  d  Nov.  12,    1824;  689  Lucy,  b  Dec.    14,  1775  ;  690 
Caleb,  b  Aug.  29,  1781  ;  691  Ransley,  b  Feb.  7,  1784. 

354.  MILES. 

MILES  HALL,  son  of  James  and  Hannah  C.  Hall,  born 
Oct.  17,  1736,  married  Abigail  Tyler,  Sept.  30,  1764. 

Children:  692  Abigail,  b  Dec.  3,  1767  ;  693  James,  b  Oct. 
14,  1769;  694  William  2yler,  b  Jan.  15,  1772. 

357.  JAMES. 
JAMES  HALL,  son  of  James  and  Hannah  C.  Hall,  born  July 

22,  1743. 

Child:  695  Phebe,  b  Nov.  16,   1741. 


GENEALOGIES.  777 

360.    ISAAC. 

ISAAC  HALL,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Moss  Hall,  was  born 
March  7,  1745,  married  Phebe  Ives,  Sept.  6,  1764. 

Children:  696  Mary,  b  July  21,  1766;  697  John,  b  July  3, 
1768;  698  Phebe,\)  Jan.  31,  1770;  699  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  23, 
1771  ;  700  Isaac,  b  May  19,  1775  ;  701  Jonathan,  b  Sept.  15, 
1776;  702  Clarissa,})  Aug.  12,  1779;  703  Abijah,  b  1781; 
704  Sally,  b  1784. 

365.    JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  HALL,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Hall,  was  born 
Dec.  ii,  1757,  married  Martha  Collins,  May  14,  1777. 

Children:  705  Isaac,  b  Feb.  22,  1778;  706  Katurah.  b 
Nov.  17,  1780. 

366.    ELIAS. 

ELIAS  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Hall,  was  born  Mar. 
10,  1740,  married  ist,  Mary  Humiston,  Dec.  15,  1763.  She 
died  Aug.  14,  1774,  and  he  married  2d,  Rubama . 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  707  Martha,  b  Sept.  26,  1764; 
708  Mary,  b  May  26,  1766;  709  Ruth,  b  Feb.  28,  1768;  710 
Eliakim,  b  May  31,  1778;  711  Benjamin,  b  Feb.  20,  1770. 
By  2d  marriage:  712  Rubama,  b  Jan.  16,  1776. 

367.   JARED. 

JARED  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Hall,  born  July  19, 
1741,  married  Lucy  Hall,  July  5,  1770. 

Children  :  713  Lemuel,  b  Aug.  16,  1771 :  714  Amos,  b  May 
21,  1773  ;  7i5  Rufus,  b  Jan.  9,  1775. 

369.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Hall,  born  Dec.   6, 

1743,  married  Lucy . 

Child:  716  Millicent,  b  Sept.  3,  1768. 

371.   WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Hall,  married 
Rebecca .  He  was  born  June  15,  1747. 

Children:  717  Benj.  Russcl,  b  Aug.  i,  1775  ;  718  Abigail,  b 
Sept.  20,  1777;  719  Ambrose,  b  Dec.  7,  1779. 


7/8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

375.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Hall,  married 
Lydia ;  he  was  born  July  2,  175 7,  died  March  12,  1770. 

Children:  721  Lyman,  b  March  20,  1798;  722  Mary,  b 
June  12,  1799  ',  723  Emeline,  b  April  14,  1800  ;  724  Orrin,  b 
March  22,  1803. 

377.  ABEL. 

ABEL  HALL,  son  of  Abel  and  Ruth  Hall,  born  Oct.  12, 
1745,  married  Ruth  Morse,  Jan.  3,  1771. 

Child  :  725  Esther. 

383.    HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH  HALL,  son  of  Abel  and  Ruth  Hall,  born   April 

20,  1757,  married  Susannah  . 

Children:   726  Charity,  b  Oct.  3,  1784;  727  Isaac,   b   Aug. 

21,  1786. 

388.  JOEL. 

JOEL  HALL,  son  of  Asahel  and  Sarah  Goldsmith  Hall, 
born  May  21,  1741 ;  he  was  a  large  and  thrifty  farmer,  married 
Hannah  Parmalee,  Oct.  30,  1765. 

Children:  728  Andrew,  b  March  4,  1767,  m  Diana  Cook, 
Jan.  n,  1778,  he  d  1796;  729  Augustus,  b  May  3,  1769,  m 
Pamelia  Hall,  April  12,  1786;  730,7 ' oel,  b  July  26,  1771  ;  731 

Luther,  b  Aug.  16,  1776,  m  Sarah ,  2d,  wid.  Bassett;  732 

Sarah  P.,  b  June  3,  1779  ;  733  Asahel   W.,  b  May  12,   1781 ; 
734  James,  b  Oct.  12,  1783. 

396.  CHARLES. 

CHARLES  HALL,  son  of  Asahel  and  Sarah  Goldsmith  Hall, 
b  Nov.  12,  1757,  married  Sarah . 

Children:  735  Jerusha,  b  Oct.  23,  1772  ;  736  Daniel  Root, 
b  Aug.  30,  1779;  737  Rice,  b  Jan.  26,  1782  ;  738  Sylvester, 
b  Aug.  29,  1784;  739  Thomas  G.,  b  Aug.  17,  1787;  740 
Sarah,  b  Nov.  25,  1789  ;  741  Susan,  b  Dec.  2,  1791  ',  742 
Charles ;  743  Sarah. 

397.    ASAHEL. 

ASAHEL  HALL,  son  of  Asahel  and  Sarah  Goldsmith  Hall, 


GENEALOGIES.  779 

born  Jan.  14,  1759,  married  Ruth  Johnson,   Sept.   21,  1786. 
Children:   744  Catherine,  b   April    17,  1787;  745  Asahel, \> 
April  8,  1789  ;  746  John  D.,  b  June   22,  1790  ;  747  Sarah,  b 
April  5,  1792. 

398.    AARON. 

AARON  HALL,  son  of  Asahel  and  Sarah  Hall,  was  born 
Nov.  4,  1760,  married  Elizabeth  Cook,  May  24,  1781 ;  she 
died  and  he  married  2d,  Sarah,  widow  of  Charles  Hall,  Dec. 
n,  1820;  3d,  Anna  Brooks,  June  18,  1827.  He  died  Sept. 
30,  1839,  ae.  79  yrs. 

Children:  748  Benjamin  Atwater,  b  April  6,  1782;  749 
Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  23,  1783  ;  750  Electa,  b  Sept.  9,  1785  ;  751 
Aaron  C.,  b  Nov.  n,  1787,  went  to  Catskill,  N.  Y.  ;  752 
Mary,  b  Jan.  20,  1790  ;  753  Asahel,  b  April  6,  1792  ;  754 
SaMon,  b  Aug.  12,  1793;  755  Anna,  b  Jan.  6,  1796;  756 
Caroline,  b  Dec.  21,  1798;  757  -B.  Kirtland,  b  July  4,  1805. 

407.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HALL,  son  of  Elisha  and  Thankful  Hall,  married 
Mercy  Cornwall,  May  31,  1799. 

Child  :  758  Sarah  G.,  m  Israel  Harrison,  Oct.  21,  1841. 

412.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  3d  son  of  Elisha  and  Thankful  Hall,  married 
Grace  Denison  Hall,  April  3,  1800.  She  died  Jan.  21, 
1840,  ae.  69. 

Children  :  759    Jeremiah  Atwater,  b    1806  ;  760   John,  b 

Oct.  8,    1808  ;  761    Thankful  A.,   b  Sept.  6,  1801,  m 

Hopson ;  762   Lowly,  b  April  21,  1804,  m Johnson  ; 

763  Phebe,  b  Dec.  18,  1810;  764  Denison  D.,  b  Dec.  9, 
1815;  765  Grace  D.,  b  July  18,  1813,  m  George  Simpson  ; 
766  Elisha,  b  March  15,  1818;  767  Jennette,  b  May  31, 
1820 ;  768  Patty. 

415.    RUFUS. 

RUFUS  HALL,  son  of  Abraham  and  Hannah  Hall,  b  July 
25,  1751,  married  Experience  Foster,  Nov.  14,  1772. 


780  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  769  Hannah,  b  Nov.  20,  1776  ;  770  Abraham,  b 
May  5,  1778  ;  771  Anne,  b  Aug.  13,  1779. 

419.    PRINDLE. 

PRINDLE  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Prindle  Hall,  b 
June  19,  1750,  married  Anna  Mix^Dec.  5,  1771. 

Children  :  772  Ebenezer,  b  March  26,  1773  >  773  Annah,  b 
March  9,  1774;  774  Anna,  b  Oct.  7,  1776;  775  Lydia,  b 
Sept.  13,  1778  ;  776  Sarah,  b  April  25,  1780. 

438.  STREET. 

STREET  T.  HALL,  son  of  Col.  Street  and  Hannah  Hall, 
born  Feb.  26,  1762. 

Children:  777  Sherlock,  b  Nov.  3,  1792;  778,  779  Elisha 
and  Rebecca  Ann,  b  Feb.  17,  1795  >  7%°  Alfred,  b  July  17,  1797  ; 

781  Ransom,  b  April  28,  1803  ;  782  Carlos,  b  July  4,  1806  ;  783 
Wm.  Street,  b  March  6,  1809  ;  784  Mary  Ann,  b  July  8,  1841. 

448.  GILES. 

GILES  HALL,  son  of  Giles  and. Martha  Hall,  married  Susan 
Hall,  and  occupies  the  old  home  of  his  father. 

Children:  785  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  21,  1815,  m  Elijah  Rice; 
786    Wm.    Cook,  b  April  12,  1818,  m  Julia  A.  Johnson,  Sept. 
12,  1843;  787  Emily,  b  Aug.  16,  1820;  788  Henry  Lyman,  b 
Nov.  25,  1824,  a  school  teacher  and  farmer. 
450.  JOHN. 

JOHN  HALL,  son  of  Giles  and  Martha  Hall,  married  ist, 
Abigail .  She  died,  and  he  married  Dency  Strong. 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  789  Stanley,  b  March  20,  1805  ; 
790  Apollos,  b  July  12,  1807 ;  791  Henry  Franklin,  b  June  28, 
1807.  By  second  marriage  :  792  Dency ;  793  Dwight,  b  Aug. 
19,  1814,  hotel-keeper  in  the  village;  794  Elizur,  b  Jan. 
25,  1817,  d  Sept.  26,  1857  ;  795  Adeline,  b  June  2,  1820,  d 
Aug.  5,  1834;  796  Wolcott,  b  Oct.  30,  1824. 

452.     COLLINS. 

COLLINS    HALL,   son   of  Brenton  and   Lament  Hall,  was 

born  Jan.  8,  1766,  m  Rebecca ,  March  17,  1795.     She 

was  born  Jan.  10,  1764. 


GENEALOGIES.  781 

Children:  797  Abigail,  b  Nov.  25,  1796;  798  Alma,  b 
Oct.  5,  1799;  799  Elisha,  b  May  i,  1803  ;  800  Erastus,  b 
Jan.  2,  1805  ;  801  Augustus,  b  Oct.  30,  1806. 

467.   HORATIO. 

HORATIO  G.  HALL,  son  of  Caleb  and  Prudence  Hall, 
married  Polly,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Byington.  She  was 
born  Aug.  25,  1777. 

Children:  802  Augustus,  b  July  14,  1799,  m  Rhoda  Doo- 

little  ;  803  Lyman,  b  May  7,    1801,  m Button,  d  at 

Yalesville,  Conn. ;  804  Horace,  b  May  25,  1804,  m  ist , 

2d, Bull  ;  805  Mary,  b  March  16,  1807,   m   Leverett 

Allen ;  806  Josiah  H. ;  807  Abigail. 

482.    CHARLES. 

CHARLES  C.  HALL,  son  of  Charles  Chauncey  and  Lydia  H. 
Hall,  was  born  March  9,  1762. 

Children :  808  Charles  C. ;  809  Eliza,  m  Jesse  L.  Nichols 
of  Wolcott ;  8 10  Lyman,  d  in  New  Haven  ;  811  Augustus,  res. 
in  Branforcl  ;  812  George,  res.  in  Cheshire  ;  813  James  R., 
res.  in  Cheshire,  m  —  —  Cook. 

485.    LYMAN. 

LYMAN  HALL,  son  of  Charles  C.  and  Lydia  Hall,  was  born 
Jan.  4,  1761. 

Children:  814  William,  m  Mary  Horton  ;  815  Charles  C. 

494.    ELIAKIM. 

COL.  ELIAKIM  HALL,  married  Clarissa  Cook,  March  13, 
1794  ;  he  kept  an  inn  in  the  Muddy  River  district. 

Children  :  816  Sukey,  b  Jan.  15,  1797;  817  Ogden,  b  1802, 
d  Feb.  23,  1803,  ae.  6  mos.  ;  818  Jane  Ann,  b  Aug.  5,  1806  ; 
819  Margaret,  b  Jan.  5,  1810. 

495-     DICKERMAN. 

DICKERMAN  HALL,  son  of  Isaac  and  Esther  Mosely  Hall, 
married  ist,  Lucy  Hough,  March  13,  1796,  and  2d,  Miss  — 
Bishop,  in  1803.     He  died  Sept.  18,  1838. 

Children:  820  Rebecca,  b    Feb.   23,    1797;  821   Hannah,  b 


782  HISTORY    OF    VVALLINGFORD. 

March  22,  1799,  m  ist,  John  Hull,  2cl, Andrews  ;  822 

Lucy,  b  July  2,  1801  ;  823  Henrietta,  b  June  28,  1804 ;  824 
William  Mosely,  b  Feb.  n,  1806  ;  825  Mary  Ann,  b  Oct.  31, 
1807  ;  826  Cornelia,  b  Feb.  17,  1811  ;  827  Frances  A.,  b  Oct. 
9,  1813  ;  828  Harriet. 

503.  JOHN   MORSE. 

JOHN  MORSE  HALL,  son  of  Eliakim  and  Eunice  Morse 
Hall,  was  born  May  25,  1775,  married  Lizzie  Meigs,  April 
14,  1800;  he  died  Dec.  n,  1837,26.  62  yrs.  His  wife  died 
Dec.  13,  1843,  ae.  63  yrs. 

Children:  829  Lizzie,  b  Nov.  17,  1801  ;  830  Mary,  b  Dec. 
6,  1802  ;  831  John  Meigs,  d  July  3,  1851,  in  Wallingford,  m 
Miss  -  -  Gilbert,  a  sister  of  Rev.  E.  R.  Gilbert ;  832  Ellen 
A.;  833  a  daughter;  834  Eliza  M.;  835  Helen;  836  Mary. 

514.     NATHAN. 

NATHAN  HALL,  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Elizabeth  Merriman 
Hall,  married  Polly  Andrews,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  ;  he 
died,  ae.  53. 

Children  :  837  Ruth,  b-  March  16,  1815,  m  Sherman  Aus- 
tin ;  838  Hezekiah,  b  June  4,  1817,  m Coe  of  Meriden ; 

839  Lucretia  D.,  b  March  18,  1821  ;  840  Viney,  b  Dec.  23, 
1822. 

529.      AVERY. 

AVERY  HALL,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Elizabeth  Hall, 
was  born  Nov.  9,  1768. 

Children:  841  Selden,  b  Sept.  21,  1801  ;  842  Alfred,  b 
May  1 8,  1803. 

537.  GEORGE. 

GEORGE  HALL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  P.  Hall,  born 
Aug.  13,  1780,  married  Lucinda . 

Children  :  843  Mary  A.,  b  Nov.  n,  1843  ;  844  J ulia  E.  H., 
b  Sept.  14,  1815;  845  George,  b  July  28,  1818;  846  Lament 
P.,  b  Oct.  7,  1820  ;  847  Nancy,  b  Oct.  3,  1822  ;  848  Julia,  b 
Dec.  23,  1834. 


GENEALOGIES.  783 

539.    RICHARD. 

RICHARD  HALL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  P.  Hall,  b 
Jan.  26,  1785,  married  Nancy,  daughter  of  Ambrose  Cook. 

Children:  849  Philander,  b  July  25,  1806;  850  Susan,  b 

Sept.  16,  1808,  m  Phinney ;  851  Jerusha,  b  Nov.  9, 

1809,  m  Wm.  Elton ;  852  Eliza,  m  Wm.  Lewis. 

560.  JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA  HALL,  son  of  Giles  and  Lois  Hall,  married  Sophro- 
nia  Gates,  March  21,  1804. 

Children  :  853  Wm.  Chauncey,  b  May  5,  1805  ;  854  Roder- 
ick, b  Dec.  21,  1806  ;  855  James  M.,  b  March  3,  1809  ;  856 
Delight,  b  Jan.  24,  1811  ;  857  Delilah,  b  March  29,  1813  ;  858 
Henrietta,  b  June  24,  1815;  859  Lois,  b  Feb.  3,  1818;  860 
Jennette,  b  Dec.  18,  1821  ;  86 1  Alexander,  b  Aug.  24,  1824, 
m Potter  of  Northford. 

569.    ELKANAH. 

ELKANAH  HALL,  son  of  David  and  Alice  Hall,  was  born  in 
1761,  died  March  23,  1738,  ae.  71  years,  married  Sarah  . 

Children:  862  Harry,  b  July  28,  1797;  863  Eliakim,  b 
Nov.  19,  1799;  $64  Isaac N.,  b  Feb.  14,  1802  ;  865  Alexander, 
b  Jan.,  1805. 

578.  IRA. 

IRA  HALL,  son  of  Dr.  Jonathan  and  Martha  Collins  Hall, 
married  ist,  Kate  Rose,  and  2d,  Marcia  Rounds.  He  died 
Jan.  19,  1860,  in  New  York,  ae.  71  yrs.,  5  mos. 

Children:  866  Nathan  Kelsey,  b  March  28,  1810;  867  Ira 
V.,  b  Aug.  3,  1811  ;  868  Ira,  b  Aug.  4,  1814;  869  Catherine, 
b  Dec.  3,  1816  ;  870  Mary,  b  Sept.  17,  1819  ;  871  Eli  Q.,  b 
June  21,  1822;  872  Sylvester  R.,  b  July  3,  1826;  873  Sarah, 
b  March  i,  1829  ;  874  Maria,  b  Sept.  29,  1831  ;  875  Jane,  b 
April  4,  1836. 

594.  PHILO. 

PHILO  HALL,  son  of  Benajah  and  Ruth  Hall,  was  born 
May  13,  1798,  married  Thankful  Morse. 

Children:  876  Lavinia,\>  March  13,  1823;  877  J3ennet,\> 


784  HISTORY   OF    WALLINGFORD. 

May  10,  1824;  878  Philo  Fayette,  b  Sept.  15,  1825  ;  879 
Emery  Osgood,  b  Sept.  i,  1827  ;  880  Almira  C.,  b  Feb.  18, 
1828;  881  Truman  Gerrard,  b  Jan.  24,  1832;  882  Harriet 
Newell,  b  Feb.  18,  1833. 

60 1.    ANDREWS. 

ANDREWS  HALL,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Phebe  Hall,  born 
Aug.  15,  1759,  married  Sylvia  Blakeslee,  Dec.  3,  1800. 

Children:  883  William  A.,  b  June  8,  1803  ;  884  Sylvia,  b 
April  18,  1805  ;  885  Abigail,  b  June  14,  1807  ;  886  Mary,  b 

April  24,  1810,  m McKenzie. 

608.   ADNAH. 

ADNAH  HALL,  son  of  Benjamin  and   Phebe  Hall,  married 

Elizabeth ,  she  died  1860  ;  he  died  June   17,  1838,  ag. 

66  yrs. 

Children:  887  Valucia,  b  March  29,  1811  ;  888  Wilfred,\> 
July  25,  1815  ;  889  Temperance,  b  May  24,  1817  ;  890  Harvey 
S.,  b  April  9,  1819  ;  891  Ezekiel,  b  Jan.  23,  1822. 

612.   ASAPH. 
ASAPH  HALL,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Phebe  Hall,  born  Oct. 

i,  1781,  married  Thankful ;  he  died  Feb.   12,  1839,  ae. 

58  years. 

Children:  899  Merab,  b  June  24,  1812,  m  George  Peck, 
of  Cheshire,  Conn. ;  900  Benjamin  H.,  b  Aug.  2,  1815  ;  901 
Asa,  b  July  6,  1821. 

663.  IRA. 
IRA  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  Hall,  married  Abigail 


Children  :  902  Elizur,  b  June  28,  1798  ;  903  Cornelia,  b  Nov. 
20,    1800;    904   Edward,  b  Sept.   30,   1802;    905  Abigail,  b 
June   27,  1807  ;  906  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  2,  1816. 
667.    LEMUEL. 

LEMUEL  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  Hall,  was  a 
merchant  in  New  Haven.  He  built  and  was  the  owner  of 
the  store  now  owned  by  Austin  &  Gilbert,  on  the  corner  of 
Elm  and  Church-sts. 


GENEALOGIES.  785 

Children :  907  Henry,  d  in  New  Haven ;  908  Grace ;  and 
several  other  children. 

672.    ALMER. 

DEA.  ALMER  HALL,  son  of  Daniel  and  Thankful  Hall, 
married  2d,  widow  of  Merrick  Cook ;  he  was  a  merchant  and 
deacon  of  the  Baptist  church  for  several  years. 

Child :  909  Aimer  I.,  m Hall. 

728.    ANDREW. 

ANDREW  HALL,  son  of  Joel  and  Hannah  Hall,  was  born 
Jan.  u,  1757,  married  Diana  Cook. 

Children  :  910  Betsey,  b  Feb.  3,  1788  ;  911  Russell,  b  Oct. 
18,  1789,  m  Polly  Kirtland  ;  912  Liverius,  b  Aug.  13,  1790  ; 
913  Clarissa  C.,  b  Nov.  28,  1793,  m  Aimer  Hall,  Esq.  ;  914 
Susan,  b  March  18,  1795  ;  915  Sylvia,  b  March  13,  1797,  m 
Thaddeus  Cook ;  916  Sinai,  b  June  25,  1799,  m  Frederick 
Lewis;  917  Wm.  Cook,  b  Jan.  n,  1802. 

AUGUSTUS. 

AUGUSTUS  HALL,  son  of  Joel  and  Hannah  Hall,  married 
Pamelia  Hall,  Feb.  10,  1794  ;  he  died  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  918  Eunice,  b  March  3,  1796;  919  Joel,  b  July 
6,  1799. 

731.      LUTHER. 

LUTHER  HALL,  son  of  Joel  and  Hannah  Hall,  married 
Sarah  . 

Children:  920  Emily,  b  Sept.  6,  1800;  921  Julia  A.,b 
Oct.  6,  1 80 1  ;  922  William,  b  Jan.  10,  1804;  923  Sally  £., 
b  May  17,  1806;  924  Abraham  R.,  b  Sept.  25,  1808;  925 
Betsey  P.,  b  May  8,  1815. 

866.    NATHAN. 

NATHAN  KELSEY  HALL,  son  of  Ira  and  Catharine  Hall, 
of  Skaneateles,  N.  Y.,  married  Emily  Payne.  She  was  born 
Aug.  5,  1811,  married  Nov.  16,  1832.  He  is  a  lawyer  at 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Children:  926  Nathan  R.  Jr.,  b  Oct.  13,  1833,  d  at  Buffalo, 
Oct.  22,  1835  ;  927,  Frederick  Aug.,  b  Jan.  10,  1836,  d  at  An- 


786  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

dover,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  7,  1852  ;  928  Emily  A.,  b  Oct.  9,  1838,  m 
George  Gorham  of  Canandagua,  N.  Y.  ;  929  Frank,  b  Jan.  7, 
1845,  d  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  May  23,  1848  ;  930  Grace,  b 
May  16,  1850. 

701.  JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  HALL,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Morse  Hall, 
married  ist,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  G.  Hoadley,  2d, 
Sally,  daughter  of  William  Jencks.  He  died  Feb.  22,  1741, 
ae.  64  years,  5  mos.,  29  days.  Residence  of  this  family  was 
at  Leyden,  Lewis  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Children:  931  Jehiel,  b  Nov.  16,  1803,  m  Louisa  Wilson, 
Aug.  10,  1826;  932  Daniel,  b  July  30,  1805,  m  Mary  D. 
Sperry,  Oct.  23,  1834;  933  Mary,  b  June  23,  1812,  m  Silas 
Gary,  Feb.  6,  1812  ;  934  Abigail,  b  Dec.  22,  1813,  m  Rev. 
David  A.  Barney,  March  5,  1834 ;  935  "Jonathan,  b  Aug.  22, 
1815,  m  Ann  Henry,  Nov.  9,  1840  ;  936  Sally,  b  April  28, 
1817,  m  Robert  Harvey,  Sept  9,  1839  ;  937  Isaac,  Capt.,  b 
Nov.  6,  1818,  m  Amanda  Thayer,  May  i,  1845  ;  938  Julia,  b 
April  5,  1820;  939  William  Jencks,  b  Dec.  22,  1821,  m  Erne- 
line  Stone  ;  940  Phebe  Ives,  b  Feb.  18,  1824,  m  Amos  Cham- 
berlain, Nov.  3,  1844 ;  941  Eunice,  b  Feb.  18,  1827,  m 
Franklin  A.  Thomas,  April  26,  1866  ;  942  Newton,  Maj.,  b 
Sept.  16,  1829,  m  Elmira  Brainard,  April  26,  1866  ;  943 
Maria  K.,  b  July  4,  1831,  m  Charles  G.  Dewey,  Nov.  16,  1854. 
911.  RUSSEL. 

COL.  RUSSEL  and  Polly  Hall. 

Children  :  944  Caroline  Diana,  b  Sept.  3,  1815  ;  945  Eliza 
Ann,  b  Sept.  13,  1817  ;  946  George  Kirtland,  b  July  7,  1819  ; 
947  Mary  Augusta,  b  May  n,  1822  ;  948  Sarah  Potter,  b  July 
26,  1824. 

428.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HALL,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Prindle  Hall, 
married  Hannah  . 

Children :  949  Sherman,  b  April  26,  1806  ;  950  John,  b 
June  5,  1808,  d  July  9,  1836  ;  951  Emery,  b  Sept.  29,  1809,  d 
Dec.  6,  1869;  952  Lucy,\>  May  27,  1811,  d  Feb  18,  1818; 


GENEALOGIES.  787 

953  Julius,  b  June  7,  1813,  m  Laura  E.  Parker,  May  i, 
1852,  6  children  ;  954  Maria,  b  August  30,  1815,  d  May 
5,  1846,  ae.  30  years. 


HARRIMAN. 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HARRIMAN  was  in  New  Haven  at  an  early  date, 
where  he  had  a  considerable  family.  Among  his  children 
was  John,  who  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1663.  He 
went  to  Wallingford  with  the  first  planters  in  1670,  and  was 
the  acting  minister  among  the  people  of  the  village  for  two 
years,  though  not  an  ordained  minister.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Har- 
riman,  his  mother,  died  in  Wallingford,  Sept.  23,  1684.  His 
wife  died  Jan.  10,  1680.  His  house  lot  was  that  on  which 
the  houses  of  the  late  Mr.  Aimer  Hall  and  Liverius  Carring- 
ton  now  stand. 

Children:  i  John,  b  Jan.  25,  1666,  d  Nov.  21,  1683, 
ae.  17  years;  2  Samuel;  3  Anna,  b  July  6,  1678;  4  Mary, 
b  Nov.  7,  1680;  5  Leonard,  b  June  5,  1683;  6  Richard,  b 
Aug.  9,  1685. 


HART.' 

HAWKINS. 

HAWKINS  HART  of  Farmington  came  to  Wallingford  at 
the  age  of  24  years,  and  married  Sarah  Royce,  who  was  nine- 
teen years  of  age.  Their  marriage  was  consummated  Sept. 
17,  1701.  She  died  Jan.  31,  1733.  He  died  May  24,  1735. 
They  resided  after  their  marriage  a  short  time  in  Farming- 
ton,  but  returned  to  Wallingford  Oct.  4,  1705,  where  they 
resided  for  the  remainder  of  their  lives. 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.,  149- 
51,  163-4,  170-8,  188-91  ;  Davis'  Gen.  Hart  Family,  Lewis  and  Newhall's 
Hist.  Lynn,  Mass.,  227;  Littell's  Passaic  Valley  Gen.,  179;  Savage's 
Gen.  Diet,  n.  367-8 ;  Sibley's  Hist.  Union,  Me.,  459. 


788  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children  :  i  Nathaniel,  b  June  19,  1702,  in  Farmington, 
Ct.  ;  2  Ruth,  b  Aug.  13,  1704,  in  Farmington,  Ct.  ;  3  Haw- 
kins, b  Sept.  16,  1706,  d  in  Wallingford,  Sept.  22,  1706  ;  4 
Hawkins,  b  March  i,  1708,  m  ist,  Mary  Street,  Jan.  30,  1734, 
2nd,  Abigail  Hall,  Feb.  12,  1761;  5  Sarah,  b  March  21, 
1710;  6  Esther,  b  Aug.  12,  1712  ;  7.  Thomas,  b  Sept.  29, 
1714  ;  8  Mary,  b  June  21,  1719  ;  9  Benjamin,  b  Jan.  28,  1722. 
Mr.  Hart  married  for  his  2nd  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Joseph  and  Mary  Elliot  of  Guilford,  1734.  She  was  born 
1688,  and  had  10  Samuel,  born  July  13,  1735,  who  was  a 
lieutenant  in  the  American  army,  and  was  wounded  in  the 
battle  at  Saratoga  during  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  died 
at  Durham,  Ct,  Jan.  12,  1805. 

I.   NATHANIEL 

NATHANIEL  HART  m  Martha  Lee,  Dec.  21,  1727.  He 
died  Oct.  2,  1750,  ae.  48  years. 

Children:  n  Nathaniel,  b  Sept.  5,  1729,  m  Alice  Hall, 
Jan.  23,  1753,  he  went  to  Goshen  where  he  d  ae.  80  years, 
had  Nathaniel,  b  Nov.  8,  1754  ;  12  Timothy,  b  May  24,  1731  ; 
13  Martha,  b  June  21,  1733  ;  14  Ebenezer,  b  March  26,  1739  ; 
15  Josiah,  b  Feb.  22,  1742  ;  16  Phebe,  b  April  22,  1746,  m 
ist,  Stephen  Yale,  2nd,  Eliasaph  Preston,  Feb.  17,  1764. 

4.    HAWKINS. 

LIEUT.  HAWKINS  HART,  married  to  Susannah  Merriman  by 
Rev.  Theophilus  Hall,  Nov.  20,  1730.  After  her  decease  he 
married  Mary  Street,  Jan.  30,  1734.  She  died,  and  he 
married  Abigail  Hall,  Feb.  12,  1761.  He  died  April  17, 
1756.  , 

Children:  17  Samuel;  18  Sarah,  b  1750,  d  Nov.  27,  1765  ; 
19  Susannah,  b  1747,  d  Oct.  26,  1757  ;  20  Benjamin,  b  1751, 
d  Oct.  7,  1836,  m  Jerusha  Rich,  Feb.  25,  1776,  she  d  Aug. 
26,  1832. 

20.     BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HART,  son  of  Lieut.  Hawkins  Hart,  married 
Jerusha  Rich. 

Children:  21  Esther,  b  Nov.  8,  1776,  m  Marvel  Andrews 


GENEALOGIES.  789 

for  his  4th  wife  ;  22  Lucy,  b  Dec.  20,  1779;  23  Sttsannah,  b 
Jan.  15,  1782;  24  Webb,  b  Feb.  21,  1786;  25  Jerusha,\> 
Sept.  n,  1788,  m  Abel  D.  Clark  ;  26  Samuel,  I.,  b  Nov.  22, 
1792. 

26.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  IVES  HART,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Jerusha  Rich 
Hart,  married  Abigail  D.  Hall,  Sept.  20,  1814;  he  is  now 
living  in  the  east  part  of  Meriden. 

Children:  27  Daniel  H.,  b  June  19,  1815,  m  Harriet  G. 
Miller;  28  Edmund,  b  Aug.  12,  1817;  29  Edmund,  b  Feb. 
16,  i8i8;'3o  Jerusha,  b  Aug.  22,  1822,  m  Horace  Pratt  of 
Meriden;  31  Elizabeth,  b  Aug.  22,  1822,  m  Edward  B.  Miller 
of  Meriden. 


HOW.' 

Four  persons  of  this  name  were  early  at  New  Haven,  viz.  : 
Jeremiah  Sen.,  Ephraim,  Zachariah  Sen.,  and  Nathaniel. 
These  persons  all  but  Ephraim,  went  to  Wallingford,  in  1670, 
and  he  followed  them  in  1672,  as  appears  by  the  records, 
having  been  at  New  Haven  then,  about  20  years.  John 
How,  one  of  the  sons,  returned  to  New  Haven  about  the 
year  1700. 

JEREMIAH. 

Children:  i  Jeremiah,\>  July  8,  1650;  2,  3  John  and  Ebe- 
nezer,  b  June  26,  1656  ;  all  born  in  New  Haven.  John  mar- 
ried Abigail . 

EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  How  is  supposed  to  have  removed  from  Walling- 
ford, as  no  mention  of  marriages  or  deaths  are  found  on  the 
Wallingford  records. 

Children  born  in  New  Haven :  4  Ephraim,  b  April  3,  1653  ; 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Bond's  Hist.  Watertown,  Mass.,  303-4 ; 
Kidder's  Hist.  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  391  ;  Morse's  Memorial    of  Morses, 
Appendix  No.  67  3-4;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.  xvi.    314;  Worcester 
Mag.  and  Hist.  Jour.,  II.  130-1. 
B  B  B 


7QO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

5  Sarah,  b  June  25,  1654;  6  Nancy,  b  Nov.  17,  1656;  7 
Samuel,  b  1658  ;  8  Daniel,  b  Jan.  4,  1663  ;  9  /war,  b  Aug. 
26,  1666 ;  10  Abigail,  b  April  23,  1668  ;  n  Esther,  b  Nov.  28, 
1671 ;  12  Mary,  b  Dec.  8,  1674. 

NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  and  Elizabeth  How  were  with  the  first  planters 
in  Wallingford;  she  died  Dec.  29,  1713,  ae.  70  yrs.  He  mar- 
ried 2d,  Sarah  Curtis,  August  9,  1714;  he  died  at  Walling- 
ford, Feb.  12,  1722. 

Children:  13  Eli/ah,  b  Sept.  9,  1673,  m  Mary  Bellamy, 
Jan.  25,  1703  ;  14  Lydia,  b  Nov.  6,  1675  >  Z5  Daniel,  b  Mar. 

8,  1677,  m  ist,  Margery ,  2d,  Sarah  —  — ;  16  Abigail,  b 

Aug.  7,  1680. 

ZACHARIAH. 

ZACHARIAH  How  died  at  Wallingford,  Sept.  22,  1740;  he 
died  June,  1703. 

Children  born  in  New  Haven:  17  John,  b  Jan.  16,  1666, 
m  Abigail ;  18  Zachariah,  b  May  30,  1669,  m  Eliza- 
beth Hemingway,  he  d  May  12,  1712  ;  19  Nathaniel,^  Jan.  2, 
1672,  m  Mary  Tracey,  Oct.  15,  1711 ;  20  Matthew,  b  Jan.  2, 
1672,  m  Elizabeth  Winston,  Dec.  31, 17 17,  both  born  in  Walling- 
ford ;  21  Sarah,  b  Oct.  30,  1675,  d  Feb.  2,  1713,  ae.  36  yrs. ; 
Mary,  b  Dec.  14,  1677. 

I.  JEREMIAH. 

JEREMIAH  How  married  Elizabeth  ,  Oct.  29,  1674. 

He  died  at  Wallingford,  Sept.  22,  1740,  ae.  90  yrs. ;  Elizabeth, 
his  wife  died  Oct.  4,  1704.  He  married  a  widow,  Mary  Cook, 
April  9,  1705. 

Children  by  ist  marriage,  born  at  Wallingford  :  22  Jeremiah, 
b  Sept.  15,  1675  '>  Jeritsha,  b  Sept.  13,  1677  ;  Ephraim,  b 
Feb.  20,  1681 ;  25  Martha,  b  Aug.  2,  1684;  26  Maria,  b 
Sept.  20,  1687  ;  27  Ebenezer,  b  March  3,  1690 ;  28  Joshua,  b 
Dec.  2,  1702.  Children  by  2d  marriage:  29  Sarah,  b  April 
16,  1709;  30  Dinah,  b  Feb.  28,  1716;  31  Ichabod,  b  Sept. 
n,  1717  ;  32  Joshua,  b  April  i,  1720. 


GENEALOGIES.  79! 

22.    JEREMIAH. 

JEREMIAH  How  married  Judith  Cook,  April  20,  1704;  she 
died  March  20,  1708.  He  was  living  June  28,  1745. 

Children:  33  Judith,  b  Oct.  22,  1703,  m  Elihu  Yale ;  34 
Jeremiah,  b  Feb.  17,  1705,  m  Elizabeth  Gaylord. 

31.  JEREMIAH. 

JEREMIAH  How  of  Wallingford  married  Elizabeth  Gaylord, 
March  n,  1730.  He  was  designated  as  Jeremiah  How  3d  ; 
he  emigrated  to  Goshen  in  the  summer  of  1747. 

Children  born  in  Wallingford :  35  Judith,  b  Dec.  19,  1730  ; 
36  John,  b  Oct.  i,  1732  ;  37  Jeremiah,  b  Dec.  24,  1734,  d 
1736;  38  Jeremiah,  b  Nov.  17,  1736,  m  Martha  North ;  39 
Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  18,  1738,  m  Daniel  Norton  ;  40  Benjamin, 
b  Oct.  26,  1739,  d;  41  Benjamin,  b  Jan.  22,  1740  ;  42  Joel,  d 
Jan.  28,  1745  ;  43  Esther,  b  March  5,  1744,  m  Daniel  Mer- 
rills ;  44  Joseph,  b  Nov.  9,  1746,  m  Prudence  Norton  ;  45 
Ruth,  b  Oct.  4,  1748,  m  Royce  Orvis,  she  was  b  in  Goshen. 

36.  JOHN. 

JOHN  How  married  Mary  Wadams,  daughter  of  Noah 
Wadams  of  Goshen.  She  died,  and  he  married  Lydia  Nor- 
ton, April  15,  1766. 

Children  born  in  Goshen:  46  Mary,  b  Sept.  10,  1757,  m 
Wait  Hinman ;  47  Experience,  b  Dec.  29,  1759,  m  Nathan 
Norton;  48  Anna,  b  April  10,  1762,  m  Israel  Everett  and 
went  to  Vermont ;  49  Deliverance,  b  June  25,  1764.  By  sec- 
ond marriage  :  50  John,  b  April  22,  1767,  m  Esther  Walter 
of  Cornwall,  Conn.  ;  51  Ichabod,  b  June  5,  1769,  m  C.  Moss 
Norton  of  Cornwall,  Conn  ;  52  Isaac,  b  1771,  d  ae.  8  yrs ;  53 
Luman,  b  Aug.  6,  1774,  m  Esther  Meacham  ;  54  Daniel ;  55 
Seth,  m  Achsah  Washburn  of  Penn. ;  56  Lydia,  committed 
suicide  at  the  age  of  14  yrs. 

The  above  John  How  remained  in  Goshen,  Conn.,  till  Dec. 
30,  1766,  when  he  sold  to  Wistal  Willoughby,  and  removed 
to  Canaan,  Conn. 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 
41.     JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  How  married  Prudence  Norton,  Oct.  24,  1768, 
daughter  and  youngest  child  of  Joseph,  who  was  from  Dur- 
ham, Conn.  ;  he  died  at  Goshen,  April  17,  1807,  ae.  61  yrs. 
She  died  Jan.  15,  1825. 

Children:  57  Prudence,\>  Oct.  15,  1769,  m  Amasa  Robinson 
of  Litchfield,   Conn.  ;  58   Melzar,  b  Oct.   19,  1772,  in  — 
Willoughby ;  59    Philo,   m    Roxy   Tuttle  ;  60  Clara,  m  Allen 
Dean. 


HITCHCOCK.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  and  Abigail  Hitchcock  were  the  first  of  the  name 
who  came  into  the  town  of  Wallingford,  which  was  about 
1675- 

Children  :  i  Mary,  b  Dec.  10,  1676;  2  Nathaniel,  b  April 
18,  1679,  d  May  12,  1710,  ae.  31  ;  3  Margery,  b  Sept.  9,  1681  ; 
4  Elizabeth,  b  April  8,  1684  ;  5  John,  b  Oct.  18,  1685,  m 
Marlow  Munson,  Nov.  21,  1712  ;  6  Matthias,  b  May  26,  1688, 
m  Thankful  Andrews  ;  7  Hannah,  b  Jan.  9,  1690  ;  8  Damaris, 
b  June  n,  1693  ;  9  Benjamin,  b  March  24,  1696,  m  Elizabeth 
Ives. 

2.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  HITCHCOCK  m  Sarah  Lewis  Jennings,  April  3, 
1704.  He  died  May  12,  1714. 

Children:  10  Sarah,  b  March  13,  1705;  n  Elizabeth,  b 
Jan.  26,  1707  ;  12  Hannah,  b  June  n,  1709. 

5.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HITCHCOCK,  m  Marlow  Munson,  Nov.  21,  1712.  She 
died  July  i,  1739. 

Children  :   13  Peter,  b  Oct.  14,  1713  ;   14  Martha,  b  April  i, 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Dodd's  Hist.  E.  Haven,  Conn.,  126,  127  ; 
Kellogg's  Memorials  of  Elder  John  White,  121  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  n. 
428,  429;  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  Centennial  Celebration,  1863,  298,  299. 


GENEALOGIES.  793 

r7:5  ')  I5  John,  b  May  n,  1717;  16  Eliakim,  b  Sept.  7,  1719, 
d  April  5,  1723;  17  Jotham,  b  Feb.  4,  1722,  m  Mary—  —  ; 
iS  Dan,  b  March  14,  1724,01  Esther  -  — ;  19  Eliakim,  b 
June  13,  1726  ;  20  Titus,  b  Jan.  31,  1729,  m  Hannah  Munson 
July  30,  1759;  21  Catherine,  b  July  10,  1731. 

6.    MATTHIAS. 

MATTHIAS  HITCHCOCK  m  Thankful  Andrews,  Dec.  27,  1710. 

Children:  22  Oliver,  b   Nov.    14,    1716;  23   Jason,  b  Aug. 

1 6,  1718;  24  William,  b  Oct.  16,  1720;  25  Matthias,  b  June 

19,  1711,  d  April  7,  1726;  26  Nathaniel,  b  Oct.  15,  1712  ;  27 
Valentine,  b  Feb.  14,  1715  ;  28  Nathaniel,  b  May  7,   1733  ;  29 
Thankful,  b  March   29,  1725;  30  Matthias,  b   Feb.  u,  1727, 

m  Sarah ;  31  Ebenezer,  b  Sept.  14,  1728  ;  32    Tabitha,  b 

Feb.   26,    1730  ;  33   Enos,   b  ApriJ   27,    1735  ;  34  Hannah,  b 
April  27,  1735. 

9.    BENJAMIN. 

CAPT.  BENJAMIN  HITCHCOCK  was  married  to  Elizabeth 
Ives  by  Capt  Yale,  Oct.  i,  1718.  He  died  Feb.  12,  1767. 
She  died  Aug.  8,  1762. 

Children:  35  Bela,  b  Oct.  27,  1719;  36  Hannah,  b  Sept. 
12,  1721  ;  37  Benjamin,  b  Feb.  23.  1724  ;  38  Joseph,  b  July 
12,  1737  ;  39  Abigail,  b  May  10,  1728  ;  40  David,  b  June  29, 
1742  ;  41  Samuel,  b  April  i,  1730  ;  42  Damans,  b  Sept.  3, 
*745  j  43  Nathaniel,  b  June  20,  1732  ;  44  Nathaniel,  b  Sept. 

20,  1739;  45  Daman's,  b  Nov.  25,  1756. 

15.  JOHN. 

JOHN  and  Elizabeth  Chatterton  Hitchcock,  married  Nov. 
29,  1739- 

Children:  46  Amos,  b  Dec.  28,  1740;  47,  48  Elizabeth  and 
Elisha,  b  Oct.  24,  1743;  49  Darid,  b  Sept.  27,  1742. 

17.  JOTHAM. 

JOTHAM  and  Mary  Hitchcock. 

Children:  50  Sarah,  b  Sept.  n,  1747  ;  51  Lyman,  b  March 
J5>  T749  ;  52  Mary,\)  Dec.  4,  1750  ;  53  Marlow,  b  Dec.  26, 1752  ; 
54  Jotham,  b  Nov.  6,  1754. 


794  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

13.     PETER. 

PETER  HITCHCOCK  married  Hannah  Smith,  June  18,  1737. 

Children:  55  Reuben,  b  May  n,  1738;  56  Amasa,  b  Oct. 
3»  :739  >  57  Valentine,  b  April  18,  1741  ;  58  Peter,  b  May  17, 
1743,  d  May  16,  1744;  59  Peter,  b  Feb.  6,  1743  ;  60  David, 
b  Nov.  10,  1754. 

18.  DAN. 

DAN   HITCHCOCK  married  Esther  Miles,  of  Cheshire,  Aug. 

17,  1743- 

Children:  61  Asahel,  b  Dec.  24,  1743  ;  62  Martha,  b  April 
10,  1748  ;  63  Susannah  ;  64  Eunice,  b  Nov.  28,  1754;  65  Seth ; 
66  Lydta;  67  Benajah :  68  Eliakim,  b  Aug.  8,  1746;  69 
Esther,  b  May  23,  1750;  70  Dan,  b  Oct.  19,  1752  ;  71  Sarah, 
b  Sept.  6,  1757;  72  Miriam;  73  George. 

19.     ELIAKIM. 

ELIAKIM  HITCHCOCK  married  Esther ;  he  died  June 

19,  1788,  ae.  62  yrs. 

Children:  74  Abigail,  b  Dec.  6,  1756  ;  75  Rufus,  b  April  i, 
1760,  was  a  Judge  of  Probate,  Town  Clerk,  etc. ;  76  Jared,  b 
July  30,  1758. 

20.    TITUS. 

TITUS  HITCHCOCK  married  Hannah  Munson,  July  30,  1759. 

Child:  77  Obedience,  b  Oct.  8,  1761. 
22.   OLIVER. 

OLIVER  HITCHCOCK  married  Thankful  Parker,  Oct.  19, 
1744. 

Children:  78  Mary,  b  July  8,  1745  ;  79  Thankful,  b  May 
13,  1747  ;  80  Rebecca,  b  Jan.  18,  1749  ;  81  Hannah,  b  Oct.  n. 
1750,  d  Nov.  5,  1752  ;  82  Oliver,  b  Feb.  24,  1755  ;  83  Sarah, 
b  March  19,  1757  ;  84  Damaris,  b  Nov.  6,  1758  •  85  Dinah, 
b  Nov.  23,  1760. 

23.  JASON. 

JASON  HITCHCOCK,  married  Lydia  Cook,  Sept.  20,  1743  ; 
she  died  Dec.  30,  1753. 

Children:  86    William,   b  'june   26,    I744J  87    Thomas,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  795 

Dec.  20,  1746;  88  Lemuel,  b  Dec.  20,  1749  ;  89  Jason,  b  July 
12,  1752;  90  Jason,  b  Oct.  10,  1755  >  91  Ichabod,  b  Dec.  18, 
1756  ;  92  Thankful,  b  March  20,  1761. 

30.     MATTHIAS. 

MATTHIAS  HITCHCOCK  married  Sarah . 

Children:  93  Oliver;  94  Jason;  95  Thankful;  96  Mat- 
thias; 97  Ebcnezer ;  98  Tabitha ;  99  Nathaniel;  100  Hannah. 
35.  BELA. 

BELA  HITCHCOCK  married  Sarah  Atwater,  Dec.  25,  1744; 
she  died  Oct.  23,  1746;  he  married  Hannah  Cook,  and  she 
died  June  28,  1805,  ae.  83  ;  he  died  Oct.  12,  1796,  ae.  77  yrs., 
in  Cheshire. 

Child  by  rst  marriage:  101  Isaac,  b  Jan.  23,  1746,  d  Jan. 
28,  1746.  Children  by  2nd  marriage:  102  Isaac,  b  Oct.  26, 
1748,  d  May  27,  1749  ;  103  Bela,  b  Sept.  21,  1750  ;  104  Han- 
nah, b  Dec.  31,  1752  ;  105  Asa,  b  Feb.  n,  1755  ;  106  Sarah, 
b  Aug.  i,  1757  ;  107  Aaron,  b  Dec.  6,  1759. 

37.   BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HITCHCOCK  married  Rhoda  Cook,  Feb.  27,  1745. 

Children:   108  Thaddeus,  b  Dec.  13,  1745  ;   109  Hannah,  b 
March  9,  1748:   no,  in    Benjamin   and  Rhoda,   b  Nov   24, 
1752  ;   112  Lucy,  b  March  24,  1755  ;   113  Damaris,\>   Dec.  5, 
1756  ;  114  Thaddeus,  b  Dec.  10,  1760. 
56.  AMASA. 

Children:  115  Amasa  ;  116  Silas  ;  117  James;  118  David; 
several  daughters. 

57.  VALENTINE. 

Children  :  119  Hon.  Peter ;  120  Rev.  Roger ;   121  Polly. 

60.  DAVID. 
Children;  122  Marcus;  123  David;  124  Gains. 

68.  ELIAKIM. 

ELIAKIM  HITCHCOCK,  son  of  Dan  and  Esther  Hitchcock, 
married  Betty   Hill,  July  23,  1734,  she  died  Nov.  21,  1754. 
Child  :   125  Betty  Hill,  b  March  2,  1754. 


796  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

6l.     ASAHEL. 

ASAHEL  HITCHCOCK  lived  in  the  village  of  Cheshire. 

Child :  126  Miles,  went  to  New  York,  where  he  died. 
70.  DAN. 

DAN  HITCHCOCK  was  a  blacksmith,  and  resided,  when 
living,  in  a  house  then  standing  a  little  east  of  the  late  resi- 
dence of  Titus  and  Almon  Preston. 

Children:   127  Samuel;   128  Clarissa,  m Perkins;  129 

Chauncey ;  130  Esther;  131  Lyman ;  132  Rebecca,  m  A.  Per- 
kins; 133  Dan ;  134  Annah,  m  John  Reed;  135  Matilda; 
136  Betsey,  m  Amos  Bristol. 

73-    RUFUS. 

RUFUS  HITCHCOCK  was  twice  married ;  he  died  in  1832, 
was  a  Judge  of  Probate,  Town  Clerk,  etc. 

Children:  137  Wm.  Rufus,  m  Mary  Hall,  d  in  Waterbury ; 
138  Lucretia,  m  Rev.  P.  G.  Clark. 

91.  ICHABOD. 

ICHABOD  HITCHCOCK,  son  of  Jason  and Hitchcock, 

died  in  Cheshire. 

Children:  139  Pliny,  m—  -  Bradley ;  140  Sarilla,  m  Geo. 
Stevens;  141  jfason ;  142  Hannah,  m  T.  L.  Gaylord  ;  143 
Luanda,  m  Richard  Beach.  By  2d  marriage  :  144  Abigail,  m 
and  went  to  Kentucky. 

65.   SETH. 

SETH  HITCHCOCK,  son  of  Dan  and  Esther  Miles  Hitch- 
cock, died  in  Cheshire. 

Children ;  145  Alfred;  146  Emily,  m  Aaron  Cook,  late  of 
Cheshire. 


HOLT.' 

William  Holt  died  in  Wallingford,  Sept.  i,  1683,  aged  83; 
consequently  was  born  in  1600,  in  the  old  country.  He  was 
buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Wallingford,  where  his  tomb-stone 

i    For   collateral   branches,  see   Abbot's  Hist.    Andover,    Mass.,  22; 


GENEALOGIES.  797 

still  remains  to  mark  his  grave.  Benjamin  Holt  also  died  in 
Wallingford,  Aug.  2,  1693,  aged  32  years. 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HOLT  was  an  early  settler  in  Wallingford,  though 
not  an  original  subscriber.  He  was  married  to  Elizabeth 
French  or  Tench,  by  Major  Nash,  Nov.  20,  1684.  He  died 
Dec.  19,  1697,  ae.  42  years. 

Children:  i  Joseph,  b  Sept.  10,  1685,  m  Abigail  Curtis, 

June  8,  1709  ;  2  Daniel,  b  Oct.  6,  1687,  m  Rebecca • 

3  Benjamin,  b  Sept.  3,  1690,  m  Abigail  Curtis  ;  4  Mary,  b 
Jan.  29,  1691;  5  Elizabeth,  b  March  23,  1696;  6  John. 

1.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HOLT  married  Abigail  Curtis,  June  8,  1709.  She 
died  Jan.  12,  1730. 

Children:  7  Tamar,  b  Oct.  31,  1711  ;  8  Susannah,  b  Feb. 
12,  1716  ;  9  Mary,  b  Feb.  9,  1714  ;  10  Samuel,  b  May  14, 
1718  ;  ii  Lucy,  b  Dec.  12,  1722  ;  12  Lydia,  b  April  24,  1725  ; 
13  Abigail,  b  July  20,  1727  ;  \^Prudence,\>  Dec.  29,  1728  ; 
15  Mehitable,  b  Dec.  26,  1729  ;  16  Mabel,  d  Dec.  28,  1727. 

2.  DANIEL. 

.    DANIEL  and  Rebecca  Holt. 

Children  :  17  Phebe,  b  Dec.  24,  1716  ;  18  Hannah,  b  April 
28,  1719  ;  19  Mary,  b  May  21,  1718  ;  20  Thomas,  b  Jan.  22, 
1721  ;  21  Eunice,  b  Nov.  26,  1724  ;  22  Uriah,  b  Jan.  22, 
1721  ;  23  Joseph,  b  Feb.  25,  1726  ;  24 Lois,  b  Oct.  30,  1726  ; 
25,  26  Rebecca  and  Abigail,  b  May  n,  1738;  27  Daniel,}) 
May  27,  1729. 

3.  BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  and  Abigail  Holt. 

Children  :  28  Elizabeth,  b  Dec.  25,  1729  ;  29  Prudence,  d 
May  23,  1737  ;  30  Lydia,  b  August  15,  1732  ;  31  Benjamin,  b 

Caulkins' Hist.  New  London,  Ct.,  314,  315;  Dodd's  Hist.  East  Haven, 
Ct,  127,  128 ;  Durrie's  Gen.  of  Holt  Family  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  n. 

454,  455- 


798  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

June  14,  1734,  d  May  2,    1735  >    32   Benjamin,  b  August   22, 
1737- 


HOTCHKISS.' 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HOTCHKISS  came  from  Essex,  England,  and  is 
supposed  to  have  been  a  brother  of  John  Hotchkiss,  who  set- 
tled at  Guilford,  Conn.  This  name  is  spelled  in  some  in- 
stances, Hodghe,  Hodgkins,  and  Hotchkins.  He  was  at 
New  Haven  as  early  as  1641.  In  Aug.,  1642,  he  married 
Elizabeth  Cleverly;  he  died  Dec.  28,  1663. 

Children  :  i  John,  b  1643,  m  Elizabeth  Peck,  Dec.  4,  1672, 
and  remained  in  New  Haven  ;  2  Samuel,  b  1645,  m  Sarah 
Talmadge  in  1678,  settled  at  East  Haven,  Conn.  :  3  James,  b 
1647  j  4  Joshua,  b  Sept.  16,  1651,  m  two  or  three  wives,  re- 
sided in  New  Haven;  5  Thomas,  b  1654,  m  Sarah  Wilmot ; 
6  David,  b  1657,  m  Esther  Sperry. 

I.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HOTCHKISS  married  Elizabeth  Peck,  daughter  of 
Henry  Peck  of  New  Haven,  Dec.  4,  1672.  They  had  John, 
born  1673  '}  ne  niarried  Mary  Chatterton  in  1694,  and  settled 
on  the  west  side  of  Wallingford,  now  Cheshire. 

Child  :  7  John,  b  1694,  m  Miriam  Wood,  March  10,  1717, 
he  d  in  Cheshire,  April  30,  1732,  she  d  Jan  10,  1765,  3d.  65  yrs. 

7.  JOHN. 

Children  :  8  Robbins,  b  May  12,1 709  ;  9  Mary,  b  Feb.  20,  1 7 1 2 , 
d  Aug.,   1718;  10  Henry,   b   April    i,    1715;   n  Benjamin,\> 

May  10,  1718  ;  12  Jason,  b  May  12,  1719,  m  Abigail  —    , 

she  d  Feb.  22,  1773,  ae.  40  yrs.  ;  13  Sarah,  b  July  13,  1721  ; 
14  Dorothy,  b  Dec.  28,  1723  ;  15  Hannah,  b  July  30,  1726; 
16  Naomi,  b  Feb.  23,  1731 ;  17  John,  b  Sept.  16,  1733. 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.,  155, 
156,  171,  172,  224,  295  ;  Branson's  Hist.  Waterbury,  Conn.,  505-8;  Coth- 
ren's  Hist.  Woodbury,  Conn.,  579,  580;  Dodd's  Hist.  East  Haven,  Conn., 
512-19. 


GENEALOGIES.  799 

12.    JASON. 

JASON    HOTCHKISS  married   Abigail  ;  he   died   in 

Cheshire,   May   19,    1776,   ae.   58  years.     She  died  Feb.  22, 
i773>  ae.  40  yrs. 

Children  :  18  Abigail,  b  July  12,  1746  ;  19  David,  b  March 
8,  1752;  20  Jonathan, \>  May  7,  1754;  21  Abigail,  b  Sept 
19,  1756;  22  Sarah,  b  May  i,  1776,  m  William  Law  Esq.  of 
Cheshire,  and  was  the  mother  of  Samuel  Law  Esq.  of  Mere- 
dith, N.  Y.,  and  of  William  and  Jonathan  Law  of  Cheshire, 
and  John  of  Whitehall,  N.  Y.,  all  deceased. 

2.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HOTCHKISS  married  Sarah  Talmadge  in  1678. 

Children,  born  in  East  Haven  :  23  Mary ;  24  Sarah;  25 

Samuel;  26  James,  b  1747,  m  Tamar ;  27  Abigail;  28 

Eben  ,-29  Enos. 

4.  JOSHUA. 

ENS.  JOSHUA  HOTCHKISS  was  twice  or  more  times  married. 
The  name  of  his  last  wife  was  Mary  Hotchkiss.  She  died 
Nov.  15,  1787,  ae.  88  yrs.  He  died  1788,  ae.  88  yrs. ;  he  re- 
sided in  New  Haven,  and  was  a  leading  man  there. 

Children :  30  Mary,  b  April  30,  1679  j  31  Stephen,  b  Aug. 
12,  1681,  settled  in  Wallingford,  parish  of  Cheshire;  32  Mar- 
tha, b  Dec.  14,  1680,  m  Thomas  Brooks  of  New  Haven,  in 
1702,  and  settled  in  Cheshire  (then  Wallingford);  33 
Priscilla,  b  1688  ;  34  Abraham,  settled  in  Bethany,  Conn.,  d 
1702;  35  Desire,  d  1702  ;  36  Isaac,  b  June,  1701.  Among 
the  children  were  Abraham,  Isaac  and  Jacob,  all  residents  of 
Bethany,  as  was  their  father.  37  Jacob,  b  Feb.  7,  1704,  re- 
mained on  the  old  homestead  in  New  Haven  for  some  time, 
and  subsequently  removed  to  Hamden,  one  of  his  sons  went 
to  Derby,  Conn.  ;  38  John,  b  Feb.  27,  1733  ;  39  Elizabeth,  b 
March  23,  1735  ;  40  Mary,  b  Aug.  n,  1737,  d;  41  Mary,  b 
June  17,  1738. 

5.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  HOTCHKISS  married  Sarah  Wilmot,  Nov.  28,  1697. 
He  died  in  17 1 1.  Children  :  42  Samuel ' ;  43  Anna ;  44  Sarah. 


8OO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

6.    DAVID. 

DAVID  HOTCHKISS  married  ist,  Esther  Sperry,  June  20, 
1683.  He  married  2nd,  Eunice .  He  died  in  1712. 

Children  :  45  Eliza  ;  46  Daniel,  m  Mamre  —  — ;  47  Oba- 
diah,  m  Eunice  Beach,  Jan.,  1716,  they  had  Lewis,  b  Jan.  16, 
1717  ;  48  Thankful,  b  Feb.  15,  1753  ;  49  Eunice,  b  Jan.  8, 
1755  ')  5°  Rebecca;  51  Isaac,  b  March  4,  1757  ;  52  Hannah,  b 
June  5,  1761  ;  53  Rebecca. 

10.  HENRY. 

CAPT.  HENRY  HOTCHKISS  married  Sarah  — — ,  and  settled  at 
Wallingford,  in  the  parish  of  Cheshire,  where  he  was  married 
Nov.  23,  1736.  He  died  June  9,  1799,  ae.  84.  She  died 
Nov.  19,  1751,  ae.  34  years. 

Children:  54  Henry,  b  Sept.  2,    1737  ;    55   Joseph,  b   Dec. 
18,  1738;  56  Henry,  b  1723,  d  Sept.  29,  1742  ;    57   Jonah,   d 
July  26,  1741  ;  58  Sarah,  b  Feb.  5,    1742  ;  59   Mary,  b   Feb. 
i,  1745  ;  60  Jonah,  b  Oct.  28,  1748. 
31.  STEPHEN. 

DEA.  STEPHEN  HOTCHKISS,  b  1681,  son  of  Joshua,  m 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Sperry  of  New  Haven,  Dec.  12, 
1704.  He  purchased  land  in  Cheshire  in  1706,  and  settled 
upon  it  in  1707.  He  died  March  5,  1755,  ae.  74  years.  He 
was  deacon  of  the  church  at  Cheshire  for  31  years. 

Children:  61  Joshua,  b  Aug.  26,  1705  ;  Elizabeth,  b  1706,  d 
1 788  ;  62  Mary,  b  July  i,  1 708,  m  Nathan  Burns  M.  D. ;  63  Han- 
nah, b  Jan.  10,  1710,  m  Stephen  Atwater ;  64  Esther,  b  Feb. 
8,  1712  ;  65  Elizabeth,  b  Aug.  15,  1715  ;  66  Gideon,  b  Dec.  5, 
1715,  first  Dea.  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Salem;  67 
Stephen,  b  Dec.  i,  1717  ;  68  Silas,  b  Nov.  20,  1719,  m  widow 
Alcott;69T  70  Hannah  and  Stephen,  b  Feb.  23,  1722;  71 
Bashua,  b  Sept.  7,  1726^72  Benjamin,  b  Feb.  i,  1728,  m 
Elizabeth  Roberts ;  73  Noah,  b  Nov.  24,  1731,  d  Jan.  13,  1760. 
26.  JAMES. 

JAMES  HOTCHKISS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah,  married 
Tamar  — • — . 


GENEALOGIES.  8OI 

Children:  74  Asa,  b  Nov.  24,  1731  ;  75  Robert,  b  June  17, 
T733  ;  76  Eunice,  b  March  28,  1734  ;  77  Tamar,  b  Aug.  24, 
1736  ;  78  Reuben,  b  Feb.  5,  1743  ;  79  Lydia,  b  Aug.  n,  1745. 

JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH   HOTCHKISS  married   Abigail .     He  died  of 

small  pox  in  May,   1732,  at  Cheshire  ;  she   died  of  the  same 
>  disease  near  the  same  time. 

Children:  80  Josiah,   b  Oct.  13,   1716;  81  Josiah,  b  April 
3,  1720  ;  82  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.   25,  1723  ;  83   Ludwick,  b  Jan. 
15,  1720  ;  84  Tyrrel,  b  1718  ;  85  Lent,  b  June  2,  1726. 
66.    GIDEON. 

DBA.  GIDEON  HOTCHKISS,  m  Anna  Brockett,  Jan.  18,  1737. 
She  died,  and  afterwards  he  married  Mabel,  daughter  of 
Isaac  Stiles,  of  Southbury.  He  located  on  a  farm  in  the 
southeasterly  part  of  Waterbury  in  1736,  and  was  chosen  a 
Deacon  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Salem  now  (Nauga- 
tuck),  at  its  organization.  He  was  one  of  the  principal  men 
who  founded  the  Congregational  Church  at  Prospect  (then 
Columbia),  and  was  a  leading  man  there!  He  served  in  the 
French  and  Revolutionary  wars,  and  died  full  of  years,  Sept. 
3,  1807,  ae.  91  years,  leaving  105  grandchildren,  155  great 
grandchildren,  and  four  of  the  fifth  generation. 

Children  :  86  Isaac,  b  1738  ;  87  David,  b  1743  ;  88  Gideon,  b 
Dec.,  1744 ;  89  Huldah,  b  June  27,  1747,  m  Josiah  Paine ;  90 
Anna,  b  Oct.  22,  1749,  m  Reuben  Williams ;  91  Amos,  b  Nov. 
24,  1751  ;  92  Submit,  b  June  2,  1753,  m  David  Paine  ;  93  Titus, 
b  June  26,  1755,  m  Rachel  Guernsey;  94  Eben,  b  Dec.  13, 
1757,  m  Mary,  dau.  of  Gideon  Sanford,  Feb.  15,  1781  ;  95 

Asahel,    born     Feb.    16,    1760;    96     Benoni,    born ; 

97  Mabel,  born  May  23,  1764,  m  Chauncey  Judd,  May 
5,  1797;  98  Phebe,  b  Aug.  3,  1765,  m  Reuben  Williams;  he 
died  in  1780;  99  Stiles,  b  Jan.  i,  1768,  m  Polly  Horton,  and 
had  five  children;  \voOlive,  b  Nov.  21,  1769,  m  William 
Jones;  101  Millicent,  b  May  2,  1771,  m  David  Sanford  ;  102 
Amzi,  b  July  3,  1774,  resided  in  Meriden.1 

I  See  Bronson's  Hist,  of  Waterbury,  505-8,  for  descendants  of  above. 


8O2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

HOUGH.^ 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HOUGH  married  Susannah,  daughter  of  Simeon 
Wrotham,  of  Farmington,  Conn.  His  father,  William  Hough, 
was  a  son  of  Edward  Hough,  of  Westchester,  Cheshire  Co., 
England.  Samuel  was  born  in  New  London,  Conn.,  and  was 
by  trade  a  mill-wright.  He  came  to  Wallingford  to  assist  in  the 
construction  of  the  first  mill  in  the  township.  Mrs.  Hough 
died  in  Wallingford,  Sept.  5,  1684.  He  married  2d,  Mary, 
daughter  of  James  Bates,  of  Haddam,  Aug.  18,  1685  ;  he  died 
March  14,  1714. 

Children  :  i  William,  b  Aug.  22,  1680,  m  Mehitable  —  —  ; 
2  Samuel,  b  Feb.  15,  1681,  d  Nov.  30,  1702,  ae.  21  yrs.  ;  3 

Susannah,  b  Nov.  27,  1683,  m Andrews,  of  Farmington, 

Conn.  By  2d  marriage:  4  James,  b  Dec.  15,  1688,  m  Sarah 
Newhall,  July  29,  1718  ;  5  Hannah,  b  Nov.  8,  1691. 

I.    WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  HOUGH,  son  of  Samuel  and  Susannah  Hough, 
married  Mehitable ;  she  died  Feb.  5,  1726.  He  mar- 
ried 2d,  Elizabeth ;  she  died  June  3,  1740. 

Children:  6  Mary,  b  Sept.  10,  1710  ;  7  Samuel,  b  July  5, 
1712,  d  Oct.  8,  1713  ;  8,  9  William,  and  Mehitable,  b  Aug.  14, 
1714;  10  Deborah,  b  Dec.  17,  1716;  n  Anna,  b  Dec.  28, 
1718  ;  12  Abiah,  b  May  15,  1721.  By  2d  marriage  :  13  Na- 
thaniel, b  Dec.  28,  1727  ;  14  Simeon,  b  Jan.  n,  1734. 

4.    JAMES. 

JAMES  HOUGH,  son  of  Samuel  and  Susannah,  married 
Sarah  Newhall,  July  19,  1718. 

Children:  15  Ephraim,  b  April  9,  1719;  16  Daniel,  b 
March  6,  1721,  d  July  25,  1768,  ae.  49  yrs;  17  Ebenezer,  b 
Jan.  22,  1726,  m  Lydia ,  d  July  20,  1737,  she  d  July 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist,  of  New  Britain,  Conn., 
352  ;  Babson's  Hist.  Gloucester,  Mass.,  105  ;  Caulkins'  Hist.  New  London, 
Conn.,  302,  303  ;  Caulkins'  Hist.  Norwich,  Conn.,  Ed.  1867,  233 ;  Sav- 
age's Gen.  Diet.,  n.  468-9  ;  Wadsworth's  Hyde  Gen.,  n.  uoo-u,  1152-9. 


GENEALOGIES.  803 

T9>  Z757  >     J8  David,  b  Feb.  8,    1728,   d  Oct.    18,  1729  ;  19 
Sarah,   b   Oct.  18,   1730,  d  Nov.  10,  1741  ;  20  David,  b   Jan. 
28>    X733»  d  June  27,  1752,  ae.  19  yrs. ;  21  James,  b  March 
24,    1735,  m  Lucy ,  she  d  Oct.  5,  1775,35.  51  ;  22  Bar- 
nabas, b   Sept.   5,    1736;  23  Mary,  b  Nov.  25,  1739. 

8.  WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  HOUGH,  son  of  William  and  Mehitable  Hough, 
married  Mary  Hall,  Dec.  20,  1752. 

Children  :  24  Susannah,  b  May  24,  1754,  d  Nov.  24,  1756  ; 
25  Mary,  b  June  22,  1756. 

15.    EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  HOUGH,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  Newell  Hough, 
married  Hannah . 

Children:  26  Abigail,  b  Nov.  29,  1740,  d  Aug.  16,  1743  ; 
27  Sarah,  b  Jan.  26,  1742;  28  Abigail,  b  Aug.  10,  1743,  d 
Aug.  1 6,  1743  ;  29  Abigail,  b  Feb.  21,  1744;  30  Ephraim,  b 
Jan.  6,  1746;  31  Andrew,  b  Dec.  27,  1747;  32  Andrew,  b 
Dec.  17,  1749;  33  Hannah,  b  Jan.  17,  1751  ;  34  Thankful,  b 
May  29,  1753,  d  Aug.  18,  1780  ;  35  Ambrose,  b  Sept.  2,  1754  ; 
36  Lois,  b  June  3,  1756. 

l6.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  HOUGH,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  (Newell),  married 

ist,  Mindwell .  She  died  March  21,  1741-2.  He 

married  for  2d  wife,  Violet  Benton,  Nov.  29,  1743.  He  settled 
in  Meriden  where  he  died. 

Children  :  37  Mindwell,  b  May  5,  1745  ;  38  Ensign,  M.  D., 
b  Sept.  i,  1746;  39  Elijah,  b  Jan.  23,  1747  ;  40  Samuel,  b 
March  12,  1750-1  ;  41  Eunice,  b  March  30,  1755;  42  Dolly, 
b  Jan.  30,  1756  ;  43  Caleb,  b  Feb.  13,  1757  ;  44  Hannah,  b 
Feb.  4,  1762. 

17.     EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  HOUGH,  son  of  James  and  Sarah,  married  Lyclia 
.  She  died  July  20,  1757. 

Children:  45  Buel,  b  June,  1743;  46  Lydia,  b  Aug.  28, 
1749,  d  July  19,  1759 ;  47  Lucy,  b  April  23,  1756. 


804  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HOUGH  married  Hannah .     Supposed  son  of 

Samuel  and  Hannah  was  in  W.,  about  1700. 

Children:  48  Samuel,  b  July  12,  1712,  m  Mehitable  —  — ; 
40  Phineas,  b  April  n,  1714,  d  Sept.  i,  1797,  ae.  83  years. 

ENSIGN. 

DR.  ENSIGN  HOUGH,  son  of  Daniel  and  Violet  Hough,  of 
Meriden,  died  in  1813.  He  kept  a  hotel  and  practiced  his 
profession  as  a  physician. 

Children  :  50  Dr.  Isaac  I. ,  b  1781,  d  in  Meriden,  unmarried; 
Feb.  26, 1825  ;  51  Ensign,  d  in  Meriden  ;  he  had  other  children. 
49.  PHINEAS. 

PHINEAS  HOUGH,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Hough,  mar- 
ried Hannah . 

Children  :  52  Rachel,  b  May  27,  1740  ;  53  James,  b  July 
31,  1743  ;  54  Phineas,  b  Sept  16,  1745  ;  55  Mary,  b  Aug.  14, 
1747  ;  56  Rachel,  b  April  22,  1750  ;  57  Anna,  b  April  18,  1752. 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HOUGH  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Capt. 
Theophilus  and  Sarah  Street  Yale,  June^,  1745.  He  was 
born  1717,  and  died  Jan.  5,  1809,  ae.  92  years.  Catherine, 
his  wife,  died  Oct.  5,  1767,  ae.  46  years. 

Children:  58  Joseph,  b  Sept.  12,  1745  ;  59  Mary,  b  July 
15,  1746  ;  60  Lois,  b  June  24,  1747,  d  Nov.  12,  1748  ;  61 
Lent,  b  April  4,  1751  ;  62  Lois,  b  Dec.  5,  1752  ;  63  David,  b 
Nov.  2,  1754  ;  64  Joel,  b  Jan.  27,  1757,  d  Sept.  9,  1843,^  in 
Hamclen,  Ct.  ;  65  James,  d  Dec.  3,  1762  ;  66  James,  d  in 
Wallingford  ;  67  Catherine,  m  Edmund  Smith ;  68  Sarah,  m 
Rice,  and  settled  at  Homer,  N.  Y. 

58.  JOSEPH. 

CAPT.  JOSEPH  HOUGH,  son  of  Joseph  and  Catherine  Yale 
Hough,  settled  on  the  farm  of  his  father  at  Clapboard  Hill. 
He  built  the  house  now  occupied  by  his  grandson  Joseph 
Hough.  He  died  Sept.  n,  1811. 


GENEALOGIES.  805 

Children :  69  Chauncey,  m  Lura,  daughter  of  James  Rice, 
of  Wallingford,  and  had  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Joseph  and  Chaun- 
cey ;  70  Betsey,  m  Salmon  Carter  of  W.  and  had  Salmon, 
Betsey  and  William;  71  Horace,  went  to  New  Haven,  Ohio, 
and  died  there,  leaving  several  sons. 

6 1.  LENT. 

LENT  HOUGH,  son  of  Joseph  and  Catherine  Yale  Hough, 
married  ist,  Rebecca  Tuttle.  She  died  Aug.  22,  1798,  ae. 
44.  He  married  Mary  Andrews,  who  was  Mary  Pierrepont  of 
North  Haven  before  her  ist  marriage.  She  died  June  27, 
1832,  ae.  75.  He  died  Oct.  8,  1837,  ae.  87  yrs. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  72    Lucy;    73  Hannah ;  74  Ser- 

rajah,  b   March   26,    1780,  m   Elizabeth  S.   Avery  in    1801. 

By   2d   marriage:    75  Almira,   b   Nov.   6,    1797,  m   Eveline 

Button,  Nov.  6,  1821,  d  in  Canada,  May  15,  1841,  ae.  42  yrs. 

64.  JOEL. 

JOEL  HOUGH,  son  of  Joseph  and  Catherine  Hough,  settled 
in  Hamden,  Mt.  Carmel  society,  where  he  died ;  he  was  a 
shoemaker  and  farmer. 

Children :  76  Ira,  settled  in  Wolcott,  Conn.,  and  d  there  ; 

77  Joseph,  settled  in  Cheshire,  Conn.,  m Moss,  dau.  of 

Bowers  Moss,  of  that  place  ;    78 ,  went  to  western  New 

York ;  79  Amos,  m  Nancy,  dau.  of  Nehemiah  Rice,  of 
Wallingford,  d  at  Hamden  in  1869  ;  80  Joel,  went  to  the 
state  of  N.  Y. 

66.  JAMES. 

JAMES  HOUGH,  son  of  Joseph  and  Catherine  Yale  Hough, 
married  and  settled  in  the  North  Farms  district,  Wallingford, 
where  he  died.  He  was  a  farmer. 

Children :  81  James,  m  Mary,  dau.  of  Nehemiah  Rice,  they 
had  Elijah,  and  daughters;  82,  daughters;  83  Joel,  m,  is  now 
on  the  farm  of  his  father  in  Wallingford. 

74.    SERRAJAH. 

SERRAJAH  HOUGH,  only  son  of  Lent  and  Rebecca  Hough, 
m  Elizabeth  S.,  daughter  of  Abner  Avery,  of  Wallingford,  Feb. 

C  c  c 


806  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

18,  1801.     She  was  born   Sept.  27,    1782.     Mr.    Hough  died 
at  Meriden,  Aug.  3,  1853,  ae.  73  years. 

Children :  84  "Lyman  Worcester,  b  March  7,  1802,  d  Aug. 
1834,  in  Meriden;  85  Lent  Ser  rajah,  b  Jan.  20,  1804,  m  Han- 
nah Smith,  of  Wallingford,  July  12,  1831,  settled  in  Wolcott, 
Conn. ;  86  Nancy  Avery,  b  Feb.  i,  1806,  d  March  n,  1823,  ae. 
17  years ;  87  Rebecca  Tuttle,  b  Jan.  3,  1808,  m  Rev.  Sam'l.  F. 
Curtis,  she  died  March  25,  1842  ;  88  Alonzo  Bennett,  b  Mar. 
25,  1810,  resided  in  Vineland,  N.  J.  ;  89  George  Sfierman,  b 
Oct.  7,  1812,  now  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  1867  ;  90  John  Meers,  b 
Oct.  12,  1815,  resides  in  Tyrrell  Co.,  N.  C. ;  91  Wm.  Augustus, 
b  Aug.  14,  1818,  d  at  Ravenna,  Ohio,  Dec.  25,  1837;  92 
Julius  Ogden,  b  July  21,  1822,  d  at  Wallingford  Jan.  i,  1823, 
ae.  6  months. 


HULL.> 

This  name  was  early  in  Connecticut,  and  came  from  Derby- 
shire, England.  George  Hull  was  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  in 
1636,  and  was  a  surveyor  at  Wethersfield  the  same  year,  and 
a  member  of  the  General  Court  1637-8-9.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Loomis  in  1641. 

Richard  and  Andrew  Hull  were  both  at  New  Haven  in 
1639,  and  had  families. 

JOHN. 

DR.  JOHN  HULLS,  as  he  wrote  his  name,  was  at  Stratford  in 
1 66 1,  when  he  was  admitted  a  planter.  It  is  not  quite  certain 
whether  he  came  from  England,  or  was  a  son  of  Richard 
Hull  of  New  Haven.  Dr.  John  was  at  Derby  in  1668,  and 
at  Wallingford  in  1687.  He  died  Dec.  6,  1711,  at  the  latter 
place.  He  was  probably  somewhat  advanced  in  life  when  he 
came  to  Wallingford.  He  married  Mary  Jones,  Oct.  19, 
1672,  probably  his  second  wife;  she  dying,  he  married 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Am.  Antiq.  Soc.  Coll.,  in.  269  ;  Andrews' 
Hist  New  Britain,  Conn.,  367;  Cothren's  Hist.  Woodbury,  Conn.,  577-9; 
Rhode  Island  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.,  in.  292,  293 ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  n.  492-5 ; 
Stiles'  Hist.  Windsor,  Conn.,  672,  673. 


GENEALOGIES. 

Rebecca  Turner,  Sept.  20,  1699.  He  exchanged  his  house 
and  land  at  Stratford,  with  Benjamin  Lewis,  for  his  house  and 
land  at  Wallingford,  in  1687.  The  town  of  Wallingford  set 
out  to  Dr.  Hull  a  tract  of  land  which  they  supposed  con- 
tained 700  acres,  lying  between  the  north  side  of  Broad 
Swamp  and  the  Quinnipiac  river,  the  east  and  west  bounda- 
ries not  being  so  clearly  defined.  This  grant  was  more  than 
a  mile  square,  and  was  known  as  Dr.  Hull's  large  farm. 

Children:   i   John,  b  March  14,  1661,  m  Mary ;  2 

Samuel,  b  Feb.  4,  1663  ;  3  Mary,  b  Oct.  31,  1666  ;  4  Joseph,  b 
1668,  m  Mary  Nichols  of  Derby  ;  5  Benjamin,  M.  D.,  b  Oct.  7, 

1672,  m    Elizabeth  Andrews,   Dec.    14,    1695  ;  6  Ebenezer,  b 

1673,  m  Lydia  Mix,  Mar.  4,  1706,  he  died  in  1709  ;  7  Rich- 
ard, b  1674;  8  Jeremiah,  M.  D.,  b  1679,  at  Derby,  m  Hannah 
Cook,  of  Wallingford  ;  9  Archer. 

I.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  Hull,  was  born  in  Stratford, 
March  14,  1661-2,  married  Mary ,  and  settled  in  Derby. 

Children  :   10  Deborah,  b  1691,  at  Derby ;  1 1  John,  b  1693  ; 
12  Daniel,  m  May  2,  1732  ;  13  Miles,  b  1700,  m  Mary  Tuttle, 
Dec.  4,  1729;  14  Ebenezer,  m  Hannah  Bates,   Sept.  i,  1734; 
15  Mary;  16  Martha;  17  Priscilla,  b  1702. 
4.  JOSEPH. 

CAPT.  JOSEPH  HULL,  of  Derby,  was  a  son  of  Dr.  John 
Hull  of  Wallingford.  He  married  Mary  Nichols  of  Derby, 
where  they  lived  and  died.  The  name  of  his  second  wife  was 
Hannah ,  whom  he  left  a  widow. 

Children:  18  Samuel,  b  1692,  had  a  family  in  Derby;  19 
Joseph,  b  1694,  left  3  children,  Sarah,  b  1726,  Joseph,  b  1737, 
Elizabeth,  b  1738  ;  20  Caleb,  b  Feb  4,  1695,  settled  in  Cheshire 
by  request  of  his  grandfather;  21  Abijah,  b  1697  ;  22  Archer, 

b  1698  ;  23  Sarah,  m Beach  of  Stamford ;  24  Mary, 

m Russel  of  Derby,  Conn. 

5.    BENJAMIN. 

DOCT.  BENJAMIN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  Hull,  came  to 
Wallingford  with  his  father  in  1687,  married  Elizabeth  An- 


8o8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

drews,  Dec.  14,  1693,      She  died  April  27,  1732.     He   died 
March  30,  1741. 

Children:  25  Andrew,  b  Aug.  17,  1694,  d  Dec.  10,1717; 
26  Mary,  b  Aug.  31,  1696,  m  Ebenezer  Bronson  ;  27  Elizabeth, 
b  April  8,  1698,  m  Nathaniel  Merriman,  Nov.  12,  1725  ;  28 
Damaris,  b  Feb.  4,  1700,  m  Elnathan  Street ;  29  John,  M.  D., 
b  Oct.  6,  1702,  m  Mary  Andrews  ;  30  Abigail,  b  Feb.  14, 
1704,  m  Ens.  Merriman  ;  31  Capt.  Samuel,  b  Sept.  i,  1706, 
m  Sarah  Hall,  Feb.  21,  1733  ;  32  Sarah,  b  March  30,  1710,111 
Samuel  Hall,  Dec.  27,  1733  ;  33  Benjamin,  M.  D.,  b  July  6, 
1712,  m  Hannah  Parmalee,  Dec.  17,  1735. 

6.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  Hull,  married  Lydia 
Mix,  May  7,  1706;  he  died  Nov.  9,  1709,  se.  36  years.  His 
widow  Lydia  administered  on  the  estate. 

Child  :  34  Hannah,  b  March  23,  1708. 
8.  JEREMIAH. 

DR.  JEREMIAH  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Hull  of  Wall- 
ingford,  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hope 
Cook,  May  24,  1711,  at  Wallingford ;  she  died  Dec.  u,  1741; 
he  died  May  14,  1736,  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  35  John,  b  Nov.  13,  1712,  m  Mary  Andrews, 
Oct.  26,  1735  ;  36  Moses,  b  Dec.  26,  1714,  d  June  3,  1736,  ae. 
22  yrs.  ;  37  Tabitha,  b  March  3,  1717  ;  38  Hannah,  b  March 
18,  1720;  39  Anna;  40  Jeremiah,  b  Jan.  5,  1729,  m  Mary 
Merriman  in  1753  ;  41  Joseph,  b  March  24,  1733,  m  Hannah 
Corbitt  in  1754;  42  Patience,  b  Oct.  20,  1735  ;  43  Keturah. 

II.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HULL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Jacobs  Hull,  of  Derby, 
was  born  Jan.  i,  1695. 

Children:  44  John,  b  Oct.  22,  1703;  45  Tamar,  b  Nov. 
27,  1705  ;  46  Mary,  b  Feb.  17,  1708  ;  47  Ebenezer,  b  Oct.  18, 
1715  ;  48  Susannah,  b  Sept.  29,  1726. 

12.     DANIEL. 

DANIEL  HULL,   son   of  John   of  Derby,   who  was  son  of 


GENEALOGIES.  809 

Dr.   John  Hulls  of  Wallingford,  married  Elizabeth  Lane  of 
Derby,  in  1731  or  1732. 

Children:    49   Daniel,   b    1734;   50  Samuel,   b    1735;  51 
Elizabeth,  b  1738  ;  52  Ebenezer,  b  1741  ;  53  John,  b  1744. 
13.  MILES. 

MILES  HULL,  son  of  John  of  Derby,  who  was  son  of  Dr. 
John  Hulls  ot  Wallingford,  married  Mary  Tuttle  of  Walling- 
ford, and  settled  in  that  plaqe. 

Children:  54  Martha,  b  Nov.  29,  1730,  d  in  infancy  ;  55 
Martha,  b  Nov.  23,  1732  ;  56  Esther,  b  Sept.  15,  1733  ',  57 
Elizabeth,  b  1735  >  5&  Elijah,  b  March  10,  1736,  d  May  19, 
T736;  59  Eunice,  b  March  29,  1738  ;  60  Mary,  b  July  15, 
1740;  6 1  Miles,  b  March  24,  1743,  m  Eunice  Hulls,  Dec.  4, 
1761  ;  62  Abigail,  b  June  n,  1745,  m  Elam  Cook,  Jan.  8, 
1761 ;  63  Abijah,  b  June  10,  1747. 

14.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  HULL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Hull  of  Derby, 
married  Hannah  Bates,  Sept.  i,  1731  ;  he  died  in  Walling- 
ford in  1774. 

Children:  64  Joseph,  b  Sept.,  1731,  d  March  13,  1732  ;  65 
Daniel,  b  Feb.  29,  1732  ;  66  Lydia,  b  April  14,  1734,  m 
Nicholas  Andrews  of  Wallingford  ;  67  Eunice,  b  1736,  m 
Miles  Hull  of  Cheshire  ;  68  Esther,  b  1737  ;  69  Anna,  b  Oct. 
13,  1738,  m  Elijah  Gaylord  of  Wallingford ;  70  Mary,  m 

Tuttle  of  Wallingford  ;  71  Joseph,  b  1740  ;  72  Rena  ; 

73  Joseph,  b  March  i,  1742  ;  74  Sarah,  m  Benjamin  Sperry 

of  Wallingford;  75  Ebenezer,  b  1750,  m  Patience ;  76 

Esther,  b  March  27,  1756,  survived  her  father. 

18.  .SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HULL,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  Hull  of  Derby,  who 
was  a  son  of  Dr.  John  Hull  of  Wallingford. 

Children:  77  Infant,  b  1725;  78  Hannah,  b  1726;  79 
Eunice,  b  1727. 

19.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HULL,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  Hull  of  Derby,  who 


8lO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

was  son  of  Dr.  John  Hull  of  Wallingford,  was  twice  married : 

ist,  to  Bertha  ,   2d,   to  Sarah  —    —  ;  he  died  June    12, 

1778,  ae.  85  yrs.     Mrs.  Sarah  died  at  the  age  of  92  yrs. 

Child  by  ist  marriage:  80  Temperance,  b  1714.  By  2d 
marriage:  81  Sarah,  b  1726,  m  Rev.  Dr.  Mansfield  of 
Derby,  Conn.;  82  Joseph,  b  1727,  m  Elizabeth  Masters,  she 
d  Feb.  n,  1825,  ae.  94  yrs. ;  83  Elizabeth,  b  1728,  d  in  1738, 
ae.  10  yrs. 

20.  CALEB. 

CALEB  HULL,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  and  Mary  Hull,  and 
grandson  of  Dr.  John  Hull,  of  Wallingford,  married  Mercy 
Benham,  of  Wallingford,  May  i,  1724 ;  he  was  then  28 
years  old.  The  chimney-place  of  his  residence  in  1751  is 
now  visible,  at  Broad  swamp,  so  called,  near  the  north- 
eastern part  of  Cheshire,  east  nearly  a  mile  from  the 
Jared  Bishop  place,  late  the  residence  of  Capt.  Munson  Cook, 
and  now  of  his  son  Joel  Cook.  She  died  April  19,  1766. 
He  died  Sept.,  1788.  In  1710,  he,  Caleb,  then  fourteen  years 
old,  received  from  his  grandfather,  Dr.  -John  Hull,  100  acres 
of  land,  deeded  to  Joseph  from  Caleb,  conditioned  that  Caleb 
should  come  and  live  with  him  till  21  years  old,  or  until 
his  decease.  Dr.  Hull  died  Dec.  6,  1711.  Doubtless  Caleb 
went.  The  100  acres  is  on  record. 

Children:  84  Sarah,  b  April  25,  1725,  m  Reuben  Atwater 
of  Cheshire;  85  Andrew,  b  Aug.  23,  1726,  d  Sept.  21,  1774, 
ae.  49  yrs.,  m  Lowly  Cook;  86  Mary,  b  Apr.  27,  1728,  m 
Jonathan  Hitchcock,  Oct.  3,  1745  ;  87  Samuel,  b  Mar.  22, 
1730,  m  Eunice  Cook  in  1753  ;  88  Joseph,  b  Aug.  29,  1732  ; 
89  Abijah,  b  Oct.  n,  1733,  d  Dec.  14,  1733  ;  90  Joseph,  b  June 
io,  1734,  d  Dec.  4,  1735  ;  91  Caleb,  b  May  21,  1735,  d  Aug-  8> 
J735  ;  92  Submit,  b  Dec.  12,  1736,  d  Feb.  13,  1737;  93 
Patience,  b  Oct.  15,  1740,  d  Sept.,  1764,  ae.  25  ;  94  Joseph,  b 
April  18,  1741 ;  95  Caleb,  b  Dec.  16,  1742,  d  June  4,  1767,  ae. 
25,  m  Mary  Street. 

21.  ABIJAH. 

ABIJAH  HULL,  son   of  Capt.    Joseph    and  Mary  Hull,  and 


GENEALOGIES.  8ll 

grandson   of  Dr.    John    and    Mary   Hull  of  Wallingford,  m 
Abigail  Harger,  of  Derby,  Nov.  20,  1727. 
Children  :  96  Esther,  b  1728 ;  97,  daughter. 

29.    JOHN. 

DR.  JOHN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  Hull, 
married  Sarah  Ives,  June  21,  1727.  She  died  Nov.  29,  1760. 
He  married  for  his  2d  wife,  Damaris  Frost,  Oct.  20,  1761. 
He  died  May  22,  1762-3. 

Children:  98  Zephaniah,  b  Aug.  15,  1728,  m  Hannah  Doo- 
little,  March  28,  1749  ;  99  John,  d  May  27,  1739  ;  100  Eliza- 
beth, b  Feb.  14,  1733,  m  Ephraim  Cook,  Jan.  i,  1752,  in  Che- 
shire ;  101  Sarah,  b  1737,  d  Jan.  23,  1740;  102  John,  b  Apr. 
17,  1739  ;  103  Desire,  b  June  6,  1740;  104  Sarah,\>  Sept.  17, 
1741;  105  John,  b  Feb.  15,  1744;  106  Amos,  b  May  27, 

1745,  m  ist,  Martha  Hitchcock,  1764,  2d, Norton. 

31.  SAMUEL. 

CAPT.  SAMUEL  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth 
Hull,  married  Sarah  Hall,  Feb.  21,  1733,  and  settled  in  Che- 
shire, where  he  died  Jan.  17,  1789,  ae.  82  years.  She  died 
June  n,  1763,  ae.  50  years.  He  was  born  in  1707. 

Children:  107  Sarah,  b  Jan.  26,  1734,  d  May  3,  1734;  108 
Samuel,  b  April  6,  1735,  d  May  22,  1735  ;  109  Samuel,  b  Aug. 
12,  1737,  m  Sarah  Humiston,  Jan.  22,  1761,  she  died  Sept.  4, 
1775,  ae.  31 ;  no,  HI  Sarah  and  Love,  b  Aug.  27,  1738,  the 
latter  m  Thomas  Atwater,  Dec.  8,  1757  ;  112  Jesse,  b  Jan.  27, 
1745,  m  Ruth  Preston,  he  settled  on  a  farm  at  Broad  Swamp, 
Cheshire;  113  Benjamin,  b  about  1775,  m  Mary  Andrews; 
\\4,Levi,  d  Oct.  30,  1751.  The  last  two  were  by  2d  marriage. 

33.    BENJAMIN. 

DR.  BENJAMIN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin,  son  of  Dr. 
John  Hull,  of  Wallingford,  married  Hannah  Parmalee,  Dec. 
17,  1735- 

Children:  115  Patience,  b  1736;  116  Phebe,  b  May  2,  1737; 
117  Hannah,  b  May  3,  1739  ;  118  Dr.  Benjamin,  b  Oct.  20, 
1741,  m  Esther ,  in  1763;  119,  120  Eliakim,  and 


8 12  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Charles,  b  May  i,  1744,  the  Latter  settled  in  Wallingford,  m 
Sarah  Atwater,  he  died  May  4,  1819;  121  Sybil,  b  Aug.  15, 
1746,  d  June  2,  1758;  122  Joel,  b  Aug.  6,  1749,  settled  in 

Yalesville,  m  Sarah ,  she  d  Aug.  23,   1816  ;  123  Beda, 

b  April  n,  1753;  124  Lois,  b  Jan.  i,  1757;  125  Asahel,\> 
Aug.  4,  1759,  settled  in  Wallingford  ;  126  Ephraim,  b  1767. 

35-  J°HN- 

DR.  JOHN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Jeremiah  and  Hannah  Cook 
Hull,  married  Mary  Andrews,  Oct.  26,  1735  ;  he  died  Aug. 
15,  1755  ')  m  2d>  Damaris  Frost,  Oct.  20,  1761. 

Children:   127  Sarah,  b  Jan.  12,  1736  ;  128  Molly,  b  March 

12,  1738,  m  Thomas  Shephard,   May  5,   1732  ;  129  Sarah,  b 
Sept.  17,  1741,  m  Col.  Asa,  father  of  Hoadly  Brothers,  late 
of  East  Haven;  130  Moses,  m  Mary  Ives,   April  28,    1757  ; 

131  John,  b  March  7,  1741-2,  m  Lois  Beadles,  March,  1759  ; 

132  Nathaniel,  b  March  17,  1743,  m  Mehitable  Beadles,  April 

13,  1763  ;  133  Aaron,   b  July  17,   1745  ;   134   Abigail,  b  Dec. 
i,  1747  ;   135  Hannah,  b  July  6,  1750. 

40.    JEREMIAH. 

JEREMIAH  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Jeremiah  and  Hannah 
Cook  Hull,  and  grandson  of  Dr.  John  Hull,  married  Mary 
Merriman,  Jan.  18,  1753.  She  died  Aug.  22,  1774,  ae.  41 
years.  He  died  Aug.  24,  1790,  ae.  60.  He  was  twice 
married. 

Children:   136  Caleb,  b   Dec.  i,   1753,  m Tyler;  137 

jferemiah,  m  ist,  Sarah ,  2nd,  Phebe  Hart ;  138,  Sam- 
uel, m  Lois  Peck  of  Wallingford  ;  139  Ann,  m  Jacob  Rice. 
By  2nd  marriage:  140  Benjamin;  141  Levi,  m  and  settled 
near  his  brother  Jeremiah  in  Wallingford;  142  Hannah,  m 

—  Heath  in  Wallingford  ;    143  Eunice,  m  Pratt  of 

Essex,  Ct. 

41.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Jeremiah  and  Hannah  Cook 
Hull,  married  Hannah  Corbitt  in  1754.  I  have  been  unable 
to  ascertain  when  they  died.  They  may  have  removed  from 
Wallingford  in  early  life. 


GENEALOGIES.  813 

Children:  144  Mary,  b  Sept.  20,  1755;  145  Caldwell,  b 
Jan.  2,  1759. 

6l.    MILES. 

CAPT.  MILES  HULL,  son  of  Miles  and  Mary  Hull,  married 
Eunice,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah  Hull  of  Walling- 
ford,  Dec.  4,  1761.  He  died  at  Cheshire.  When  living  he 
owned  the  farms  of  the  late  Jared  Bishop,  and  Capt.  Munson 
Cook. 

Children:  146  A mzi,  went  to  Canada;  147  Luther;  148 
Miles ;  149  Polly,  m  Levi  Douglas  of  Meriden  ;  150  Daughter, 
m Sizer,  of  Meriden. 

75.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  HULL,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah  Bates 

Hull,  m  Patience  .  He  was  a  farmer  at  what  is  now 

Yalesville,  where  he  died  June  10,  1807,  ae.  57  years.  She 
died  a  few  years  later. 

Children:  151  Joseph,  m  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Josiah 
Mix  ;  152  Ira,  d  unmarried  in  1812,  at  Broadswamp,  Che- 
shire ;  153  Sarah,  m  Amos  Austin  of  Meriden  ;  154  Amy,  m 
Lyman  Hitchcock,  son  of  Dan . 

85.  ANDREW. 

ANDREW  HULL,  son  of  Caleb,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph,  son  of 
Dr.  John  Hull  of  Wallingford,  married  Lowly  Cook,  daugh- 
ter of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Hannah  Cook  of  Wallingford,  Oct. 
17,  1730.  He  died  Sept.  21,  1774,  ae.  49.  He  owned  the 
large  farm  which  Elias  Gaylord's  heirs  and  George  Bristol  now 
own,  near  Cheshire  street,  bounded  north  by  the  river.  Mrs. 
Lowly  Hull  died  about  1785. 

Children:  155  Damaris,  b  Sept.  29,  1749  ;  156  Lowly,  b 
July  16,  1753  ;  157  Hannah,  b  Dec.  16,  1754;  158  Damaris, 
b  Sept.  18,  1755  ;  159  Andrew,  b  Oct.  6,  1758,  m  Elizabeth 
Mary  Ann  Atwater ;  160  Sarah;  161  Ursula,  b  Nov.  10, 
1760  ;  162  Mary  ;  163  Esther;  164  Susan;  165  Lovisa,  m  Dr. 
Hall,  went  to  Vermont. 


8 14  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

87.   SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HULL,  son  of  Caleb,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph,  the  son 
of  Dr.  John  Hulls  of  Wallingford,  married  Eunice  Cook, 
daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Hannah  Cook  of  Wallingford, 
Dec.  26,  1753.  He  died  April  27,  1791,  ae.  62.  She  died 
May  9,  1803,  ae.  68  years. 

Children  :  166  Infant  son,  b  Jan.  i,  1755  ;  167  Jedediah,  b 
Feb.  26,  1756;  168  Infant  son,  b  Feb  2,  1758,  d  same  day; 

169  Samuel,  b  May  27,  1759,  d  Feb.  20,    1840,  ae.   80  years; 

170  Zephaniah,  b  May  i,  1761,  settled  in  Wallingford,  Vt.,  and 
d  Feb.  20,  1840  ;  171  Epaphras,  b  April  9,  1763,  d  April   13, 
1827,  in  Wallingford,  Vt.  ;  172  Eunice,  b  April    16,  1765,    d 
Dec.  18,  1820,  m  Sheriff  Whipple,  Cazenovia,   N.  Y. ;    173 
Lois,   b  Feb.  i,  1769,  d  Oct.  20,  1777  ;  174   Caleb,  b  Nov.  9, 
1768,  d  Aug.  9,  1816,   at  Wallingford,  Vt.  ;    175  Elizabeth,  b 
Oct.  28,  1770,    d  Oct.   13,   1777  ;    176  Josephus,  b   Aug.   24, 
1772,  d  March  18,  1813,  at  Wallingford,  Vt.  ;   177  Hannah,  b 
Oct.  n,  1775,  m  A.  Meacham,  Wallingford,  Vt,  d  1850. 

95.  CALEB. 

CALEB  HULL,  son  of  Caleb,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph,  son  of 
Dr.  John  Hulls,  of  Wallingford,  married  Mary  Street ;  he  died 
June  4,  1767,  as.  25. 

Children:  178  Ambrose;  179  Abraham;  180  Mary,  m 
Hudson,  he  was  drowned. 

98.    ZEPHANIAH. 

DR.  ZEPHANIAH  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John,  son  of  Dr.  Ben- 
jamin and  Elizabeth  Hull,  married  Hannah  Cook,  March  28, 
1749,  and  settled  in  Bethlem,  Conn.,  probably  through  the 
inducement  of  Rev.  Dr.  Bellamy,  with  whom  a  close  intimacy 
and  warm  friendship  existed  until  death  separated  them.  He 
died  Nov.  10,  1760.  She  died  the  same  day,  both  suddenly. 

Children:  181  Lydia,  b  Dec.  22,  1749,  d  Feb.  21,  1750; 
182  Titus,  M.  D.,  b  March  25,  1751,  he  went  to  Danbury  in 
1805,  then  to  State  of  N.  Y.  ;  183  Lydia,  b  July  23,  1753,  m 
Ja.  Judson,  March  21,  1769,  by  whom  she  had  four  children, 


GENEALOGIES.  815 

married  2d,  Amasa  Clark,  of  Cheshire  ;  184  Andrew,  b  Dec. 
8,  1754,  settled  at  Cheshire  ;  185  Hannah,  b  Jan.  28,  1757,  d 
Nov.  16,  1760;  186  Sarah,  b  May  17,  1759,  d  Nov.  16,  1760. 

105.  JOHN. 

JOHN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  and   Sarah  Ives   Hull,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Hitchcock,  Dec.  13,  1764. 
Child  :  187  John,  b  Oct.  8,  1765. 

1 06.  AMOS. 

DR.  AMOS  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Sarah  Hull,  married 
Martha  Hitchcock,  March  2,  1764. 

Child :  188  Dr.  Amos  G.,  m  Lydia  Cook,  dau.  of  Aaron  of 
Wallingford,  for  his  last  wife. 

109.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HULL,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Sarah  Hull  of 
Cheshire,  married  Sarah  Humiston,  Jan.  22,  1761.  She  died 

Sept.  4,  1775,  ae.  31  years.  He  married  Hannah for  2d 

wife,  and  she  died  April  4,  1811,  ae.  62  years. 

Child  :  189  Samuel,  b  1777,  m  Alma,  dau.  of  Jesse  and 
Lois  Humiston,  of  Cheshire,  he  was  a  saddler  and  harness- 
maker  of  Cheshire,  he  died  May  5,  1831,  ae.  54,  leaving 
one  daughter,  Alma,  wife  of  Wm.  Kelsey,  Esq. 

112.    JESSE. 

JESSE  HULL,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Sarah  Hull,  was  six 
years  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  married  Ruth  Preston, 
and  settled  in  Cheshire,  where  they  died. 

Children:  190  Samuel,  b  1769,  d  in  Cheshire,  ae.  90;  191 
Thelus,  went  to  Ohio,  and  has  descendants  there ;  192  eight 
daughters,  most  of  whom  went  to  western  New  York. 

113.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  HULL,  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Hannah  Hull, 

married  Mary ;  he  was  a  large  landholder  in  Broad 

Swamp,  Cheshire.  He  died  May  3,  1835,  ae.  63  years.  She 
died  Nov.  3,  1838,  ae.  63  years. 

Children :   193  Rice  Andrew,  went  to  Canada  ;  194  Lucy,m. 


8l6  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Samuel  U.  Beach,  of  Cheshire  ;  195  Chauncey,  b  1794,  d  Aug. 

2,   1830,35.    36    yrs.  ;   196    Darius,  m    Martha   — ;   197 

Amasa,  b  1806,  d  in  Cheshire;  198  Benjamin,  b  1806,  d  April 
6,  1812,  as.  6  yrs. ;  199  Abiathar,  b  1814,  d  Oct.  10,  1839,  ae. 
25  yrs.  ;  200  Samuel  Lee,  b  1818,  d  Jan.  8,  1838,  ae.  20  yrs. 

1 1 8.  BENJAMIN. 
DR.  BENJAMIN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.   Benjamin   and  Hannah 

Hull,  married  Esther ,  1763. 

Child:  201  Benjamin,  b  Dec.  n,  1763. 

1 2O.    CHARLES. 

CHARLES  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and  Hannah  Hull, 
married  Sarah  Atwater,  and  when  living,  owned  what  is  now 
known  as  the  Ruggles  farm  at  Yalesville  in  Wallingford  ;  he 
died  May  4,  1819,  ae.  75.  His  widow  married  Aaron  Hall  of 
Wallingford. 

Children:  202  Lucinda,  b  1760,  d  April  n,  1833,  ae.  73 
yrs.,  m  Thomas  Ruggles;  203  Lucia,  b  1778,  d  Sept.  8,  1848, 
82.  70  yrs,  m  Barney  McCarthy. 

122.  JOEL. 

JOEL  HULL,  son  of  Dr.   Benjamin   and   Hannah   Hull,  m 

Sarah .     She  died  Aug  23,  1816,  ae.  59,  in  Wallingford. 

He  sold  his  farm,  which  is  the  one  now  owned  by  the  heirs 
of  Ransom  Jeralds  at  Yalesville,  and  removed  to  Ohio,  where 
he  died. 

Child  :  204  Anson,  an  only  son,  d  in  Ohio. 

130.  MOSES. 

MOSES  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  Hull,  married 
Mary  Ives,  April  28,  1757.  He  lived,  and  I  suppose,  built 
the  house  where  Thomas  Berry  lived  in  his  old  age,  and  where 
he  died.  The  grandson  of  Mr.  Berry  now  (  1870 )  occupies 
the  old  house. 

131.  JOHN. 

JOHN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  Hull,  married  ist, 
Lois  Beadles,  March  20,  1759.  She  died  Sept.  6,  1802,  ae. 


GENEALOGIES. 

59  yrs.     He  married  Phebe for  his  second  wife.     She 

died  Sept.  3,  1834,  ae.  93.  He  died  Oct.  6,  1828,  ae.  88  yrs. 
He  was  a  large  and  enterprising  farmer,  and  owned  and 
occupied  the  house  and  land  now  belonging  to  Mr.  Durand, 
near  Yalesville. 

Children:  205  Nathaniel,  b   Sept.  7,   1759,  d  in  infancy; 

206  Mary,  b  Aug.   30,   1762,  m Beach;  207  Sarah,  m 

Samuel  Wolcott;  208  Sally,  m  Reuben  Ives  ;  209  Eunice,  m 
Ephraim  A.  Humiston ;  210  Melinda,  m  Samuel  J.  Simpson; 
211  Diana,  m  Benjamin  T.  Cook. 

132.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  Hull,  married 
Mehitable  Beadles,  April  13,  1760. 

Children:  212  Daughter,  m  Jonsey  Curtis;  213  Wyllis,\> 
1760,  in  Mehitable  Mix,  sister  of  John  Mix,  he  d  May  8, 
1830,  ae.  70;  214  Mary;  215  George. 

133.    AARON. 

AARON  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  Hull,  settled  in 
Meriden,  was  a  farmer  and  a  peddler  of  tin  ware. 

Children:    216    Joel,   m    Hannah    Hall,   of   Wallingford, 
daughter  of  Dickerman  Hall ;  2 1 7  Cornelius. 

137.    JEREMIAH. 

JEREMIAH  HULL,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  Hull,  m  ist, 

Sarah  ,  2d,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Hart  of 

Wallingford.  He  was  a  noted  peddler  and  farmer.  Mrs. 
Sarah  died  at  the  age  of  27  years.  Mrs.  Phebe  died  Nov.  9, 
1855,  ae-  84-  He  died  Oct.  10,  1843,  ae-  81  yrs. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  218  Alma,  m  Ira  Morse  of 
Wallingford  ;  219  Julia,  m  Ira  Andrews  of  Wallingford.  By 
2d  marriage:  220  Philo,  m  Betsey  Cook  of  Wallingford  ;  221 
Hiram,  m  Caroline  Ives  of  Wallingford ;  222  Mary,  res. 
Wallingford,  old  homestead ;  223  Lucy,  m  Senator  Blakeslee, 
of  Wallingford;  224  Orrin,  m  Ann  Dowd  ;  225  Jeremiah,  m 
Sophronia  Dudley. 


8l8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

138.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HULL,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  Hull,  married 
Lois  Peck,  and  settled  on  the  old  homestead  of  his  father ; 
he  was  an  enterprising  farmer  in  the  north  part  of  Walling- 
ford. 

Children :  226  William,  m  Alma,  dau.  of  Reuben  Hall  ; 
227  Sylvester,  m  Delilah,  dau.  of  Benijah  Morse  ;  228  Lois,  m 
Miles,  son  of  Ichabod  Ives. 

151.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  HULL,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Patience  Hull,  mar- 
ried Rebecca,  daughter  of  Josiah  Mix;  he  died  of  a  wound 
in  his  knee  joint,  produced  by  an  axe  in  his  own  hands  while 
pruning  apple  trees  for  the  late  Chester  Cook,  March,  1818. 

Children:  229  James  Mix;  230  Maria,  m  Jonathan  Ives, 
of  Meriden  ;  231  Nancy;  232  Rebecca. 

152.    IRA. 

IRA  HULL,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Patience  Hull,  died  un- 
married at  Cheshire  in  1812,  and  by  his  will  gave  his  real 
estate  to  his  sister  Amy,  she  paying  the  legacies  named  therein. 

159.   ANDREW. 

GEN.  ANDREW  HULL,  son  of  Andrew  and  Lowly  Hull,  of 
Cheshire,  married  Elizabeth  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Reuben 
Atwater,  of  Cheshire.  He  was  a  highly  respectable  gentle- 
man, merchant  and  farmer ;  he  died  in  Cheshire. 

Children :  233  Etidocia,  m  Gov.  Samuel  A.  Foot,  of  Che- 
shire ;  234  infant  son,  d  in  infancy  ;  235  Merab,  m  Henry 
Whittelsey,  of  Cheshire  ;  236  Elizabeth,  m  Rev.  Dr.  A.  Todd, 
of  Stamford  ;  237  Mary  A.,  m  Wm.  R.  Hitchcock,  of  Che- 
shire ;  238  Sarah,  m  Rev.  Mr.  Cloud  ;  239  Adeline,  m  Rev. 
Mr.  Mason. 

169.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HULL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eunice  Hull,  married 
Abigail  Doolittle  ;  she  was  born  May  26,  1766.  He  was  a 
farmer  in  the  northern  part  of  Cheshire,  where  he  died,  Oct. 
27,  1828,  ae.  70  yrs.  Mrs.  Abigail  died  Oct.  10,  1835,  ae.  69. 


GENEALOGIES. 

Children:  240  Stella,  b  March  27,  1786,  m  Jonathan  Law, 
Esq.,  she  d  Dec.  13,  1841,  ae.  56  yrs. ;  241  Jedediah,  b  1788, 
was  insane  ;  242  Ann,  b  1793,  d  Aug.  27,  1818,  ae.  25  yrs.  ; 
243  Abigail  Ann,  b  Jan.  13,  1794;  244  Linda,  b  Feb.  6,  1796, 
m  David  Brooks  of  Cheshire,  she  d  ae.  69  yrs. ;  245  Eunice, 
b  Nov.  12,  1798,  m  Birdsey  Booth,  late  of  Cuyahoga  Falls, 
Ohio  ;  246  Charlotte  L.,  b  Sept.  9,  1800,  m  John  Olmstead, 
late  of  Hartford,  Conn. ;  247  Samuel  Cook,  b  Aug.  4,  1802,  d 
Aug.  26,  1804 ;  248  Samuel,  b  .Feb.  4,  1805,  d  at  Morris, 
Grundy  Co.,  Illinois;  249  Julius,  b  July  i,  1807,  m  Lucy 
Ives,  and  went  to  Ohio  ;  250  Andrew  Franklin,  b  Jan.  13, 
1811,  m  Adeline  Munson,  he  d  Jan.  i,  1845,  ae.  34  yrs. 

182.  TITUS. 

DR.  TITUS  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Zephaniah  and  Hannah  Hull, 
studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Seth  Bird,  of  Litchfield,  and  set- 
tled in  Bethlem ;  went  in  1805  to  Danbury.  Ct.  In  the 
autumn  of  1807,  he  went  to  the  state  of  New  York.  He 
married  Lucy  Parmelee,  daughter  of  Jonathan  of  Chatham, 
by  whom  he  had  two  children,  both  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 
Mrs.  Lucy  died  in  Nov.,  1776.  In  1778  he  married  Olive 
Parmelee,  widow  of  Abram  of  Goshen,  her  mother  being  a 
descendant  of  the  Strong  family  of  Northampton,  Mass.  He 
died  Sept.  3,  1852. 

Children  :  251  Lawrence,  M.  D.,  b  June  6,  1779,  m  Dorcas 
Ambler  of  Bethlem,  in  1803,  and  had  6  sons  and  3  daus. ; 

252  Althea,  b   Aug.   18,  1780,  has  six  sons  and  a  daughter; 

253  Charles,  b  Jan.  4,  1782,  was  a  physician,  and  practiced  in 
Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.,  and  d  in  1833,  leaving  a  son  and  3  daus., 
all  married  ;  254  Betsey  M.,  b  Sept.  17,    1783  ;  255   Elias,  fc> 
April  3,  1786,  has  2  chil.  and  lived  in  Alabama;  256  Lucy,  b 
Aug.  23,  1788,  m  Ezra  Starr,  Oct.  17,  1807  ;  257    Olive  E.,  b 
May  13, 1790,  m  Col.  Elijah  Morse  of  Eaton  ;  258  Andrew  C., 
b  Oct.  28,   1792,  m  Betsey  Morse,  in  1818,  at  Eaton;  259 
Leverett,  b  Dec.  3,  1796,  m  Julia  Scoville  of  Salisbury,  Ct.,  in 
1829;  260  Rufus  Lewis,  died  in  childhood. 


82O  'HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

184.    ANDREW. 

ANDREW  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Zephaniah  and  Hannah  Hull, 
after  the  decease  of  his  father,  went  to  live  with  his  great- 
grandfather on  his  mother's  side,  at  Cheshire,  from  whom  he 
received  an  estate  on  which  he  continued  to  reside  until  his 

death.  He  married  Naomi .  She  died  Oct.  28,  1824, 

ae.  70  yrs.  He  died  March  31,  1824,  ae.  70  yrs.,  much  lamented. 

Child :  261  Naomi  H.,  m  Mr.  Wm.  Brown,  of  New  Haven, 
who  was  lost  at  sea.  She  was  the  mother  of  Wm.  A.  Brown, 
of  Cheshire,  and  also  of  Mrs.  Alfred  Doolittle. 

187.  JOHN. 

JOHN  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Sarah  Hull,  married 
Hannah  Hitchcock,  Dec.  13,  1764.  I  find  no  further  ac- 
count of  them. 

Child  :  262  John,  b  Oct.  8,  1765. 

1 88.  AMOS. 

DR.  AMOS  GOULD  HULL,  son  of  Dr.  Amos  Hull,  who  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Dr.  Norton  of  Cheshire,  and  was  the  in- 
ventor of  the  celebrated  Hull  truss,  married  Lydia  Cook, 
daughter  of  Aaron  and  Elizabeth  Cook  of  Wallingford. 

Child  by  Lydia,   2d  or  3d  wife :  263  Aaron   Cook,  was  a 
physician  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  is  deceased. 
190.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  HULL,  son  of  Jesse  and  Ruth  Preston  Hull,  mar- 
ried    Manwaring,  of  Essex,  and  settled  at  the  old 

home  of  his  father,  where  he  died  Dec.  8,  1857,  ae.  90  years. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  during  his  long  life  maintained  the 
character  of  an  honest  man. 

Children:    264    Caleb   £.,  resides    near  Wallingford  line, 
Cheshire;  265  Josiah  M.,  resides  in  Cheshire,  a  farmer;  266 
Samuel   T.,    resides    in  Cheshire,   a  farmer ;   267   Richard  S., 
grad.  at  Yale  College,  is  a  lawyer  in  New  Haven. 
195.    CHAUNCEY. 

CHAUNCEY  HULL,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Hull,  mar- 
ried Hannah,  daughter  of  Jonah  Hotchkiss,  of  Cheshire ;  he 


GENEALOGIES.  821 

died  Aug.  2,    1830,   leaving  several  children,  most  of  whose 
names  are  to  me  unknown. 

Child:  268  Chauncey,  d  Jan.  i,  1821,  ae.  4  yrs. 
196.   DARIUS. 

DARIUS  HULL,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Hull,  married 

Martha .     She  died   March    16,    1858,  ae.  53  yrs.     He 

has  a  considerable  family  of  children,  names  unknown  to  me. 
He  still  lives  at  Cheshire. 


HUMISTON. 

HENRY. 

HENRY  HUMISTON  was  at  New  Haven  as  early  as  1650 ; 
he  married  Joanna  Walker,  Aug.  28,  1651.  He  died  Jan.  16, 
1663. 

Children  :  i  Samuel,  b  Aug.  7,  1650  ;  2  Nathaniel,  b  Jan. 
13,  1654  ;  3  Thomas,  b  Oct.  19,  1656  ;  4  Abigail,  b  May 
17,  1661. 

Two  of  the  name  were  at  Wallingford  about  the  commence- 
ment of  the  last  century,  viz.,  James  and  John,  both  from 
New  Haven.  John  Humiston  married  Hannah  Royce,  of 
Wallingford,  June  28,  1711,  but  it  does  not  appear  that  he 
settled  in  Wallingford.  James  Humiston  married  Sarah 
Atwater,  Jan.  7,  1719,  and  remained  in  Wallingford.  He 
died  Aug.  17,  1747. 

Children:  5  Daniel,  b  Nov.  16,  1721,  m  Lydia ;  6 

Stephen,\>  Nov.  9,  1723;  7  Noah,  b  March  i,  1729,  d  Sept. 
3,  1729;  8  James,\>  Oct.  28,  1734,  m  Abiah  Ives,  Feb.  4, 
1755-6,  2d  Hannah :  9  Noah,  d  June  13,  1745. 

5.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  HUMISTON,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  Humiston, 

married  Lydia  ,  and  settled  in  Cheshire,  where  he 

died  July  27,  1767,  ae.  46  yrs.  She  died  Jan.  i,  1809,  ae. 
83  yrs. 

Children:  10  Sarah.,  b  Dec.  14,  1744;  n  Hannah,  b 
March  2,  1745;  12  Stephen,  b  July  17,  1751;  13  Lydia,  b 
D  D  D 


822  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

March  17,  1754;  14  Patience,  b  Nov.  28,  1756;  15  Daniel, 
b  April  10,  1759;  16  Daniel,  b  1760,  d  Nov.  7,  1783;  17 
y<?/$#,  b  June  30,  1761  ;  18  Jesse,  b  March  12,  1764,  m  Lois, 
dau.  of  Amos  Doolittle,  of  Cheshire. 

8.    JAMES. 

JAMES  HUMISTON,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  Humiston, 

married  Abiah  or  Abigail  ,  and  settled  on  a  farm  at 

Gitteau's  Corner,  now  known  as  the  Humiston  farm.  He 
died  in  Wallingford,  Feb.  18,  1812,  ae.  77  yrs.  She  died 
Dec.  19,  1761. 

Children :  19  James,  owner  of  Humiston's  Mills,  Wall- 
ingford ;  20  Linus,  went  to  Ohio. 

1 8.  JESSE. 

JESSE  HUMISTON,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lydia  Humiston  of 
Wallingford,  married  Lois,  daughter  of  Amos  Doolittle 
of  Cheshire,  and  settled  on  a  farm  about  a  mile  west  of  the 
railroad  depot,  in  Cheshire.  His  decease  occurred  March 
12,  1832,  at  the  age  of  68  ;  Mrs  Lois  Humiston  died  Feb.  8, 
1847,  ae.  87  years. 

Children:  21  Daniel,  m  Juliana  Ives,  daughter  of  Jared  ; 
22  Jesse  A.,  m  Lois  Preston,  dau.  of  Reuben;  23  Alma,  m 
Samuel  Hull  of  Cheshire ;  24  John,  m  Rhoda  Nichols,  of 
Wolcott,  Conn. 

19.  JAMES. 

JAMES  HUMISTON  was  the  proprietor  of  the  mills  about  a 
mile  west  of  the  village  of  Wallingford,  and  was  extensively 
engaged  in  wool-carding  and  cloth-dressing,  as  well  as  milling. 

Children:  25  Chauncey ;  26  Nancy,  m  Almon  Preston;  27 
Betsey,  m  Harmon  Morse  ;  28  Maria,  m  Samuel  Allen  ;  Ly- 
man,  m  Jennie  Johnson ;  Charles,  m  Lucy  Bronson. 

20.  LINUS. 

LINUS  HUMISTON  went  to  Ohio  many  years  ago,  with  his 
family.  When  in  Wallingford,  he  resided  on  the  old  Humis- 
ton place,  Gitteau's  Corner. 

Children  :  29  Miles;  30  Samuel;  3 \  Philo ;  32  Mary:  33 
Hannah. 


GENEALOGIES.  823 

21.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  HUMISTON,  son  of  Jesse  and  Lois  Humiston, 
married  Juliana,  daughter  of  Jared  Ives,  of  Cheshire.  He 
died  in  1866. 

Children  :  34  Chauncey  A.;  35  John  D.,  m  Emily  Barns,  of 
Cheshire  ;  36  Julia  Ann,  b  1822. 

22.    JESSE. 

JESSE  A.  HUMISTON,  son  of  Jesse  and  Lois  Humiston, 
married  Lois  Preston. 

Children :  37  Lauren  A.,  m  Hannah  Moss ;  38  Lois,  m 
Elam  Cook. 

24.    JOHN. 

JOHN  HUMISTON,  son  of  Jesse  and  Lois  Humiston, 
married  Rhoda  Nichols,  daughter  of  the  late  Samuel  Nichols, 
of  Wolcott.  He  died  in  Cheshire. 

Children  :  39    Jesse,  removed  to  the  state  of  New  York  ; 
40  John  Latimer,  res.  in  Cheshire. 
EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  A.  HUMISTON  came  from  North  Haven,  and 
married  a  daughter  of  John  Hull,  and  settled  on  the  old 
Henry  and  Russel  farm,  and  died  there. 

Children:  41  Sherlock;  42  Hiram;  43  Diana;  44  Willis, 
has  become  wealthy,  and  res.  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 


IVES.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  IVES  was  the  first  of  the  name  that  settled  at  Walling- 
ford.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Meriden.  I  have  been  unable  to 
determine  his  previous  residence  or  place  of  nativity. 

Children:  i  John,  b  Nov.  16,  1669,  d  1738  ae.  69  yrs ;  2 
Hannah,  m  Joseph  Benham,  Aug.  17,  1682  ;  3  Joseph,  b  Oct. 
14,  1674,  m  Esther  Benedict,  May  n,  1697;  4  Gideon,  m 
Mary  Royce,  Feb  20,  1706  ;  5  Nathaniel,  b  May  31,  1677,  m 

i  See  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  n.  525. 


824  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Mary  Cook,  April  5,  1699  ;  6  Ebenezer,  m   Elizabeth  —    — ;  7 
Samuel,  b  June  5,  1696  ;  8  Benjamin,  b  Nov.  22,  1699. 

I.    JOHN. 

JOHN  Ives,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Ives,  married  Mary 
Gillette,  Dec.  6,  1693.  He  died  in  Meriden,  1738,  ae.  69  yrs. 

Children:  9  John,  b  Sept.  28,  1694,  m  Hannah  Royce,  he 
d  Aug.  4,  1745  ;  10  Samuel,  b  Jan.  5,  1696,  m  Phebe  Royce, 
Jan.  28,  1720;  ii  Benjamin,  b  Nov.  22,  1699,  m  ist,  Rebecca 
Merrimanr  2d,  Hannah  Moss;  12  Abijah,  b  March  14,  1700, 
m  Abigail  Mix,  May,  1730  ;  13  Mary,  b  March  10,  1702  ;  14 
Lazarus,  b  Feb.  5,  1703,  m  Mabel  Jerome,  Jan.  5,  1730  ;  15 
.Daniel,  b  Feb.  19,  1706,  m  Abigail  -  —  ;  16  Hannah,  b  Feb. 
10,  1708;  17  Abraham,  b  Sept.  2,  1709,  m  Elizabeth  Stanley, 
he  d  Aug.  4,  1735  ;  18  Bezaleel,  b  July  4,  1712,  d  Oct.  28, 
1714  ;  19  Bezaleel,  b  1726,  m  Hannah  Merriman. 
3.  JOSEPH. 

DEA.  JOSEPH  IVES,  son  of  John,  married  Esther  Benedict, 
May  n,  1697,  in  the  south-west  part  of  Wallingford.  He 
married  Mamre  Munson  for  his  second  wife,  June  13,  1733  ; 
he  died  March  18,  1755,  ae.  81  yrs. 

Children:  20  Thomas,  b  May  30,  1698;  21  Elizabeth,  b 
Feb.  6,  1700;  22  Hannah,  b  Oct.  13,  1701  ;  23  Abigail,  b 
Aug.  27,  1704 ;  24  Esther,  b  Jan.  17,  1706  ;  25  Joseph,  b  Dec. 
10,  1709,  m  Maria—  — ;  26  Phineas,  b  April  8,  1711;  27 
Nathaniel,  b  Jan.  15,  1714;  28  Ephraim,  b  Jan.  4,  1717  ;  29 
Dinah,  b  April  4,  1721. 

4.    GIDEON. 

GIDEON  IVES,  son  of  John,  m  Mary  Royce,  Feb.  20,  1706  ; 
he  was  at  Wallingford  before  1700.  She  died  Oct.  15,  1742, 
ae.  56  yrs. 

Children  :  30  Sarah,  b  Sept.  8,  1708  ;  31  Jotham,  b  Sept. 
20,  1710,  d  Sept.  2,  1753;  32  Amasa,\>  Aug.  24,  1712;  33 
Rhoda,  b  Dec.  12,  1714;  34  Martha,  b  Aug.  10,  1716;  35 
Amasa,  b  Nov.  15,  1718;  36  Gideon,  b  Sept.  24,  1720;  37 
Joel,  b  Jan.  13,  1723  :  38  Mary,  b  Dec.  16,  1724  ;  39  Susan- 
nah, b  May  26,  1727  ;  40  Esther,  b  Oct.  14,  1729. 


GENEALOGIES.  825 

5.  NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  IVES,  son  of  John,  married  Mary  Cook,  April 
5,  1699,  and  settled  in  the  south-west  part  of  the  town  ;  he 
died  Nov.  6,  1711. 

Children:  41  Caleb,  b  Feb.  3,  1700,  d  Nov.  6,  1710  ;  42 
Caleb;  43  Stephen,  b  March  24,  1704,  m  Sarah  Hart,  Oct.  25, 
1730;  44  Thankful,  b  Aug.  4,  1708  ;  45  Abel,  b  May  6,  1711, 
m  Sarah  Reed,  March  25,  1736. 

9.  JOHN. 

JOHN  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Ives,  married  Hannah 
Royce,  Dec.  18,  1719.  He  died  Aug.  4,  1795.  She  died  Nov. 
5,  1770,  ae.  70  yrs.,  at  Meriden  ;  was  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  Royce. 

Children:  46  Eunice,  b  April  20,  1721,  d  Sept.  n,  1727; 
47  Anna,  b  April  20,  1725  ;  48  Eunice,  b  Sept.  n,  1727,  d 
Sept.  13,  1727  ;  49  John,  b  July  4,  1729  ;  50  Titus,  b  Feb.  17, 
1732  ;  51  Levi,  b  Jan.  19,  1733  ;  52,  53  Joseph  and  John,  b 
April  2,  1735  ;  54  Levi,  b  July  30,  1736,  d  Dec.  20,  1739;  55 
Jesse,  b  April  2,  1738  ;  56  Joseph,  b  June,  1745  ;  57  Jesse. 

10.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Ives,  married  Phebe 
Royce,  Jan.  28,  1720.  He  died  Aug.  29,  1734. 

Children:  58  Mehitable,  b  March  29,  1724  ;  59  Bezaleel,  b 
Dec.  14,  1726  ;  60  Samuel,  b  Jan.  28,  1733. 

II.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Royce,  married  ist, 
Hannah  Moss,  May  6,  1728. 

Children:  61  Rebecca,  b  March  29,  1723,  d  Dec.  9,  1724; 
62  Rebecca,  b  Nov.  18,  1725  ;  63  Benjamin,  b  April  15,  1727, 
d  June  19,  1727  ;  65  Benjamin,  b  Jan.  26,  1729  ;  66  Hannah, 
b  Dec.  18,  1732  ;  67  Lois,  b  March  10,  1734;  68  David,  b 
July  9,  1736,  d  Feb  20  1737  ;  69  Ruth,  b  Jan.  31,  1738  ;  70 
David,  b  Jan.  15,  1740;  71  Levi,  b  July  23,  1743  ;  72  Thank- 
ful, b  Jan.  i,  1746  ;  73  Levi.  b  Sept.  18,  1748. 


826  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

12.    ABIJAH. 

ABIJAH  IVES,   son  of  John  and    Hannah    Ives,     married 
.     She  died  May  6,    1753.     He  died  July  17,   1762. 


Children:  74  Moses,  b  March  6,  1731;  75  Mary,  b  Sept. 
22,  1732  ;  76  Abijah,  b  March  24,  1734,  d  Aug.  16,  1741  ;  77 
Aaron,  b  May  26,  1736,  d  Nov.  24,  1742  ;  78  Abigail,  b  Feb. 
14,  1738;  79  Phebe,  b  March  23,  1740;  80  Martha,  b  May 
17,  1742  ;  81  Prudence,  b  June  19,  1744  ;  82  Aaron,  b  April  6, 
1746  ;  83  Anna,  b  Feb.  21,  1749,  d  June  25,  1751. 

14.  LAZARUS. 

LAZARUS  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Mary,  married  Mabel 
Jerome,  Jan.  5,  1731.  His  2d  wife  was  Isabella . 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  84  Timothy,  b  Oct.  16,  1731; 
85  Mary,  b  Sept.  10,  1733  ;  86  Lazarus,  b  Nov.  2,  1734. 
By  2 d  marriage  :  87  Ambrose,  b  May  22,  1736;  88  Isabella, 
b  April  19,  1738;  89  Joshua,  b  March  16,  1740;  90  Amasa, 
bap.  March  13,  1743 ;  91  John,  bap.  May  17,  1747  ;  92 
Phebe,  bap.  Nov.  26,  1752. 

15.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Ives,  married  Abigail 
Parker,  Oct.  28,  1738. 

Children:  93  Abigail,  b  July  30,  1736;  94  Lydia,  b  June 
n,  1738;  95  Martha,  b  Feb.  29,  1740;  96  Olive,  b  Nov.  29, 
1741  :  97  Daniel,  b  Jan.  31,  1743  ;  98  Samuel,  b  March  9, 
J745  >  99  John,  b  Feb.  19,  1747  ;  100  Levi,  b  March  29,  1750. 

17.    ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Gillette  Ives,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Stanley.  She  died  Aug.  4,  1735,  and  he 
married  Barbara  Johnson,  May  u,  1736. 

Children:  101  Elizabeth,  b  July  22,  1735;  102  Sarah,  b 
Dec.  23,  1736;  103  Reuben,  b  Dec.  n,  1738;  104  Barbara, 
b  Oct.  9,  1739  ;  105  Abraham,  b  June  8,  1743  ;  106  Abraham, 
b  March  8,  1746  ;  107  Barbara,  b  Oct.  5,  1747  ;  108  Ambrose, 
b  June  30,  1748,  m  Lucy ;  109  Sarah,  b  Oct.  8,  1749. 


GENEALOGIES.  82/ 

IQ.    BEZALEEL. 

CAPT.  BEZALEEL  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Gillette  Ives, 
married  Hannah  Merriman,  Feb.  14,  1753.  He  died  Nov. 
24,  1798,  ae.  72  yrs.  She  died  March  21,  1815,  ae.  84  yrs. 

Child:   no  Capt.  Samuel,  b  Jan.  5,  1752,  m  Lucretia,   dau. 
of  John  Ives,  d  in  Meriden,  Oct.  18,  1803. 
20.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  IVES,  son  of  Dea.  Joseph  and  Esther  Ives,  married 
Abigail  How,  Sept.  2,  1702  ;  he  married  2d,  Rebecca  Hotch- 
kiss,  Nov.  15,  1720. 

Children:  in  Isaac,  b  Nov.  8,  1721  ;  112  Andrew,  b  July 
2,  1724;  113  Lent,  b  May  17,  1726,  d  July  u,  1726;  114 
Enos,  b  May  14,  1727. 

25.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  IVES,  son  of  Dea.  Joseph  and  Esther  Ives,  married 
Maria . 

Children:  115  Mary,  b  March  26,  1734;  116  Lent,  b  Sept. 
12,  1735  ;  IJ7  Joseph,  b  Jan.  17,  1737. 

26.  PHINEAS. 

PHINEAS  IVES,  son  of  Dea.  Joseph  and   Esther  Ives,  mar- 
ried Margery  Munson,  Jan.  26,  1738. 
Child:   118  Phineas,  b  Oct.  31,  1746. 

27.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  IVES,  son  of  Dea.  Joseph  and  Esther  Ives, 
married  Zeruah . 

Children:  119  Mary,  b  Sept.  6,  1746;  120  Abigail,  b  Oct. 
17,  1748;  121  Joseph,  b  June  15,  1749;  122  Nathaniel,  b 
April  23,  1741  ;  123  Zeruah,  b  Dec.  15,  1753  ;  124  Samuel,  b 
May  i,  1756. 

28.    EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  IVES,  son  of  Dea.  Joseph  and  Esther  Ives,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Atwater,  March  12,  1741. 

Children:  125  Sarah,  b  Nov.  19,  1741  ;  126  Ephraim,  b 
Jan.  7,  1744;  127  Phineas,  b  June  12,  1746;  128  Elnathan, 


828  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFOKD. 

b  Dec.  21,  1748  ;   129  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  6,  1751  ;  130  Eunice, 
b  Feb.  19,  1755. 

42.    CALEB. 

CALEB  IVES,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  Ives,  married  ist, 

Mary  —  — ,  2d,  Sarah  ,  3d,  Elizabeth  Plant,  Feb. 

27,  1733.  He  died  April  13,  1752. 

Children:  131  Nathaniel,  b  Jan.  12,  1722;  132  Sarah,  b 
Aug.  6,  1725,  d  Feb.  15,  1735.  By  3d  marriage  :  133  Charles, 
b  Sept.  5,  1734  ;  134  Eunice,  b  Sept  13,  1736  ;  135  Elizabeth, 
b  Dec.  25,  1738;  136  Olive,  b  May  10,  1742  ;  137  Caleb,  b 
May  19,  1745  ;  138  Caleb,  b  Feb.  9,  1748  ;  139  Amos,  b  May 
i,  i75°- 

43.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  IVES,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  Ives,  married 
Sarah  Hart,  Oct.  25,  1730. 

Children  :  140  Sarah,  b  May  29,  1733  ;  141  Mary,  b  April 
16,  1735  ;  142  Lois,  b  Jan.  9,  1737. 

45.    ABEL. 

ABEL  IVES,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  Ives,  married 
Sarah  Read,  March  25,  1736.  She  died  Jan.  i,  1787,  ae.  85 
years.  He  died  Jan.  31,  1781,  ae.  80  years. 

Children:  143  Elizabeth,  b  Aug.  30,  1730;  144  Abel,\> 
Dec.  9,  1736  :  145  Anna,  b  Dec.  20,  1739  ;  146  Anna,  b  Aug. 
ist,  1740;  147  Sarah,  b  June  24,  1743;  148  Elizabeth,  b 
Aug.  30,  1746  ;  149  Esther,  b  June  4,  1751  ;  150  Lois,  b  Mar. 
27,  1754- 

53-   J«HN- 

JOHN  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married  Sarah  —  — . 

Child  :   151  Sarah,  b  Jan.  12,  1737. 

56.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  IVES,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married  Mary . 

Child:   152  Anna,  b  Dec.  7,  1750. 

36.    GIDEON. 

GIDEON,  son  of  Gideon  and  Mary  Royce  Ives,  married  and 
settled  in  Wallingforcl  in  a  house  still  in  existence,  and  stand- 


GENEALOGIES.  829 

ing  a  little  north  and  in  the  rear  of  the  residence  of  the  late 
Benajah  Morse. 

Children:  153  Amos,  bap.  Jan.  5,  1752  ;  154  Enos,  bap. 
Dec.  2,  1753  ;  155  Gideon,  bap.  May  15,  1757  ;  156  Jerusha, 
bap.  Oct.  12,  1755. 

ELNATHAN. 

Children:  157  Elnathan,  bap.  March  21,  1731,  m  Ann 
Yale,  March  9,  1758;  158  Abigail,  bap.  Feb.  n,  1732  ;  159 
Jerusha,  bap.  Feb.  28,  1735  ;  160  Josiah,  bap.  March  18, 
1738  ;  161  Reuben,  bap.  March  13,  1744  ;  162  Huldah,  bap. 
Jan.  17,  1748. 

31.    JOTHAM. 

JOTHAM  IVES,  son  of  Gideon  and  Mary  Royce  Ives,  mar- 
ried Abigail  Burroughs,  Feb.  28,  1736.  He  died  Sept.  2, 

1753'  ae-  43- 

Child:  163  Zachariah,  b  Jan.  31,  1737,  settled  near  the 
Honey  Pot  brook  in  Cheshire,  d  March  9,  1815,  ae.  78, 
and  with  his  wife  Lois  was  buried  in  the  Episcopal  church- 
yard, Cheshire.  Children  of  Zachaiias  :  164  Rev.  Reuben,  b  in 
1761,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1785,  ordained  by  Bishop  Seabury 
in  1786,  Rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Cheshire,  about  thirty 
years,  d  Oct.  14,  1836,  ae.  75  yrs.;  165  Chmmcey,  b  in  1762, 
d  Nov.  17,  1778,  in  his  i6th  year  ;  166  Lowly,  m  Seth  De  Wolf; 
167  Jared,  a  farmer,  d  in  Cheshire  ;  168  Amos  H.,  m  Lois 
Cook,  d  in  Cheshire ;  169  Jesse,  settled  on  a  farm  in  Meriden. 
49.  JOHN. 

JOHN,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Royce  Ives,  b  July  4,  1729, 
m  ist,  Mary,  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  Hall.  She  d  Feb.,  1788. 

He  married  2nd,  Sarah ,  who  d  Nov.  24,  1804.  He  d 

Feb.,  1816. 

Children:  170  Lucretia,  m  Capt.  Samuel  Ives;  171  John, 

m  Martha  Merriman  ;  172  Isaac,  m  ist,  Benedict,  m 

2d,  —  -  White  of  Danbury ;  173  Levi,n\  Fanny  Silliman, 
June  1 8,  1789,  he  was  father  of  Bishop  Ives  ;  174  Joseph,  m 
Lucy,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Hall ;  175  Joel,  in  -  -Hart; 
176  Othniel,  b  Aug.  17,  1779,  married  ist,  Sarah,  daughter  of 


8   O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Nathaniel  Yale,  Oct  28,  1800,  m  2d,  Rosetta  Yale,  Oct.  26, 
1815  ;  177  Titus,  m  Ximena  Yale  ;  178  Eli,  d  unmarried  ;  179 
Anna,  m  Noah  Foster;  180  Polly,  m  John  Hooker;  181 
Meriel,  m  —  —  Clark,  and  moved  to  Canada. 

177.  OTHNIEL. 

OTHNIEL,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Hall  Ives,  lived  in  the 
east  part  of  Meriden  in  the  house  now  occupied  by  Othniel  jr. 

Children:  182,  Eliza,  b  Jan.  17,  1804,  m  Edwin  R.  Yale, 
March  14,  1824,  she  died  March  9,  1846  ;  183  Elias,  b  Jan.  7, 
1806,  m  Cornelius  Pomeroy,  Aug.  22,  1827  ;  184  Eli,  b  Jan.  7, 
1809,  m  Gelina  Ann  Pomeroy;  185  Othniel,  b  Nov.  26,  1812, 
m  ist,  Julia  Cook,  2d,  Mary  Howard;  186  Isaac  I.,  b  Jan. 
21,  1817,  m  Eloise  White  of  Danbury,  1847,  d  Oct.  14,  1850  ; 
187  Sarah  Rosetta,  b  Nov.  23,  1818,  m  Harvey  Miller;  188 
Juliette,  b  May  13,  1822,  m  Eli  Butler,  Nov.  10,  1842,  d 
March  i.  1855 ;  189  John,  b  Dec.  26,  1825,  m  ist,  Alina 
Birdsey,  Oct.  12,  1847,  2d  Wealthy  Merwin  ;  190  Frederick 
W.,  b  Jan.  27,  1828,  m  Frances  Jones  ;  191  Russell  Jennings, 
b  July  17,  1830,  m  ist,  Flora  Ann  White,  Sept.  15,  1853,  2d, 
Eliza,  daughter  of  Deacon  John  Yale. 


JOHNSON.' 

Fitz  James  came  from  Normandy  with  William  the  Con- 
queror about  the  nth  century,  and  settled  in  the  north  of 
England.  It  was  customary  before  the  Conquest  to  change  a 
name  by  adding  son,  as  we  find  Grimkelson,  Gamelson,  &c., 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Abbot's  Hist.  Andover,  Mass.,  35,  36  ; 
Barry's  Hist.  Framingham,  Mass.,  303,  304 ;  Bond's  Hist.  Watertown, 
Mass.,  539-42  ;  Brown's  Gen.  W.  Simsbury  Settlers,  88,  89  ;  Chase's  Hist. 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  276,  634-37  ;  Cope's  Record  of  Cope  family  of  Penn. 
52, 115,  116  ;  Cothren's  Hist.  Woodbury,  Ct,  600-2;  Deane's  Hist.  Scitu- 
ate,  Mass.,  296,  297 ;  Eaton's  Hist.  Thomaston,  Me.,  284,  285  ;  Ellis's 
Hist.  Roxbury,  Mass.,  122 ;  Fox's  Hist.  Dunstable,  Mass.,  246;  Gage's 
Hist.  Rowley,  Mass.,  446;  Heraldic  Journal,  m.  (867,)  43-5,  182,  183; 
Hudson's  Hist.  Lexington,  Mass.,  in,  112;  Hudson's  Hist.  Marlborough, 
Mass.,  403-6  ;  Kellogg's  Memorial  of  John  White,  37  ;  Leland's  Gen.  of 


GENEALOGIES.  83! 

in  the  time  of  Edward  the  Confessor,  if  not  earlier.  The 
Norman  Fitz,  a  corruption  of  fits,  was  used  the  same  way,  and 
among  the  conquered  Saxons  was  sometimes  adopted  in- 
stead. Thus,  Fitz  Harding  became  Hardingson;  Fitz  Clark, 
Clarkson ;  Fitz  James,  Jameson;  and  Fitz  John,  Johnson.1 
The  Fitz  James  mentioned  above,  changed  his  name  to  John- 
son, and  had  a  numerous  family.  One  branch  of  it  went  to 
Scotland,  where  the  name  became  quite  numerous.  Some 
of  these  added  a  t  to  the  name,  and  thereby  made  it  read 
Johnston.2  In  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  one  branch 
went  to  Ireland,  and  became  quite  numerous.  Sir  William 
Johnston  was  of  this  branch  of  the  family.  In  later  ages  the 
family  were  settled  in  Kingston-on-Hull.  At  the  time  of  Dr. 
Johnson's  visit,  as  agent  from  Connecticut,  to  England,  he 
found  the  family  almost  extinct,  there  being  but  one,  a  maiden 
lady  of  thirty  years,  left  in  the  place.  On  visiting  the  church- 
yard, he  found  a  large  number  of  tomb-stones  and  monuments 
with  the  name  of  Johnson  inscribed  upon  them.  Three 
brothers  had  gone  from  Kingston  to  North  America,  one  of 
whom,  a  clergyman,  settled  near  Boston,  and  was  killed  by 
the  Indians.  He  left  a  considerable  family,  from  whom  have 
descended  most  of  the  name  in  Massachusetts  and  Rhode 
Island.  One  settled  in  the  western  part  of  Connecticut. 
Most  of  his  descendants  went  to  New  Jersey,  and  were 

Leland  Family,  249,  250  ;  Littell's  Passaic  Valley  Gen.,  192-5  ;  Mitchell's 
Hist.  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  204-6  ;  Morse's  Gen.  Reg.  Sherborn  and  Holl- 
iston,  Mass.,  155,156;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  vm.  232,  358-62; 
Pierce's  Hist.  Gorham,  Me.,  180;  Poor's  Hist,  and  Gen.  Researches,  107; 
Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  n.  549-59;  SewalPs  Hist.  Woburn,  Mass.,  73-6, 
165-8,  617,  618  ;  Ward's  Hist.  Shrewsbury.,  Mass.,  334-6  ;  Washburn's 
Hist.  1  ,eicester,  Mass.,  379,  380. 

1  The  use  of  the   prefix  Fitz,  has,  with  propriety,    been  revived  in  mod- 
ern times.     The  eldest  son  of  Harris,  Earl  of  Malmsbury,  is.  by  title  of 
courtesy,  Viscount  FitzHarris. 

2  Most  of  the   persons  bearing  the   name   of   Johnston  in   Scotland, 
derive  the  name  from  the  village  of  Johnston  in  Renfrewshire.     The  family 
are  descended  from  Hugo  de  Johnstone,  in  the  time  of  Alexander  II. 


832  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

numerous.  Robert,  the  3d  brother,  settled  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  was  one  of  its  first  founders. 

Children  :  i  John;  2  Robert;  3  Thomas  ;  4  William,  and 
possibly  others. 

Edward  Johnson  originated  from  Kent,  in  England,  in  a 
parish  within  which  county,  called  in  his  will  Heron  Hill,  i.  e. 
Herne  Hill,  or  Herne,  and'  at  a  place  in  that  parish  called 
Waterham.  He  probably  came  to  this  country  in  the  fleet 
with  Winthrop,  in  1630.  He  died  April  23,  1672.  He  left 
five  sons :  Edward,  George,  William,  Matthew  and  John,  and 
two  daughters,  Susan  and  Martha.  They  have  many  descen- 
dants in  Massachusetts. 

4.   WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  son  of  Robert,  the  emigrant,  appeared 
early  in  New  Haven.  He  was  one  of  the  original  sub- 
scribers to  the  compact  for  the  settlement  of  Wallingford, 
in  1670,  and  had  assigned  him  a  lot,  bounded  as  follows  : 
"  20  rods  wide  north  and  south,  19  rods  and  4  ft.  east  and 
west,  and  bounded  east  by  ye  street,  and  north  by  Jeremiah 
How,  and  west  by  Nathan  Andrews."  This  piece  of  land 

he  sold,  with  consent  of  his  wife  Sarah ,  to  Isaac  Curtis, 

in  1694.  Mr.  Johnson  does  not  appear  to  have  ever  had  a 
residence  in  Wallingford,  but  was  simply  a  subscriber  for  the 
benefit  of  his  heirs  who  might  settle  in  the  place. 

JACOB. 

JACOB  JOHNSON,  son  of  William,  married  Abigail  Hitch- 
cock, Dec.  14,  1693.  He  built  his  house  on  the  north  side 
of  the  road  that  leads  past  the  residence  of  the  late  Col. 
Thaddeus  Codk,  and  nearly  opposite  the  barn  built  within 
the  last  few  years  by  Chauncey  M.  Cook.  He  was  a  tailor 
by  trade  ;  he  died  July  26,  1749,  ae.  80  yrs.  Mrs.  Abigail 
d  Jan.  9,  1726.  He  married  2d,  Parkis  Lindley,  1726. 

Children:  5  Reuben,  b  Aug.  27,  1694,  m  Mary  -  — ;  6 
Isaac,  b  Feb.  25,  1696-7,  m  Sarah  Osborne,  he  d  April 
23»  X779)  ae-  84  ;  7  Enos,  b  1698,  d  Jan.  31,  1786,  ae.  88; 
8  Abigail,  b  1699;  9  Israel;  10  Abner,  b  Aug.  2,  1702.  m 


GENEALOGIES.  833 

Charity  Dayton,  Dec.  14,  1726;  n  Caleb,  b  1733-4,  d 
Oct.  13,  1777,  ae.  73  yrs.,  m  Rachel  Brockett,  Jan.  28,  1731, 
was  a  merchant  in  Wallingford  ;  12  Daniel,  b  1709,  d  Oct. 
14,  1780,  ae.  72  yrs. ;  13  Sarah,  b  1710,  m  Matthew  Bellamy, 
March  31,  1721;  14  Jacob,  b  April,  1713,  grad.  of  Yale,  was 
Cong.  min. ,  settled  at  Groton,  Conn. ;  15  Lydia,  d  June  3,  1729. 

5.      REUBEN. 

REUBEN  JOHNSON  married  Mary  Dayton,  March  n,  1718, 
and  settled  on  the  place  now  owned  by  Almon  Doolittle,  and 
built  a  house  there. 

Children:  16  Justus,  b  April  6,  1720,  d  May  12,  1720  ;  17 
Justus,  b  March  26,  1721;  18  Ephraim ;  19  Rebecca,  b  July 
14,  1723  ;  20  Zaccheus ;  and  probably  others.  Ephraim  occupied 
the  old  house  where  his  father  lived  ;  he  took  it  down  and  built 
the  one  now  owned  by  Mr.  Rufus  Doolittle.  Zaccheus  lived 
in  the  house  that  stood  opposite  the  Caleb  Dudley  house. 

6.  ISAAC. 

DEA.  ISAAC  JOHNSON  married  Sarah  Osborne,  March  26, 
1723.  She  died  Nov.  16,  1766,86.  65.  He  built  and  occupied 
the  Caleb  Dudley  house,  and  lived  there  ;  he  died  April  29, 
1779,  ae.  84  yrs. 

Children:  21  Isaac;  22  Abigail,  b  Feb.  u,  1722;  23 
Joseph,  b  Jan.  21,  1725  ;  24  Sarah,  b  Feb.  10,  1729  ;  25  Isaac, 
b  June  23,  1731,  m  Elizabeth  -  —  ;  26  Esther,  b  Nov.  31, 
J735  j  27  Lois,  b  Feb.  15,  1738  ;  28  Rachel,  b  March  6,  1740. 

7.  ENOS. 

ENOS  JOHNSON  lived  in  the  house  of  his  father  Jacob. 
Child :  29  Enos. 

9.    ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  JOHNSON  married  Sarah  Miles,  Jan.  26,  1732.  His 
house  was  built  by  Caleb  Johnson,  and  stood  on  the  lot  just 
east  of  the  present  residence  of  Turhand  Cook.  He  also 
lived  on  the  place  now  owned  by  the  heirs  of  the  late  Liverius 
Carrington,  in  the  village.  He  was  a  smith  of  some  kind, 
and  a  worker  of  brass,  &c.,  &c.  He  died  1747,  leaving  an 
Estate  of  £,2226  \2S. 


834  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  30  Eunice,  b  Jan.  13,  1734;  31  Prudence,  b  Jan. 
n,  1738  ;  32  Caleb,  b  Sept.  17,  1739  ;  33  Anna,  b  Apr.  12, 
1736  ;  34  Miles,  b  Oct.  31,  1741  ;  35  Rebecca,  b  Aug  4,  1744 ; 
36  Warren,  b  Apr.  17,  1747  ;  37  Silas,  b  Jan.  21,  1749  ;  38 
Jacob,  b  July  21,  1742. 

10.  ABNER. 

CAPT.  ABNER  JOHNSON  married  Charity  Dayton,  Dec.  14, 
1726,  and  lived  on  the  place  where  afterward  his  son  Heze- 
kiah  lived.  He  died  Dec.  28,  1757. 

Children  :  39  Dayton,  b  Feb.  8,  1728,  m  Hannah ; 

40  Hezekiah,  b  March  12,  1732  ;  41  Abner,  b  Aug.  26,  1738, 
graduated  at  Yale  College  and  settled  in  Waterbury  ;  42  Anna, 
b  Apr.  18,  1736  ;  43  Charles,  b  May  19,  1736  ;  44  Jacob,  b  July 
21,  1742  ;  45  Lydia,  m  E.  Fitch  Esq.  ;  46  Charity,  b  May  19, 
1736. 

15.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  JOHNSON  married  Joanna  Preston,  Dec.  24,  1734, 
and  first  occupied  a  house  that  stood  a  little  east  of  where 
his  father  Jacob  lived.  He  afterwards  removed  to  the  Sam'l 
Parker  place.  He  died  Oct.  14,  1780,  ae.  72.  She  died  Jan. 
18,  1781. 

Children:  47  Charles,  b  Nov.  13,  1735,  d  at  sea,  brought 
to  New  Haven  and  buried ;  48  Solomon,  b  May  4,  1740,  built 
the  John  B.  Johnson  house;  49  Dan,  b  Mar.  24,  1746;  50 
Israel,  b  July  8,  1748,  settled  in  Meriden  near  Hanging  Hills  ; 
51  Justin,  b  Mar.  4,  1752  ;  52  Mindwell,  b  May  19,  1738,  m 

Merrow;  53  Joanna,  b  Apr.  4,  1743,  m Lee  ; 

54  Abigail,  b  Dec.  23,  1753  •  55  Joshua,  b  July  26,  1757,  m 

Brockett;  56  Rebecca,  b  March  29,  1759,  d  March  31, 

1759  ;  57  Rebecca. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  JOHNSON,  the  son  of  John,  the  son  of  Robert,  married 
ist,  Mary  Chatterton  of  New  Haven,  came  to  Wallingford 
before  1710;  the  date  of  this  marriage  is  Dec.  12,  1710.  She 
died  within  that  year,  and  he  married  Sarah  Hitchcock,  July 
12,  1711.  His  house  occupied  the  same  piece  of  ground  as 


GENEALOGIES.  835 

that  now  occupied  by  the  dwelling-house  of  Russell  Cook, 
and  formerly  known  as  the  Pond  house  or  place.  He  died 
July  24,  1748,  ae.  64  years.  Born  1687. 

Children  :  58  Esther,  b  May  4,  1712,  m  Merriman  Munson  ; 
59  Barbara,  b  Feb.  5,  1714,  m  Abraham  Ives  ;  60  Damaris,  b 

June  31,  1716  ;  61  Daniel,  b  Dec.  14,  1717,  m   Ruth ,  he 

d  in  1761  ;  62   Phebe,  b  April  28,  1720,  m   Dydimus   Parker; 

63  Jennings,  b  Jan.   7,  1722,  m   Sarah ,   1745,  owned  the 

Pond  place;  64  Ruth,  b  Oct.  10,  1723  ;  65  Amos,  b  March  4, 
1726,  d  during  the  Revolutionary  war  near  White  Plains, 
N.  Y. ;  66  Patience,  b  July  28,  1728. 

l8.     EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  JOHNSON,  son  of  Reuben  and  Mary  Dayton,  mar- 
ried Hannah  . 

Children:  67  Content,  b  July  14,  1755  ;  68  Luther,  b  June 
25,  1759- 

20.    ZACCHEUS. 

ZACCHEUS  JOHNSON,  son  of  Reuben  and  Mary  Dayton,  mar- 
ried Phebe . 

Children:  69  Justus,  b  Dec.  6,  1756  ;  70  Sybil,  b  Jan.  27, 
1769. 

39.    DAYTON. 

DAYTON  JOHNSON,  son  of  Abner  and  Charity  Dayton  John- 
son, married  Hannah .  She  died  Jan.  6,  1723,  ae.  46 

yrs.  He  died  Feb.  19,  1798,  ae.  70  yrs. 

Children:  71  Mamre,  b  Aug.  15,  1752  ;  72  Eliakim,  b  Dec. 
31.  J7S3  ;  73  Hannah,  b  April  28,  1756. 

40.    HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH  JOHNSON,  son  of  Abner  and  Charity  Dayton 
Johnson,  married  Ruth . 

Children:  74  Caleb,  b  July  n,  1759  ;  75    George,  b  March 
ii,  1760  ;  76  Charles,  b  Nov.  21,  1761. 
48.  SOLOMON. 

SOLOMON  JOHNSON,  son  of  Daniel  and  Joanna  Preston 
Johnson,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Barker.  She  died 
Sept.  7,  1825.  He  died  April  4,  1779,  ae.  59. 


836  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Child:  77  John  Barker,   married  Munson,  he  d  in 

Wallingford. 

49.  DAN. 

DAN  JOHNSON,  son  of  Daniel  and  Joanna  P.  Johnson,  mar- 
ried ist,  Rebecca  Hitchcock.  She  died  July  25,  1813,  ae. 
65.  His  2d  wife,  Lucy  Dudley,  died  Jan.  22,  1825,  ae.  69. 
He  died  Sept.  2,  1830,  ae.  85. 

Children  :  78  Cephas,  m Frost ;  79  Dan,  b  on  the  old 

Humiston  place,  m Dudley;  80  Willard ';  81   Augustus, 

m Frost;  82  Ransom;  83   Laura,  m  Amos  Curtis  of 

Meriden. 

50.  ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  JOHNSON,  son  of  Daniel  and  Joanna  Preston  John- 
son, settled  near  the  Hanging  Hills  in  the  parish  of  Meriden. 
Some  of  the  family  are  still  on  that  farm. 

Children:  84  Andrew;  85  Peter;  86  William,  still  living 
on  the  farm,  a  bachelor;  87  Huldah. 

63.    JENNINGS. 

JENNINGS  JOHNSON,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  H.  Johnson, 
married  Sarah  Johnson.  He  cut  the  stone  cider  mill  trough 
that  was  afterwards  Samuel  Cook's. 

Children:  88  Sarah,  b  June  4,  1749  ;  89  Damaris,  b  June 
26,  1753  ;  90  Stephen,  b  March  18,  1754 ;  91  Esther,  b  March 
27>  J756  ;  92  Rachel,  b  Oct.  29,  1759. 

65.    AMOS. 

AMOS  JOHNSON,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  H.  Johnson,  mar- 
ried Abigail . 

Children  :  93  Lucy,  b  Sept.  n,  1747  ;  94  Esther,  b  Nov.  16, 
1749  5  95  Sybil,  b  Sept.  16,  1751. 


JONES. 

THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  and  Hannah   Jones  are  the  first  recorded  of 
that  name  in  Wallingford ;  he  married  Hannah    Mix,   Dec. 


GENEALOGIES.  837 

26,  1711.     She  died  Nov.  26,  1754.     He  married   2d,   Sarah 
Moss,  Sept.  22,   1755. 

Children:  i  Nathaniel,  b  March  30,  1717,  m  Sarah  Merri- 
man  ;  2  Theophilus,  b  Nov.  i,  1723,  m  Anna  Street;  3  Caleb, 
b  Nov.  4,  1712,  m  Mary  How,  Oct.  6,  1741  ;  4  Lydia,  b  Nov. 
9,  1714,  m  Joseph  Moss,  Feb.  4,  1735  ;  5  Hannah,  b  Oct.  4, 
1720,  m  Jehiel  Merriman,  Aug.  5,  1740 ;  6  Abigail,  b  Dec.  28, 
1726,  m  Benjamin  Button,  March  16,  1747  ;  7  Daniel,  b  Oct. 
28,  1731,  d  May  i,  1737  ;  8  Nicholas,  b  Dec.  17,  1729,  m  ist, 
Mary ,  2d,  Eunice . 

1.  NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  JONES,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Hannah,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Merriman,  June  8,  1743,  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  9  Abigail,  b  Sept.  26,  1744;  10  Daniel,  b  Oct. 
17,  1748;  IT  Sarah,  b  Aug.  16,  1750;  12  Eunice,  b  Jan.  27, 
1752  ;  13  Benjamin,  b  Feb.  5,  1757  ;  14  Amos,  b  Aug.  3. 

1758  ;  15  Reuben,  b  Oct.  u,  1759,  m  Sarah ,  he  d  Oct. 

6,  1840  ;  16  Hannah,  b  Feb.  25,  1761. 

2.  THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  JONES,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Hannah,  mar- 
ried Anna  Street,  May  24,  1757  ;  she  died  Aug.  10,  1811,  ae. 
76  yrs.  He  died  Oct.  8,  1815,  ae.  91  yrs. 

Children:  17  Sarah,  b  March  30,  1758,  m  Elisha  Whittel- 
sey ;  18  Nicholas,  b  Nov.  25,  1760,  d  Aug.  25,  1848,  ae.  88  ; 
19  Anna,  b  1772,  d  Oct.  i,  1776. 

3.     CALEB. 

CALEB  JONES,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Hannah,  married 
Mary  How,  dau.  of  Zachariah. 

Children:  20  Anna,  b  August  19,  1742  ;  21  Zachariah  H., 
b  Sept.  3,   1744;  22   Hannah,  b  Jan.  8,    1746;    23   Caleb,  b 
Sept.  3,  1748  ;  24  Samuel,  b  May  15,  1754. 
8.  NICHOLAS. 

NICHOLAS  JONES,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Hannah,  married 

ist,  Mary ,  2d,  Eunice .    He  died  April  24,  1760. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  25    Charles,  b  May   19,   1752; 

£  E  £ 


838  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

26  Patience,  b  March  27,  1754.  By  2cl  marriage  :  27  Mary,  b 
April  30,  1756,  d  May  6,  1760  ;  28  Eunice,  b  Feb.  26,  1758, 
d  March  31,  1758;  29  Mary,  b  Feb.  26,  1760. 

15.  REUBEN. 
REUBEN,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah  Jones,  married  Sarah 

.     He  lived  about  a  mile  east  of  Wallingford  village, 

where  his  descendants  are  still  living,  1869.  He  died  Oct.  6, 
1843,  ae.  84  years.  Mrs.  Sarah  his  wife  d  March  12,  1833,  ae. 
72  years. 

18.  NICHOLAS. 

NICHOLAS  JONES,  son  of  Theophilus  and  Anna  Jones,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth ,  and  remained  on  the  old  farm  of  his 

fathers,  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  where  his  son  Street 
Jones  Esq.  now  resides.  He  was  a  very  enterprising  and 
prosperous  farmer,  and  died  Aug.  25,  1848,  ae  88  yrs.,  and 
his  wife  died  Feb.  8,  1845,  ae-  81  vrs- 

Children:  30  Betsey,  m  Rufus  Bradley,  Cheshire;  31 
Anna,\>  1785,  d  Nov.  19,  1861,  ae.  76,  m  Jared  Doolittle  of 
North  Haven  ;  32  Street,  m  ist, Eastman,  2d  —  -  Par- 
sons ;  33  Sarah,  m  Dea.  Ezra  Dickerman  of  Hamden. 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  JONES  was,  with  his  wife  Sarah,  born  in  Walling- 
ford, previous  to  1721;  she  died  Nov.  9,  1760.  He  was 
possibly  a  brother  of  Theophilus  Jones.  He  married  Esther 
Pratt,  April  12,  1762. 

Children:  34  Mary,  b  Dec.  5,  1721  ;  35  William,  b  May 
31,  1722  ;  36  Diadate,  b  March  15,  1724 ;  37  Hester,  b  March 
9,  1727,  m  Dennis  Covert,  March  10,  1758  ;  38  Eaton,  b 
Aug.  26,  1730;  39  John,  b  May  25,  1747;  40  Daniel,  b 
March  18,  1745-6. 


KIRTLAND.i 

The  name  of  Kirtland  is  of  Scotch  descent ;  and   among 
the  first  36  settlers  of  Saybrook  in  1635,   was  John   Kirtland. 

I  For  collateral  branches,   see  Chapman's  Gen.  of  Chapman  family,  71, 


GENEALOGIES.  839 

who  came  from  Silver-street,  London.  He  had  a  son  John, 
who  was  the  father  of  Daniel,  who  was  the  father  of  the 
noted  missionary,  Rev.  Samuel  Kirkland,  who  was  born  in 
1701,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1720,  under  the  name  of  Kirtland. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  KIRTLAND  was  married  to  his  first  wife  in  Saybrook, 
March  3,  1703  ;  2d,  Lydia  Baldwin. 

Children:  i  Hester,  b  March  10,  1704;  2  John,  b  July  5, 
1708,  d  March,  1787  ;  3  Temperance,  b  Nov.  10,  1710.  By  2d 
marriage:  4  Elisha,  b  July  21,  1718;  5  Elisha,  b  Aug.  17, 
1719,  killed  at  Fort  Edward,  March  16,  1756;  6  Lydia,\> 
Oct.  29,  1721,  d  June  30,  1770,  at  Horton,  Nova  Scotia ;  7 
Parmd,  b  Jan.  29,  1724  ;  8  Constant,^  Jan.  24,  1726,  d  young; 
9  Constant,  b  Dec.  24,  1727,  d  at  Wallingford  ;  10  Ezra,  b 
Oct.  ii,  1730,  d  at  Saybrook,  Aug.,  1801  ;  n  Elizabeth,  b 
Oct.  13,  1732  ;  12  Dorothy,  b  Sept.  21,  1735. 

8.    CONSTANT. 

CONSTANT  KIRTLANU,  son  of  John  and  Lury  Kirtland,  of 

Saybrook,  married    Rachel,   daughter  of  Isaac   and 

Brockett,  of  Wallingford,  April  19,  1753.  She  was  born  May 
23,  1732,  died  at  Northford,  Feb.  17,  1812. 

Children:  13  Isaac,  b  March  9,  1754,  d  Sept,  30,  1807,  in 
Wallingford  ;  14  Turhand,  b  Nov.  16,  1755,  d  Aug.  16,  1854, 
at  Poland,  Ohio  ;  15  Mary,  b  Dec.  23,  1757,  m  Samuel  Cook, 
d  March  3,  1839;  16  John,  b  Dec.  20,  1759,  d  at  Granville, 
N.  Y.,  May  19,  1843  ;  17  Billious,  b  June  9,  1762,  d  Oct.  25, 
1805,  at  Wallingford  ;  18  Rachel,  b  July  9,  1764,  m  Col.  Ed- 
ward Barker,  d  June  13,  1823,  at  Wallingford ;  19  Jared,  b 
Aug.  8,  1766,  d  April  16,  1831,  at  Poland,  Ohio  ;  20  George,  b 
July  2,  1769,  d  April  10,  1793,  at  Wallingford  ;  21  Lydia,  b 
Feb.  27,  1772,  m  Jonathan  Fowler,  of  Guilford,  d  Aug.  16, 
1850,  at  Poland,  Ohio  ;  22  Sarah,  b  March  19,  1778,  m  Capt. 


72,  96,  133;  Lewis  and  Newhall's  Hist.  Lynn,  Mass.,  154;  N.  E.  Hist,  and 
Gen.  Reg.,  xiv.  241-5;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  in.  31,  32. 


840  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Wm.  Douglass,  and  had  John,  Sarah,  Benjamin  and  William, 
d  Sept.  28,  1842,  at  Northford. 

13.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  KIRTLAND,  son  of  Constant  and  Rachel  Kirtland, 
married  Sarah  Ives. 

Children  :  23  Delight,  m  Peter  Hall,  of  Wallingford ;  24 
Sarah,  m  Jehiel  Hall,  of  Wallingford  ;  25  Constant,  m  Caro- 
line Carrington,  he  died  in  N.  Y. ;  26  Clarissa. 

14.     TURHAND. 

TURHAND  KIRTLAND,  son  of  Constant  and  Rachel  Kirt- 
land, married  Mary,  daughter  of  Moses  Beach,  of  Walling- 
ford ;  she  died  Nov.  24,  1792.  Married  2d,  Polly,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Jared  Potter,  Jan.  19,  1793;  she  was  born  in  New 
Haven,  Feb.  10,  1772,  and  died  at  Poland,  Ohio,  March  21, 
1850. 

Children:  27  Jared  Potter,  M.  D.,  b  Nov.  10,  1793,  m 
Caroline,  dau.  of  Joshua  Atwater,  May,  1814;  28  Henry  Tur- 
hand,  b  Nov.  16,  1795,  m  ist,  Thalia  Fitch  ;  29  Mary  Beach, 
b  Sept.  12,  1798,  m  Richard  Hall,  d  in  Poland,  Ohio;  30 
Nancy,  b  Jan.  i,  1801,  m  Elkanah  Morse  ;  31  Billious,  b  Aug. 
29,  1807,  m  Ruthan  A.  Frame,  resides  in  Poland,  Ohio ;  32 
George,  m  Helen,  dau.  of  Randall  Cook,  of  Wallingford. 

16.  JOHN. 

JOHN  KIRTLAND,  son  of  Constant  and  Rachel  Kirtland, 
married  ist,  Lucy  A.  Burbank,  April  id,  1788;  she  was  born 
Jan.  10,  1771,  d  Aug.  17,  1728.  Married  2d,  widow  Mary 
Tyler  Benham,  dau.  of  Moses  Tyler,  and  widow  of  Silas 
Benham,  formerly  of  Meriden,  June  7,  1829.  She  died 
April  4,  1836,  ae.  57  years. 

Children:  33  Henrietta,  b  Jan.  23,  1789,  m  Wm.  Sweetland, 
of  Plattsburg,  Nov.  19,  1811  ;  34  Wm.  Henry,  b  Jan.  n, 

1791,  d  April  6,  1821  ;  35  Lucy  Fitch,  b  April  3,  1793,  m 
Peter  J.  H.  Myers,  of  Whitehall,  Jan.  29,  1815  ;  36  George 

Washington,  b  April  n,  1795,  m  Frances  Davis,  Oct.  6,  1828, 
he  is  a  lawyer;  37  Ann  Burbank,  b  April  5,  1797,  d  May  n, 


GENEALOGIES.  84! 

J797  ;  38  Ann  Burbank,  b  April  27,  1798,  m  Wm.  Haile, 
April  15,  1822,  d  Nov.  26,  1859  ;  39  Eliza  Cornelia,  b  Sept. 
17,  1800,  m  John  B.  Shaw,  Oct.  13,  1825,  d  July  22,  1842  ;  40 
Lydia  Maria,  b  March  25,  1802,  m  S.  Myers,  Oct.  23,  1827, 
d  Nov.  9,  1864  ;  41  Rachel  Brockett,  b  Feb.  n,  1804,  m  Thos. 
A.  Tomlison,  May  16,  1833  ;  42  John,  b  Oct.  13,  1805,  m 
Catherine  Campbell,  Sept.  13,  1836  ;  43  Isaac  Billious,  b  Oct. 
14,  1807,  m  Lucy  Sperry,  Dec.  8,  1835  '•>  44  Edward,  b  July 
23,  1810,  m  Maria  Foot,  Jan.  24,  1837  :  45  Jared  Turhand,  b 
Nov.  3,  1816,  m  Ann  T.  Palmer,  Sept.  6,  1849,  d  May  19, 
1861. 

17.    BILLIOUS. 

DR.  BILLIOUS  KIRTLAND,  son  of  Constant  and  Rachel 
Kirtland,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Dr.  Jared  Potter. 

Children  :  46  Eliza,  m  Liverius  Carrington  ;  47  Polly,  m 
Col.  Russell  Hall ;  48  George,  d  1869  ;  49  Sarah,  m  Liverius 
Carrington. 

19.  JARED. 

JARED  KIRTLAND,  son  of  Constant  and  Rachel  Kirtland, 
married  ist,  Lois,  daughter  of  Elisha  and  Lucretia  Stanley 
Yale,  of  Wallingford.  He  removed  to  Poland,  Ohio,  in  1802, 
where  he  died,  April  16,  1831.  She  died  Oct.  3,  1814,  ae.  38 
yrs.,  at  Cookstown,  Penn.  He  left  a  widow.  2d  wife. 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  50  Lucretia,  b  Nov.  2,  1796,  m 
Dr.  -  -  Manning;  51  Rachel,  b  Dec.  9,  1798,  m  Col.  Caleb 
Wicks  ;  52  Eliza,  b  Aug.  2,  1803,  m  Philo  Cook,  of  Walling- 
ford ;  53  Sarah,  b  Oct.  8,  1805,  m  Geo.  G.  Hills  ;  54  Lois 
Yale,  b  Sept.  21,  1813,  m  Eli  Mygatt,  M.  D.,  of  Poland,  Ohio. 


LEWIS.' 

BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  LEWIS  was  the  first  of  the  name  in  Wallingford. 
He  came  from  Stratford  in  1670,  and  had  assigned  him 
lot ,  which  he  sold  to  Dr.  John  Hull,  who  had  come 


j  For  collateral  branches,  see  Alden's  Coll.  of  Am.  Epitaphs,  v.  68-70  ; 


842  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

from  Derby  to  settle  in  the  place  as  a  physician.  Mr  Lewis 
soon  after  left  Wallingford,  and  returned  to  his  old  home  in 
Stratford. 

Children:  Mary,  b  Nov.  i,  1671,  d  in  Wallingford;  John, 
b  Sept.  20,  1672  ;  Mary,  b  Nov.  9,  1674;  Edmund,  b  1679, 
m  Hannah  Beach,  May  21,  1702.  He  d  in  1757,  ae.  78  yrs. 

EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  LEWIS,  blacksmith,  married  Elizabeth  Merriman, 
Dec.  2,  1685,  and  settled  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  town  in 
1684.  He  was  a  son  of  William  Lewis,  of  Fafmington.  He 
died  in  1709. 

Children:  i  Hezekiah,\>  Oct.  12,  1686,  d  1711,  m  Abigail 

;  2  Caleb,  b  Oct.  15,  1691,  m  Sarah  Cook,  Nov.  25, 

1713  ;  3  Selekey,  b  Oct.  25,  1693  ;  4  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  15,  1695  ; 

5  Barnabas,  b  Nov.  4,  1697,  m  Elizabeth ;  6  Hannah, 

bOct.  10,  1699,  m  Samuel  Cook  Esq. ;  7  Dr.  Benjamin,  b  Sept. 
21,  1701,  m  Esther  Matthews,  Nov.  3,  1724;  8  Malacht,  b  Oct. 
4,  1703,  settled  in  Middletown  ;  9  Agape,  b  Jan.  10,  1705. 

2.  CALEB. 

CALEB  LEWIS,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth,  married 
Sarah,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Hope  Cook,  Nov.  28,  1713. 

Children:   10  Ichabod,  b  April    13, -1714,  d  March  i,  1718  ; 

11  Caleb,  b  Feb.   28,   1717,  m  Eunice  Welton,  Jan.  10,  1736  ; 

12  Ichabod,  b   1716,  m   Sarah ,  1777  ;  13  Ebenezer,  b 

Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Ct,  160,  161,  167,  277,  306,  307,  332,  354  ; 
Bradbury's  Hist.  Kennebunkport,  Me.,  257  ;  Bronson's  Hist.  Waterbury, 
Ct,  518,  519  ;  Caulkins'  Hist.  New  London,  Ct,  295,  296;  Deane's^Hist 
Scituate,  Mass.,  303,  304 ;  Fields'  Hist.  Haddam,  Ct,  46 ;  Freeman's  Hist 
Cape  Cod,  Mass.,  i.  614,  n.  285,  404,  465,  471,  480,  481.  507,  661,  676; 
Howe's  Hist.  Col.  Virginia,  181-3  '•>  Hudson's  Hist  Lexington,  Mass.,  281  ; 
Judd  &  Boltwood's  Hist.  Hadley,  Mass.,  530,  531;  Lewis  &  Newhall's 
Hist.JLynn,  Mass.,  180-2  ;  Meade's  Old  Churches  and  Families  of  Virginia, 
n.  231-3,  325,  326  ;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.,  Reg.,  xvn.  162-6;  Pierce's  Hist 
Gorham,  Me.,  181-3;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  in.  84-90  ;  Sheppard's  Account 
of  Lewis  Family ;  Smith's  Hist.  Delaware  Co.,  Penn.,  478-80 ;  Virginia 
Hist.  Reg.,  v.  24,  25. 


GENEALOGIES.  843 

April  14,  1715,  m  Sarah  Avered,  June  12,  1735  ;  14  Hezekiah, 
b  Oct.  14,  1720,  m  Abigail  Chamberlain,  April  25,  1744. 

5.    BARNABAS. 

BARNABAS  LEWIS,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth,  married 

Elizabeth ;  he  died  Oct.  i,  1729. 

Children:   15  Lucy,  b  March  23,  1724  ;  16  Lois,  b  May  26, 

1728. 

7.    BENJAMIN. 

DR.  BENJAMIN  LEWIS,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Esther  Matthews,  Nov.  3,  1724. 

Children:  17  Bela,  b  Sept.  28,  1724;  18  Bela,\>  Jan.  10, 
1725  ;  19  Elizabeth,  b  March  6,  1727,  m  Cornelius  Johnson, 
Dec.  9,  1746;  20  Benjamin,  b  Jan.  n,  1728,  m  Mary 
Maltbie,  April  3,  1773;  21  Barnabas,  b  Aug.  17,  1733,  m 
Rachel  Curtis,  Feb.  24,  1762  ;  22  Jesse,  b  Jan.  29,  1734;  23 
Caleb,  b  May  22,  1736,  m  Lucy  Holt,  March  13,  1748-9  ;  24 
Samuel,  b  March  8,  1741  ;  25  Esther,  b  Oct.  23,  1738,  m 
Nathaniel  Douglass,  Feb.  i,  1759  ;  26  Mary,  b  Oct.  10,  1743  ; 
27  Mary,  b  June  n,  1747  ;  28  Levi,  b  Oct.  19,  1750 ;  29  Levi, 
b  Oct.  19,  1751  ;  30  Lucy,  b  March  23,  1754,  m  Zebulon 
Frisbie. 

II.    CALEB. 

CALEB  LEWIS,  son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah,  married  Eunice 
Welton,  Jan.  10,  1736. 

Children  :  31  Jacob,  b  Sept.  7,  1736  ;  32  Eunice,  b  April  6, 
I738  ;  33  Amy,  b  Jan.  31,  1745  ;  34  Caleb,  b  April  15.  1752. 

12.    ICHABOD. 

ICHABOD  LEWIS,  son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah,  married  ist, 

Sarah  -  — ,  2d,  Esther ;  she  was  burned  to  death  in 

1812. 

Children:  35  Samuel,  b  Oct.  9,  1748,  m  Esther ,  he  d 

Feb.  8,  1824,  ae.  76;  36  Elihu,  b  June  10,  1752,  settled  in 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  37  Esther,  b  July  n,  1756,  m  John  Mans- 
field ;  38  Jared,  b  May  10,  1761,  m  Rhoda  Munson. 


844  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

13.  EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  LEWIS,  son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah  Cook  Lewis, 
married  Sarah  Avered,  June  12,  1735. 

Children :  39  Hannah,  b  Oct.  9,  1736  ;  40  Malachi. 

14.  HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH,  son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah  Cook  Lewis,  m  Abigail 
Chamberlain,  April  28,  1744. 

Children:  41  John,  b   May   22,  1745  ;  42  Ebenezer,  b  Oct. 

14,  1746  ;  43,  44  Mary  and   Hezekiah,   b  April  27,  1755  ;  45 
Benjamin,  b  Nov.  18,  1757;  46  Abel,  b  Dec.  25,  1760. 

1 8.   BELA. 
BELA  LEWIS,  son  of  Benjamin  and   Esther  Lewis,  married 

Abigail . 

Child  :  47  Joseph,  b  May  6,  1743-4. 

21.    BARNABAS. 

BARNABAS  LEWIS,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and  Esther  Lewis, 
married  Rachel  Curtis,  Feb.  24,  1762. 

Children :  48  Rachel,  b  March  20,  1768  ;  49  Levi,  b  March 

5.  1775  >  5°  Merriam,  b  Feb.  14,  1777. 

35-    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  LEWIS,   son  of  Ichabod   and    Sarah   Lewis,   died 

Feb.  8,  1824,  ae.  76  yrs.     He  married  Esther  . 

Children:  51    Sarah,  b   Sept.  8,    1773;   52   Esther,  b  July 

15,  1776,  m  Ephraim  Cook,  of  Wall. ;  53  Elihu,  b  March 
12,  1777. 

38.    JARED. 

JARED  LEWIS,  son  of  Ichabod  and  Sarah  Lewis,  married 
Rhoda  Munson.  He  died  in  Wallingford. 

Children:  54  Isaac,  m  Esther  Beaumont,  kept  a  hotel  and 
store  in  Meriden ;  55  Frederick,  m  Sinai  Hall,  of  Wall- 
ingford. 

JACOB. 

JACOB  LEWIS  married  Mary  Martin,  June  22,  1773. 
Children:  56  Jacob,  b  March  10,  1776  ;  57  Ezekiel,  b  July 

6,  1777. 


GENEALOGIES.  845 

ISAAC. 

DR.  ISAAC  LEWIS  married  Keziah  .  He  lived  on 

the  west  side  of  the  river. 

Children  :  58  Charles,  b  May  8,  1772  ;  59  Isaac,  died  May  9, 
1772,  ae.  25  yrs. ;  60  Keziah,  d  May  29,  1772,  ae.  19  yrs. 

Joseph  Lewis  of  Windsor  and  Simsbury,  had  sons,  Joseph 
and  John,  who  had  a  numerous  posterity,  who  settled  in 
Waterbury. 

Joshua  Lewis,  a  Baptist  Clergyman,  came  from  Wales 
about  1780,  and  settled  in  Connecticut.  His  son  Joshua, 
likewise  a  Baptist  Clergyman,  resided  in  Conn,  and  R.  I., 
where  he  had  a  son  Joshua,  who  removed  to  Saratoga,  N.  Y., 
and  married  a  Miss  Grinelle,  and  had  a  son  John,  who  moved 
to  the  neighborhood  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  married 
Delecta  Barbour,  and  became  a  farmer.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  is  Dr.  Dio  Lewis,  of  Lexington,  Mass., 
born  in  1825. 

The  name  of  Lewis  is  derived  from  the  Welsh  Lluaws,  signi- 
fying a  multitude.  The  name  of  Lewes  is  derived  from  the 
same  source,  as  is  also  the  ancient  town  of  Lewes  in  Sussex, 
England. 


MARTIN.- 

The  Martins  of  Plymouth,  Devonshire,  were  originally  from 
Kent.  Capt.  John  Martin,  of  this  family,  went  round  the 
world  with  Drake,  in  1577. 

The  name  of  Martin  was  adopted  as  a  surname  at  a  very 
early  date  ;  and  few  names  have  had  a  greater  number  to  bear 
them.  The  earliest  record  containing  it  which  I  have  found, 
is  the  "  roll  of  Battle  Abbey,"  on  which  appears  the  name  of 
Le  Sire  de  S.  Martin.  Battle  Abbey  was  dedicated  to  St. 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Habson's  Hist.  Gloucester,  Mass.,  115; 
Cothren's  Hist.  Woodbury,  Conn.,  620-31  ;  Eaton's  Hist.  Thomaston,  Me., 
324;  Hough's  Hist.  Lewis  Co.,  N.  Y.,  172-4;  Littell's  Passaic  Valley 
Gen.,  278;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  in. -161-4. 


846  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Martin,  and  the  date  of  its  roll  is  1066.  The  name  was  not 
only  numerous  on  the  other  side  of  the  water,  but  has  been 
the  same  in  this  country  from  its  first  settlement.  There  was 
a  William  Martin  at  London,  England,  who  assisted  the  Puri- 
tans in  preparing  for  their  voyage  to  Plymouth  Rock  ;  but  it 
does  not  appear  that  he  came  with  them.  John  Martyn,  after- 
wards Capt.  John  Martyn  or  Martin  of  Plymouth,  and  son  of 

Martin  of  Bridgetown,  near  Totness,  who  had  male  issue 

living  at  that  place  in  1620,  sailed  round  the  globe  with  Sir 
Francis  Drake,  leaving  Plymouth  Nov.  15,  1577,  and  returning 
to  the  same  port  Sept.  26,  1580. 

Christopher  Martin  with  his  wife  and  son  Christopher,  and 
one  whose  name  is  not  given,  came  over  in  the  Mayflower  in 
1620;  but  they  all  died  during  the  first  winter.  Others  of  the 
name  however,  came  in  almost  every  ship  that  brought  over  a 
company,  for  some  years.  They  settled  in  various  parts  of 
Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  Virginia  and  other  colonies. 
Anthony  died  at  Midclletown,  Conn.,  1693  ;  William  of  Strat- 
ford at  Woodbury,  Conn.  It  is  proposed  in  this  to  trace  only 
the  Wallingford  families.  As  early  as  1684,  John  and 
Elizabeth  Martin  made  their  appearance  in  Wallingford,  and 
were  married  by  Mr.  Moss,  Jan.  15,  1684  ;  how  long  they 
continued  in  the  place  does  not  now  appear.  In  1735,  Rob- 
ert Martin  and  his  wife  Abigail  appear  to  have  been  in  Wall- 
ingford. 

Children:  i  James,  b  March  3,  1735,  m  Agnes  Crawford, 
March  8,  1718  ;  2  Lydia,  b  Oct.  27,  1740  ;  3  Elizabeth,  b 
Sept.  23,  1742  ;  4  Samuel,  b  May  i,  1744  ;  5  Abigail,  b  Dec. 
9,  1745  ;  6  Isaac,  b  April  25,  1748 ;  7  Mary,  b  Aug.  30,  1750  ; 
8  John,  b  Sept.  27,  1754. 

WOOSTER. 

WOOSTER  MARTIN  came  into  Wallingford  early  in  the 
present  century,  and  settled  on  the  North  Farms  as  a  wagon- 
maker,  and  by  industry  and  perseverance  accumulated  a 
very  handsome  estate.  He  was  twice  married  ;  ist,  to  Althea 


GENEALOGIES.  847 

Hall,  2d,  Delilah   Morse,  widow  of   the  late  Sylvester  Hull. 
He  died  in  Wallingford,  May  4,  1862,  ae.  72. 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  9  Othniel  Ives,  m ,  daugh- 
ter of  Augustus  Hall,  2d,  Cook,  daughter  of  Colonel 

T.  Cook;  10 ;  n  Henry,  m Hall,  daughter  of 

Joel  Hall.      By  2d  marriage,  12  . 

I.    JAMES. 

JAMES  MARTIN,  son  of  Robert  and  Abigail,  m  Agnes 
Crawford,  March  8,  1758. 

Children  :  13  Mary,  b  Dec.  28,  1758,  in  Wallingford  ;  14 
James,  b'Nov.  10,  1761,  in  Wallingford. 


MANSFIELD. 

CAPT.  JOHN  MANSFIELD  married  Esther  Lewis,  and  owned 
and  occupied  the  house  and  lot  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
Mr.  Harrison,  and  formerly  by  John  Hiddleson,  Esq.  Mr. 
Mansfield  was  in  the  service  of  his  country  during  the  Revo- 
lution, and  received  for  that  service  a  pension  from  the 
government.  He  died  highly  respected. 

Children :  i  Ira,  he  settled  at  Atwater,  Ohio ;  2  Sybil,  m 
John  Hiddleson  of  Georgetown,  S.  C. ;  both  d  in  Wallingford. 


MATTOON.' 

Philip,  son  of  Philip  and  Mary  Mattoon,  was  doubtless 
the  first  of  the  name  in  Wallingford.  He  settled  in  the 
northeast  part  of  the  town. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  MATTOON,  son  of  Philip  and  Mary,  who  also  settled 
in  Wallingford,  was  born  in  1682,  and  married  Jerusha  Hall, 
Oct.  20,  1706.  He  died  Feb.  19,  1754;  she  died  Sept.  28, 
1760,  ae.  71  yrs. 

Children:    i  Eleazer,  b   Dec.   13,  1727,   no  knowledge  of 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Judd  &  Boltman's  Hist  and  Gen.  Hadley, 
Mass.,  535,  536  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  m.  177,  178. 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

him  or  family ;  2    Gershom,  b  Aug.    18,    1730;  3  Ebenezer,\> 

April  4,  1735,  m  Martha ,  she  d  Nov.   10,  1802,  he  d  May 

27,    1814;    4    David;    5    Isaac;    6    Nathaniel;  7    Sarah;  8 
Mary,  m  Brooks  ;  9  John,  d  Jan.  6,  1808,  ae.  51. 

4.    DAVID. 

DAVID  MATTOON  m  Phebe  Curtis,  Oct.,  5,  1742. 
Children:   10    Charles,  b   Dec    12,    1744;  n  Phebe,  b  Jan. 
15,  1748  ;  12  Eunice,  b  March  19,  1751. 

6.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  MATTOON  married  Mary  Curtis,  Feb.  17,  1745. 
Children  :  13  Joel,  b  Jan.  24,   1749  ;  14  Seth,  b  March  21, 
1753- 


MERRIMAN. 

This  name  is  often  spelled  on  the  old  records  Merriam  and 
Merriman,  both  names  referring  to  the  same  person.  Joseph 
Merriam  took  the  freeman's  oath  in  Lexington,  Mass.,  March 
14,  1638.  He  died  Jan.  i,  1641,  and  some  of  his  descen- 
dants assumed  the  name  of,  or  were  recorded  as  Merriman. 

NATHANIEL. 

CAPT.  NATHANIEL  MERRIMAN  was  one  of  the  original  set- 
tlers in  Wallingford  in  1670.  Lots  Nos.  i  and  2  were  set  him 
on  the  north,  west  and  east  corners  of  the  south  cross  street, 
also  No.  2  adjoining  the  west  lot.  These  corner  lots  are  now 
owned  by  Peter  Whittelsey,  Esq.,  and  Rev.  Edgar  J.  Doolittle. 
These  extra  lots  were  set  to  him  in  consideration  of  some  out 
land  which  the  committee  had  given  out  to  other  parties  to 
his  damage.  Capt.  Merriman  built  his  house  on  the  lot 
where  Mr.  Whittelsey's  house  now  stands,  but  a  short  distance 
to  the  west  of  it.  A  large  elm  tree  stands  nearly  in  front 
of  the  old  site.  He  died  Feb.  13,  1693.  ae.  80  years. 

Children:  i  John,  d  Sept.  26,  1651  ;  2  Hannah,  b  May  16, 
1651  ;  3  Abigail,  b  April  18,  1654  ;  4  Mamre,  b  July  12,  1657, 
m  Samuel  Munson ;  5  John,  b  Feb.  28,  1659,  m  ist,  Hannah 


GENEALOGIES.  849 

Lines,  2d,  Mary  Doolittle  ;  6  Samuel,  b  Sept.  29,  1662,  m  ist, 
Anna  -  — ,  2cl,  Elizabeth  Peck;  7  Caleb,  b  May,  1665,01 
Mary  Preston  ;  8  Moses,  b  1667  ;  9  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  14, 
1669,  m  Ebenezer  Lewis,  Dec.  2,  1685. 

5-    JOHN. 

JOHN  MERRIMAN  married  ist,  Hannah  Lines  of  New  Ha- 
ven, March  28,  1682.  He  married  2d,  Mary  Doolittle,  and 
after  her  decease  married  Elizabeth  Peck,  March  20,  1690. 

Children:  TO  Esther,  b  Jan.  24,  1683  ;  n  Abigail,  b  Feb.  i, 
1685  ;  12  George,  b  July  14,  1688,  m  Susanna  Abernathy. 
By  3d  marriage:  13  John,  b  Oct.  16,  1691 ;  14  Israel,  b  June 
23,  1693,  m  Comfort  Benham,  June  23,  1715  ;  15  Sarah,  b 
Feb.  17,  1702  ;  1 6,  17  Elizabeth  and  Susanna,  b  July  20, 
1703;  18  Mary,  b  March  15,  1705;  19  Caleb,  b  April  25, 
1707,  m  Ruth . 

6.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  MERRIMAN  married  ist,  Anna ,  2d,  Elizabeth 

Peck. 

Children:  20  Nathaniel,  b  May  22,  1687  ;  21  Nathaniel,  b 
March  16,  1690  ;  22  Theophilus,  b  April  28,  1692,  m  Mary 
,  May  9,  1714;  23  Samuel,  b  Dec.  19,  1694,  m  Sarah 


7.  CALEB. 

CALEB  MERRIMAN  married   Mary .     He  died  July 

9,  1703.     Estate  £439. 

Children:  24  Moses,  b  Oct.  31,  1691  ;  25  Elizabeth,   b  May 
4,  1691  ;  26  Eliasaph,  b  May  21,  1695,  m  Abigail   Hall,   Dec. 

10,  1719  ;  27  Phebe,  b  June    17,   1697  ;  28  Hannah,    b   Sept. 
10,  1698  ;  29  Phebe,  b  Sept.    16,   1699,  m  Waitstill   Munson, 
Dec.  10,  1719  ;  30  Lydia,  b  Dec.  3,  1701  ;  31   Lydia,  b  Nov. 
12,  1702. 

8.  MOSES. 
MOSES  MERRIMAN  m  Martha . 

Children:  32  Jehiel,  b  Oct.  28,   1713;    33  Esther,  b  Nov. 
n,  1716,  d  April  3d,  1734;  34  Phebe,  b  March  27,  1720;    35 


850  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Benjamin,  b  Jan.  21,  1722  ;  36  Martha,  b  Dec.  30,  1723  ;    37 
Mary,  b  Feb.  26,  1726  ;  38  Lent,  b  May  25,  1731. 
12.  GEORGE. 

GEORGE  MERRIMAN  married  ist,  Susannah  Abernathy,  June 
28,  1713;  2d,  Ruth . 

Children:  39  Nathan,  b  Nov.  30,  1713  ;  40  Nathan,  b  July 
16,  1717  ;  41  Lois,  b  Nov.  10,  1720;  42  Susannah,  b  Sept. 

13,  1723  ;  43  Daniel,  b  Feb.  22,   1727  ;    44  Molly,  b  July   6, 
1730  ;  45    Sarah,  b  May  25,  1733. 

14.    ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  MERRIMAN  m  Comfort  Benham,  June  23,  1715. 

Children:  46  Joseph,  b  Aug.  20,  1716  ;  47  Comfort,  b   Oct. 
3,  1720;  48  Jelin,\)   Feb    16,    1724;    49   Israel,  b  Nov.  30, 
X732  j  5°  Elizabeth,  b  March  u,  1734. 
19.  CALEB. 

CALEB    MERRIMAN   married    Ruth  ,  Aug.  31,    1732. 

She  died  before  him.     He  died  of  small  pox,  June  2,  1770. 

Children:  51  Sarah,  b  May  25,  1733;  52  George,  b  1736, 
d  Sept.  24,  1787  ;  53  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  24,  1739  ;  54  Ruth,  b 
Nov.  i,  1741  :  55  Anna,  d  July  4,  1751  ;  56  Jerusha,  d  July 
5>  I75I  >  57  Abigail,  d  Oct.  3,  1761  ;  58  Caleb,V>  Feb.  26,  1751, 
d  Oct.  9,  1751. 

21.  NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  MERRIMAN  married  Mehitable . 

Children  :  59  Samuel,  b  May  3,  1712  ;  60  David,  b  Feb. 
n,  1715;  6 1  Thankful,  b  May  31,  1717;  62  Nathaniel,  b 
May  31,  1720,  m  Prudence  Austin,  Dec.  19,  1743. 

22.  THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  MERRIMAN  married  Mary . 

Children :  63  Anna,  b  Sept.  i,  1715  ;  64  Theophilus,  b  Aug. 
20,  1717. 

23.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  MERRIMAN  married  Sarah  Wilcher. 

Children:  65  Samuel,  b  Aug.  24,  1728  ;  66  Samuel,  b  Oct. 

14,  1734;  67  Catherine,  b  Dec.  28,  1736  ;  68  Nicholas,  b  Feb. 


GENEALOGIES.  85 1 

X7>  X737  j  69  Anna,  b  March  10,  1737;  70  Samuel,  b  Feb. 
28,  1739;  71  Sarah,  b  Jan.  28,  1742;  72  Stephen,  b  March 
25,  1743  ;  73  Miles,  b  June  n,  1744;  74  Hannah,  b  Dec.  i, 
1750  ;  75  £«;«'«,  b  Aug.  21,  1753. 

26.     ELIASAPH. 

ELIASAPH  MERRIMAN  married  Abigail  Hall  ;  she  with  her 
daughter  Abigail  were  killed  by  lightning,  Aug.  4,  1758.  He 
died  Aug.  14,  1758,  ten  days  after. 

Children:  76  Eunice,  b  Oct.  7,  1720,  d;  77  Eunice,  b  Jan. 
1.2,  1722,  d;  78  Eunice})  Nov.  24,  1722  ;  79  Sarah,  b  Nov. 
18,  1723  ;  80  Titus,  b  Aug.  28,  1727  ;  81  Caleb,  b  Sept.  3,  1729 ; 
82  Amasa,  b  about  1730;  83  Elizabeth,  b  July  27,  1732; 
84  'Esther,  b  Dec.  2,  1734;  85  Abigail,  killed  by  lightning, 
Aug.  4,  1758  ;  86  Elizabeth. 

38.   LENT. 

LENT  MERRIMAN  married  Catherine . 

Children:  87  Luce,  b  Feb.  14,  1755  ;  88  Joel,  b  Sept.  n, 
1756  ;  89  Mamre,  b  June  30,  1758  ;  90  Katherine,  b  May  23, 
1760;  91  Moses,  b  Oct.  30,  1761. 

46.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  MERRIMAN  married  Deborah . 

Children:  92  Joseph,  b  Dec.  20,  1732;  93  Susannah,  b 
Sept.  9,  1745. 

AMASA. 

AMASA  -and  Sarah  Merriman,  of  Wallingford. 

Children:  94  Charles,  b  Aug.  20,  1762.  He  enlisted  into 
the  army  of  the  Revolution  as  a  drummer,  in  1776,  became 
drum-major,  and  served  through  'the  war.  He  married 
Anna  Punderson,  of  New  Haven,  May  16,  1784,  and  settled 
in  Watertown,  where  he  commenced  the  business  of  tailor, 
which  he  was  compelled  to  relinquish  in  consequence  of  ill 
health.  After  having  "ridden  post"  from  New  Haven  to 
Suffield,  Conn.,  four  years,  and  made  a  voyage  to  the  West 
Indies,  he  commenced  the  mercantile  business  in  Watertown, 
in  which  he  continued  until  1829.  He  died  Aug.  26,  1829, 
leaving  ten  children. 


852  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

MILES.' 

John  Miles  was  in  New  England  in  1630,  and  was  made 
free  in  1732. 

THOMAS. 

MAJ.  THOMAS  MILES  of  New  Haven,  married  Abigail  Mix. 
daughter  of  Thomas  Mix,  Sept.  7,  1709.  His  father,  Richard 
Miles,  died  in  New  Haven  in  1663,  and  his  mother,  Mrs. 
Katherine  Miles,  died  in  Wallingford,  Jan.  27,  1683,  ae. 
95  yrs.  Anna,  the  wife  of  Rev.  Mr.  Samuel  Street,  was  their 
daughter.  The  tomb-stone  of  Mrs.  Catherine  Miles  is  still  in 
the  cemetery  at  Wallingford.  Maj.  Thomas  Miles  died  Oct. 

5»  J74i- 

Children:    i    John,   b   Jan.    14,    1711,   m    Sarah ;  2 

James,  b  Dec.  18,  1713,  m  Phebe  Thompson,  Jan.  10,  1733  ; 
3  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  18,  1718,  m  Daniel  Clark,  she  d  April  17, 
1755  ;  4  Mary,  b  Nov.  19,  1719,  m  Josiah  Stanley,  March  14, 
T739  j  5  Martha,  b  Nov.  5,  1723  ;  6  Eunice,  b  Dec.  6,  1726, 
m  Stephen  Culver,  Feb.  12,  1745-6  ;  7  Abigail,  b  April  2,  1727. 

1.  JOHN. 

JOHN  and  Sarah  Miles.  He  died  Nov.  18,  1760.  She 
died  Nov.  25,  1760. 

Children:  8  Samuel,  b  Dec.  18,  1714  ;  9  Sarah,  b  Aug.  28, 
1717  ;  10  John,  b  Oct.  4,  1723  ;  n  Esther,  b  Aug.  26,  1726  ; 
12  Mehitable,  May  2,  1741,  she  died  May  2,  1757. 

2.  JAMES. 

CAPT.  JAMES  and  Phebe  Miles  of  Wallingford.  He  was 
Town  Clerk  of  his  native  place  for  a  great  number  of  years. 
She  died  Oct.  23,  1756. 

Children:  13  Thomas,  b  Oct.  14,  1733  ;  14,  15  Samuel,  and 
Anna,  b  Mar.  24,  1735;  16  Joseph,  b  March  7,  1737;  17 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Allen's  Hist.  Worcester,  Mass.  Associa- 
tion, 165,  166 ;  Hill's  Hist.  Mason,  N.  H.,  205  ;  Miles'  Gen.  of  Miles 
Family ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  in.  206-8 ;  Smith's  Hist.  Delaware  Co., 
Penn.,  485  ;  Ward's  Hist.  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  368-70 ;  Westminster,  Mass. 
Centennial  Celebration,  30. 


GENEALOGIES.  853 

John,  b  Nov.  24,  1739;  18  Catherine,  b  Nov.  23,  1741; 
19  James,  b  Feb.  19,  1743-4;  20  Abigail,  b  Nov.  9,  1746  ;  21 
Sarah,  b  May  20,  1749  ;  22  George,  b  April  22,  1752. 

8.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  MILES  m  Phebe  Tuttle,  Nov.  29,  1736,  and  re- 
sided in  Wallingford. 

Children  :  21  Joseph,  b  March  7,  1737  ;  22  Amos,  b  Feb. 
6,  1738  ;  23  Ruth,  b  May  24,  1739,  m  Stephen  Hall,  April  21, 
1762 ;  24  Mabel,  b  Oct.  i,  1741,  m  John  McCleave ;  25 
Martha,  b  June  28,  1743  ;  26  Joel,  b  Nov.  18,  1749  ;  27 
Isaac,  b  Aug,  25,  1752  ;  28  Samuel,  b  Aug.  12,  1757. 
10.  JOHN. 

JOHN  MILES  m  Martha  Curtis,  Nov.  14,  1743,  and  resided 
in  Wallingford. 

Children  :  29  John,  b  Aug.  31,  1745  ;  30  Simeon,  b  April  4, 
1746  ;  31  Sarah,  b  Sept.  30,  1749. 
DANIEL. 

DANIEL    MILES    married    Anna   ,   of  Wallingford. 

He  died  Dec.  12,  1756. 

Children:  32  Samuel,  b  Oct.  9,  1746  ;  33  Charles,  b  Feb. 
8,  1748  ;  34  Susannah,  b  Sept.  6,  1750;  35  Molly,  b  Oct.7  19, 
1753  ;  36  Anna,  b  April  4,  1756. 

22.    GEORGE. 

GEORGE  MILES  son  of  Capt.  James  Miles,  came  to  Wall- 
ingford some  thirty-five  or  forty  years  since,  and  remained 
there,  until  his  decease,  a  single  man,  greatly  advanced  in 
life.  He  died  Feb.  13,  1838,  ae.  86  years.  He  was  the  last 
of  the  male  members  of  the  Miles  family  in  Wallingford. 


MIX.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  Mix  was  the  first  of  the  name  who  was  in  Walling- 
ford.    He  had  assigned  to  him  in  1670,  lot  No.  12,  the  same 


i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  in.  222,  223,, 
F  F  F 


854  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORU. 

on  which  now  (1870)  stand  the  houses  of  Joel  Peck,  de- 
ceased, and  the  heirs  of  the  late  Hon.  Edgar  Atwater.  He 
was  the  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Mix  Sen.,  of  New  Haven. 
Daniel,  his  brother,  also  settled  in  Wallingford,  married  Ruth 

,  May  2,  1678. 

Children:  i  Thomas,  b  March  25,  1678-9,  m  Deborah 
Royce,  March  2,  1705  ;  2  Lydia,  b  July  31,  1682,  m  Ebenezer 
Hall ;  3  Daniel,  b  June  i,  1685,  m  Lydia  Erwin,  May  24,  1732. 

I.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS  Mix,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ruth,  married  Deborah 
Royce,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Royce  ;  she  died 
Dec.  15,  1738. 

Children:  4  Abigail,  b  Jan.  29,  1706  ;  5  Josiah,  b  Nov.  20, 
1707  ;  6  Thomas,  b  Nov.  27,  1709  ;  7  Daniel,  b  April  27, 
1712;  8  Deborah,  b  March  17,  1744;  9,  10  Hannah  and 
Sarah,  b  Jan.  30,  1716  ;  n  Stephen,  b  May  8,  1718,  m  Re- 
becca   ;  12  Enos,  b  May  29,  1720  ;  13  Sarah,  b  April  i, 

1723,  m  Christopher  Robinson,  April  14,  1757;  14  Martha,  b 
July  18,  1725  ;  15  Timothy,  b  Dec.  28,  1727  ;  16  Enos,  b  May 
29,  1730,  d  Dec.  20,  1737. 

3.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  Mix  married  Lydia  Eiwin,  May  28,  1712.  He 
was  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Ruth  Mix. 

Children:  17  Benjamin,  b  Aug.  13,  1713;  18  Lydia,  b 
Sept.  21,  1716;  19  Ruth,  b  Oct.  5,  1718  ;  20  Benjamin,  b  Dec. 
u,  1720;  21  Isaac,  b  June  7,  1723,  d;  22  Isaac,  b  Nov.  5, 
1727  ;  23  Daniel,  b  Nov.  31,  1730  ;  24  Jeremiah,  b  Nov.  12, 
1737- 

5.    JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH  Mix,  son  of  Thomas  and  Deborah  Mix,  married 
ist,  Sybil  Holt;  she  d  Aug.  5,  1731.  He  married  2d,  Abi- 
gail Porter,  Dec.  20,  1742. 

Children:  25  Jesse,  b  Oct.  22,  1731,  m  Deborah  Parker; 
26  Eldad,  b  Oct.  4,  1733  ;  27  Titus,  b  Dec.  4,  1735,  d  ;  28  Sybil, 
b  April  5,  1738.  By  2d  marriage:  29  Titus,  b  Dec.  4,  1745. 


GENEALOGIES.  855 

6.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  Mix,  son  of  Thomas  and  Deborah  Mix,  married 
Ruth . 

Children:  30  Samuel,  b  Feb.  3,  1740  ;  31  Thomas,  b  Aug. 
12,  1745  J  32  Enos,  b  Feb.  2,  1747  ;  33  John,  b  Aug.  23, 
1750,  d  in  Wallingford  ;  34  Amos,  b  Dec.  2,  1753. 

II.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN  Mix  married  Rebecca . 

Children:  35  Rebecca,  b  May  13,  1747  ;  36  Stephen,  b  Nov. 
2,  1748;  37  Sarah,  b  Dec.  31,  1749. 

25.     JESSE. 

JESSE  Mix  married  Deborah  Parker,  Nov.  22,  1753. 
Children:    38  Ruth,    b  Sept.    15,  1754;    39  Josiah,  b  Aug. 
22,  1755,  m  Ist>  Mindwell  Royce,  2d,  Keziah  Royce. 

THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  and  Damaris  Mix  were  married  Jan.  17, 
1729.  He  died  in  Meriden  July  3,  1750,  ae.  53  years. 

Children:  40  Moses,  b  Jan.  3,  1730,  died  Feb  14,  1730;  41 
Mary,  b  April  3.  1731  ;  42  Sarah,  b  Aug.  26,  1732  ;  43  Mary, 
b  Aug.  4,  1734,  d;  44  Mary,  b  Aug.,  1735,  d  Sept.  3,  1735  ; 
45  Eber. 

39.  JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH  Mix  was  twice  married,  ist  to  Mindwell  Royce, 
Aug.  17,  1777.  She  died  in  1802.  He  married  her  sister 
Keziah  Royce,  Jan.  2,  1803.  He  formerly  owned  and  occu- 
pied the  house,  late  the  residence  of  Harley  Morse,  at  Yales- 
ville.  In  1816,  he,  with  his  family,  removed  to  Ohio  and 
settled  at  Atwater.  He  died  at  Rootstown,  Ohio,  in  his  gist 
year.  His  wife  Keziah  died  at  Atwater,  Ohio,  ae.  82  yrs. 

Children:  46  James,  b  June  7,  1778,  m  Miss  Curtis;  47 
Josiah,  b  Sept.  15,  1779,  m  Sarah  Mattoon,  d  Feb.  4,  1867  ; 
48  Sarah,  b  June  7,  1782,  m  Joseph  Rice,  d  in  1818  ;  49 
Mindwell,  b  June  i,  1784;  50  Rebecca,  b  May  i,  1787,  m 
ist,  Joseph  Hull,  2d,  Joseph  Parker,  d  in  Wallingford;  51 
Stephen,  b  Feb.  14,  1790,  m  Polly  Owens,  d  Jan.  10,  1832  ;  52 


856  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORI). 

Amanda,  b  April  13,  1792,  m  Earl  Hawkins,  Oct.  24,  1823  ; 
53  Julia,  d  June  10,  1801  ;  54  Phebe,  b  Feb.  7,  1799,  m 
James  Webber,  March  i,  1827,  is  living  in  Atwater,  Ohio. 
By  2d  marriage:  55  Julia,  b  Feb.  4,  1804,  m  Chauncey 
Andrews;  56  Emeline,  b  March  14,  1805,  m  John  B.  Whit- 
telsey,  Oct.  15,  1827,  d  Sept.  19,  1863  ;  57  Samuel,  b  Feb.  23, 
1807,  m  Jane  Case,  is  living  at  Rootstown,  Ohio  ;  58  Lucy, 
b  Feb.  8,  1809,  m  Dr.  L.  W.  Trask. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  Mix  married  Elizabeth ,  and  settled  on  the 

North  Farms  in  Wallingford,  as  a  blacksmith.  He  raised  a 
large  family  of  sons  who  learned  their  trades  of  him.  He 
died  Oct.  3,  1821,  ae.  75  years.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  died  Sept.  7, 
1845,  ae.  8 1  years. 

Children:  59  John,  b  1784,  m  Olive  Ives  ;  60  Titus,  b 
1787,  d  Aug.  31,  1833,  ae.  46  ;  61  Eli,  b  1802,  d  Dec.  16, 
1848,  ae.  46  ;  62  Elias,&  in  Prospect  ;  63  William,  died  at 
Cheshire,  was  a  miller  at  Hough's  Mills  ;  64  Thomas,  m  a 
daughter  of  Abel  Sanford. 

59-  JOHN. 

JOHN  Mix  married  Olive  Ives  of  Wallingford.  He  was  a 
blacksmith  at  Yalesville  or  Tyler's  Mills,  for  several  years. 
He  died  April  5,  1849,  ae.  65  years. 

Children :  65  Joel ;    66  John,   m    Barnes,    residence 

Cheshire  ;  67  Butler,  d  unmarried  at  Prospect  ;  68  Garry  I., 
is  a  manufacturer  at  Yalesville,  Conn.  ;  69   William,  resides  in 
New  Haven  ;  70  Erwin,  resides  in  Cheshire  ;    71    Olive ;    72 
Sylvia,  m  William  Haywood,  and  resides  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
60.  TITUS. 

TITUS  Mix,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth,  was  a  blacksmith 
in  the  southeastern  part  of  Mericlen,  and  was  at  one  time 
celebrated  as  a  plough-maker. 

Child  :  73  Titus  Mix,  lives  in  Cheshire. 

DANIEL. 

DANIEL  and  Ruth  Mix  were  in  Wallingford  as  early  as 
1667.  The  name  of  his  2d  wife  was  Deborah . 


GENEALOGIES.  857 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  74  Thomas,  b  March  25,  1678; 
75  Lydia,  b  July  22,  1682  ;  76  Daniel,  b  July  i,  1684,  m 

Lydia ,   May  28,    1712.     By   2d  marriage:   77  .Daniel,b 

April  2,  1702  ;    78  Abigail,\>  Jan.   29,   1706;    79    Josiah,   b 
Nov.  20,  1707  ;  80  Thomas,  b  Nov.  27,  1709. 

76.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  Mix  m  Lydia . 

Children:  81  Deborah,  b  March  17,  1714;  82  Hannah,  b 
Jan.  20,  1716;  83  Enos,  b  March  29,  1720,  d  Dec.  20,  1737; 
84  Sarah,  b  April  21,  1723;  85  Isaac,  b  Nov.  5,  1724;  86 
Martha,  b  July  18,  1725  ;  87  Joanna,  b  March  13,  1726  ;  88 
Timothy,  b  Dec.  28,  1727  ;  89  Daniel,  b  March  31,  1730. 

THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  Mix  married  Damaris . 

Children  :  90  Moses,  b  Jan.  3,  1730  ;  91  Mary,  b  Aug.  4, 
1733  ;  92  Eben,  b  Sept.  3,  1735. 


MOSS.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  Moss,  the  ancestor  of  all  who  bear  the  name  in 
these  parts,  was  in  New  Haven  as  early  as  1645,  an<^  perhaps 
before  that  date.  He  was  a  prominent  man  there,  frequently 
representing  the  people  in  the  General  Court.  As  early  as 
1667,  we  find  him  in  what  is  now  Wallingford,  perambulating 
the  country  in  that  region  for  the  purpose  of  settling  a  village 
there.  In  1670,  at  the  age  of  67  years,  we  find  him  exerting 
himself  before  the  General  Court  at  Hartford,  to  procure  an 
act  of  incorporation,  changing  the  name  of  the  village  to 
that  of  Wallingford,  which  was  carried  into  effect  the  i2th 
day  of  May,  1670.  At  this  time  he  was  a  member  of  the 
General  Court  from  New  Haven.  Afterwards  he  was  fre- 
quently a  member  of  said  Court,  as  a  representative  from 
Wallingford.  He  was  a  very  active  member  of  the  company, 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  in.  246,  247. 


858  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

and  a  leader  among  the  settlers,  who  were  constantly  filling 
up  the  place. 

He  was  at  first  located  on  a  lot  at  the  south  end  of  the 
village,  a  short  distance  below  the  present  residence  of 
Constant  Webb,  and  adjoining  his  friends,  John  Brockett  and 
Samuel  Brown,  to  whom  was  assigned  the  lot  on  which  the 
Beach  house  now  stands.  Failing  to  settle  on  it  within  the 
time  limited,  his  title  was  forfeited,  and  the  committee  to 
whom  such  matters  were  referred,  gave  it  to  John  Moss  Jr., 
and  the  same  remained  in  the  possession  of  his  heirs  and 
descendants,  until  the  death  of  the  late  Ebene^er  Morse. 

John  Moss  sen.  died  in  1707,  at  the  advanced  age  of  103 
years. 

His  sons,  i  Mercy,  and  2  John,  were  among  the  early 
settlers  of  Wallingford. 

MERCY. 

MERCY  Moss,  son  of  John  the  emigrant,  married  and  set- 
tled in  New  Haven ;   was  for  a  time  in  Wallingford. 
Child :  3  John,  b  Jan.  7,    1677. 

2.  JOHN. 

JOHN  Moss  Jr.,  son  of  John  the  emigrant,  m  Martha  La- 
throp,  1677.  She  died  Sept.  21,  1719,  and  he  died  March  31, 
1717.  He  settled  on  the  Moses  Y.  Beach  lot,  and  built  a 
house  upon  it,  in  which  I  suppose  he  died. 

Children:  4  Mary,  b  Jan.  7,  1677;  5  Esther,  b  Jan.  5, 
1678 ;  6  Dea.  Samuel,  b  Nov.  18,  1680,  m  Susannah  Hall,  Dec. 
15,  1703  ;  7  John,  b  Nov.  10,  1682,  m  Elizabeth  Hall,  Feb.  25, 
1708  ;  8  Martha,  b  Dec.  22,  1684 ;  9  Solomon,  b  July  9,  1690, 
m  Ruth  Peck,  Jan.  28,  1714;  10  Isaac,  b  July  6,  1692,  m 
Hannah  Royce,  May  2,  1717  ;  n  Mary,  b  July  23,  1694,  m 
Solomon  Munson,  June  28,  1714;  12  Israel,^  Dec.  31,  1696, 
m  Lydia ;  13  Benjamin,  b  Feb.  10,  1702,  m  Abigail 


6.  SAMUEL. 

DEA.     SAMUEL  Moss,   son    of  John  and  Martha  Lathrop 
Moss,  married  Susannah  Hall,  Dec.  15,  1703.     He  died  July 


GENEALOGIES.  859 

29,  1765,  ae.   85   yrs.;  she   died  March  4,   1766,  ae.   83  yrs. 

Children:   14  Theophilus,  b   Oct.  24,  1704,  m  Ruth  Bunny; 

15  Martha,  b   June   7,    1706;   16   Susannah,   b  Dec.  5,  1708; 

17  Samuel,  b  April  4,    1711,   m  Hannah  ;  18  Esther, 

b  July  30,  1713  ;  19  Isaac,  b  Dec.  5,  1715,  m  Hannah , 

2d,  Keziah  Bowers;  20  Sarah,  b  Feb.  10,  1718  ;  21  Isaiah,  b 
Oct.  16,  1720;  22  Bethiah,  b  March  2,  1723. 

7.  JOHN. 

JOHN  Moss,  son  of  John  and  Martha  Moss,  married  Eliza- 
beth   .     She  died  Jan.  27,  1754;  he  died  May  14,  1755. 

Children:  23   Hannah,  b   Nov.    n,    1709;  24  Elizabeth,  b 

Oct.  6,  1710;   25  Samuel,  b   April   4,  1711,  m  Mary ; 

26  Joseph,  b  Feb.  9,  1714,  m  Lydia  Jones,  Feb.  4,  1735;  27 
Mary,  b  April  22,  1716;  28  John,  b  Nov.  14,  1720;  29  Levi, 
b  Sept.  30,  1722  ;  30  Eunice,  b  Feb.  6,  1728  ;  31  Thankful,  b 
April  26,  1729. 

9.  SOLOMON. 

SOLOMON  Moss,  son  of  John  and  Martha  Moss,  married 
Ruth  Peck.     She  died   March  29,  1728.     He  married  Sarah 


Children  by  ist  marriage:  32  Martha,  b  June  7,  1706;  33 
Susannah,  b  Dec.  5,  1708;  34  Daniel,  b  May  15,  1716;  35 
Daniel,  b  Oct.  28,  1717,  m  Mary  Watts,  Oct.  3,  1737;  36 
Abigail,  b  March  7,  1718;  37  Solomon,  b  Oct.  31,  1719,  m 

Sarah ;  38  Ruth,  b  Aug.  5,    1721 ;  39  Martha,  b  Sept. 

30,  1723  ;  40  Abigail,  b  July  9,  1729.  Children  by  2d  mar- 
riage: 41  Lois,  b  Jan.  7,  1730;  42  Jonathan,  b  Feb.  8,  1731  ; 
43  Sarah,  b  Nov.  28,  1734. 

10.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  Moss,  son  of  John  and  Martha  Moss,  married  Han- 
nah Royce,  May  2,  1717. 

Children  :  44  Heman,  b  July  21,  1718,  d  May  9,  1721  ;  45 
Hannah,  b  March  7,  1722;  46  Orzel;  47  Jesse,  b  March  10, 
1729;  48  Elihu,  b  May  25,  1731;  49  Mehitable,  b  May  9, 
1735- 


86O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

12.  ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  Moss,  son  of  John  and  Martha,  married  Lydia . 

Children  :  50  Nathaniel,  b  Dec.  19,  1722  ;  51  Isaiah,  b  Apr. 
10,  1725  ;  Lydia,  b  March,  1727  ;  53  Isaiah,  b  Dec.  15,  1731  ; 
54  Keziah,  b  Dec.  9,  1734,  d  Jan.  20,  1737  ;  55  Asahel,  b 
Feb.  22,  1737  ;  56  Keziah,  b  July  27,  1739. 

13.   BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  Moss,  son  of  John  and  Martha,  married  Abi- 
gail   . 

Children:  57  Abigail,  b  Dec.  28,  1728;  58  Benjamin,  b 
Nov.  27,  1729  ;  59  Barnabas,  b  Dec.  27,  1733  :  60  Timothy,  b 
March  17,  1736  ;  61  Abigail,  b  Sept.  30,  1740;  62  Joseph,  b 
Dec.  17,  1742  ;  63  Martha,  b  Jan.  27,  1744-5  ;  64  Eunice,  b 
Aug.  12,  1747. 

17.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  Moss,  son  of  Samuel  and  Susannah  Moss,  mar- 
ried ist,  Mary  Judd,  May  28,  1734 ;  she  died,  and  he  married 
2d,  Hannah ,  Jan.  28,  1748. 

Children:  65  Susannah,  b  Oct.  20,  1735,  d  Feb.  i,  1747  ; 
66  Samuel,  b  March  31,  1739  ;  67  Joshua,  b  Jan.  18,  1742  ; 
68  Sarah,  b  April  30,  1745  ;  69  Thomas,  b  Jan.  21,  1747  ;  70 
Thomas,  b  July  27,  1751  ;  71  Mary,  b  April  9,  1753  ;  72 
Martha,  b  May  10,  1755  ;  73  Bethia,  b  May  21,  1757. 
19.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  Moss,  son  of  Samuel  and  Susannah,  married  Hannah 

.     She  died  March  31,    1731,   ae.  40.      He  married   2d, 

Keziah  Bowers,  Oct.  4,  1736. 

Children  :  74  Ebenezer,  b  June  15,  1723  ;  75  Heman,  b  Jan. 
2,  1727  ;  76  Capt.  Jesse,  b  Dec.  16,  1729,  d  at  Cheshire, 
March  20,  1793,  ae.  64  years  ;  77  Mehitable,  d  May  9,  1735  ; 
78  Isaac,  b  Nov.  5,  1734.  By  2d  marriage  :  79  Keziah,  b  March 
1 8,  1746. 

26.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  Moss,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth,  married  Lydia 
Jones,  Feb.  4,  1735.  He  died  at  Cheshire,  July  10,  1775,  ae, 
62  yrs. 


GENEALOGIES.  86l 

Children:  80  Rhoda,  b  Jan.  9,  1736;  81  Moses,  b  March 
18,  1738;  82  Eliada,  b  Aug.  18,  1740;  83  Eunice,  b  May  5, 
1742  ;  84  Hannah,  b  April  9,  1745  ;  85  Joseph,  b  March  21, 
1747  ;  86  Elizabeth,  b  May  31,  1750;  87  Isaac,  b  March  29, 
1754 ;  88  Sarah,  b  March  22,  1757  ;  89  Amos,  b  Oct.  2,  1760. 
28.  JOHN. 

JOHN  Moss,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth,  married  Lydia 
.  She  died  and  he  married  for  second  wife,  Sarah . 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  90  Amasa,  b  April  22,  1746  ; 
91  John,  b  Sept.  3,  1747;  92  Joel,  d  Jan.  12,  1726;  93 
Eunice,  b  Oct.  30,  1750;  94  John,  b  April  7,  1753.  By  2d 
marriage:  95  Sarah  ;  96  Phebe,  b  May  6,  1760. 

29.  LEVI. 

LEVI  Moss,  son  of  John   and  Elizabeth,  married  Martha 


Children:  97  Amos,  b  Nov.  17,  1744;  98  Levi,  b  Nov.  16, 
1746;  99  Elizabeth,  b  Dec.  3,  1748;  100  Eunice,  b  Oct.  30, 
1750;  101  John,  b  Feb.  14,  1751  ;  102  Martha,  b  Aug.  18, 
1753  ;  103  Martha,  b  Nov.  28,  1755  ;  104  Stephen,  b  Feb.  6, 
1758  ;  105  Hannah,  b  July  24,  1760. 
35.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  Moss,  son  of  Solomon  and  Ruth,  married  Mindwell 


Children:  106  Chloe,\>  Dec.  6,  1739;  107  Simeon,  b  Oct. 
16,  1740  ;  108  David,  b  Sept.  30,  1742. 

47.   JESSE. 

JESSE  Moss,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Moss,  married 
Mary . 

Children  :  109  Hannah,  b  June  16,  1754  ;  no  Joel,  b  Dec. 
X7>  I755>  d  Nov.  22,  1756  ;  in  Jesse,  b  Sept.  10,  1757  ;  112 
Reuben,\>  June  n,  1759;  113  Job,  b  April  25,  1761  ;  114 
Job,  b  April  25,  1762. 

50.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  Moss,  son  of  Israel  and  Lydia  Moss,  married 
Mary , 


862  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  115  Stephen,  b  Oct.  6,  1752;  116  Nathaniel, \> 
April  15,  1754;  117  Keziah,  b  May  13,  1756;  118  Mary,  b 
July  19,  1758;  119  Lydia,  b  Aug.  26,  1760. 

53.   ISAIAH. 

ISAIAH  Moss,  son  of  Israel  and  Lydia  Moss,  married 
Phebe  Doolittle,  April  n,  1738;  she  died  May  10,  1758. 

Children:  120  Phebe,  b  June  3,  1739  '•>  I2r  Hezekiah,  b  Jan. 
20,  1741,  d  July  10,  1742;  122  Mehitable,  b  Nov.  15,  1743; 
123  Hezekiah,  b  Nov.  3,1746;  124  Phebe,  b  Aug.  18,  1752; 
125  Linus,  b  March  2,  1761. 


MUNSON.' 

SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  MUNSON,  the  first  of  the  name  in  Wallingford, 
married  Martha  Bradley  of  New  Haven,  Oct.  26,  1665.  She 
died  Jan.  9,  1707.  He  married  for  his  2d  wife,  Mary  Merri- 
man,  March  10,  1708.  He  was  a  shoemaker  and  tanner  of 
leather,  and  owned  the  lot  on  which  now  stands  the  house  of 
Aimer  I.  Hall,  Esq.  He  died  in  Wallingford,  Nov.  24,  1741, 
ae.  74  years. 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  i  Martha,  b  May  6,  1667,  in  New 
Haven  ;  2  Samuel,  b  Feb.  28,  1669  ;  3  Thomas,  b  March  12, 
1670,  in  New  Haven,  d  in  Cheshire,  Sept.  28,  1746,  ae.  76;  4 
John,  b  Jan.  28,  1672  ;  5  Theophilus,  b  Sept.  i,  1675  >  &  Joseph, 
b  Nov.  i,  1677  ;  7  Stephen,  b  Dec.  5,  1679  ;  8  Caleb,  b  Nov.  19, 

1682,  m  Elizabeth ;  9  jfoshua,  b  Feb.  7,  1684,  d  Dec. 

9,  1711  ;  10  Israel,  b  March  6,  1686  ;  n  Solomon,  b  Feb.  18, 
1689,  m  Mary  Cooley :  12  Samuel,  b  Aug.  25,  1691,  m 
Rachel  Cook ;  13  Mario,  b  Feb.  15,  1693 ;  14  William,  b 

Oct.  13,  1695,  m  Rebecca  ,  in  1750;  15  Waitstill,\> 

Dec.  12,  1697;  16  Eunice,  b  Sept.  13,  1700;  17  Obedience,  b 
Oct.  13,  1792  ;  18  Katherine,  b  June  3,  1704,  m  John  Mitchell, 
Oct.  12,  1702.  By  2d  marriage:  19  Tamar,  b  Dec.  5,  1709. 

i  Machias  Centennial  Celebration.  171  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  in.  257; 
Temple's  Eccles.  Hist.  Whately,  Mass.,  36. 


GENEALOGIES.  863 

5.    THEOPHILUS. 

THEOPHILUS  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Martha,  married 
to  Mary  Moss,  by  Mr.  Hall,  June  28,  1714. 

Child:  20,  Eliasaph,  b  Nov.  17,  1719. 
6.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Martha  Munson, 
married  Margery  Hitchcock,  March  10,  1699. 

Children:  21  Abel,  b  Jan.  10,  1701,  m  Sarah  Peck;  22 
Abigail,  b  April  3,  1704,  m  Ichabod  Merriman,  Oct.  17,  1725  ; 
23  Joseph,  b  Dec.  21,  1705  ;  24  Desire,  b  Feb.  7,  1707  ;  25 
Thankful,  b  Jan.  8,  1708  ;  26  Ephraim,  b  Nov.  15,  1714  ;  27 
Margery,  b  Oct.  10,  1717  ;  28  Jemima,  b  March  27,  1720;  29 
Auger,  b  April  7,  1725,  d  Dec.  17,  1726. 

8.  CALEB. 

CALEB  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Martha  Munson,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Brewer,  March  26,  1706. 

Children  :  30  Keziah,  b  Jan.  13,  1706  ;  31  Caleb,  b  Aug.  19, 

1709,  m   Abigail   Brockett,   April   23,    1735  ;  32   Elizabeth,  b 
March  31,  1717;  33  Merriam,  b  April  12,  1720. 

9.  JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Martha  Munson, 
married  Katharine,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Street,  Dec.  20, 

1710.  He  died  Dec.  9,  1711. 

Children:  34  Joshua,  b  Aug.  2,  1710;  35  Mary,  b  .March 
2,  1712. 

II.    SOLOMON. 

SOLOMON  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel   and   Martha  Munson, 
married  Mary    Moss,    June  28,    1714;  m  Sarah   Peck,   June 

M>  1753- 

Children:  36  Martha,  b  Sept.  14,  1715;  37  Samuel,  b 
Sept.  15,  1717  ;  38  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  17,  1719.  By  2d  mar- 
riage: 39  Jonathan,  b  June  30,  1756;  40  Eunice,  b  Nov.  19, 
1754  ;  41  Sarah,  b  Dec.  n,  1760. 

12.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  MUNSON,   son  of   Samuel  and  Martha,   married 


864  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Mary   Merriman,  March    10,  1708.     She  died  Nov.  28,  1755. 
He  died  Nov.  23,  1741. 

Children:  42  Samuel,  b  Feb.  5,  1709;  43  Merriman,  b 
Nov.  30,  1710  ;  44  Mamre,  b  Dec.  16,  1712  ;  45  Lent,  b  Mar. 
6,  1714. 

14.    WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Martha,  married 
Rebecca ,  in  1750. 

Children:  46  Martha,  b  April  2,  1729,  m  Ambrose  Doolit- 
lle  ;  47  William,  b  July  5,  1731  ;  48  Eunice,  b  Aug.  15,  1733  ; 

49  Peter,  b  Nov.  22,  1735,  d  at  Cheshire  in  1833,  ae.  98  yrs.  ; 

50  Hannah,  b  Sept    6,  1737;  51    George,  b  Oct.  7,   1739;  52 
Samuel ;  53  Amasa,  b  Jan.  27,  1741. 

15.  WAITSTILL. 

WAITSTILL  MUNSON,  son  of  Daniel  and  Martha,  married 
Phebe  Merriman,  Dec.  10,  1719. 

Children  :  54  Reuben,  b  May  9,  1721  ;  55  Hannah,  b  Feb. 
20,  1723;  56  Samuel,  b  Dec.  7,  1724;  57  Phebe,  b  Jan.  14, 
1726  ;  58  Solomon,  b  March  19,  1728,  m  Sarah  Peck,  June  14, 
J753j  59  Waitstill,  b  Nov.  24,  1729;  60  Mamre,  b  Jan.  20, 
1734,  m  Timothy  Carrington,  Sept.  26,  1751;  61  Martha,  b 
June  n,  1738. 

21.    ABEL. 

ABEL  MUNSON,  son  of  Joseph  and  Margery,  married 
Sarah  Peck,  Nov.  7,  1728. 

Children:  62  Mary,  b  May  2,  1732,  m  Joseph  Doolittle, 
March  n,  1756  ;  63  Titus,  b  July  5,  1734  ;  64  Lud,  b  May  5, 
*736  ;  65  Levi,  b  Aug.  29,  1738  ;  66  Sarah,  b  Sept.  6,  1740  ; 
67  Nathaniel,  b  Oct.  20,  1742  ;  68  Abigail,  b  Sept.  2,  1744; 
69  Margery,  b  Nov.  3,  1746;  70  Lydia,  b  Oct.,  1748  ;  71 
Abel,  b  Jan  3,  1749  ;  72  Joseph,  b  Nov.  16,  1751. 

30.    CALEB. 

CALEB  MUNSON,  son  of  Caleb  and  Elizabeth  Munson, 
married  Abigail  Brockett,  April  3,  1735.  He  died  July  25i 
1747- 


GENEALOGIES.  865 

Children:  73  Mabel,  b  June  2,  1730;  74  Abner,  b  March 
2>  X736  ;  75  Harmon,  b  Oct.  28,  1738  :  76  Caleb, \>  March  13, 
1741  ;  77  Cornelius,  b  April  16,  1742  ;  78  Benjamin,  b  Aug. 

23,  i?44- 

33.   JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA  MUNSON,  son  of  Joshua  and  Katherine  Munson, 
married  Anna . 

Children:  79  Joshua,  b  Feb.  4,  1750  ;  80  Elizabeth,  b  Feb. 
29,  1752;  81  Joshua,  b  Aug.  2,  1754;  82  Lucy,  b  Feb.  3, 
J757  ;  83  Anna,  b  June  28,  1760. 

42.    MERRIMAN. 

DEA.  MERRIMAN  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary 

Munson,  married  ist,  Esther .  She  died  April  6, 

1757  ;  he  m  2d,  Thankful  Peck,  June  23,  1758. 

Children:  84  Sarah,  b  Dec.  16,  1734;  85  Esther,  b  March 
25,  1740  ;  86  Samuel,  b  Dec.  8,  1741  ;  87  Mamre,  b  Aug.  12, 
1745,  d  Sept.  17,  1745.  By  2d  marriage:  88  Sarah,  b  Oct. 
7,  1758. 

44.     LENT. 

LENT  MUNSON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Munson,  mar- 
ried Mary . 

Children:  89  Mamre,  b  Dec.  9,  1749,  d  Aug.  31,  1751  ;  90 
John,  b  Aug.  25,  1754  ;  91  Luce,  b  Feb.  14,  1755  ;  92  Mary, 
b  Sept.  29,  1756. 

46.    WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  MUNSON,  son  of  William  and  Rebecca,  married 
Phebe  -  — . 

Children  :  93  Medad,  b  Aug.  31,  1731  ;  94  Martha,  b  Jan. 
16,  1740. 

48.    PETER. 

PETER  MUNSON,  son  of  William  and  Rebecca,  married  and 
settled  in  Cheshire,  where  he  died  ae.  92  years. 

Children :  95  Waitstill,  d  in  New  York  a  Methodist 
minister,  left  numerous  descendants  ;  96  Reuben,  d  in  N.  York  ; 
97  Levi,  d  in  Cheshire,  Conn. 


866  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

53.    REUBEN. 

REUBEN  MUNSON,  son  of  Waitstill  and  Phebe,  married 
Mary  Chittenden,  Dec.  21,  1741. 

Children :  98  Stephen,  b  Sept.  23,  1742  ;  99  Moses,  b  Sept. 
24,  1744  ;  100  Reuben,  b  Dec.  22,  1746. 

57.  SOLOMON. 

SOLOMON  MUNSON,  son  of  Waitstill  and  Phebe,  married 
Sarah . 

Children:  101  Eunice,  b  Nov.  19,  1754;  102  Jonathan,  b 
June  3,  1756. 

58.    WAITSTILL. 

WAITSTILL  MUNSON,  son  of  Waitstill   and  Phebe,  married 


Children:  103  Martha,  b  June  n,  1738;  104  Zerah,  was 
a  shoemaker;  105  Hunn. 

62.  TITUS. 

TITUS  MUNSON,  son  of  Abel  and  Sarah,  married  Lydia 
Lindsley,  Sept.  22,  1759. 

Child:   106  Irene,  b  March  9,  1758. 

92.    REUBEN. 

REUBEN  MUNSON,  son  of  Peter  and  Rebecca  Munson, 
married  and  settled  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  became 
a  wealthy  manufacturer  of  combs.  He  had  a  large  family 
of  children,  among  whom  were  William  and  others  whose 
names  I  have  not  learned. 

96.    LEVI. 

LEVI  MUNSON,  son  of  Peter  and  ,  married  Tenny 

Brooks  of  Cheshire,  and  settled  on  the  old  homestead  of  his 
father,  about  a  mile  and  a  half  north  of  the  village  of  Che- 
shire, where  he  died. 

Children  :  107  Levi  ;  108  Abbey,  m  Rier  Bristol  of  Cheshire  ; 
109  —  —  ;  no  Benjamin  F.,  m  ist,  Abigail  Atkins,  2d,  Anna 
Cook;  in  Truman,  m  W.  Hitchcock. 


GENEALOGIES.  867 

98.    MOSES. 

MOSES  MUNSON,  son  of  Reuben  and  Mary,  married  Phebe 


Children:  112  John,  b  Aug.  2,  1740;  113  Thomas  E.,  b 
April  5,  1742  ;  114  Margaretta,  b  April  14,  1744  ;  115  Caleb, 
b  May  22,  1746;  116  Hannah,  b  May  17,  1748;  117  Moses, 
b  Aug.  13,  1750. 

EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  and  Abigail  Munson. 

Children:  118  Thomas,  b  Oct.  24,  1741  ;  119  Lydia,  b  Jan. 
30,  1745;  120  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  13,  1746;  121  Patience,  b 
Aug.  31,  1749  ;  122  Jesse,  b  July  5,  1751  ;  123  John,  b  Dec. 
3,  >752- 

OBADIAH. 

OBADIAH  MUNSON  married  ist,  Rachel  Tyler,  Feb.  28, 
1753,  2d,  Mary  Williams,  Oct.  15,  1755. 

Children  :  124  Barnabas,  b  Sept.  24,  1754  ;  125  Wilmot,  b 
July  23,  1755  ;  126  Lydia,  b  Aug.  n,  1756  ;  127  Hannah,  b 
Jan.  12,  1757  ;  128  Stephen,  b  Sept.  10,  1759;  129  Daniel,  b 
March  23,  1761. 

129.    DAVID. 

DAVID  and  Sarah  Munson. 

Children:   130  David,  b  Jan.    23,   1741  ;  131  Amos,  b  Oct. 

i3>  1743- 

WALTER. 

WALTER  MUNSON  married  Phebe . 

Child  :   132  Martha,  d  Jan.  26,  1740. 

ELIASAPH. 

ELIASAPH  MUNSON  married  Rebecca ,  and  settled 

on  a  farm  on  the  west  side  of  the  river  in  Wallingford.  He 
died  Jan.  i,  1826,  ae.  75.  Mrs.  Rebecca  died  Aug.  9,  1849, 
ae.  90  years. 

Children:  132  Chauncey ;  133  ftachel,  m  John  B.Johnson; 
134  Sarah,  m  Billious  Cook. 


868  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

NO  YES.' 

JAMES. 

REV.  JAMES  NOYES  came  from  England  in  1634,  and  is  the 
ancestor  of  the  Noyes  family  in  Connecticut.  He  was  born 
in  1608,  in  Choulderton,  Wiltshire,  England.  His  father  was 
a  minister  of  that  place,  and  was  a  very  learned  man.  He 
came  to  this  country  because  he  could  not  comply  with  the 
ceremonies  of  the  Church  of  England.  He  was  married  to 
Miss  Sarah  Brown  of  Southampton,  not  long  before  he  came 
to  this  country,  which  was  in  1634.  He  was  first  called  to 
preach  in  Mystic,  and  continued  there  nearly  a  year.  After- 
ward he  settled  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  was  pastor  of  the 
church  in  that  place  for  more  than  twenty  years.  He  died 
Oct.  22,  1656,  in  the  48th  year  of  his  age.  He  had  six  sons 
and  two  daughters,  all  of  whom  lived  to  be  married,  and  had 
children.  Three  of  his  sons  graduated  at  Harvard  College, 
and  settled  in  the  ministry. 

James  was  pastor  of  a  church  in  Stonington,  Conn. 
Moses  settled  in  Lyme,  Conn.,  and  died  1729,  in  his  86th 
year,  after  having  resided  with  his  people  60  years.  Nicho- 
las, brother  of  Rev.  James,  settled  in  Salem,  Mass. 

JAMES. 

REV.  JAMES  NOYES  of  Stonington,  married  Dorothy  Stanton, 
Sept.  ii,  1674.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  first  trus- 
tees of  Yale  College  ;  was  pastor  of  the  church  in  Stonington 
50  years.  He  died  Dec.  30,  1719-20,  ae.  80  yrs. 

Children :  i  James,  born  in  England,  his  sons  were  John, 
b  1619,  d  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  1682,  and  Robert,  who  settled 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Coffin's  Hist  Newbury,  Mass.,  312  ; 
Hobart's  Hist.  Abingdon,  Mass.,  423-6  ;  Journals  of  Smith  and  Dean  of 
Portland,  Me.,  158  ;  Kingman's  Hist.  North  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  582-4  ; 
Noyes'  Gen.  of  Noyes  Family;  Poor's  Hist,  and  Gen.  Researches,  119, 
120,  136-40,  168,  169;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  ITI.  296-299;  Ward's  Hist 
Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  388-90  ;  Wyman's  Hunt  Family  Gen.,  119,  120  ;  also 
p.  291  of  this  history. 


GENEALOGIES.  869 

in  Roxbury,  m  Sarah  Lynde  ;  2  Thomas;  3  John;  4    Joseph, 
m  Abigail  Pierrepont ;  5  Moses ;  6  Dolly. 
3.  JOHN. 

JOHN  NOYES,  son  of  Rev.  James  of  Stonington,  married 
Mary  Fish,  at  Stonington,  Nov.  16,  1758. 

Children:  8  Rebecca,  b  Nov.  22,  1759,  d  at  Stonington, 
May  14,  1760;  9  Joseph,  b  Feb.  14,  1761,  m  —  -  Burr;  10 

John,  b  Aug.  27,  1762,  m Skidmore  ;  n  James,  b  Aug. 

14,  1764,  m  Anna  Holbrook  ;  12  Mary,  b  June  21,  1766,  d 
Aug.,  1770;  13  Anna. 

Mary,  the  wid.  of  John  Noyes,  married  2d,  Gen.  Gold  S. 
Silliman  of  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  1775,  and  had  two  children 
by  her  second  marriage  :  Gold  S.  Silliman,  Esq.,  lawyer,  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  the  late  Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman 

of  Yale  College. 

4.   JOSEPH. 

REV.  JOSEPH  NOYES,  son  of  Rev.  James  of  Stonington, 
was  born  in  1688,  graduated  in  Yale  College  in  1709.  After 
receiving  his  first  degree,  being  then  about  22  years  of  age,  he 
became  tutor  in  Yale  College,  and  served  four  years  in  that 
office.  He  was  ordained  and  installed  over  the  church  in 
New  Haven,  July,  1716.  He  married  Nov.  6,  1716,  Miss 
Abigail  Pierrepont,  dau.  of  his  predecessor,  Rev.  James  Pierre- 
pont. None  of  their  children  lived  to  be  married  except  one 
son  and  two  daughters,  viz. :  John,  Abigail,  who  married 
Thomas  Darling,  Esq.,  of  New  Haven,  and  Sarah,  who  mar- 
ried Col.  Chester,  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.  He  died  June  16, 

1761,  ae.  73  yrs. 

7.  JOHN. 

REV.  JOHN  NOYES,  son  of  Rev.  Joseph,  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1756,  and  was  licensed  to  preach,  May  31,  1757. 
He  died  Nov.  5,  1767,  £e.  32  yrs. 

10.  JOHN. 

REV.  JOHN  NOYES,   son  of  Rev.   John  Noyes,  was   born 
Aug.   27,   1760,  graduated  at  Yale  College,  Sept.,  1779,  and 
was  licensed  to  preach,  in  Oct.,  1783,  by  the  Western  Asso- 
G  G  G 


870  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

elation  of  Fairfield  Co.,  Conn.  He  was  ordained  and  in- 
stalled at  Northfield  parish,  town  of  Weston,  Fairfield  Co., 
Conn,,  May  30,  1786.  He  married  Eunice  Sherwood,  March 
8,  1786. 

Children  :  14  Samuel  Sherwood,  b  May  20,  1787  ;  15  Mary, 
b  Nov.  3,  1788;  1 6  John,  b  May  n,  1788;  17  William,  b 
May  23,  1792  ;  18  Ebenezer,  b  March  27,  1794;  19  Benjamin, 
b  Feb.  5,  1796,  d  April  21,  1815  ;  20  Charles,  b  June  23, 
1798,  d  July  9,  1821  ;  21  Eunice,  b  Aug.  21,  1800,  d  Feb.  13, 
1804  ;  22  Burr,  b  Aug.  31,  1803,  d  July  3,  1830. 

Mrs.  Eunice,  wife  of  Rev.  John  Noyes,  died  March  25, 
1824,  ae.  64  yrs.  Rev.  John  Noyes  married  2d,  Fanny 
Swann  of  Stonington,  Conn.,  Oct.  16,  1827  ;  she  was  born 
July  9,  1776.  He  died  in  Northfield,  May  15,  1846,  ae.  nearly 
84  yrs.  He  had  written  the  discourse  for  the  6oth  anniver- 
sary of  his  ministry,  and  it  was  to  have  been  delivered  by  him 
two  weeks  from  the  Sabbath  on  which  he  was  interred. 
14.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  SHERWOOD,  son  of  Rev.  John  Noyes,  born  May 
20,  1787,  married  Esther  Chapman,  who  was  born  June  5, 
1790,  on  Nov.  3,  1812. 

Children:  23  Samuel,  b  March  12,  1815;  24  Benjamin,  b 
Nov.  10,  1816  ;  25  William,  b  Dec.  10,  1818  ;  26  Julia  Chap- 
man, b  July  25,  1820  ;  27  Charles,  b  Aug.  7,  1822,  d  March  12, 
1857  ;  28  Josiah  Chapman,  b  Jan.  22,  1824,  d  May  22,  1849  ; 
29  John,  b  April  n,  1826,  d  Oct.  22,  1853  ;  30  Elizabeth,  b 
May  14,  1828;  31  James  Burr,  b  Sept.  17,  1830,  d  Dec.  4, 
1851. 

Dr.  Samuel  S.  Noyes  studied  medicine  and  was  licensed  to 
practice  in  1810.  He  settled  in  New  Canaan,  Fairfield  Co., 
in  1811. 

22.    BURR. 

REV.  BURR  NOYES,  son  of  Rev.  John  Noyes,  graduated  at 
Yale  College,  Sept.,  1824.  He  settled  at  Chester,  Saybrook, 
Conn.,  was  very  successful  in  his  profession,  and  won  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  the  people.  He  died  July  2,  1830. 


GENEALOGIES.  8/1 

9.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  NOYES  ESQ.,  son  of  Rev.  John  Noyes,  was  born 
Feb.  14,  1761,  died  in  1817,  ae.  56  yrs.  He  was  married  to 
Amelia  Burr,  Dec.  n,  1783.  She  was  born  Dec.  7,  1764, 
and  died  May  7,  1802  ;  he  married  Lucy  Norton,  May  24, 
1804  ;  she  died  July  12,  1850,  ae.  79  yrs. 

Children  :  32  Joseph  Fish,  b  Oct.  9,  1784  ;  33  John  Noyes, 
b  Aug.  7,  1786  ;  34  James,  b  Oct.  21,  1788;  35  Samuel,  b 
Sept.  15,  1791  ;  36  Rebecca,  b  March  3,  1794.  By  2d  mar- 
riage :  37  Benjamin  Silliman,  b  May  5,  1805 ;  38  Joseph 
Chester,  b  Aug.  5,  1808  ;  39  Thomas  Norton,  b  Oct.  3,  1799  ', 
40  Harriet  Norton,  b  Oct.  5,  1796  ;  41  Mary  Ann,  b  Sept.  7, 
1813. 

II.    JAMES. 

REV.  JAMES  NOYES,  son  of  Rev.  John  Noyes,  was  born 
Aug.  4,  1764,  and  died  in  Wallingford,  Feb.  18,  1844,  in  the 
8oth  year  of  his  age,  being  the  oldest  minister  in  the  county 
of  New  Haven.  He  married  Anna  Holbrook,  of  Derby, 
Conn.,  Jan.  22,  1769.  She  died  Jan.  i,  1838,  ae.  69  yrs. 

Children:  42  Catharine,  b  Feb.  i,  1789,  d  March  19,  1811; 
43  Anna,  b  Feb.  i,  1790;  44  James,  b  May  23,  1792,  d  Oct. 
26,  1794;  45  Mary,  b  May  13,  1794,  d  April  23,  1844;  46 
Sally,  b  Feb.  n,  1796,  d  Jan.  12,  1834;  47  James,  b  Jan.  27, 
1708,  d  1869,  in  East  Haddam ;  48  Cornelia,  b  March  23, 
1800,  d  Jan.  16,  1835  ;  49  Esther,  b  March  21,  1802,  d  Oct. 
16,  1839;  50  Abigail,  b  May  13,  1804,  d  April  24,  1844; 
51  Eunice,  b  March  12,  1806,  d  Oct  3,  1824;  52  Joseph  Fish, 
b  July  3,  1808  ;  53  John,  b  July  15,  1810,  d  Oct.  n,  1810; 
54  Catharine,  b  May  27,  1812,  d  Jan.  27,  1833  ;  55  Harriet,  b 
Aug.  n,  1814. 


PARKER.' 

Parker  has  always  been  a  common  name  in  New  England. 
We  find  Abraham,  Amariah,  Edmund,  George,  Jacob,  James, 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Abbott's  Hist.  Andover,  Mass.,  20  ;  Bar- 


8/2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Joseph,  Matthew,  Nicholas,  Robert,  Thomas,  two  or  more 
Williams,  and  as  many  Johns,  appearing  in  nearly  as  many  of 
the  different  settlements  in  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut, 
at  an  early  day.  Abraham  Parker  was  the  first  of  the  family 
in  this  country.  It  is  supposed  that  he  came  from  Wiltshire, 
England.  He  first  settled  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  where  he  mar- 
ried Rose  Whitlock,  Nov.  18,  1644. 

I.    WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  PARKER  was  early  in  Hartford  and  Saybrook,  and 
had  three  children:  2  William;  3  Ralph,  died  in  1690;  4 
John,  who  removed  to  New  Haven  ;  he  had  5  John,  b  Oct. 
8,  1648,  m  Nov.  8,  1670,  Hannah,  dau.  of  Wm.  Bassett ;  6 
Mary,  b  April  27,  1649,  m  John  Hall,  1666  ;  7  Hope,  b  May 
26,  1650,  m  Samuel  Cook,  May  2,  1677  ;  8  Lydia,  b  May  26, 
1652-3,  m  John  Thomas,  Jan.  12,  1671  ;  9  Joseph,  m  Hannah 
Gilbert,  1673. 

5.  JOHN. 

JOHN  PARKER  and  HANNAH  his  wife  were  among  the  early 
planters  in  Wallingford,  and  settled  at  Parker's  farms,  about 
two  miles  west  of  the  village,  which  first  gave  the  name  to 
that  locality.  He  was  an  active  business  man,  and  did  much 
in  advancing  the  interests  of  the  settlement.  He  died  in 
1711.  Hannah  his  wife  died  June  7,  1726. 

ry's  Hist.  Framingham,  Mass.,  349-51  ;  Bouton's  Hist.  Concord.  N.  H., 
682;  Bridgman's  Granary  Burial  Ground,  136-44;  Butler's  Hist.;  Groton, 
Mass.,  421.  476,494;  Caulkins'  Hist  of  New  London,  Conn.,  306;  Ueane's 
Hist.  Scituate,  Mass.,  320;  Freeman's  Hist.  Cape  Cod,  Mass.,  n.  438,  466, 
472,  642  ;  Hill's  Hist.  Mason,  N.  H.,  205 ;  Hovvell's  Hist.  Southampton, 
L.  I.,  260;  Hudson's  Hist.  Lexington,  Mass.,  169-76;  Jackson's  Hist. 
Newton,  Mass.,  375-81;  Kidder's  Hist.  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  417-19; 
Littell's  Passaic  Valley  Gen.,  311  ;  Morse's  Gen.  Reg.  of  Sherborn  and 
Holliston,  Mass.,  185;  Morse's  Memorial  of  Morses,  Appendix,  No.  54; 
N.  E.  Hist.  &  Gen.  Reg.,  iv.  139,  vi.  375,  376,  xvi.  41,  91-4  ;  Poor's  Hist. 
&  Gen.  Researches,  113-15,  124-8;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  in.  349-58; 
Sewall's  Hist.  Woburn,  Mass.,  628 ;  Shattuck's  Memorial,  375-7 ;  Smith's 
Hist.  Delaware  Co.,  Penn.,  490  ;  Stoddard's  Gen.  of  Stoddard  Family,  ed. 
1865,  14,  38,39,63-8;  Temple's  Eccles.  Hist.  Whately,  Mass.,  29  ;  Ward's 
Hist.  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  400-4. 


GENEALOGIES.  8/3 

Children:  10  Hannah,  b  Aug.  20,  1671,  m  Wm.  Andrews, 
Jan.  12,  1692  ;  u  Elizabeth,  m  Josiah  Royce,  March  24, 
1693  ;  12  John,  b  March  26,  1675,  m  Mary  Kibbe  of 
Springfield,  Nov.  i,  1699  ;  13  Rachel,  b  June  16,  1680,  m 
Thomas  Relzea  of  New  Haven,  1700  ;  14  Joseph,  m  Sarah 
Curtis,  June  7,  1705  ;  15  Eliphalet,  m  Hannah  Beach,  Aug.  5, 
1708  ;  1 6  Samuel,  m  Sarah  Goodsell  of  Middletown,  July  16, 

1713;  17   Edward,  b   1692,  m  Jerusha  ,  he  d  Oct.  21, 

1776,  she  d  Dec.  27,  1745  ;  18  Mary,  m  Joseph  Clark,  Nov. 
27,  1707;  19  Abigail,  b  March  3,  1710,  m  Joseph  Bradley 
Dec.  8,  1765. 

12.    JOHN. 

JOHN,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Parker,  married  ist,  Mary 
Kibbe,  2d  Sarah . 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  20  Rachel,  b  Jan.  6,  1701-2  ;  21 
John,\>  Oct.,  1703,  m  Deborah,  dau.  of  Thomas  Matthews, 
Oct.  17,  1727;  22  Aaron,  b  July  8,  1704,  d  Jan.  12,  1727  ; 
23  Mary,  b  Feb.  8,  1736  ;  24  Elisha,  b  Oct.  25,  1708,  m  Su- 
sanna Tuttle,  Feb.  28,  1728;  25  Abigail,}^  March  3,  1710,  m 
Robert  Martin,  July  15,  1734  ;  26  Elizabeth,  b  June  3,  1716  ; 
27  Lois,  b  July  20,  1718,  m  Thomas,  son  of  Timothy  Beach, 
Nov.  5,  1740  ;  28  Isaac,  b  1720,  m  Hannah,  dau.  of  Timothy 
Beach,  Aug.  n,  1742;  29  -  — ,  d  April  27,  1773,  m  Lois 
Royce.  By  2d  marriage:  30  Sarah,  b  July  22,  1739. 
14.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Parker,  married  Sarah 
Curtis. 

Children:  31  Joseph,  b  Aug.  6,  1706,  d  July  25,  1712  ;  32 
Joseph,  b  July  25,  1707  ;  33  Andrew,  m  Susanna  Blakeslee  ; 
34  Thomas,  b  June  7,  1709,  m  Abigail  Dutton  and  settled  in 
Waterbury,  Conn.,  in  1756;  35  Hannah,  b  Aug.  30,  1700; 

36  Ebenezer,  b  March  5,  1713,  m  Lydia  Barnes,  April  i,  1735  > 

37  Joseph,  b  April  3,    1716,  m  ist,   Lucy   Parmalee,  Feb.  23, 
1742,  2d,  Mary    Andrews,  March  30,  1758  ;  38  Ralph,  b  Jan. 
9,  1718,  went  to  Vermont;  39  Waitstill,  b  July  24,  1721,  m 
Jemima,  dau.  of  Joseph  Munson,  Oct,  27,  1742  ;  40  Sarah,  b 


8/4  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

Oct.  18,  1725,111  Asaph,  son  of  Samuel  Cook,  Jan.  15,  1744-5. 

15.    ELIPHALET. 

ELIPHALET,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Parker,  married 
Hannah  Beach  ;  he  died  in  1757,  ae.  76  yrs. 

Children:  41    Eliada,   b   April  2,  1710,  d  March  24,  1712  ; 

42  Eliada,  b  April  22,  1712,  m  Sarah  Curtis   Dec.    21,    1732  ; 

43  Chestina,  b  April    18,  1714,  m  Peter  Curtis  Nov.  22,  1732  ; 

44  Aaron,  b  Feb.  17,  1716,  m  Sarah  Martin,  March  n,  1756; 

45  Gamaliel,  b  June  6,  1718,  d  Dec.  3,  1799,  he  m  Elizabeth 
— ;  46  Didymus,   b  Jan.   14,    1721,  m   Phebe,  daughter  of 

John  Johnson,  Dec.  22,  1742  ;  47  Eliphalet,  b  Jan.  19,  1721, 
m  Thankful  Hitchcock,  May  21,  1745  ;  48  Joanna,  b  July  8, 
1723,  m  Amos  Bristol  of  Cheshire,  June,  1740  ;  49  Bethud, 
b  April  2,  1727,  m  Tabitha.  daughter  of  Matthias  Hitchcock, 
July  19,  1749,  he  d  March  13,  1778  ;  50  Benjamin,  b  Feb.  12, 
1729,  m  Mary  Atwater  and  removed  to  Simsbury,  Conn.  ;  51 
Thankful,  m  Oliver  Hitchcock. 

1 6.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  Parker,  m  ist,  Lydia 
;  2d,  Sarah  Goodsell,  July  i6r  1713  ;  3d,  Mary  Cham- 
berlain, Jan.  9,  1744. 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  52  Thomas,  b  June  7,  1709  ;  53 
Sarah,  b  May  17,  1714  ;  54  Abiah,  b  Aug.  2,  1716,  m  Daniel, 
son  of  John  Ives,  Oct.  28,  1735  ;  55  Joseph,\)  Aug.  2,  1716, 
m  Lucy  Parmalee,  Feb.  23,  1742-3.  By  2d  marriage:  56 
Abraham,  b  March  24,  1720,  m  Damaris,  daughter  of  William 
Abernathy,  Sept,  9,  1747,  d  July  26,  1775  ;  57  Jacob,  b  April 
24.  1722,  m  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Beecher,  April  26, 
1749,  d  Sept.  24,  1767  ;  58  Titus,  b  Feb.  23,  1728.  By  3d 
marriage:  59  Thankful,  b  Oct.  8,  1745  ;  60  Martha,  b  Sept. 
10,  1749  ;  6 1  Lent,  b  July  8,  1752. 

17.   EDWARD. 
EDWARD,  son  of  John  and  Hannah   Parker,   married   Jeru- 

sha .     They  settled   in   Cheshire  parish,    on  what  is 

now  called  Cheshire  street,  where  she  died   Dec.   27,    1745. 


GENEALOGIES.  875 

He  married  2d,  Rebecca  Ives,  Dec.  i,  1748;  she  died  May 
23,  1762,  ae.  65.  He  married  3d,  Ruth  Merriman  Merwin, 
Sept.  30,  1762. 

Children :  62  Ralph,  b  Jan.  9,  1718,  m  Martha,  daughter  of 
Gideon  Ives,  Dec.  25,  1740  ;  63  Athildred,  b  July  i,  1719,  m 
Timothy  Hall,  Jan.  10,  1748  ;  63  1-2  Edward,  b  March  n, 
1721,  m  Sarah  Burroughs,  Aug.  21,  1744  ;  64  Joel,  b  Feb.  24, 
1723,  m  Susannah  Hotchkiss,  Dec.  25,  1746  ;  65  Ephraim, 
b  Aug.  23,  1725,  m  Bathsheba  Parsons,  Nov.  u,  1747;  66 
Amos,  b  Nov.  26,  1726,  d  Aug.  20,  1748  ;  67  William,  b 
1728,  d  May  2,  1752  ;  68  Eldad,  b  Sept.  14,  1731,  m  Thank- 
ful, daughter  of  Matthew  Bellamy,  April  24,  1755,  d  July  6, 
1779  ;  69  Joseph  Merriam,  b  Feb.  2,  1734,  d  March  21,  1734  ; 
70  Joseph,  b  Oct.  9,  1735,  m  Mary  Andrews,  May  30,  1758. 

21.    JOHN. 

JOHN,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Parker,  married  Deborah 
Matthews.  He  died  March  28,  1749. 

Children  :  71  Abiah,&  Aug.  14,  1728;  72  John,  b  Dec.  25, 
1730,  m  Eunice  Beach,  June  16,  1752,  and  had  John,  b  Dec. 
8,  [755  ;  73  Deborah,  b  May  4,  1834,  m  Jesse,  son  of  Josiah 
Mix,  Nov.  26,  1753  ;  74  Jesse,  b  -March  16,  1736,01  Dorothy 
Spenser,  Feb.  16,  1758;  75  Reuben,  b  March  12,  1738,01 
Hannah  Chapman  of  Waterbury,  Dec.  10,  1764;  76  Gideon, 

b  July  5,  1740,  m  Elizabeth ,  b  Nov.  n,  1743  ;  77  Isaiah, 

b  June  14,  1746,  m  Susanna  or  Damaris  Yale,  Feb.  14,  1771. 
24.  ELISHA. 

ELISHA  PARKER,  son  of  John  and  Mary,  married  Susanna 
Tuttle. 

Children:  78  Ruth,  b  Feb.  28,  1728  :  79  Aaron,  b  April  9, 
1730,  m  Sarah,  dau.  of  Robert  Martin,  March  u,  1756;  80 
Elisha,  b  July  25,  1735,01  Esther  Spencer,  Aug.  10,  1759; 
8 1  John,  b  Sept.  17,  1739  ;  82  Dan;  83  Damaris,  b  July  16, 
1743,  m  Enos  Parker,  Dec.  2,  1761  ;  84  Susanna,  b  Dec. 
7,  1745- 

28.    ISAAC. 

ISAAC  PARKER,  son  of  John  and  Mary,  m.  Hannah  Beach. 


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Children  :  85  Keziah,  b  Feb.  12,  1743  ;  86  Lois,  b  April  30, 

1746  ;  87  Ruth,  b  July  u,  1750,  m  Gershom  Maltoon,  Dec.  5, 

1776  ;  88  Isaac,  b  Sept.  4,    1754,  m  Annie  Parker,   March  19, 
1778  ;  89  Mary,  b  Aug.  14,    1755,  rn  Amos   Austin,   Aug.  17, 

1777  ;  90   Timothy,  b  Aug.    14,    1757;  91    John,   b   Feb.    21, 
1762  ;  92  Phineas,  b  July  14,  1765. 

34.    THOMAS. 

THOMAS  PARKER,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Curtis  Parker, 
married  Abigail  Button,  Aug.  30,  1748,  and  settled  in  Water- 
bury.  He  died  in  1788. 

Children:  93  Thomas,  b  April  3,  1749;  94  Amasa,  b  Feb. 
28,  1751,  graduate  of  Yale,  m  Thankful  Andrews,  Aug.  28, 
I77I  j  95  Peter,  b  March  n,  1753,  removed  to  the  State  of 
N.  Y.  ;  96  Abigail,  b  Aug.  28,  1755  ;  97  Abner,  removed  to 
the  State  of  N.  Y  ;  98  Joseph,  was  a  physician  in  Litchfield 
Co.  ;  99  Daniel,  m  Miriam  Curtis,  Nov.  18,  1762. 

36.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  PARKER,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Curtis  Parker, 
married  Lydia  Barnes. 

Children:  100  Desire,  b  June  7,  1735,  m  Aaron  Bellamy, 

Dec.  20,  1753  ;  101  Ebenezer,  b  July  6,  1737,  m  Anna , 

d  Dec.  n,  1762  ;  102  Caleb,  b  March  30,  1739  ;  103  Joshua, 
b  April  17,  1741,  m  Mary,  dau.  of  Oliver  Hitchcock,  Oct.  30, 
.1765  ;  104  Jared,  b  Nov.  16,  1743  ;  105  Lydia,  b  March  8, 
1745,  m  Abel  Parker,  April  23,  1762  ;  106  Stephen,  b  Oct.  27, 

1747  ;   107   Eliakim,  b  July    10,    1751,   m   Phebe   Carrington, 
Feb.  20,  1775,   a°d   had  Eliakim,  b  March    13,    1777,   m   2d, 
wid.  Lois  Ives,  Nov.  n,  1777,  and  had  three  children  ;  108 
Caleb,  b  Nov.  2,  1759,  m  Dolly  Peck,  Nov.  3,  1783. 

39.    WAITSTILL. 

WAITSTILL  PARKER,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Curtis 
Parker,  married  ist,  Jemima  Munson,  2d,  Jemima  Beach. 

Children  :  109  Margery,  b  March  20,  1743-4,  d  Oct.  i, 
i  744  ;  no  Justus,  b  Jan.  i,  1747-8  ;  in  Margery,  b  Feb.  25, 
1749,  m  Eliada  Parker,  Jr.  By  2d  marriage  :  112  Jemima,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  8// 

June  2,  1753;  113  Rhoda,  b  March  25,  1755.  By  3d  mar- 
riage :  114  Charles,  b  Aug.  21,  1760,  m  Charity  Dibble,  Oct. 
21,  1784  ;  115  Eunice,  b  Aug.  9,  1762  ;  116  Justus,  b  May 
23,  1764  ;  117  Martha,  b  April  17,  1766  ;  118  Abigail,  b  June 
10,  1768  ;  119  Sarah,  b  April  2,  1771. 
33.  ANDREW. 

ANDREW,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Curtis  Yale  Parker, 
married  Susannah  Blakeslee. 

Children:  120  Ambrose,  b  March  6,  1738,  m  Comfort  Par- 
ker, March  22,  1758  ;  121  Grace,  b  Dec.  10,  1739,  d  Dec.  n, 
1739;  122  Patience,\>  Dec.  10,  1739,  d  Dec.  13,  1739  ;  123 
Zeruiah,  b  Nov.  28,  1741,  m  David  Miller,  Jan.  3,  1765;  124 
Oliver,  b  Nov.  20,  1743,  m  Lucy  Parker,  Dec.  3,  1764,  and 
had  Thaddeus,  b  Jan.  26,  1766  ;  125  Ezra,  b  Dec.  2,  1745  ; 
126  Susannah,  b  Dec.  2,  1747  ;  127  Rachel,  b  Dec.  28,  1749  ', 
128  Sybil,  b  Feb.  9,  1753  ;  129  Jason,  b  Aug.  17,  1764. 

42.  ELI  AD  A. 

ELIADA,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Hannah  Beach  Parker,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Curtis. 

Children  :  130  Martha,  b  July  8,  1734  ;  131  Lettis,  b  Sept. 
18,  1736  ;  132  Comfort,  b  Sept.  16,  1738,  m  Ambrose  Parker, 
March  22,  1758;  133  Eliada,  b  Nov.  24,  1740,  d  March  23, 
1742  ;  134  Sarah,  b  Jan.  23,  1743-4  ;  135  Hannah,  b  Sept.  23, 
1746  ;  136  Patience,  b  Aug.  18,  1748,  m  Joseph  Parker,  June 
29,  1769  ;  137  Eliada,  m  Margery  Parker,  May  10,  1770,  d 
Sept.  12,  1776  ;  138  Phebe,  b  Oct.  31,  1752  ;  139  Levi,  b  June 
8,  1757,  m  Lydia  Bradley,  July  22,  1779. 

45.  GAMALIEL. 

GAMALIEL,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Hannah  Beach  Parker, 
married  Elizabeth . 

Children  :  140  Abel,  b  Jan.  4,  1741,  m  Lydia  Parker,  Aug. 
23,  1762  ;  141  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  7,  1742-3  ;  142  Eunice,  b  Jan. 
6,  1744-5  ;  143  Gamaliel,  b  Dec.  9,  1745,  dOct.  29,  1765  ;  144 
Amos,  b  Jan.  20,  1748-9  ;  145  Miriam,  b  Jan.  28,  1753  ;  146 
Gamaliel,  b  Oct.  22,  1755,  ^  Nov.  8,  1755  >  X47  Gamaliel,  b 


8/8  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Nov.  2,  1756,  m  Martha  Parker,  May  2,  1782  ;  148  Anna,  b 
Feb.  8,  1759;  149  Amos,  b  Dec.  n,  1761,  m  Mary  Curtis, 
Dec.  5,  1785. 

46.   DIDYMUS. 

LIEUT.  DIDYMUS,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Hannah  Beach 
Parker,  married  Phebe  Johnson. 

Children  :  150  Enos,  b  March  12,  1744,  m  Damaris  Par- 
ker, Dec.  2,  1761  :  151  Ichabod,  b  Jan.  2,  1748-9,  married 
Susannah  Cook,  Dec.  3,  1766. 

47.     ELIPHALET. 

ELIPHALET,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Hannah  Beach  Parker, 
married  Thankful  Hitchcock. 

Children:  152  Valentine,  b  March  5,  1745-6,  d  Dec.  14, 
1760;  153  Matthias,  b  Sept.  24,  1747  ;  154  Eliphalet,  b  Jan. 
22,  1754  ;  155  Thankful,  b  April  3,  1756,  d  Nov.  28,  1763  ; 
156  Michael,  b  Oct.  15,  1758. 

49.   BETHUEL. 

BETHUEL,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Hannah  Beach  Parker, 
married  Tabitha  Hitchcock. 

Children  :  157  Jerusha,  b  April  6,  1750,  m  William  Smith, 
July  10,  1777  ;  158  David,  b  March  9,  1752,  d  Sept.  6,  1753  ; 
159  Olive,  b  March  9,  1754,  m  Joseph  Distance,  Feb.  27, 
1777;  160  David,  b  March  18,  1756,  d  Oct.  9,  1776;  161 
Martha,  b  Dec.  12,  1757,  m  Gamaliel  Parker,  May  2,  1782  ; 
462  Joanna,  b  June  18,  1760;  163  Tabitha,  b  Nov.  16,  1762  ; 
164  Bethuel,  b  Feb.  21,  1765  ;  165  Simon,  b  April  15,  1767,  d 
Sept.  13,  1773  ;  166  Thankful,  b  June  15,  1769  ;  167  Asa,  b 
Dec.  4,  1771  ;  168  Mary,  "b  'Sept.  29,  1776,  d  Dec.  15,  1777. 

55.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Samuel  and  Lydia  Parker,  married  Lucy 
Parmalee. 

Children:  169  Esther,  b  Jan.  n,  1742-3,  d  Feb.  8,  1744-5  ; 
170  Joseph,  b  Nov.  5,  1746,  m  Patience  Parker,  June  29, 
1769  ;  171  Lucy,  b  March  13,  1748-9  ;  172  Esther,  b  March 
27,  1754;  173  Charles,  b  Feb.  26,  1756. 


GENEALOGIES.  8/9 

56.    ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  Goodsell  Parker,  m 
Damaris  Abernathy. 

Children:  174  Sarah,  b  July  16,  1748;  175  Abraham,  b 
July  20,  1753,  d  May  i,  1754;  176  Benjamin,  b  May  27, 
1755,  m  Lucinda  Curtis,  and  had  two  daus.,  June  25,  1778  ; 
177  Abraham,  b  Aug.  23,  1757  ;  178  William,  b  Dec.  19, 
X759  j  :79  Mehitable,  b  June  30,  1762. 

57.     JACOB. 

JACOB,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  Goodsell  Parker,  married 
Elizabeth  Beecher. 

Children:  180  Samuel,  b  Jan.  10,  1749,  and  had  Jared, 
b  April  22,  1777;  181  Solitary,  b  Jan.  7,  1752,  d  Aug. 
31,  1754;  182  Elizabeth,  b  May  18,  1754;  183  Jacob,  b  Jan. 
13,  1756,  d  Sept.  17,  1756;  184  Jacob,  b  July  i,  1757;  185 
Rebecca,  b  Feb.  27,  1759  ;  186  James,  b  March  3,  1760;  187 
Solomon,  b  April  12,  1762  ;  188  Adah,  b  Feb.  23,  1765  ;  189 
Abiah,  b  March  8,  1767. 

62.  RALPH. 

RALPH,  son  of  Edward  and  Jerusha  Parker,  m  Martha 
Ives. 

Children:   190  Jerusha,  b   Nov.    i,  1741,  m  Robert  Roys, 
May  27,  1762  ;  191  Ralph,  b   Feb.   8,  1743-4;  192  Medad,  b 
March  29,  1746;  193  Martha,  b  April  18,  1749. 
63   1-2.  EDWARD. 

EDWARD,  son  of  Edward  and  Jerusha  Parker,  married 
Sarah  Burroughs. 

Children:  194  Sarah,  b  in  Cheshire,  Aug.  28,  1745;  195 
Elizabeth,  b  June  7,  1748,  m  Enos  Clark,  of  Southington  ; 
196  William,\>  June  18,  1752,  m  Desire  Bunnel,  Feb.  25, 
1779  ;  197  Abigail,  b  July  7,  1755,  m  Dr.  Benjamin  Yale,  Dec. 
X7>  r777  ;  X98  Edward,  b  April  21,  1760,  m  Rebecca  Hen- 
drick,  removed  to  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 
64.  JOEL. 

JOEL,  son  of  Edward  and  Jerusha  Parker,  married  Susanna 
Hotchkiss. 


88O  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Children  b  in  Cheshire:  199  Alhildred,  b  Sept.  17,  1747, 
m  Asa  Bronson,  Feb.  5,  1772  ;  200  Amos,  b  Oct.  22,  1749,  m 
Hannah  Hough;  201  Susanna,  b  March  8,  1752,  m  Allen 
Bronson;  202  Joel,  b  Jan.  17,  1754;  203  Stephen,  b  Aug.  5, 
1759,  m  ist,  Sally,  dau.  of  Joseph  Twiss,  May  27,  1787,  m 
2d,  widow  Rebecca  Stone,  dau.  of  Joshua  Ray,  b  Jan.  6, 
1805,  d  July  i,  1846. 

68.  ELDAD. 

ELDAD,  son  of  Edward  and  Jerusha  Parker,  m  Thankful 
Bellamy. 

Children  b  in  Cheshire:  204  Phebe,  b  July  23,  1756  ;  205 
Thankful,  b  Oct.  6,  1757;  206  Anne,  b  Jan.  i,  1760,  m  Wm. 
Starke,  Chenango  Co.,  N.  Y.  ;  207  Thankful,  b  March  8,  1762, 
208  Eldad,  b  Sept.  27,  1763  ;  209  Levi,\>  Sept.  28,  1765  ;  210 
Levi,  b  March  19,  1767,  m  Phebe  Scovill ;  211  Oliver,  b  March 
19,  1771;  Thankful,  b  May  12,  1769;  Rebecca,  b  March 

16,  1773,  m  Abisha  Cowles. 

70.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Edward  and  Jerusha  Parker,  married  Mary 
Andrews. 

Children,  born  in  Cheshire  :  212  Beckey,  b  March  29,  1760  ; 
213    Joseph    Merriam,   b   Oct.     10,    1762  ;    214  Eldad ;    215 
Zephaniah,  b  Feb.  26,  1769  ;  216  Mary,  b  Jan.  24,  1767. 
74.  JESSE. 

JESSE,  son  of  John  and  Deborah  Matthews  Parker,  married 
Dorothy  Spencer. 

Children:  217    Jesse,  b  May  30,   1759;  218  Lucy,  b  Sept. 

17,  1761  ;  219  Jared,  b  Jan.  31,  1764  ;  220  Jotham,  b  Feb.  2, 
1767  ;  221  Dorothy,  b  Aug.  5,  1770. 

79.  AARON. 

AARON,  son  of  Elisha  and  Susanna  Tuttle  Parker,  married 
Sarah  Martin. 

Children:  222  Mamre,  b  Feb.  14,  1757;  223  Robert,  b  Feb. 
12,  1759;  224  Susanna,  b  Feb.  20,  1762;  225  Abigail,  b 
April  i,  1764;  226  Sally,  b  March  20,  1766;  227  Lyman,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  88 1 

April    17,    1768;  228   Eunice,  b  Jan.    n,    1771;  229  Ruth,  b 
Feb.  i,  1774;  230  Lyman,  b  Feb.  30,  1776. 

80.     ELISHA. 

ELISHA,  son  of  Elisha  and  Susannah  Tuttle  Parker,  married 
Esther  Spencer. 

Children:  231  Elisha,  b  April  28,  1761;  232  Katherine,\> 
March  30,  1763  ;  233  Chloe,  b  Dec.  28,  1765  ;  234  Asahel,  b 
April  2,  1768;  235  Polly,  b  March  20,  1773;  236  Shaler,\> 
Aug.  28,  1775  ;  237  Polly,  b  Sept.  13,  1778. 

101.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Lydia  Barnes  Parker, 
married  Anne . 

Children  :   238  Ebenezer,  b  June  4,  1762  ;  239  Jabez,  b  July 
18,  1763  ;  240  Jemima  Doolittle,  b  Nov.  16,  1764;  241  Thomas, 
b  May  i,  1767  ;  242  Ebenezer,  b  May  7,  1771. 
103.  JOSHUA. 

JOSHUA,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Lydia  Barnes  Parker,  mar- 
ried Mary  Hitchcock. 

Children  :   243  Stephen,  b  April   i,  1766;   244  Lydia,  b  May 

23,    1769;  245   Hannah,  b   April   21,    1773;    246    Chesttna,\> 

June  20,  1777;  247   Eber,\>  March  28,  1779;  248  Jared,\> 

March  22,  1781 ;  249,  250  Mary  and  Miriam,  b  Nov.  i,  1782. 

114.  CHARLES. 

CHARLES,  son  of  Waitstill  and  Jemima  Beach  Parker,  mar- 
ried Charity  Dibble. 

Children:  251  Charles  Pierce,  b  Dec.  i,  1785,  d  Feb.  25, 
1788;  252  Pierce,  b  March  20,  1788;  253  Ruth,  b  Feb.  17, 
1790,  m  Sydney  Smith,  Dec.  16,  1807  ;  254  Nancy,  b  Dec.  13, 
1791  ;  255  Charles,  b  Jan.  27,  1797. 

120.     AMBROSE. 

AMBROSE,  son  of  Andrew  and  Susanna  Blakeslee  Parker, 
married  Comfort  Parker. 

Children:  256  Ambrose,  b  Jan.  15,  1759  ;  257  Giles,  b  Sept. 
15,  1760;  258  Lydia,  b  May  26,  1763;  259  Comfort,  b  May 
23,  1766. 


882  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

137.    ELIADA. 

ELIADA  PARKER,  son  of  Eliada  and  Sarah  Curtis  Parker, 
married  Margery  Parker. 

Children:  260  Munson,  b   Feb.    18,    1771;  261    Chester,  b 
Oct.  20,  1773  ;  262  Linus,  d  Feb.  9,  1776. 
1 08.    CALEB. 

CALEB  PARKER,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Lydia  Barnes  Parker, 
married  Dolly  Peck. 

Children:   263  Augustus,   b   Sept.    10,    1784;  264   Caleb,  b 
Jan.  30,  1787  ;  265  Paulina,  b  Dec.   30,    1789  ;  266  Nancy,  b 
July  5,  1792  ;  267  Juliana,  b  Nov.  21,  1794. 
139.   LEVI. 

LEVI  PARKER,  son  of  Eliada  and  Sarah  Curtis  Parker, 
married  Lydia  Bradley. 

Children:  268  Sybil,  b  April  28,  1780,  m  Amos  Peck,  Sept. 
22,  1799;  269  Polly,  b  Sept.  25,  1782  ;  270  Eliada,  b  May 
31,  1784,  m  Elizabeth  Oswald,  Feb.  15,  1807  ;  271  Ammi 
Bradley,\>}v\y  n,  1787;  272  Lyman,  b  April  3,  1790,  m 
Malinda  Harrison,  March  24,  1818  ;  273  Alfred,  b  Oct.  19, 

1792,  m  Fanny ;  274   Belinda,  b   Sept.  18,   1795  >    Philo 

and  Om'n,"b  April  18,  1798,  d  April  18,  1800. 

44.     DANIEL. 

DANIEL,  son  of  Arnon  and  Sarah  Martin,  married 
Miriam,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Curtis,  Nov.  18,  1762. 

Children  :  275  Ruth,  b  Feb.  3,  1764  ;  276  Denison,  b  Sept. 
28,  1766;  277  Leman,  b  Dec.  21,  1768;  278  Lucinda,  b  July 
24,  1771  ;  279  Ruth,  b  Dec.  10,  1774  ;  280  Daniel,  b  May  24, 
1775  ;  281  Ruth,  b  Dec.  27,  1777  ;  282  Betsey,  b  July  16, 
1780. 

147.    GAMALIEL. 

GAMALIEL,  son  of  Gamaliel  and  Elizabeth  Parker,  married 
Martha  Parker. 

Children  :  283  Joel,  b  April  17,  1783  ;  284  Chester,  b  Aug. 
19,  1784  ;  285  Martha  Hall,  b  Aug.  20,  1786  ;  286  Gamaliel, 
b  Sept.  13,  1788;  287  Luroxa,  b  Nov.  18,  1790  ;  288  Zera,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  883 

July  13,  1792  ;  289  Laura,  b   Sept.  4,    1796  ;    290  Eunice,  b 
Dec.  28,  1798. 

150.    ENOS. 

ENDS,  son  of  Didymus  and  Phebe  Johnson  Parker,  married 
Damaris  Parker. 

Children  :  291  Dorcas,  b  Dec.  17,  1761  ;  292  Dan,  b  March 
18,  1764. 

164.    BETHUEL. 

BETHUEL,  son  of  Bethuel  and  Tabitha  Hitchcock  Parker, 
married  Eunice . 

Children:   293  Bethuel  Virgil,  b  Oct.  i,    1796,  m  ist,    Polly 
Beach,  Sept.  7,  1825,  2d,  Lowly  Thomas,  March  30,  1835  ;  294 
Jason,  b  Feb.  14,  1798  ;  295  Rhoda,  b  Sept.  29,  1800. 
167.  ASA. 

ASA,  son  of  Bethuel  and  Tabitha  Hitchcock  Parker,  mar- 
ried Keziah . 

Children:  296   Laura,  b    Feb.    13,  1796;    297  Liverius,  b 
March  25,  1798  ;  298  James,  b  May  16,  1800  ;  299  Lemuel,  b 
April  i.i,  1804  ;  300  Asa,  b  May  14,  1806. 
170.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Joseph  and  Lucy  Parmalee  Parker,  married 
Patience  Parker. 

Children:  301  Jehiel,  b  Sept.  26,  1770;  302   Lena,  b   Feb. 

23.  J773  ;  3°3  Luc)',  b  Nov-  20>  J775  \  3°4  Sarah;  305  Amy, 
b  Oct.  16,  1780. 

196.   WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah  Burroughs  Parker, 
married  Desire  Bunnel. 

Children  :  306  Sarah,  b  Nov.  7,  1779,  m  Chas.  T.  Hill ; 
307  William,  m  wid.  Rebecca  Hull  ;  308  Nancy,  m  Divan 
Lusk ;  309  Anson ;  310  Abigail,  m  Elnathan  Beach;  311 
fanny,  m  ist,  Simeon  Perkins,  2d,  Simeon  Hersey ;  312  Mar- 
cus, m  Mehitable  Mathews. 

198.    EDWARD. 

EDWARD,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah  Burroughs  Parker, 
married  Rebecca  Hendrick  of  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  313  Chauncey,  b  Oct.  9,  1786,  m  Lydia  Atwater  ; 
314  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  25,  1788,  d  June  7,  1794  ;  315  Oren,  b 
March  9,  1790,  d  Aug.  4,  1790  ;  316  Oren,  b  July  n,  1791, 
d  1812  ;  317  Edward,  b  Sept.  2,  1793,  d  June  8,  1794  ;  318 
Edward,  b  March  15,  1795,  m  Philomela  Hitchcock,  rem.  to 
Elyria,  Ohio;  319  Don  Carlos,  b  April  27,  1797,  m  Julia 
Strake  ;  320  Louisa,  b  June  18,  1799;  321  Wm.  Hendrick,  b 
Aug.  9,  1801  ;  322  Abigail;  323  Harriet  A.,  m  Eliakim  Hall. 

203.    STEPHEN. 

STEPHEN,  son  of  Joel  and  Susanna  Hotchkiss  Parker,  m 
ist,  Sally  Twiss,  2d,  wid.  Rebecca  Stone. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  324  Clarissa,  b  June  10,  1788,  d 
May  27,  1789  ;  325  Zeri,  b  Aug.  i,  1790 ;  326  Stephen,  b  July 
17,  1792,  d  Jan.  15,  1794;  327  Stephen,  b  Nov.  3,  1794,  d 
May,  1826;  328  Sarah,  b  March  u,  1797;  329  Clarissa,  b 
March  10,  1800  ;  330  Joel,  b  March  u,  1801  ;  331  Isabella, 
b  Nov.  25,  1803.  By  2d  marriage:  332  John,  b  Aug.  30, 
1805,  m  ist,  March,  1832,  Emily  Ward,  she  d  June  i,  1867, 
and  he  m  2d,  Jan.  22,  1868,  Grace  A.  Belden  ;  333  Betsey,  b 
May  i,  1807  ;  334  Charles,  b  Jan.  2,  1809,  m  Abi,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Eddy,  Oct.  6,  1831  ;  335  Edmund,  b  Feb.  9,  1811, 
m  Jennette  Bradley  of  Branford,  Conn.,  and  had  seven  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  living,  he  d  April  19,  1866. 


PARMALEE. 

LEANDER. 

LEANDER  PARMALEE  came  into  Wallingford  a  carpenter 
and  joiner,  and  continued  to  prosecute  that  business  until 
elected  sheriff  of  the  county  of  New  Haven,  which  office  he  suc- 
cessively held  for  twelve  years,  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  his 
constituents,  and  all  who  came  in  contact  with  him  as  an  offi- 
cer. He  married  —  -  Blakeslee,  daughter  of  the  late  Joseph 
Blakeslee  of  Wallingford.  They  both  died  in  Wallingford. 

Children.:  i  Samuel  B.,  m  Lavinia,  dau.  of  George  Cook  ; 
2 ,  m  Lorenzo  Lewis,  Esq.;  3  Leander;  4  dau. 


GENEALOGIES.  885 

PRESTON.' 

The  name  of  Preston  is  of  great  antiquity  in  North  Britain, 
and  was  assumed  by  the  family  from  their  territorial  possessions 
in  Mid-Lothian,  in  the  time  of  Malcolm,  King  of  the  Scots. 
The  first  of  this  family  upon  record  is  Leolphus  De  Preston, 
living  in  the  time  of  William  the  Lion,  about  1040,  whose 
grandson,  Sir  Wm.  De  Preston,  was  one  of  the  Scotch  nobles 
summoned  to  Berwick  by  Edward  the  First,  in  competition  for 
the  Crown  of  Scotland  between  Bruce  and  Baliol,  it  having 
been  submitted  to  Edward  for  decision.  After  the  death  of 
King  Alexander  III.,  1291,  Sir  William  was  succeeded  by  his 
son  Sir  Nicol  De  Preston,  one  of  the  Scottish  barons  who 
swore  fealty  to  King  Edward  I.  He  died  in  the  beginning 
of  the  reign  of  David  II.  of  Scotland,  son  of  Robert  Bruce, 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Sir  Lawrence  De  Preston,  who 
was  succeeded  by  Richard  De  Preston,  who  was  seated  at 
Preston  Richard  in  Westmoreland,  in  time  of  Henry  II. 
Sir  Richard  De  Preston,  the  fifth  in  descent  from  the  above 
Richard,  of  Preston  Richard,  represented  the  county  of  West- 
moreland in  Parliament,  in  seventeen  Edward  III.  His  son,  Sir 
Richard  De  Preston,  had  likewise  the  honor  of  being  Knight 
of  the  shire  for  Westmoreland  in  the  same  reign  ( twenty- 
seven  Edward  III.),  and  in  the  same  year  ( 1368  )  obtained  a 
license  to  impark  five  hundred  acres.  His  successor,  Sir 
John  De  Preston  of  Preston  Richard  and  Preston  Patrick, 
was  a  member  of  Parliament  for  Westmoreland,  in  the  thirty- 
sixth,  thirty-ninth  and  forty-sixth  years  of  Edward  III. 

Children  :  i  Richard,  who  left  a  family  of  daughters  only  ; 
2  John,  who  was  a  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  in 
the  reign  of  Henry  IV.  and  VI.,  and  retired  from  the  bench 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Abbot's  Hist.  Andover,  Mass.,  36 ; 
Adams'  Haven  Gen.,  2d  part,  32  ;  Brown's  Gen.  of  Brown  Family  ;  Coth- 
rens'  Hist,  of  Woodbury,  Conn.  ;  Hudson's  Hist.  Lexington,  Mass.,  187, 
188;  Kidder's  Hist.  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  421-3;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen. 
Reg.,  xiv.  26  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  in.  482. 
H  H  H 


886  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

in  consequence  of  his  great  age,  in    1427.     He  left  John,  a 
clergyman  ;  Richard,  his  heir  ;  and  a  daughter. 

In  1593  there  was  a  William  Robert  Preston,  who  was  a 
relative  of  Sir  Edward  Coke. 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  PRESTON,  son  of  John,  son  of  George  of  Valley 
Field,  England,  was  created  Baronet  of  Nova  Scotia  in  1637. 
He  came  to  America  in  the  ship  Truelove  in  1635,  at  tne  a£e 
of  44  years,  from  Yorkshire,  England,  with  his  wife  Mary,  ae. 
34  years.  They  had  on  their  arrival  in  Massachusetts 
four  children,  as  follows  : 

Children:  i  Elijah,  b  1624,  ae.  n  yrs. ;  2  Sarah,  b  1627, 
ae.  8  yrs. ;  3  Mary,  b  1629,  ae.  6  yrs.  ;  4  John,  b  1632,  ae.  3 
yrs.  Children  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn. :  5  Jehiel,  b  1640, 
removed  to  Stratford  where  he  had  land  let  to  him,  Sept.  21, 
1668;  6  Hackaliah,  b  1643,  settled  at  Woodbury,  Conn.,  in 
1 68 1  ;  7  Eliasaph,  b  1643,  lived  at  Stratford  and  Wallingford ; 
8  Joseph,  b  Jan.  24,  1647. 

7.   ELIASAPH. 

DEA.  ELIASAPH  PRESTON  married  ist,  Mary  Wilcoxen, 
widow  of  Thomas  Kimberly,  of  Stratford,  July  9,  1673.  She 
died  April  16,  1674.  He  m  2d,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John 
Beach,  of  Stratford.  He  went  to  Wallingford  in  1674. 
He  was  their  first  Town  Clerk  and  schoolmaster,  and 
was  an  energetic  and  very  valuable  member  of  the  colony, 
both  for  the  church  of  which  he  was  deacon,  and  the  township 
at  large.  He  died  in  1705,  ae.  70  years. 

Children  by  ist  marriage :  9  Mary,  b  April  25,  1674,  m 
Caleb  Merriman,  July  9,  1690.  By  2d  marriage  :  10  Eliza- 
beth,  b  Jan.  29,  1776;  n  Hannah,  b  July  12,  1678,  m  Wm. 
Andrews,  May  12,  1692  ;  12  Eliasaph,  b  Jan.  26,  1679,  m 
Deborah  Merriman,  Jan.  2,  1717;  13  Joseph,  b  March  10, 
1681,  m  Jane  Cook,  July  7,  1708  ;  14  Esther,  b  Feb  28,  1683; 
15  Lydia,  b  May  5,  1686  ;  16  Jehiel,  b  Aug.  25,  1688,  d  Nov. 
24,  1689. 


GENEALOGIES.  887 

12.     ELIASAPH. 

ELIASAPH  PRESTON  married  Rebecca  Wilcoxen ;  she  died 
Sept.  2,  1716.  He  married  2d,  Deborah  Merriman,  Jan.  2, 
1717.  He  married  3d,  Hannah  Mott,  Nov.  26,  1726. 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :   17    Ephraim,  b  Sept.  8,  1703,  m 

Patience ;   18   Elizabeth,  b  Aug.    8.    1711,  d  1715;   19 

Joanna,  b  March  18,  1714.  By  20!  marriage:  20  Jehiel,\> 
Sept.  n,  1719,  m  Thankful  Sedgwick,  Oct.  21,  1741  ;  21 
Rebecca,  b  Sept.  25,  1721  ;  22  Elizabeth,  b  Dec.  28,  1727,  m 
Abner  Bunnel,  Feb.  19,  1745.  By  3d  marriage :  23  Isaac,  b 
Oct.  i,  1729  ;  24  Moses,  b  and  d  April  8,  1733  ;  25  Moses,  b 
Oct.  30,  1734  ;  26  Lois,  b  Feb.  3,  1737-8. 

13.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  PRESTON  married  Jane  Cook,  July  7,  1708.  He 
married  Sarah  How,  Jan.  30,  1734. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  27  Eliasaph,  b  May  9,  1709; 
28  Eliasaph,  b  May  i,  1710  ;  29  Joseph,  b  April  7,  1711  ;  30 
Jonathan,  b  Jan.,  1713,  m  Sarah  Williams  July  28,  1740  ;  31 
Samuel,  b  Aug.  27,  1715  ;  32  John,  b  June  22,  1715  ;  33  Ebc- 
nezer,  b  Sept.  17,  1725.  By  2d  marriage:  34  Dinah,  b  Nov. 
J9>  T734;  35  Samuel,  b  Sept.  30,  1737. 

17.    EPHRAIM. 

LIEUT.   EPHRAIM    PRESTON  married   Rebecca ,   2cl, 

Patience .     She  died  May  4,  1753  ;    he  died  April  8, 

1772,  ae.  69  yrs. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  36  J/<?ry,  b  Jan.  8,  1731;  37 
Phebe,  b  March  6,  1732  ;  38  Ephraim,  b  Aug.  6,  1734,  m 
Eunice  Doolittle,  March  25,  1754.  Children  by  2d  marriage: 
^'Reuben,  b  May  27,  1736;  40  Phebe,  b  Oct.  3,  1737  ;  41 
Patience,  b  March  30,  1738,  cl  April  18,  1738;  42  Lent,  b 
March  5,  1739  ;  43  Eliasaph,  b  Nov.  28,  1740,  m  Phebe  Hart, 
Feb.  27,  1764,  d  April  n,  1717,  ae.  37  ;  44  Titus,  b  Jan.  29, 
T743  j  45  Benjamin,  b  Dec.  27,  1745  ;  46  Elizabeth,  b  Dec.  7, 


888  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFOKD. 

20.     JEHIEL. 

SERGT.  JEHIEL  PRESTON  m  Thankful  Sedgwick,  Oct.  21, 
1741.  He  died  Nov.  22,  1758. 

Children:  47  Sarah,  b  Aug.  23,  1742;  48  Esther,  b  April 
i,  1744;  49  Samuel,  b  April  24,  1746  ;  50  Caleb,  b  April  24, 
1746  ;  51  Rebecca,  b  Sept.  u,  1750;  52  Thankful,  b  Dec.  10, 
i752  ;  53  Ru*h,  b  Jan.  28,  1757. 

28.    ELIASAPH. 

ELIASAPH  PRESTON  married  Hannah . 

Children:  54  Isaac,  b  Oct.  i,  1727  ;  55  Moses,  b  April  8, 
1733  ;  5  6  Lo**i  b  Feb-  3,  1737-8. 

29.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  PRESTON  married  Sarah . 

Children:  57  Dinah,  b  Nov.  19,  1734;  58  Samuel,  b  Sept. 
3°>  J737- 

38.    EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  PRESTON  married  ist,  Eunice  Doolittle,  March 
25,  1754;  2d,  Esther .  He  died  April  8,  1772,  ae.  69. 

Children:  59,  60  Joel  and  Ebenezer,  twins,  d  Dec.  n,  1763. 

39.   REUBEN. 

REUBEN  PRESTON  married   Elizabeth  -  — . 
Children :  61  Charles,  d  May,  1758  ;  62  Mary,  b  Jan.,  1757. 

43.  ELIASAPH. 

ELIASAPH  PRESTON  married   Phebe  Hart,  Feb.    17,   1764. 
He  died  April  12,  1777,  ae.  37  years.    She  m  2d,  Stephen  Ives. 
Children:  63    Titus,    d    in    Wallingford ;  62   Reuben,    d   in 
Cheshire  ;  65  Elizabeth,  d  in  Prospect. 


REYNOLDS.1 

HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH  REYNOLDS  was  born  in  Watertown,  Conn.,  July 
4,  1756.     From  there  he  went  to    Roxbury,  Conn.,  and     from 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Gaulkins'  Hist.  Norwich,  Conn.,  ed.  1867, 


GENEALOGIES,  889 

thence  to  North  Branford.  He  married  Martha  Davenport  Wol- 
cott,  a  daughter  of  Uoct.  Jeremiah  Wolcott.  She  was  born  at 
Branford,  Aug.  18,  1762,  and  died  Aug,  19,  1839,  ae.  77  years, 
at  Wallingford.  He  died  June  30,  1833,  ae.  77  years.  He 
came  to  Wallingford  about  the  close  of  the  last  century,  and 
resided  for  sometime  in  ihe  west  part  of  the  town  in  what 
was  the  old  Beadles  house  at  Popple  Hill.  From  this  place 
he  removed  into  the  village,  bought  the  house  formerly  the 
residence  of  Rev.  Samuel  Andrews,  who  was  an  Episcopal 
Clergyman  before  the  Revolution. 

Children:  Hezekiah, \>  Dec.,  1773,  in  Roxbury,  Conn.;  2 
Wolcott,  b  June  18,  1779  ;  3  James,  b  April  12,  1783,  d  Mar. 
31,  1807,  ae.  47  ;  4  John  D.,  b  Apr.  27,  1785  ;  5  Luanna,  b 
Apr.  23, 1784,  m  Nehemiah  Carrington  of  New  Haven,  Dec.  23, 
1825  ;  6  Martha,  b  Feb.  13,  1794,  m  Col.  Thaddeus  Street  of 
Cheshire,  1823  ;  7  Sarah,  b  Jan.  12,  1796,  m  Alexander 
Harrison,  1819  ;  8  Thomas  G.,  b  March  16,  1798,  d  Sept. 
26,  1826,  ae.  28 ;  9  William  A.,  b  April  i,  1800,  m  Jane 
Lyncle,  of  New  Haven  ;  10  Beverly,  b  Nov.  15,  1806,  d  Nov. 
5,  1807. 

I.    HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH  REYNOLDS,  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Martha  Wol- 
cott Reynolds,  married  Anna  Wilson,  at  Savannah,  Georgia, 
in  1806. 

Child:  12  Martha  Ann,  b  1807,  m  Henry  Belden,  Esq.,  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1828. 

2.    WOLCOTT. 

CAPT.  WOLCOTT  REYNOLDS,  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Martha 
W.  Reynolds,  married  Serephina  Beaumont,  in  1804.  He 

died  Sept.  28,  1842,  ae.  44  years. 

Child :   13  Serephina,  b  Jan.  16,  1805,  d  ae.  28  years. 

3.    JOHN. 

HON.  JOHN  DAVENPORT  REYNOLDS,  son  of  Hezekiah  and 


197,  198;  Chapman's  Gen.  of  Chapman  Family,  no;  Kingman's  Hist. 
N.  Bridgwater,  Mass.,  629-35  >  Mitchell's  Hist.  Bridgwater,  Mass.,  282,  283  ; 
Rogers'  Hist.  &  Gen.  Researches,  116;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  in.  525,  526. 


890  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Martha  D.  Reynolds,  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  John  Scar- 
ritt,  in  1822.  He  was  a  man  eminently  fitted  by  nature  to  fill 
almost  any  place  of  a  public  character  in  the  gift  of  the  peo- 
ple. He  was  often  a  Representative  in  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  from  Wallingford,  and  a  Senator  from  the  sixth  Senato- 
rial district,  and  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court  for  the  district 
of  Wallingford,  for  a  number  of  years.  The  duties  of  those, 
and  all  other  public  offices,  he  discharged  with  marked  ability. 
He  died  Oct.  18,  1853,  ae.  68  years.  Mrs.  Lydia,  his  wife, 
died  July  28,  1862,  ae.  65  years. 

Children:  14  Martha,  b  March  27,  1826;  15  John  D.,  b 
April  20,  1828;  16  Serephina,  b  March  15,  1833,  m  S.  N. 
Edmonds,  Oct.  4,  1852. 

10.   WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  A.  REYNOLDS,  ESQ.,  son  o.f  Hezekiah  and  Martha 
W.  Reynolds,  was  born  in  Wallingford,  married  Jane  Lynde, 
of  New  Haven,  was  a  merchant  and  for  several  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Harrison  &  Reynolds,  in  State-st,  and  for 
the  last  thirty  years  has  been  a  respectable  broker  in  New 
Haven. 

Children  :  two  daughters  and  two  sons,  living  in  1870. 

ROYCE.i 

Among  the  first  planters  in  Wallingford  was  i  Isaac,  and 
2d  Nehemiah  Royce,  who  made  their  appearance  in  the  place 
in  1671  ;  3  Nathaniel,  4  Samuel,  5  Joseph,  and  6  Robert  Royce, 
were  also  there  soon  after,  all  of  whom  had  families,  and  are 
believed  to  be  sons  of  Robert  Royce  who  was  at  Stratford  in 
1644. 

I.     ISAAC. 

ISAAC  and  Elizabeth  Royce  were  in  Wallingford  early  in 
1671.  He  died  in  the  autumn  of  1682,  leaving  an  estate  of 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.,  190; 
Caulkins'  Hist.  New  London,  Conn.,  293-4 ;  Caulkins'  Hist.  Norwich. 
Conn.,  ed.  1867,  199 ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  in.  569-70. 


GENEALOGIES.  89! 

His  widow  married  Ebenezer  Clark  for  her  second 
husband  in  1696. 

Children:  7  Isaac,  b  Oct.  28,  1673,  d  Dec.  8,  1673;  8 
Robert,  b  Sept.  4,  1674;  9  Sarah,  b  March  10,  1677;  10 
Martha,  b  June  i,  1679. 

2.  NEHEMIAH. 

NEHEMIAH  ROYCE  (shoemaker)  was  in  Wallingford  with 
his  wife  Hannah,  among  the  first  settlers.  She  died  June  19, 

1677,  and  he  married  Esther ,  who  died  Sept.  12,  1706. 

He  died  Nov.  7,  1706,  ae.  72  years.  He  was  the  original 
owner  of  the  James  Rice  place  at  the  head  of  Main-st,  in 
Wallingford. 

Children:  u  Mary,  b  Aug.  12,  1673,  d  Aug.  12,  1675  ;  12 
Mercy,  b  Feb.  4,  1675,  d  Feb.  24,  1675  >  T4  Esther,  b  Oct. 
15,  1678;  15  Lydia,  b  May  28,  1680,  m  Daniel  Messenger; 

1 6  ftehemiah,  b  May  18,  1682-3,  m  Keziah  Hall,  Feb.  9,  1700  ; 

17  Margery,  d  Sept.  12,  1683. 

3.  NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  ROYCE  married  Esther  -  — ,  Oct.  27,  1673. 
She  died  June  19,  1677.  He  was  married  to  Sarah  Lathrop 
by  Mr.  Moss,  April  21,  1681.  She  died  Nov.  n,  1706.  He 
then  married  Hannah  Farnham,  Aug.  24,  1707.  She  died 
Feb.  6,  1708,  and  he  married  Abigail  Hoyt,  Aug.  25,  1708. 
She  died  and  he  married  Phebe  Clark,  Dec.  27,  1720.  He 
died  Feb.  8,  1736  ;  was  by  trade,  a  carpenter  and  joiner  and 
blacksmith  in  1687. 

Children  by  ist  marriage  :  18  John,  b  April  n,  1675  '•>  19 
Benjamin,  b  May  6,  1677,  m  Rebecca  Wilcoxen,  d  Oct.  20, 
1703.  By  ad  marriage  ;  20  Sarah,  b  April  3,  1683  ;  21  Hester, 
b  Sept.  10,  1685,  d  Oct.  14,  1703,  ae.  18  yrs.  ;  22  Lois,  b  July 
29,  1687,  m  Samuel  Hall  ;  23  Elizabeth,  b  Dec.  28,  1689.  By 
4th  marriage:  24  Daniel,  b  Sept.  29,  1726;  25  Lois,  b  March 
27,  1728;  26  Robert,  b  Nov.  16,  1729  ;  27  Elisha,  b  Oct.  27, 
1731 ;  28  Nathaniel,  b  July  i,  1733. 


892  HISTORY    OF    WALLIXGFORD. 

4.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  ROYCE  married  ist,  Sarah  Baldwin,  June  5,  1690, 
2d,  Hannah  Benedict,  Dec.  12,  1695.  He  died  in  Meriden, 
May  14,  1757,  ae.  85  years  Mrs.  Hannah  died  in  Meriden, 
Jan.  12,  1761,  ae.  90  yrs. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  29  Abigail,  b  Nov.  24,  1677,  m 
Joseph  Cole  ;  30  Prudence, \>  July  26,  1680;  31  Deborah,  b 
Sept.  8,  1683,  m  Thomas  Mix  ;  32  Isaac,  b  March  10,  1688  ; 
33  Ebenezer,  b  Sept.  25,  1691  ;  34  Nathaniel,  b  Oct.  21,  1692  ; 
35  John,  b  April  25,  1693  ;  36  Mary,  b  Feb.  17,  1695  ;  37 
Jacob,  b  April  n,  1697,  m  Thankful  Beach,  dau.  of  Moses ; 
By  2d  marriage  :  38  Hannah,  b  Feb.  19,  1697-8,  m  John  Ives; 
39  Ezekiel,  b  Feb.  10,  1699,  m  Anna  Merwin,  Apr.  26,  1723  ;  40 
Samuel,  b  Oct.  5,  1702,  settled  in  Cheshire,  m  Martha  Moss, 
1728;  41  Abel,  b  Jan.  10,  1700;  42  Benjamin,  b  May  23, 
1705,  m  Minclwell  Royce,  April  n,  1729,  was  clerk  of  the 
mines,  d  Jan.  30,  1758;  43  Mehitable,  b  July  30,  1709  ;  44 
Ebenezer,  b  Aug.  21,  1713,  d  Oct.  18,  1752,  in  Meriden, 
aged  39. 

5.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  ROYCE,  married  to  Mary  Porter,  by  the  Hon.  J. 
Wadsworth,  Oct.  i,  1684.  He  died  March  19,  1704,  or  1707, 
as.  44  yrs. 

Children  :  45  Mary,  b  Jan.  12,  1686  ;  46  Joseph,  b  May  i, 
1689,  d  June  27,  1689  ;  47  Joseph,  b  May  2,  1690,  m  Anna 
Andrews,  March,  1710  ;  48  Thomas,  b  Aug.  13,  1692,  m  Mary 
—  ;  49  Nathaniel,  b  Oct.  21,  1693  ;  50  James,  b  July  31, 
1695,  d  Dec.  22,  1695;  51  Hannah,  b  Nov.  6,  1696,  d  ;  52 
Sarah,  b  Feb.  24,  1699,  d  Dec.  6,  1711  ;  53  Hannah,  b  March 
18,  1701  ;  54  Reuben,  b  Dec.  18,  1713,  d  Sept.  10,  1790,  ae. 
77  yrs. 

8      ROBERT. 

ROBERT  ROYCE  married  ist,  Mary ,  June  2,  1692  ;  2d, 

Abigail    Benedict,    March    14,    1709.     He   died  in  1759,  ae. 
94  yrs. 


GENEALOGIES.  893 

Children  :  55  Nathaniel,  b  Oct.  23,  1694,  m  Phebe  Clark, 
Dec.  20,  1720  ;  56  Dinah,  b  Feb.  24,  1696  ;  57  Josiah,  b  July 
10,  1698  ;  58  Ruth,  b  Sept.,  1701  ;  59  Sarah,  b  April  4,  1703, 
d  Aug.  5,  1723  ;  60  Timothy,  b  June  2,  1705,  m  Mindwell 
Wassles,  May  16,  1727  ;  61  Mary,  b  July,  1707  ;  62  Elizabeth, 

b  Aug.,  1709  ;  63  Gideon,  b  May  4,  1711,   m  Rebecca ; 

6$ Prudence,  b  April  n,  1714;  65  Moses,  b  Sept.  24,  1716,  m 
Thankful  —  — ;  66  Martha,  m  Edmund  Scott,  March  16, 
1730  ;  67  Lydia,  b  Nov.  20,  1719. 

19.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  ROYCE,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Hannah,  married 
Rebecca  Wilcoxen  of  Stratford,  Conn. ;  he  d  Oct.  20,  1701. 

Child:  68  Mindwell,  b  Oct.  12,  1703,  m  Benjamin  Royce, 
April  n,  1729. 

l6.    NEHEMIAH. 

NEHEMIAH  ROYCE,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Hannah,  married 
Keziah  Hall.  His  farm  was  at  the  head  of  Falls  Plain. 

Children:  69  Capt.  James,  b  June  30,  1711,  d  Jan.  20, 
1796,  ae.  85  yrs.  ;  70  Hannah,  b  Nov.,  1713,  d  Dec.  14,  1713  ; 
71  Phineas,  b  June  16,  1715;  72  Ephraim,  b  Feb.  9,  1717; 

73  Hannah,  b  May  15,  1720,  m  Eunice ;  74  Keziah,  b 

March  16,  1726. 

32.    ISAAC. 

ISAAC  ROYCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah,  m  Hannah . 

Children:  75  Richard,  b  March  16,  1759;  76  Hannah,  b 
May  20,  1761. 

33.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  ROYCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah,  married 
Abigail  Root,  March  4,  1741.  He  died  in  Meriden,  Oct.  18, 
1752,  ae.  39  years. 

Children:  77  Hannah,  b  Jan.  5,  1743  ;  78  Huldah,  b  Jan. 
1 6,  1745  ;  79  Oliver,  b  March  i,  1747,  d  at  Meriden  Dec.  6, 
1755,  ae.  7  years  ;  80  Samuel,  b  Oct.  25,  1751. 

34.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  ROYCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah,  married 
Phebe  Clark  Dec.  27,  1720. 


894  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

Children  :  81  John,  b  Feb.  14,  1723  ;  82  Dinah,  b  Nov.  6, 
1724  ;  83  David,  b  Sept.  29,  1726  ;  84  Lois,  b  March  27, 
1728  ;  85  Robert,  b  Nov.  16,  1729  ;  86  Nathaniel,  b  July  i, 
T733  ;  87  -f/^,  b  May  15,  1735  >  88  John,  b  March  22, 
T737  i  ^9  Josiah,  b  March  2,  1738;  90  Elisha,  b  Oct.  27, 
T739  j  91  Clark,  b  Oct.  4,  1740. 

37.  JACOB. 

JACOB  ROYCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  Royce,  was 
married  to  Thankful  Beach  by  Capt.  Hall,  Sept.  28,  1724. 
He  died  Nov.  13,  1727. 

Children:  92  Amos,  b  Nov.  i,  1725,  m  Sarah  -  —  ;  93 
Experience,  b  Dec.  i,  1727. 

39.   EZEKIEL. 

EZEKIEL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Royce,  married 
ist,  Anna  Merwin,  April  25,  1723.  She  died  Dec.  20,  1725; 
He  married  2d,  Abigail  Ailing,  Nov.  30,  1726.  He  died  in 
Meriden,  Sept.  4,  1765,  ae.  66  years. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  94  Samuel,  b  Jan.  29,  1724;  95 
Barnabas,\>  Dec.  12,  1725.  By  2d  marriage:  96  Anna,  b 
July  3,  1727  ;  97  Rachel,  b  Oct.  4,  1728  ;  98  Ezra,  b  June  7, 

1730,  m  Anna ;  99  Lucy,  b  March  4,  1732  ;  100  Deborah, 

b  Aug.  17,  1734  ;  ioi  Ezekiel,\>  July  23,  1736  ;  102  Ezckiel,  b 

Oct.  15,  1739,  m  Lydia ,  d  Sept.,  1808,  ae.  69  years;  103 

Abigail,  b  July  14,  1751. 

40.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  ROYCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah,  married 
Martha  Moss,  Dec.  25,  1728. 

Children:  104  Samuel,  b  May  9,  1732,  m  Sarah  -  —  j 

105  Nathaniel,  b  May  20,  1734,  m  Sybil ;  106  Sarah, 

b  Nov.  27,  1737  ;  107  Ebenezer,  b  April  13,  1740  ;  108  Levi, 
b  Oct.  29,  1744;  109  Reuben,  b  June  22,  1750. 

41.     ABEL. 

ABEL    ROYCE,  son   of    Samuel    and  Hannah  Royce,   was 
married  to  Joanna  Beach,  Oct.  23,  1723,  by  Thomas  Yale. 
Children:    no,   Rhoda,  b   Dec.    13,    1725;   nr  Hester,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  895 

Dec.  21,  1727;  112,  113  Abel  and  Joanna,  b  March  30,  1730; 
114  Benedict,  b  Feb.  19,  1735;  115  Mehitable,  b  April  i, 
1737;  116  Hezekiah,  b  Dec.  16,  1739;  117  Huldah,\>Nov. 
6,  1742. 

42.    BENJAMIN. 

BENJAMIN  ROYCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Royce, 
married  Mindwell'—  — ,  April  n,  1729. 

Children:  118  Benjamin,  b  April  i,  1730,  m  Phebe  , 

she  d  June  13,  1776,  ae.  46,  he  d  in  Meriden,  Feb.,  1777  ;  119 
Solomon,  b  Jan.  31,  1741. 

44.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  ROYCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Royce, 
married  Abigail  Root,  March  4,  1741. 

Children:  120  Hannah,  b  Jan.  5,  1743;  121  Huldah,  b 
Jan.  16,  1745  ;  122  Olive,  b  March  i,  1747  ;  123  Samuel,  b 
Oct.  28,  1751. 

48.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  ROYCE,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Royce,  married 
Mary  Holt,  Dec.  23,  1714,  residence  in  Meriden.  He  mar- 
ried Anna  Child,  July  21,  1730. 

Children:  124  Sarah,  b  June  23,  1716  ;  125  Joseph,  b  July 
16,  1719,  m  Eunice  -  — ;  126  Mary,  b  Feb.  12,  1723; 
127  Benjamin,  b  June  26,  1724,  m  Anna  Chamberlain,  May 
29,  1750;  128  Thomas,  b  June  29,  1727;  129  Enos ;  130  Anna, 
b  Sept.  15,  1731 ;  131  Samuel,  b  Nov.  20,  1733  ;  132  Phebe,  b 
Dec.  30,  1742. 

54.    REUBEN. 

REUBEN  ROYCE,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Royce,  married 
Keziah  Moss,  Nov.  18,  1736.  She  died  Oct.  3,  1770,  ae.  53. 
He  died  Sept.  10,  1790,  ae.  77  years. 

Children:   133  Anna,  b  Aug.  5,   1737;  134  Rachel,   b  Nov. 

26,  1753- 

57.    JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH  ROYCE,  son  of  Robert  and  Abigail,  married  Eliza- 
beth Parker,  March  24,  1693.  Married  2d,  Abigail  Clark, 
May  i,  1722. 


896  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:   135  Ebenezer,  b  Jan.  22,  1713.     By  2d  marriage: 
136  Sarah,  b  June  5,  1723  ;   137  Justus,  b  1725  ;   138   Thank- 
ful, b   1727  ;   139  Charles,  b  1731  ;   140  Stephen,  b  1733  >   I4I 
Caleb,  b  1734. 

60.    TIMOTHY. 

TIMOTHY  ROYCE,  son  of  Robert  and  Abigail,  married 
Mindwell  Wassles,  May  16,  1727. 

Children:  142  Hannah,  b  Dec.  29,  1727;  143  Lydia,  b 
Feb.  n,  1730  ;  144  Timothy,  b  June  25,  1732,  m  Abigail  —  — ; 
145  Ruth,  b  Aug.  31,  1735. 

63.    GIDEON. 

GIDEON  ROYCE,  son  of  Robert  and  Abigail,  m  ist,  Mary 
,  2d,  Rebecca . 

Children  :  146  Mary,  b  May  10,  1743  ;  147  Titus,  b  Feb. 
4,  1745  ;  148  Wait,  b  July  n.  1748;  149  Gideon,  b  Dec.  26, 
1751;  i $o  Mary,  b  Oct.  30,  1753;  151  Justice,  b  Dec.  8, 
1756,  m  Lois  Perkins,  of  Meriden ;  152  Rebecca,  b  April  16, 
T758  j  X53  Jonathan,  b  March  18,  1760. 
65.  MOSES. 

MOSES  ROYCE,  son  of  Robert  and  Abigail,  married  Thank- 
ful Austin,  Jan.  6,  1740. 

Children:  154  Thankful,  b  July  5,  1747;  155  Amasa,\> 
March  21,  1751,  d  Dec.  12,  1797,  ae.  47  yrs.  ;  156  Abner,  b 
Jan.  4,  1753  ;  157  Joel,  b  Feb.  16,  1754 ;  158  Amos,  b  March 
J9,  1757- 

69.    JAMES. 

CAPT.  JAMES  ROYCE,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Keziah,  mar- 
ried Miriam .  She  died  Aug.  20,  1757,  ae.  37  years. 

He  died  Jan.  20,  1796,  ae.  85  years. 

Children:  159  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  6,  1744;  160  Keziah.  b 
July  27,  1746,  m  Janet  Tyler,  of  Wallingford ;  161  James,  b 
Dec.  18,  1748,  m  Mary  Tyler;  162  Joel,  b  Jan.  10,  1751,  d 
July  27,  1756,  ae.  6  yrs. 

72.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  ROYCE,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Keziah,  married 
Eunice  . 


GENEALOGIES.  897 

Children:  163  Mindwell,  b  Aug.  12,  1740;  164  Keziah,  b 
May  12,  1742  ;  165  Margery,  b  March  17,  1742  ;  166  Ephraim, 
b  June  30,  1744  ;  167  Stephen,  b  Sept.  2,  1752  ;  168  Mary,  b 
Dec.  31,  1754. 

85.    ROBERT. 

ROBERT  ROYCE,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Phebe,  married 
Hannah  Bennet,  Nov.  5,  1752. 

Children:  169  Bennet,  b  Nov.  n,  1752;  170  Hannah,  b 
Jan.  27,  1755  ;  171  Chauncey,  b  April  20,  1757  ;  172  David, 
b  Feb.  24,  1760. 

86.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  ROYCE,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Phebe,  married 
Sybil  -  — . 

Children  :  173  Martha,  b  Jan.  3,  1756  ;  174  Sybil,  b  April 
n,  1760. 

88.    JOHN. 

JOHN  ROYCE,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Phebe,  married 
Hannah  . 

Children:  175  Mary,  b  May  8,  1751  ;  176  Hannah,  b  Jan. 
I^,  1753,  d  ;  177  Matthew,  b  Oct.  13,  1759  ;  178  Hannah,  b 
June  2,  1761. 

92.    AMOS. 

AMOS  ROYCE,  son  of  Jacob  and  Thankful,  m   Sarah . 

Children:  179  Sarah,  b  Sept.  3,  1754;  180  Jacob,  b  Dec. 
9,  1756,  m  -  -  Hull;  181  John,  b  Nov.  15,  1758;  182 
Hannah,  b  May  22,  1761. 

94.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  Ezekiel  and  Anna  Royce,  married  Deborah 


Children:  183  Stephen,  b  Oct.  21,  1756;  184  Hannah,  b 
April  28,  1758;  185  Ebenezer,  b  March  24,  1760. 

98.   EZRA. 

EZRA,  son  of  Ezekiel  and  Anna  Royce,  married  Anna 
Royce,  Nov.  25,  1746;  res.  in  Meriden  before  1793. 

Children:  186  Jesse,  b  Oct.  3,  1746  ;  Rachel,  b  Oct.  20, 
1747;  187  Joseph,  b  April  14,  1756;  Mehitable,  b  April  3, 


HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORU. 


1750  ;  188  Sarah,  b  Nov.  9,  1751  ;  Seth,  b  June  6,  1752  ;  189 
Esther,  b  Aug.  2,  1754;  Asa,  b  Sept.  i,  1754;  190  Deborah, 
b  Sept.  6,  1757  ;  Lucy,  b  Oct.  26,  1757  ;  191  Thomas,  b  Sept. 
26,  1749  ;  192  ^r<7,  b  Oct.  30,  1759,  res.  in  Meriden. 


102.    EZEKIEL. 

EZEKIEL,  son  of  Ezekiel  and  Anna  Royce,  married  Lydia 
-  .  She  died  Oct.  28,  1813,  ae.  73  yrs.  He  died  Sept. 
3,  1808,  ae.  69,  in  Meriden. 

Child  :  193  Oliver,  b  July  26,  1760,  d  in  Meriden,  April  28, 
1794,  ae.  34  yrs. 

104.     SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Martha  Royce,  married  Sarah 


Children  :  194  Mind-well,  b  Nov.  8,  1756,  m  Josiah  Mix  in 
1777  ;  195  Phebe,  b  Nov.  10,  1758  ;  196  Lucy,  b  May  i.  1761  ; 
197  Keziah,  b  March  25,  1768,  m  Josiah  Mix,  he  d  in  Ohio, 
May  13,  1845,  ae-  91- 

Il6.    HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH,  son  of  Abel  and  Joanna  Royce,  died  in  Meri- 
den at  a  very  advanced  age. 

Children  :  198  Benajah,  d  near  South  Meriden  ;  199  Porter, 
d  in  Wallingford. 

123.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Abigail  Royce,  married 
Deborah . 

Children:  200  Stephen,  b  Oct.    21,   1756;    201    Hannah,  b 
April  28,  1758  ;  202  Ebenezer,\>  March  24,  1760. 
125.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Royce,  married  Eunice 


Child:  203  Capt.  Joseph,  b  1748,  d  Sept.  10,  1790,  ae.  77. 

144.  TIMOTHY. 
TIMOTHY,  son  of    Gideon  and   Rebecca  Royce,   married 

Abigail . 

Children:  204  Mindwell,  b  April  27,  1754;  205  Timothy,  b 


GENEALOGIES.  899 

May  12,  1755  ;  206  Elijah,  b  July  26,  1756  ;  207  Chauncey,  b 
Sept.  7,  1757  :  208  Joanna,  b  Sept.  27,  1758  ;  209  Katherine, 
b  Oct.  4,  1760. 

151.   JUSTICE. 

JUSTICE  ROYCE,  son  of  Gideon  and  Rebecca  Royce,  mar- 
ried Lois  Perkins  of  Meriden.  She  died  in  Wallingford  and 
was  buried  there. 

Children:  210  Roswell,  d  in  Wallingford;  211  Jotham, 
went  west;  212  Ann,  m  Moses  Taylor;  213  Mary,  din 
Meriden;  214  Titus,  resides  in  Wallingford  now,  1870. 

EVAN. 

EVAN  ROYCE  married  Rachel  Parker,  May  20,  1724.  He 
does  not  appear  to  be  of  the  same  family  of  any  of  the  prece- 
ding, yet  it  is  quite  possible  that  he  was. 

Children:  215  John,  b  May  25,  1725;  216  Anna,  b  June 
23,  1724;  217  Evan,  b  June  18,  1729;  218  Charles,  b  March 
28,  1731  ;  219  Mary,  b  Feb.  5,  1733  ;  220  James,  b  Jan.  i, 
1735  ;  221  Lois,  b  Nov.  4,  1740  ;  222  Rachel,  b  June  30,  1743  ; 
223  Hannah,  b  March  25,  1759  ;  224  James,  b  Feb.  i,  1757. 

l6l.    JAMES. 

JAS.  ROYCE,  son  of  Capt.  Jas.  and  Miriam  Royce,  when  liv- 
ing, owned  and  occupied  the  house  and  lot  at  the  head  of  Main- 
Street,  in  the  village  of  Wallingford.  The  old  house  and  lot 
had  been  owned  by  the  family  from  1670  down  to  1868.  Mr. 
James  Rice  died  Feb.  17,  1827,  ae.  79  years.  His  wife  died 
Aug.  6,  1834,  ae.  83  years.  The  maiden  name  of  his  wife 
was  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Tyler,  and  sister  of  Samuel 
and  Jared  Tyler,  late  of  Wallingford. 

Children  :  225  Nehemiah,  b  1774,  m  ist,  Ruth  Hall,  2d, 
Abigail,  daughter  of  Caleb  Hall,  Esq.,  he  d  April  8,  1831, 
ae.  57  years  ;  226  Ambrose,  b  1777,  d  Aug.  21,  1810,  ae.  33 
years  ;  227  Miriam,  m  Isaac  Peck  of  Wallingford  ;  228 
Sedgwick,  d  in  western  N.  Y.,  a  Baptist  minister  ;  226  Lura, 
m  Chauncey  Hough  of  Wallingford;  230  Joel,  b  1786,  m 
Lucretia  Yale,  d  Dec.  21,  1828;  231  James,  resides  in  west- 


9OO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

ern  N.  Y.  ;  232  Mary,  b  1782,  d  Aug.,  1859,  ae.  77  ;  233 
Henrietta,  b  1791,  d  of  measles,  Feb.  18,  1818,  ae.  27  years; 
234  Sylvester,  b  1793,  d  April  i,  1820,  ae.  27  years. 

218.   CHARLES. 
CHARLES,  son  of  Evan  and   Rachel  Royce,  married  Lois 


Child;  235  Thaddeus,  b  Nov.  3,   1757,  res.   near  Gitteau's 
corner. 


STANLEY.' 

The  ancestor  of  the  Wallingford  Stanleys  was  John  Stan- 
ley, who  died  on  his  passage  over  from  England,  leaving  a 
son  John,  and  a  daughter  Ruth,  both  of  whom  were  married 
(the  same  day),  Dec.  5,  1645.  John  the  son  was  nephew  of 
Timothy  Stanley,  of  Cambridge  and  Hartford. 

John  Stanley,  the  grandfather  of  the  Wallingford  branch, 
was  born  in  1625,  came  to  New  England  in  1634,  settled  early 
in  Windsor  and  Farmington,  joined  the  church  in  Farming- 
ton  July  12,  1753,  was  a  deputy  from  Farmington,  four 
sessions  to  the  General  Court,  was  a  Captain-in  King  Philip's 
War,  and  a  leading  man  in  Farmington.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Scott,  Dec.  5,  1645.  He  married  2d, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Fletcher,  of  Milford,  June  26,  1661. 
He  died  Dec.  19,  1706,  and  his  2d  wife  and  widow  died  May 


Children  :  i  John,  b  in  Hartford,  Nov.  3,  1647  >  2  Thomas, 
b  in  Farmington,  Nov.  i,  1649,  m  m  l^9°>  Anne,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Jeremiah  Peck,  she  d  May  23,  1718  ;  3  Sarah,  b  Feb., 
1651-2,  m  Joseph  Gaylord  ;  4  Timothy,  b  March  17,  1653-4, 
m  Mary,  dau.  of  John  Strong,  in  1676,  and  d  childless  ;  5 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.  ;  Dag- 
get's  Hist.  Attleborough,  Mass.,  94,  95  ;  Judd  and  Boltwood's  Hist.  Had- 
ley,  Mass.,  582  ;  Leonard's  Hist.  Dublin,  N.  H.,  396-7  ;  Morse's  Memorial 
of  Morses,  App.  No.  55;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  iv.  163-6;  Thurston's  Hist. 
Winthrop,  Me.,  196-7. 


GENEALOGIES.  90! 

Elizabeth,  b  April  i,  1657,  d  ;  6  Abigail,  b  July  25,  1669,  m 
John  Hooker,  Nov.,  1687  ;  7  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  28,  1672,  m 
John  Wadsworth,  she  d  Oct.  5,  1713  ;  8  Isaac,  b  Sept.  22, 
1660,  was  an  imbecile. 

I.    JOHN. 

JOHN  STANLEY  appears  to  have  been  a  prominent  man  in 
Waterbury.  He  was  the  first  recorder  of  the  town  and  pro- 
prietors. He  was  appointed  first  by  the  committee,  and 
afterward,  Dec.  26,  1682,  by  the  town,  which  offices  he  filled 
until  his  removal  to  Farmington.  He  was  a  good  penman 
and  well  qualified  for  the  office,  as  the  records  fully  demon- 
strate. He  married  Esther,  daughter  of  Thomas  Newell  of 
Farmington,  and  d  May  16,  1729  ;  she  d  in  1740. 

Children:  9  Esther,  b  Dec.  2,  1672,  in  Farmington,  d  1676, 
ae.  4  years  ;  10  John,  b  April  9,  1675,  in  Farmington,  m 
Dec.  14,  1714,  d  Sept.  8,  1748  ;  n  Samuel,  b  1677,  m  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Abraham  Bronson  of  Lyme,  July  15,  1702  : 
12  Nathaniel,\>  1679,  m  Sarah  Smith  and  settled  in  Goshen, 
d  1770  ;  13  Thomas,  b  May  25,  1684,  in  Farmington  ;  14 
Sarah,\>  July  4,  1686  ;  15  Timothy,  b  June  6,  1689,  m  Martha 
Smith  of  Farmington,  settled  in  Goshen  after  1735. 

n.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  STANLEY  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Abraham 
Bronson  of  Lyme.  He  died  in  1737  ;  he  was  a  mill-wright 
and  carpenter,  and  lived  in  Wallingford,  Farmington  and 
Durham. 

Children:  16  Samuel,  b  in  Waterbury;  17  Abraham,  b 
April  13,  1705,  m  Prudence,  dau.  of  Isaac  Pinney,  of  Wind- 
sor, Conn.  ;  18  John;  19  Esther ;  20  Ebenezer ;  21  Anna,  b 
March  8,  1713,  all  b  in  Wallingford  ;  22,  Elizabeth,  b  1715  ; 
23  Asa,  b  1717;  24  Ruth;  25  Josiah ;  all  b  in  Farmington. 

17.     ABRAHAM. 

ABRAHAM  STANLEY  married  Prudence  Pinney  of  Windsor. 
He  settled  on  a  farm  a  little  west  of  Yalesville.     He  died 
Feb.  17,  1788,  ae.  85  yrs. 
I  i  i 


9O2  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Children:  26  Abraham,  b  Dec.  7,  1731  ;  27  Prudence,  b 
May  13,  1734,  m  Laban  Andrews,  April  5,  1758;  28  Oliver, 
b  Oct.  10,  1743,  grad.  at  Yale,  1768,  was  a  lawyer  ;  29  Lucretia, 
b  Aug.  7,  1748,  m  Elihu  Yale. 

18.     JOHN. 

JOHN  STANLEY  married  Hannah  Ives,  May,  29,  1735.  She 
died  in  Wallingford,  July  13,  1750. 

Children :  30  Hannah,  b  June  6,  1736,  d  June  28,  1750,  ae. 
14  yrs. ;  31  John,  b  Dec.  26,  1737;  32  Mary,  b  June  n, 
1740  ;  33  Thomas,  b  July  i,  1743  ;  34  Sarah,  b  July  2,  1745. 

25.      JOSIAH. 

JOSIAH  STANLEY  married  Mary  Miles,  of  Wallingford, 
March  14,  1739.  He  died  Oct.  31,  1756. 

Children ,  35  Abigail,  b  June  9,  1742  ;  36  Mary,  b  Aug.  9, 
1744  ;  37  Benjamin,  b  June  3,  1748. 

28.    OLIVER. 

OLIVER  STANLEY  ESQ.  married  -  — .  He  was  graduated 
at  Yale  College  in  1768,  and  became  a  lawyer  of  considerable 
note  in  his  native  village.  He  owned  the  house  and  lot 
where  Mrs.  Edgar  Atwater  now  lives  (  1869  ),  and  died  there. 

Children :  38  George  Washington,  graduated  at  Yale  ;  39 
Sarah,  m  Medad  Baker. 

38.    GEORGE. 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON  STANLEY  ESQ.  married  —  — .  He 
practiced  his  profession  as  a  lawyer  in  his  native  place  for 
several  years,  with  great  success ;  and  was  Town  Clerk  and 
Judge  of  the  Probate  Court.  In  18 —  he  went  to  Middle- 
town,  where  he  was  made  Attorney  for  the  State.  He  remained 
there  several  years,  and  subsequently  went  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
where  he  soon  became  distinguished  as  a  learned,  discreet 
and  faithful  counselor.  He  died  at  an  advanced  age,  leaving 
one  son  to  perpetuate  his  name,  and  who  is  reported  to  be  a 
successful  business  man  at  Cleveland. 


GENEALOGIES.  903 

SCARRITT. 

James  Scarritt  was  from  Branford,  Conn.  In  1758  he  was 
in  the  old  French  war  with  Miles  Yale,  Col.  Isaac  Cook, 
Samuel  Parsons,  and  old  Samuel  Barnes.  These  men  used 
to  meet  often  and  relate  their  experiences  in  that  war,  to  the 
great  gratification  of  any  who  might  be  present.  Mr.  Scarritt 
was  a  weaver  and  schoolmaster.  He  taught  school  before 
the  Revolution,  and  until  within  the  memory  of  the  writer. 
He  was  the  honored  father  of  John  Scarritt,  who  was  also  a 
schoolmaster,  and  also  the  highly  respected  Town  Clerk  of  New 
Haven,  for  many  consecutive  years.  He  died  in  New  Haven. 

Children:  i  Amanda,  m  W.  Lyon,  she  d  in  1869  ;  2  Lydia, 
m  John  D.  Reynolds;  3  Marcus;  4  Louisa;  5  James,  m 
Johnson,  and  removed  to  Waterbury. 


STREET.' 

NICHOLAS. 

REV.  NICHOLAS  STREET  came  from  England  and  settled  at 
Farmington,  Mass.  In  1649  he  went  to  New  Haven  where 
he  died  April  22,  1674. 

Children:  Samuel,  b  1735,  grad.  at  Harvard,  1664;  Susan- 
nah ;  Sarah  ;  Abiah ;  Hannah. 

I.    SAMUEL. 

REV.  SAMUEL  STREET  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Miles,  Nov.  3,  1664.  He  was  one  of  the  original  subscribers 
to  the  settlement  of  Wallingford  in  1670,  and  was  the  first 
settled  clergyman  in  the  place.  Four  years  after  the  settle- 
ment commenced,  he  was  called  to  settle  there,  and  continued 
in  the  work  of  ministry  there  until  his  decease,  Jan.  17,  1717, 
a  period  of  nearly  45  years.  Mrs.  Anna  Street  died  July 
19,  1730. 

Children:   i   Anna,\>    1665,  in  New   Haven;  2  Samuel,  b 

I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Dodd's  Hist.  East  Haven,  Conn.,  153  ; 
Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  IV.  222-3. 


QO4  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1667,  in  New  Haven  ;  3  Mary,  b  1670,  m  John  Hall  of  Wall- 
ingford  ;  4  Susanna,  b  June  15,  1675,  in  Wallingford ;  5 
Nicholas,  b  July  14,  1677,  settled  in  Groton,  Conn. ;  6  Katha- 
rine, b  Nov.  19,  1679  >  7  Sarah,  b  Jan.  15,  1681,  m  Theophilus 
Yale. 

2.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  STREET  JR.  married  Madeline  Daniels,  Nov.  i, 
1684.  She  died  and  he  married  Hannah  Glover,  July  14, 
1690.  She  died  July  3,  1715,  and  he  married  for  his  third 
wife,  Elizabeth ,  Dec.  20,  1716. 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  8  Samuel,  b  Nov.  3,  1685  ;  9 
James,  b  Dec.  28,  1686,  m  Rebecca  Scoville,  Sept.  6,  1731  ; 
10  Anna,  b  Aug.  26,1688.  By  ad  marriage:  n  Eleanor,  b 
Dec.  3,  1690;  12  Nathaniel,  b  Jan.  19,  1692  ;  13  Elnathan,  b 
Sept.  2,  1695,  m  Damaris  Hull,  Feb.  6,  1722  ;  14  Mehitable,  b 
Feb.  15,  1699  ;  15  John,  b  Oct.  25,  1703,  m  Hannah  Hall, 
June  9,  1734  ;  16  Samuel,  b  May  10,  1707,  d  Oct.  15,  1752. 

5.    NICHOLAS. 

NICHOLAS  STREET  married  Jerusha  Morgan,  April  22,  1707. 
Children:   17  James,  b  Feb.  10,  1708  ;   18  Elizabeth,  b  Apr. 
24,  1709. 

9.     JAMES.     ' 

JA*MES  STREET  m  Rebecca  Scoville. 

Children:  19  Samuel,  b  Sept.  6,  1731  ;  20  James,  b  Sept. 
i4,  1733- 

13.    ELNATHAN. 

ELNATHAN  STREET  married  Damaris  Hall,  Feb.  6,  1722. 

Children:  21  Benjamin,  b  May  18,  1723;  22  Samuel,  b 
Jan.  10,  1725,  d  Jan.  18,  1725  ;  23  Samuel,  b  Dec.  8,  1728; 
24  Nicholas,  b  Feb.  21,  1730,  graduated  at  Yale,  1751,  or- 
dained Oct.  8,  1755,  d  at  East  Haven,  Oct.  3,  1706;  25  El- 
nathan, b  Feb,  20,  1732  ;  26  Anna,  b  Feb.  16,  1736  ;  27  Mary, 
b  June  28,  1738  ;  28  Jesse,  b  April  24,  1741,  m  Lois  Cook. 
15.  JOHN. 

JOHN  STREET  married  Hannah  Hall,  June  5,  1734. 


GENEALOGIES.  905 

Children ;  29    Thaddeus,  b  March   15,    1735,  d  March  16, 
1735  ;  30  Hannah,  b  June  7,  1736  ;  31  Sarah,  b  July  8,  1738  ; 
32  Mary,  b  May  4,  1740  ;  33  Elisha,  b  Dec.  17,  1745. 
1 6.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL    STREET  married   ist,  Keziah    Munson,  Nov.    12, 

1734 ;  2d,  Sarah .     She  died  Oct.  i,  1795,  ae.  68  years  ; 

he  died  in  Wallingford,  1792,  ae.  85  years. 

Child  by  ist  marriage:  34   Glover,  b  May  28,  1735.     Chil- 
dren by  2d   marriage:  35    Titus,  b  June  4,    1750,  m 

Atwater,  of  Cheshire;  36  Caleb,  b  Oct.  23,  1753. 


THOMPSON.' 

There  are  few  names  more  common  among  the  early  set- 
tlers of  New  England  than  that  of  Thompson,  most  of  whom 
came  ^from  London  and  Hertfordshire,  and  were  probably 
related  to  each  other.  Of  these,  the  principal  individuals 
connected  with  the  New  England  settlements  were  David 
Thompson,  who  emigrated  to  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  in  1622, 
where  he  established  fisheries,  and  in  1623,  removed  to  an 
island  in  Boston  Harbor,  which  still  bears  his  name  ;  James 
Thompson,  who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Woburn, 
Mass.,  in  1634  ;  Major  Robert  Thompson,  who  resided  in 
Boston  in  1639,  and  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  respectability ; 
Maurice  Thompson,  a  merchant  of  London,  Governor  of  the 
East  India  Co.,  who  established  fisheries  at  Cape  Ann,  in 
1639  ;  Rev.  William  Thompson,  who  came  to  York,  Maine, 
in  1637,  and  Anthony  Thompson,  of  New  Haven,  Conn. 


I  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.,  163, 
232  ;  Barry's  Hist.  Hanover,  Mass.,  409,  410  ;  Bradbury's  Hist.  Kenne- 
bunkport,  Me.,  297-80;  Cothren's  Hist.  Woodbury,  Conn.,  727-37  ;  Dodd's 
Hist.  East  Haven,  Conn.,  154-6;  Eaton's  Hist.  Thomaston,  Me.,  427-9; 
Hooker's  Memorials  of  James  and  Augustus  Thompson ;  Journals  of 
Smith  and  Dean  of  Portland,  Me.,  68;  Kingman's  Hist.  N.  Bridgwater, 
314,  315  ;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  iv.  180,  xni.  1 12-16,  318-20  ;  Sav- 
age's Gen.  Diet,  iv.  283-90  ;  Sewall's  Hist.  Woburn,  Mass.,  390-402, 
643-5  j  Stiles's  Hist.  Windsor,  Ct.,  815  ;  Thompson's  Gen.  of  Thompson 
Family  ;  Thompson's  Hist.  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  n.  425-31. 


906  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  THOMPSON  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  were  in  Wall- 
ingford  among  the  first  planters,  though  not  an  original  sub- 
scriber. He  was  collector  of  taxes  in  1681. 

Children:  i  Joseph,  m  Hannah  Clark,  Feb.  i,  1700;  2 
John,  b  Feb.  i,  1685,  m  Sarah  Culver,  June  23,  1710;  3 
Hannah,  b  April  16,  1687. 

i.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  THOMPSON,  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Thomp- 
son, married  Hannah  Clark.  He  died  ae.  67  years. 

Children  :  4  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  23,  1710  ;  5  Samuel,  b  Nov. 
10,  1713  ;  6  Tamar,  b  Sept.  18,  1715  ;  7  Phebe,  b  April  12, 
1720  ;  8  Hannah,  b  Sept.  10,  1725  ;  9  Keziah,  b  Jan.  15,  1728. 

2.    JOHN. 

JOHN  THOMPSON,  son  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Thompson, 
married  Sarah  Culver,  June  23.  1710. 

Children  :  10  Abel,  b  and  d  Jan.  14,  1715  ;  n  Abel,  b  1717, 
d  1798;  12  Anna,  b  Jan.  28,  1719,  m  Benjamin  Sedgwick  ; 
13  Mabel,  b  Nov.  n,  1721  ;  14  Sarah,  b  Oct.  5,  1724,  m  John 
Moss;  15  John,  b  Jan.  26,  1726. 

5.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  THOMPSON,  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Thomp- 
son, married  Rachel . 

Children:  16  John,  b  Feb.  24,  1747;  17  Samuel,  b  June 
n,  1751  ;  18  Phebe,  b  Feb.  20,  1753  ;  19  Rachel,  b  April  20, 
1755  ;  20  Samuel,  b  Oct.  5,  1757. 

II.    ABEL. 

ABEL  THOMPSON,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Culver  Thomp- 
son, married  -  .  He  was  the  father  of  Abel,  who  was 

the  father  of  Capt.  Caleb  Thompson,  late  of  Wallingford, 
deceased. 

Children:  21  Edward,  d  in  Wallingford;  22  Stiles  H.,  d 
1863  ;  23  Lodema,  m  E.  S.  Ives,  Esq. ;  24  daughter. 


GENEALOGIES.  907 

JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  and  Abigail  Thompson  had  the  following  family  in 
Wallingford. 

Children:   25  Elihu,  b  Oct.   9,    1745;  26   John,  b  July   22, 

1757- 


THORP.' 

SAMUEL. 

SERGT.  SAMUEL  THORP  was  an  early  settler  in  the  eastern 
part  ol  Wallingford,  near  Muddy  river.  His  house  stood  on 
the  east  side  of  said  river,  on  an  old  highway  which  is  closed, 
and  which  ran  south  from  the  east  side  of  the  late  Col.  Rus- 
sel  Hall's  barn.  Lot  No.  14  on  the  east  side  of  the  main 
street,  in  the  village,  was  assigned  him  for  a  house  lot.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  84,  Feb.  2,  1728.  Mary  Thorp,  his  wife, 
died  March  i,  1718. 

Children:  i  Elizabeth,  b  Feb.  15,  1668  ;  2  Samuel,  b  Mar. 
8,  1670;  3  Hannah,  b  Sept.  9,  1678;  4  Naomi,  b  Jan.  31, 
1681,  m  John  Boulcott,  Oct.  18,  1708  ;  5  John,  b  July  6,  1686  ; 
6  Samuel,  b  Apr.  n,  1687  ;  7  Hannah. 

6.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  THORP  married  ist,  Hannah  ,  2d,  Eliza- 
beth How.  He  died  March  14,  1764.  She  died  Oct.  19, 
i75i- 

Children  by  ist  marriage :  8  Samuel,  b  Mar.  24,  1707;  9 
Joseph,  b  Dec.  8,  1708;  10  Elizabeth,  b  Oct.  3,  1710;  n 
Daniel,  b  Jan.  4,  1711  ;  12  Hannah,  b  Nov.  18,  1712  ;  13  Sam- 
uel, b  Apr.  10,  1713  ;  14  Lydia,  b  Oct.  31,  1714;  15  Hannah, 
b  Nov.  i,  1716;  1 6  Thomas;  17  Benjamin,  b  Sept.  13,  1715  ; 
18  John,  b  Aug.  2,  1718;  19  Olive,  b  Mar.  14,  1720.  By  2d 
marriage  :  20  Hannah,  b  Feb.  n,  1722  ;  21  Mabel,  b  Jan.  12, 
1724;  22  Mary,  d  Oct.  19,  1767  ;  23  Abner,  b  Oct.  14,  1720; 
24  Asher,  b  Oct.  14,  1727;  25  Phebe,  b  April  i,  1728;  26, 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  iv.  243. 


908  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Elnathan,  b  Aug.  13,  1729  ;  27    Sarah,    b  Dec.    10,    1734;  28 
Tamar,  b  Sept.  18,  1735. 

9.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  THORP,   married   Abigail .     He   died  Sept. 

*3>    1755- 

Children:   29  Sarah,  b  July  7,  1741  ;  30   Jared,  b  Oct.    27, 

1744;  31  Joseph,  b  May  i,  1750;  32    Titus,  b  Mar.  i,  1751  ; 
33  Abigail,  b  Apr.  22,  1753. 

II.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL   THORP    married    Elizabeth   .     She    died 

Oct.  16,  1751. 

Child:  34  Mary,  d  Oct.  16,  1751. 
13.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  THORP,  son  of   Samuel  and  Hannah. 

Children  :  35  Thomas ;  36  Lois,  b  Feb.  26,  1736  ;  37  Sarah, 
b  Apr.  16,  1737  ;  38  Lydia,  b  Oct.  9,  1741 ;  39  Lynes,  b  Oct. 
12,  1743. 


TUTTLE.' 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM  TUTTLE,  his  wife  and  three  children,  and  a  brother 
John  came  from  Devonshire,  England,  in  the  ship  Planter,  as 
passengers,  and  were  registered  April,  1635.  John  was  born 
in  1596,  and  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass.  ;  he  left  numerous  de- 
scendants. William's  age  was  put  at  twenty-six  years,  his 
wife  Elizabeth's  at  23  yrs.,  John,  their  eldest  child,  at  3  1-2 
yrs.,  Ann,  2  1-2  yrs.,  and  Thomas  at  three  months.  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  united  with  the  church  in  Boston,  July  24,  1636, 
and  brought  to  be  baptized  a  son,  Jonathan,  July  2,  1637,  and 
another,  David,  April  7,  1639.  Soon  after,  the  family  re- 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Cothren's  Hist.  Woodbnry,  Conn.,  723-7  ; 
Dodd's  Hist.  East  Haven,  Conn.,  156-8;  Hall's  Hist.  Rec.  Norwalk, 
Ct,  203-241,  267-269.  281-290,  297  ;  Hudson's  Hist.  Lexington,  Mass., 
248,  249  ;  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  via.  132-42  ;  Otis's  Gen.  Otis 
Family;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  iv.  350-2  ;  Wyman's  Hunt  Family  Hist.,  529. 


GENEALOGIES.  909 

moved  to  New  Haven ;  there  he  became  a  man  of  conse- 
quence, and  was  much  employed  in  public  affairs.  He 
resided  in  that  part  of  the  town  now  called  North  Haven, 
and  was  there  in  1659,  on  land  that  belonged  to  the  estate  of 
Gov.  Eaton.  He  died  in  1673,  at  tne  age  °f  64  years.  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  died  Dec.  30,  1684,  ae.  81  yrs.  He  was  a  sub- 
scriber to  the  compact  for  the  settlement  of  East  Haven.  Es- 
tate, .£440. 

Children:  i  John,  b  1631,  in  England,  m  Catharine  Lane; 
2  Anna,  b  1633,  in  England;  3  Thomas,  b  1635,  m  Hannah 
Powell,  May  21,  1760  ;  4  Jonathan,  b  July  2,  1637,  in  Boston, 
m  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Francis  Ball ;  5  David,  b  April  7,  1639, 
in  Boston,  d  in  1693  ;  6  Joseph,  b  Nov.  22,  1640,  in  New 
Haven,  m  Hannah  Munson  ;  7  Sarah,  b  April,  1642,  m  John 
Hanson,  Nov.  n,  1663  ;  8  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.,  1645,  m 
Timothy  Edwards  of  Windsor,  1667  ;  9  Simon,  b  March  28, 
1647,  settled  at  Wallingford  in  1670  ;  10  Benjamin,  b  Oct.  29, 
1648  ;  ii  Mercy,  b  April  27,  1650,  m  Samuel  Brown  of  New 
Haven  ;  12  Nathaniel,  b  Feb.  29,  1652,  m  Sarah,  dau.  of 
Ephraim  How,  and  settled  at  Woodbury,  Conn.,  where  he  d 
Aug.  20,  1721.  Cothren,  in  Hist,  of  Woodbury,  gives  his 
descendants. 

I.  JOHN. 

JOHN  TUTTLE,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle, 
was  born  in  England  in  1628,  came  to  America  with  his 
parents  in  1635,  in  the  ship  Planter,  married  Catherine  Lane, 
Nov.  8,  1653,  and  died  in  1683.  Estate,  ^"79. 

Children  :  13  Hannah,  b  Nov.  3,  1655,  m  Samuel  Clark, 
Nov.  7,  1672  ;  14  John,  b  Sept.  16,  1657  ;  15  Samuel,  b  Jan. 
9,  1659,  m  Sarah  Newman,  in  1684  ;  16  Sarah,  b  Jan.  22, 
1 66 1-2,  m  John  Humiston,  Sept.  10,  1685  ;  17  Daniel,  b 
April  13,  1664,  d  1700,  at  Milford,  ae.  36  years;  18  Mary,  b 
April  13,  1664,  m  John  Ball,  June  6,  1716;  19  Elizabeth,  b 
Nov.  26,  1666  ;  20  David,  b  Nov.  14,  1668. 
3.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  TUTTLE  2d  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle, 


QIO  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

was  born  in  England  in  1634-5,  and  was  brought  to  America 
by  his  parents  in  the  ship  Planter.  He  married  Hannah 
Powell,  May  21,  1661. 

Children  :  21  Hannah,  b  Feb.  24,  1661,  m  Samuel  Clark, 
Nov.  7,  1672  ;  22  Abigail,  b  Jan.  17,  1663  ;  23  Mary,  b  June 
14,  1665,  d  Aug.  12,  1683;  24  Thomas  Jr.,  b  Oct.  27,  1667, 
m  Mary  Sanford,  June  28,  1692,  he  d  Jan.  30,  1703  ;  25  John, 
b  Dec.  5,  1669  ;  26  Esther,  b  April  9,  1672,  m  Samuel  Russell, 
Feb.  25,  1694;  27  Caleb,  b  Aug.  29,  1674,  m  Mary  Hotch- 
kiss,  March  i,  1699  ;  28  Joshua,  b  Dec.  19,  1676,  m  Mary 
Mix,  Feb  25,  1710;  29  Martha,  b  May  23,  1679,  d  Jan.  25, 
1699,  ae-  20- 

4.     JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle,  was  born 
in  Boston,  and  came  to  New  Haven  when  a  child  with  his 
parents.  He  married  Rebecca  Bell  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and 
settled  on  a  farm  in  what  is  now  North  Haven,  and  on  which 
some  of  his  descendants  continue  to  reside  to  this  day  (  1870  ). 
He  died  in  1700.  Estate,  ^"100.  His  wife  Rebecca  died 
May  2,  1676. 

Children:  30  Rebecca,  b  Sept.  10,  1664  ;  31  Mary,  b  Feb. 
7,  1666,  m  Ebenezer  Frost,  Oct.  4,  1704  ;  32  David,  b  Nov. 
14,  1668;  33  Jonathan,  b  April  6,  1669  ;  34  Simon,  b  March 
ii,  1671  ;  35  William,  b  May  25,  1673  ;  36  Nathaniel,  b  Feb. 
25,  1676. 

5.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle,  was  a  pro- 
prietor in  1685.  For  some  cause  which  does  not  now  appear, 
he  was  in  1687  put  under  the  charge  of  his  brother  Thomas, 
and  died  in  1692,  ae.  55  years,  without  children.  He  had  lot 
16,  east  side  of  Main-st.  in  Wallingford,  1670.  Estate,  ^"29. 

6.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle,  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Munson,  May  2,  1667.  He 
died  in  Sept.,  1690.  She  afterwards  married  Nathan  Bradley 


GENEALOGIES.  QT  I 

in  1694,  and  died  in  1695.  Estate,  ^"269.  This  family  was 
of  East  Haven,  Conn. 

Children  :  37  Joseph,  b  March  18,  1668,  m  Elizabeth  San- 
ford,  Dec.  10,  1691-2  ;  38  Samuel,  b  July  15,  1670,  m  Sarah 
Hart,  Dec.  n,  1695  >  39  Stephen,  b  May  20,  1673,  m  Ruth 

,  settled   at  Woodbridge,  N.  J. ;  40   Joanna,  b  Feb.  25, 

1675,  m  Stephen  Panbonna ;  41  Timothy,  b  Sept.  30,  1678,  d 
Nov.  21,  1678;  42  Susannah,  b  Feb.  20,  1679  >  43  Elizabeth, 
b  July  12,  1683  ;  44  Hannah,  b  May  14,  1685,  d  in  infancy; 
45  Hannah,  b  Feb.  26,  1686. 

8.    ELIZABETH. 

ELIZABETH  TUTTLE,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
Tuttle,  married  Richard  Edwards  of  Windsor,  Conn.  She 
was  the  maternal  ancestor  of  the  late  Gov.  Henry  W. 
Edwards,  of  New  Haven. 

Children  :  46  Mary,  b  1668  ;  47  Timothy,  b  May  14,  1669, 
in  Esther  Stoddard;  48  Abigail,  b  1671  ;  49  Elizabeth,  b  1675; 
50  Ami,  b  1678  ;  51  Mabel,  b  1685  ;  52  Cynthia . 

9.  SIMON. 

SIMON  TUTTLE,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle,  mar- 
ried Miss  Abigail,  daughter  of  John  Beach,  and  was  among  the 
first  subscribers  to  the  compact  for  the  settlement  of  New 
Haven  village  (now  Wallingford ),  in  1669-70,  and  settled 
there  near  his  father  Beach's  land,  perhaps  on  a  portion  of 
it.  His  house  lot  was  No.  13,  east  side  Main-st,  with  8 
acres  of  out  land.  He  died  April  16,  1719,  ae.  72  years. 
Mrs.  Abigail  died  Aug.,  1722. 

Children:  53  Daniel,  b  Nov.  n,  1680,  m  Ruth  How,  Oct. 
18,  1711  ;  54  Dea.  Timothy,  b  1681,  m  ist,  Thankful  Doolittle, 

Nov.  2,  1706,  shed  Nov.  23,  1728,  2d,  Mary ,3d,  Sarah 

Humiston,  June  28,  1749,  he  died  April  15,  1756,  ae.  75  ;  55 
Thankful ;  56  Rebecca,  b  April  30,  1698  ;  57  Jonathan,  b  Sept. 
18,  1701  ;  58  Isaiah,  b  July  10,  1704,  m  Susannah  Doolittle, 
June  4,  1727;  59  Elizabeth,  b  Nov.  8,  1705;  60  Deborah,  b 
Jan.  i,  1709;  61  David,  b  April  25,  1713. 


912  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

II.    MERCY. 

MERCY  TUTTLE,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle, 
married  Samuel  Brown,  who  was  among  the  original  sub- 
scribers to  the  compact  for  the  settlement  of  the  village  of 
Wallingford,  and  had  assigned  to  him  the  lot  on  which  now 
stands  the  residence  of  the  late  Moses  Y.  Beach,  Esq.  ;  but 
as  he  did  not  settle  on  it  within  the  time  prescribed,  he  lost  his 
title,  and  it  was  assigned  to  John  Moss.  Dea.  Philo  Brown, 
of  the  firm  of  Brown,  Elton  &  Co.,  of  Waterbury,  is  a  direct 
descendant  of  her.  See  "  Branson's  Waterbury." 

Children:  62  Abigail,  b  March  u,  1669,  d  young;  63 
Sarah,  b  Aug.  8,  1672  ;  64  Rachel,  b  Aug.  14,  1677  ;  65 
Francis,  b  Oct.  7,  1679  >  66  Gideon,  b  July  12,  1685  ;  67  Sam- 
uel, b  Oct.  29,  1699. 

12.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL  TUTTLE  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle, 
married  Sarah  How,  Aug.  10,  1682.  He  settled  in  Wood- 
bury,  Conn.,  about  1680,  where  he  raised  a  considerable 
family.  He  died  Aug.  20/1721,  leaving  a  widow,  Sarah. 
His  descendants  are  somewhat  numerous  in  Woodbury  and 
vicinity,  to  this  day. 

Children:  68  Mary,  bap.  May,  1683,  d  before  1721;  69 
Ephraim,  bap.  July  20,  1683,  m  Dinah  Wheeler,  Feb.  13, 
1706  ;  70  Temperance,  bap.  Nov.  24,  1674,  d  Nov.,  1749  ;  71 
Hezekiah,  m  Martha  Huthwith,  April  n,  1711,  d  in  1753  ;  72 
Isaac,  b  Feb.  3,  1698,  m  ist,  Prudence  Wheeler,  Jan.  10,  1729, 
she  d  1730,  m  2d,  Mary  Warner,  she  died  Oct.  28,  1746  ;  73 
Anna,  d  July  22,  1753. 

35.   WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Rebecca  Tuttle,  m  . 

Children:  74  Aaron,  b  Nov.  25,  1698,  m  Mary  Munson, 
Feb.  6,  1723-4;  75  Mary,  b  Aug.,  1702;  76  Susannah,  b 
Nov.  10,  1708  ;  77  Lydia,  b  Feb.  22,  1710-11  ;  78  Jemima,  b 
Feb.  13,  1712;  79  Hannah,  b  Nov.  10,  1715;  80  Dan,  b 
Aug.  i,  1718,  d  young  ;  81  Dan,  b  Aug.  30,  1722,  m  Abigail 
Frederick,  Jan.  26,  1743,  at  Wallingford. 


GENEALOGIES.  913 

37.    NATHANIEL. 

NATHANIEL,  2d  son  of  Jonathan  and  Rebecca  Tuttle,  mar- 
ried and  settled  in  New  Haven. 

Children  :  82  Jonathan,  b  1701  ;  83  Silence,  b  1703  ;  84 
Moses,  b  May  8,  1704;  85  Nathaniel,  b  May  29,  1714,  m 
Mary  Todd,  Jan.  16,  1737-8. 

53.  DANIEL. 

CAPT.  DANIEL  TUTTLE,  son  of  Simon  and  Abigail  Tuttle, 
settled  on  lot  16,  east  side  of  the  main  street  in  Wallingford 
village,  married  Ruth  How,  Oct.  18,  1711  ;  he  died  in  1748. 

Children  :  86  Daniel,  b  1714,  d  Aug.  12,  1767,  ae.  53  ;  87 
Jehiel,  b  Aug.  7,  1717,  m  Hannah  Hull,  Aug.  31,  1742  ;  88 
Abiah ;  89  Phebe,  b  Jan.  8,  1719,  d;  90  Lydia,  b  April  15, 
1722,  m  Benj.  Culver  of  Wallingford  ;  91  Eunice,  b  April  9, 
1725,  d  April  12,  1726  ;  92  Eunice,  b  July  12,  1726,  m  Gideon 
Ives,  Jr.,  Oct.  19,  1745  ;  93  Ambrose,  b  Sept.  25,  1728,  m 
Esther  Ives,  May  31,  1748  ;  94  Enos,  b  Jan.  3,  1732,  m  Sarah 
Francis,  April  21,  1757  ;  95  Mary,  b  Oct.  n,  1733,  m  Joseph 
Francis,  Aug.  31,  1750  ;  96  Phebe,  b  Jan.  8,  1734,  m  Samuel 
Miles;  97  Lois,  b  March  9,  1737,  m  Abel  Ives,  June  19, 
1760;  98  Martha,  b  Feb.  25,  1720,  d  Jan.  i,  1742. 

54.  TIMOTHY. 

DBA.  TIMOTHY  TUTTLE,  son  of  Simon  and  Abigail  Tuttle, 
married  Thankful  Doolittle,  Nov.  2,  1706.  She  died  Nov. 
23,  1728.  He  married  2d,  Mary  Rowe  of  New  Haven,  June 
9,  1729  ;  she  died  Jan.  22,  1747-8.  He  married  3d,  Sarah 
Humiston,  June  28,  1749.  He  died  at  Cheshire,  April  15, 
1756,  ae.  76  yrs. 

Children:  99  Rachel,  b  April  10,   1706,  m  Nathan  Tyler; 

100  Ebenezer,  b  May   18,  1708,  d  Dec.  3,  1736,  ae.  28  yrs.  ; 

101  Ephraim,  b  April  10,  1710,  m   Hannah   Payne,   Jan.    16, 
1734;  102  Mary,  b  Oct.   3,    1712,  m  Miles   Hull  of  Derby, 
Dec.  4,    1729;  103   Gershom,  b  Aug.    u,    1714,    settled   in 
Bristol,  Conn.,  d  ae.  74  yrs.  ;  104   Timothy,  b  Dec.  4,  1716.  m 
Hannah  Wadams  of  Goshen,  Conn. ;  105  Abigail,  b  April  n, 
1719,  m   John  Gaylord  of  Cheshire;  106  Simon,  b  June  12, 


914  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1721,  settled  in  Bristol,   Conn.  ;  107  Moses,  b  Dec.  18,  1723, 
settled  in  Cheshire;  108  Thankful,  b  Nov.  15,  1726,  d  Dec.  9, 

1747  ;   109  Mehitable,  b  Nov.  15,  1730,  m  Andrew  Clark  ;  no 
Ichabod,  b  July  2,  1732,  d  Jan.  9,   1747-8. 

57-    JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN,  son  of  Simon  and  Abigail  Tuttle,  married  Re- 
becca Gilbert,  Dec.  8,  1724. 

Child:   in  Simon,  b  Nov.  16,  1725. 

58.  ISAIAH. 

ISAIAH,  son  of  Simon  and  Abigail  Tuttle,  married  Susanna 
Doolittle,  June  4,  1727. 

Children:  112  Jonathan,  b  May  19,  1728,  settled  in  Wall- 
ingford ;  113  Theophilus,  b  March  4,  1729,  settled  in  Walling- 
ford,  d  Nov.  17,  1787,  ae.  58  ;  114  Isaiah,  b  Feb.  6,  1732,  d 
in  childhood  ;  115  David,  b  Jan.  21,  1733,  d  in  1765  ;  116 
Elizabeth,  b  June  17,  1736;  117  Sarah,  b  July  13,  1738  ;  118 
Isaiah,  b  Nov.  29,  1742,  d  young;  119  Solomon,  b  Aug.  19, 
1746. 

71.      HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah  Tuttle,  had  a  son 
who  settled  in  North  Haven,  and  has  numerous  descendants, 
some  of  whom  reside  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  (  1870  ). 

86.  DANIEL. 

DANIEL  TUTTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ruth  Tuttle,  married 
Phebe  -  — . 

Children :  120  Zopher,  b  July  19,  1743  ;  121  Prudence,  b  Jan. 
24,  1745  ;  122  Dan,  b  Nov.  27,  1746  ;  123  Ichabod,  b  Feb.  14, 

1748  ;    124  Benoni,  b   Sept.   30,   1749  ;   125  Jabez,  b  July  20, 
1751  ;  126  Ichabod,  b  Nov.   28,    1757,  d  Oct.    31,  1834,  ae.  77 
years;  127  Ben,  b  Apr.  29,  1761,  drowned  May  n,  1809,  ae. 
47  years. 

87.  JEHIEL. 

JEHIEL  TUTTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ruth  Tuttle,  married 
Hannah  Hull,  Aug.  30,  1742. 

Children  :  128  Daniel^  b  Jan.  9,  1743-4;  129  John,  b  Apr.  30, 


GENEALOGIES.  915 

1746  ;  130  Charles,  b  Dec.  24,  1747  ;  131  Jeremiah,  b  Nov.  25, 
1750  ;  132  Charles,  b  Jan.  26,  1753,  settled  at  Windham,  Greene 
Co.,  New  York ;  133  Joel,  b  July  25,  1756. 

93.    AMBROSE. 

AMBROSE  TUTTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ruth  Tuttle,  married 
Esther  Ives,  May  31,  1748.  He  died  in  1757. 

Children  :  134  Samuel,  b  Dec.  22,  1748,  d  May  9,  1755  ;  135 
Ambrose,  b  Oct.  n,  1752  ;  136  Martha,  b  Oct.  9,  1750;  137 
Benjamin,  b  Sept.  5,  1754;  138  Samuel,  b  Dec.  22,  1757. 

94.    ENOS. 

ENOS  TUTTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ruth  Tuttle,  married 
Sarah  Francis,  April  21,  1757.  Probably  left  Wallingford 
when  a  young  man. 

Child  :  139  Sarah,  b  Feb.  19,  1758. 

101.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  TUTTLE,  son  of  Dea.  Timothy  and  Thankful 
Tuttle,  married  ist,  Esther  Hotchkiss,  June  n,  1731.  She 
died  May,  1732,  of  small  pox.  He  m  2d,  Hannah  Paine,  Jan. 
16,  1734.  She  died  May  22,  1756,  ae.  42.  He  m  3d,  Thankful 
Preston,  Dec.  16,  1761.  He  died  in  Cheshire,  Feb  2,  1775, 
ae.  64  yrs. 

Children  :  140  Edmund,  M.  D.,  b  Nov.  26,  1733-4,  d  May 
5,  1763,  ae.  30  yrs.  ;  141  Esther,  b  Feb.  10,  1736  ;  142  Ebe- 

nezer,bOct.  15,  1737,  m  Eunice  ;  143  Ephraim,\> 

March  20,  1739,  m  ist,  Mary  Hall,  Aug.  2,  1754,  2d,  Eliza- 
beth Atwater;  144  Noah,  b  June  30,  1741,  d  July  23,  1742; 
145  Timothy,  b  July  i,  1743,  d  young;  146  Noah,  b  Dec.  18, 
1744,  d  June  30,  1828,  at  Camden,  N.  Y.,  ae.  84  yrs.  ;  147 
Timothy,  b  May  17,  1745,  went  to  Ohio ;  148  Hannah,  b  Jan. 
4,  1746-7;  149  Lucius,  b  Dec.  4,  1749,  d  June  27,  1846,  ae. 
97  yrs.  ;  150  Thankful,  b  March  13,  1752.  By  20!  marriage: 
151  Ruth,  b  Jan.  3,  1761-2  ;  152  Edmund,  b  Dec.  30,  1764, 
m  Sarah  L.  Royce,  Dec.  6,  1784,  he  d  Jan.  i,  1846,  ae.  90. 
103.  GERSHOM. 

GERSHOM    TUTTLE,  son  of   Dea.  Timothy  and  Thankful 


HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Tuttle,  married  and  settled  in  Goshen,  Conn.  He  died  Oct. 
23,  1760. 

Children:  153  Noah,  b  March  26,  1742,  m  Ruth  Beach; 
154  Mary,  b  Dec.  i,  1743 ;  155  Ichabod,  b  June  23,  1744,  was 
killed  at  Wyoming,  by  the  Indians  ;  156  Amos,  b  Feb.  9,  1745; 
157  Elisha,  b  Nov.  24,  1746,  m  Elizabeth  Matthews,  Feb.  20, 
1772  ;  158  Deliverance,  b  Oct.  14,  1753,  d  Oct.  8,  1760  ;  159 
Timothy,  b  Jan.  13,  1755  ;  160  David,  b  Dec.  26,  1756,  d  Oct. 
10,  1760;  161  Hannah,  b  May  10,  1758;  162  Thankful,  b 
May  30,  1759,  m  Philip  Cook;  163  Lois,  b  May  21,  1760. 

104.    TIMOTHY. 

TIMOTHY,  son  of  Dea.  Timothy  and  Thankful  Tuttle,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Wadams  Jan.  27,  1743,  and  settled  at  Goshen, 
Conn. 

Children:   164  Mary,  b   Dec.   i,    1743,  m   Sedgwick 

of  Cornwall  Hollow;  165  Amos,  b  Feb.  4,  1745  ;  166  Elisha, 
b  Nov.  24,  1746,  d  in  Goshen,  July  28,  1825  ;  167  Ichabod,  b 
June  23,  1748,  m  Elizabeth  Matthews,  Feb.  20,  1772,  killed  by 
Indians  at  Wyoming,  Pa.;  168  Noah,  b  March  26,  1752,  m 
Ruth  Beach,  was  hotel  keeper  several  years  in  Canada;  169 
Deliverance,  b  Oct.  14,  1753,  d  Oct.  8,  1760;  170  Timothy,  b 

June  10,  1755,  m  Abigail ;  171  David,  b  Dec.  26,    1756, 

d  Oct.,  1760;  172  Hannah,  b  Aug.  10,  1758  ;  173  Thankful, 
b  May  30,  1759,  m  Phillip  Cook  of  Goshen,  Conn. ;  174  Lois, 
b  May  21,  1760. 

107.    MOSES. 

MOSES,  son  of  Dea.  Timothy  and  Thankful  Tuttle,  married 
Sybil  Thomas,  June  2,  1746.  He  died  in  Cheshire,  Jan.  17, 
1809,  ae.  86  yrs.  She  died  July  16,  1804,  ae.  80  yrs.  Both 
are  buried  in  the  Episcopal  yard,  Cheshire. 

Children:  175  Ichabod,  b  Feb  14,  1748,  m  Sarah  Hitch- 
cock; 176  Sybil,})  April  15,  1749,  m  Amos  Hitchcock,  May 
31,  1764,  settled  irj  Canada  and  died  there;  177  Sarah,  b 
Aug.  19,  1750,  m  Isaac  Moss;  178  Rebecca,  b  Feb.  21,  1752, 
m  Reuben  Merriman  ;  179  Moses,  b  Oct.  24,  1753,  settled  in 
Prospect;  180  Anna,  b  Oct.  24,  1753;  181  Freelove,  b  April 


GENEALOGIES.  917 

8,  1756,  m  John  Benham  ;  182  Thaddeus,  b  Aug.  18,  1757,  m 
Cornelia  Atwater  ;  183  Samuel,  b  April  16,  1759,  m  Martha 
Hull,  settled  in  Vermont;  184  Lydia,  b  July  9,  1761,  m 
Abner  Doolittle  of  Cheshire. 

112.    JONATHAN. 

JONATHAN  TUTTLE,  son  of  Josiah  Tuttle  of  North  Haven, 
married  Hannah  Barns,  Feb.  6,  1754,  and  settled  in  the  south- 
west corner  of  Wallingford,  near  the  foot  of  the  Blue  Hills. 
The  locality  has  ever  since  borne  the  name  of  Tuttle's  farm. 
He  died  May  27,  1795,  ae.  65  years.  Hannah  his  relict  died 
Nov.  6,  1831,  ae.  97  years. 

Children  :  185  Rebecca,  b  Dec.  21,  1754,  m  Lent  Hough,  of 
Wallingford  ;  186  Isaiah,  b  May  5,  1757,  m  Sarah  Yale,  their 
children  were  Samuel,  Jonathan,  Harvey,  Romantha,  and  Rev. 
Anson,  all  went  to  Ohio  ;  187  Hannah,  b  Jan.  2,  1760,  m 
Bethiel  Todd ;  188  Sarah,  b  Dec.  18,  1762,  m  Reuben  Jones, 
of  Wallingford;  189  David  Justus,  b  Jan.  27,  1765,  m  Polly 
Tuttle,  April  29,  1790,  she  d  Jan.  9,  1813,  ae.  48 ;  190, 
Samuel,  b  1771,  m  Abigail  Cook,  Oct.  25,  1792;  191  Polly, 
m  Samuel  Johnson,  of  Wallingford. 

127.   BERI. 

BERI  TUTTLE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Phebe  Tuttle,  of  Wall- 
ingford, was  drowned  while  at  work  on  the  bridge  at  Humis- 
ton  Mills,  May  n,  1807,  ae.  47  years.  He  married  Charity 
Johnson.  She  died  Jan.  31,  1814,  ae.  52  years. 

Children:   192   Nancy;  193  Laura,  b  1788,   m    Asa  Tuttle 

•and   d   in   Cheshire;   194    Clarissa;  195   Merrit,   b    1795,   m 

Mary,  dau.  of  Stephen   Cook ;  196  Franklin,  b  1800,  d  Nov. 

18,  1811,  ae.  n  yrs.  ;  197  Ira  Esq.,  b  June  30,  1805,  m  Mary, 

dau.  of  John  B.  Johnson   Esq.,  d  Jan.  10,  1870,  ae.  64. 

132.    CHARLES. 

CHARLES  TUTTLE,  son  of  Jehiel  of  Wallingford,  settled  at 
Windham,  Greene  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Children:     198    Mamre ;     199   Anna;    200    Charles;    201 
Daniel  Bliss,   b  July,   1797.  m  Abigail  Clark  Stimpson  ;  202 
Sallie ;  203  Ephraim,  d  1866. 
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HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 
201.    DANIEL. 

DANIEL  BLISS,  son  of  Charles  and  -  Tuttle,  married 
Abigail  Clark  Stimpson. 

Children  :  204  Lenmel  S.,  b  at  Wind  ham,  Greene  Co.,  N.  Y. ; 
205  Sarah  B.;  206  Daniel;  207  Rev.  Daniel  Sylvester,  b 
Jan.  26,  1837,  m  Harriet  M.  Foote,  he  was  consecrated  a 
Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Idaho,  Mon- 
tana and  Utah,  May  i,  1867,  his  children  were  George  M., 
b  Sept.  23,  1866,  and  Herbert  Edward,  b  June  14,  1869. 

142.    EBENEZER. 

EBENEZER  TUTTLE,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  Tuttle, 
married  Eunice . 

Children  :  208  Mary,  b  March  12,  1761  ;  209  Phebe,  b  Aug. 
15,  1763  ;  210  Ebenezer,  b  July  28,  1765  ;  211  Joseph,  b  Aug. 
9,  1767. 

143.    EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  TUTTLE,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  Tuttle, 
married  ist,  Maiy  Hull,  Aug.  20,  1764.  She  died  in  1768. 
He  married  2d,  Elizabeth  Atwater.  She  died  in  1808.  He 
died  in  Cheshire,  Conn.,  1811,  ae.  72  years. 

Child  by  ist  marriage:  212  Uri,  b  Oct.  31,  1765,  m  ist, 
Peggy  Morrison,  she  d  Oct.  17,  1813,  ae.  46  yrs,  he  m  2d,  — 
Stowe.  By  2d  marriage:  213  Ephraim,  b  Feb.  28,  1776,  m 
Lois,  dau.  of  Capt.  David  Hitchcock;  214  Lucy,  m  Gideon 
Walker,  settled  in  Southington,  Conn.  ;  215  Mary,  b  in  1769, 
m  S.  Ufford  Beach,  she  d  Feb.  i,  1854;  216  Elizabeth,  m 
Nath'l  Royce,  of  Southington,  Conn. ;  217  Hannah,  m  Elia- 
saph  Preston,  of  Prospect,  Conn.  ;  218  Abigail,  m  John  Peck, 
of  Homer,  N.  Y.  ;  219  Stephen,  m  Catharine  Smith,  and  went 

to  Burton,  Ohio. 

149.   LUCIUS. 

CAPT.  Lucius  TUTTLE,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  Tut- 
tle, married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Lowly  Hull, 
of  Cheshire.  He  was  a  prominent  man  in  Cheshire  for  many 
years,  and  during  the  Revolution  was  under  General  Wash- 
ington's command  at  Boston  and  Long  Island,  and  himself 


GENEALOGIES.  919 

had  command  of  a  company  of  his  townsmen  at  the  battle 
which  resulted  in  the  surrender  of  General  Burgoyne  and  his 
army  in  1777.  He  died  at  the  house  of  his  son  Lucius,  in 
Wolcott,  at  the  age  of  97  years. 

Children:  220  Andrew  Hull,  b  Aug.  28,  1775  ;  221  Lucius, 
b  Aug.  7,  1776,  d  in  Wolcott,  Conn.,  had  a  family  there;  222 
Betsey  Ann,  b  April  8,  1778,  m  Samuel  Benham,  of  Cheshire ; 
223  Marcus,  b  March  25,  1780  ;  224  Anson,  b  Dec.  22,  1781, 
d  Sept.  19,  1863,  ae.  32  ;  225  William  B.,  b  Feb.  n,  1784,  d 
Jan.  6,  1822,  ae.  38  yrs.  ;  226  Hannah,  b  March  24,  1785,  d 
unm.  June  9,  1846,  ae.  59  ;  227  Gains,  b  July  5,  1736,  d  ae. 
67  yrs.  in  Cheshire;  228  Esther,  b  Dec.  30,  1792,  m  Levi 
Doolittle,  and  died  in  Cheshire. 

152.   EDMUND. 

EDMUND  TUTTLE,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Thankful  Tuttle, 
married  Sarah  S.  Royce,  Dec.  6,  1784.  He  died  at  Cheshire, 
Jan.  i,  1846,  ae.  82  years.  She  died  Dec.  16,  1856,  ae.  89  yrs. 

Children  :  229  Sybil  Stella,  m  John  Hall,  April,  1826;  230 
Lowly,  d  Nov.  18,  1813,  ae.  17  yrs.  ;  231  Edmund,  d  July  n, 
1793,  in  infancy  ;  232  Lois  S.,  m  James  Merriman,  of  South- 
ington  ;  233  ftancy,  d  Jan.  4,  1827,  ae.  24  yrs.  ;  234  Laura 
Ann,  d  Sept.  20,  1829,  ae.  23  yrs.  ;  235  Myra,  m  Jesse 
Brooks,  of  Cheshire  ;  236  Ruth,  m  John  Peck,  and  died  in 
Cheshire,  Conn. 

175.    ICHABOD. 

ICHABOD  TUTTLE,  son  of  Moses  and  Sybil  Thomas  Tutlle, 
married  Sarah  Hitchcock,  daughter  of  Dan  and  Esther 
Hitchcock,  of  Cheshire,  and  was  for  many  years  owner  of 
the  farm  now  known  as  the  Dickerman  farm,  situated  about  a 
mile  and  a  quarter  east  of  Cheshire  village.  She  died  Oct. 
30,  1834,  ae.  77  years. 

Children :  237  Dan,  m  Hannah  Holdreden,  settled  at  Great 
Bend  in  Penn.  ;  238  Sally,  m  Ephraim  Smith ;  239  Clara,  m 
Titus  Smith  ;  240  Friend,  m  Eunice  Linn,  and  died  in  Penn.  ; 
241  Susannah,  m  Green  Smith  of  Cheshire  ;  242  Alfred,  d 
unmarried  at  Cheshire ;  243  Minerva,  m  Ethural  Bristol  of 


Q2O  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

Cheshire ;  244  Ichabod,  d  at  Vergennes,  Vermont,  by  his 
wife  Elizabeth,  he  had  Calvin,  Luther  and  Ichabod  ;  245 
Benajah,  d  in  Vergennes,  Vt.  ;  246  Lavinia,  m  Gaius  Hitch- 
cock of  Cheshire,  in  1791,  he  d  May  27,  1862,  ae.  71  years; 
247  Zephaniah,  m  Betsey  Hotchkiss,  he  d  in  S.  C.  ;  248 
Sarah  Julia,  m  ist,  Capt.  Wm.  Harwood,  2d,  Harry  Davidson  ; 
249  Maria,  m  ist,  Cyrus  Bradley,  2cl,  Sheldon  Lewis,  of 
Bristol. 

179.    MOSES. 

MOSES  TUTTLE,  son  of  Moses  and  Sybil  Tuttle,  married 

Damaris ,  and  settled  in  Prospect,  Conn.,  where  he 

died  Jan.  17,  1835,  ae.  82  years.  He  was  the  honored  father 
of  Mrs.  Joel  Merriman,  of  Cheshire,  and  of  Mrs.  Benjamin 
Button  Beecher,  of  Cheshire  and  Prospect,  and  others  whose 
names  I  have  been  unable  to  ascertain.  She  died  July  25, 
1835,  ae-  77  years. 

Child:  Wooster,  m  Mercy  ,  d  in  Prospect,  Feb.  26, 

1843,  ae.  65  yrs. 

189.     DAVID. 

DAVID  JUSTUS,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  Tuttle  of 
Wallingford,  died  Jan.  9,  1813,  ae.  48.  Mrs.  Polly  Tuttle,  his 
widow,  died  Sept.  22,  1836,  ae.  67  years. 

Children:  250  Rebecca  Hough,  b  March  7,  1801,  m  Augus- 
tus Hitchcock  ;  251  Betsey,  b  Nov.  i,  1790,  m  John  Gaylord  of 
Wallingford;  252  Sally,  b  June  29,  1792,  d  Sept.  21,  1810  ; 

253  Harry,  b  Oct.  20,    1796,   m    Mary  Bronson  of  Wolcott  ; 

254  Julius,  b  Dec   2,  1798,  m  Sylvia,  dau.  of  Ambrose  Tuttle 
of  Hamclen  ;  255  Jesse,  b  Sept.  22,  1794,  res.  in  Wallingford  ; 
256  Merwin,  m  Eliza  Hemingway,  and  died  at  East   Haven, 
Conn;  257  Caroline,  m  Allen  Tuttle  of  Hamden,  res.    North 
Haven  ;  258  Eliza. 

190.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  Tuttle,  married  ist, 
Abigail  Cook.  She  died  July  6,  1808,  ae.  36.  He  then  mar- 
ried Lucy ,  who  died  Dec,  2,  1823,  ae.  56  yrs.  He  died 

Feb.  3,  1824,  ae.  53  yrs.    He  was  a  man  of  note  in  Wallingford. 


GExNEALOGIES.  92  I 

Children;  259  Lucy,  b  Sept.  20,  1793  ;  260  Anna,  b  Nov. 
5,  1795  ;  261  Orren,  b  Jan.  18,  1801,  deceased  while  a  young 
man  ;  262  Rev.  Beri,  Baptist  minister  in  Ohio. 

195.  MERRIT. 

MERRIT  TUTTLE,  son  of  Beri  and  Chanty  Tuttle,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Stephen  Cook,  of  Cheshire.  He  died 
June  20,  1844,  ae.  49  years.  She  married  Wm.  Todd  for  her 
2cl  husband,  and  died  Oct.  2,  1864. 

Children:  263  Sarah;  264  Caroline;  265  Marietta ;  266 
Benajah,  killed  by  falling  into  a  cider  mill,  Nov.  12,  1813,  ae. 
ii  yrs.  ;  267  Julia;  268  Ira  A.,  m  Maria,  dau.  of  Hiram 
Bristol;  269  Selden,  m  ist,  Ellen  Doolittle,  April  n,  1849,  2d, 
Sarah  L.  Chatfield,  Dec.  24,  1862  ;  270  Henry  Clay,  b  June, 
1832,  m  Cornelia  Blakeslee,  April  14,  1804;  271  Merrit ;  272 
Louisa. 

212.    URI. 

URI  TUTTLE,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Mary  Tuttle,  married 
ist,  Peggy  Morrison,  she  died ;  he  married  2cl,  Catharine 
Stow.  He  died  in  New  Haven. 

Children:  273  Henry  Hopkins,  b  May  18,  1794;  274  Wm. 
Ames,  b  Jan.  22,  1796,  resides  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.  ;  275  Eliza- 
beth Mary,  b  Nov.  20,  1797,  m  Wm.  Hall;  276  Harriet,  b 

April  12,  1801,  m Smith :  277  Jane  C.,  b  Sept.  17,  1803, 

d  Aug.  17,  1805.  By  2d  marriage  :  278  Charles,  b  Oct.  3, 
1815,  d  Oct.  23,  1854;  279  Jane,  b  Jan.  5,  1818,  d  Jan.  9, 
1818  ;  280  Chester  Allen,  b  Oct.  20,  1819,  d  Sept.  16,  1820; 
281  Frances,  b  Jan.  28,  1821,  m  Henry  How  ;  282  Frederick,  b 
1822,  d  ae.  14  yrs.  ;  283  George  F.,  b  Oct.  28,  1823,  m  Maria 
Antoinette,  dau.  of  Rev.  W.  Brown,  of  New  York  city,  a  grad- 
uate of  Yale  College  in  1818  ;  284  Chester  Uri,  b  June  9,  1825. 
213.  EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  TUTTLE,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle, 
married  Lois,  daughter  of  Capt.  David  Hitchcock,  of  Che- 
shire, June  15,  1806.  She  was  born  Sept.  2,  1781,  and  died 
Feb.  ii,  1843,  ae.  62  years.  He  died  July  4,  1860,  ae. 
84  years. 


Q22  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFOKI). 

Children :  285  Marus,  b  March  6,  1807,  m  Fannie  Tyon 
of  Colchester,  Conn.  ;  286  Ephraim,  b  Jan.  20,  1809,  m 
Elizabeth  Ives,  of  Middletown,  Conn. ;  287  Aimer,  b  Jan.  27, 
1811.  m  Hannah  Beecher,  of  Bristol,  Conn.  ;  288  Henry,  b 
Sept.  8,  1812,  m  Abigail  Ames,  of  Ohio;  289  Edmund,  b 
Sept.  6,  1814,  m  Betsey  Hubbard,  of  Wallingford  ;  290  Peter 
Green,  b  Sept.  7,  1816,  m  Mary  A.  Roberts  ;  291  Lucy  Ann, 
b  July  24,  1818,  m  Henry  Lane,  she  d  Jan.  14,  1855  ;  292 
David,  b  May  6,  1820,  d  ae.  6  weeks;  293  Joseph,  b  March 
26,  1822  ;  294  James,  b  March  26,  1822,  d  ae.  3  weeks  ;  295 
James,  b  Feb.  14,  1822,  m  ist,  Levia  Root,  of  Southington, 
Conn.,  2d,  Calista  Darrow,  of  Bristol,  Conn. 

264     STEPHEN. 

CAPT.  STEPHEN  TUTTLE,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Elizabeth 
Tuttle,  married  Catharine  Smith,  of  Cheshire,  Conn.  He 
went  to  Burton,  Geauga  Co.,  Ohio,  and  died  there  about 
1866-7. 

Children:  296  Augustus  f.,  res.  in  New  Haven;  297 
Mary,  m  Silas  Gaylord,  of  Cheshire,  and  settled  in  Ohio ; 
298  Elizabeth. 

227.  GAIUS. 

GAIUS  TUTTLE,  son  of  Capt.  Lucius  and  Hannah  Tuttle, 
married  Bella  Gaylord,  of  Wallingford.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  resided  about  a  mile  and  a  quarter  from  the  village  of 
Cheshire,  eastward,  on  the  road  to  Mericlen.  He  died  in 
Cheshire,  ae.  67  years. 

Children:  299  Phebe  N.,  b  Jan.  24,  1811,  m  Stephen 
Beecher,  Aug.  8,  1844;  300  Samuel  Anson,  b  Aug.  18,  1814, 
m  ist,  Eunice  Pierrepont,  May  i,  1844,  she  d  Sept.  17,  1850, 
ae.  29,  he  m  2d,  Emily  R.  Royce,  dau.  of  Dea.  Silas  Royce 
of  Meriden,  May  n,  1854. 

JOTHAM. 

JOTHAM  TUTTLE.  a  descendant  of  Jonathan  and  Rebecca 
Tuttle,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  Tuttle,  married  Keziah 
Munson,  and  settled  at  Turtle's  farm,  in  Wallingford,  where 
he  died,  ae.  66  years.  His  2d  wife  was  Elizabeth  Perkins. 


GENEALOGIES.  923 

Children  by  ist  marriage:  301  Eli,  m  Asenath  Perkins, 
and  settled  in  Hamden  ;  302  Asa,  m  Laura  Tuttle,  and  set- 
tled in  Cheshire,  where  he  d,  she  d  in  1870  •  303  Mary ;  304 
Esther.  By  2d  marriage :  305  Manning,  went  west  many 
years  ago. 

TYLER.  i 

Roger,  John  and  William  Tyler,  supposed  brothers,  were 
the  first  of  the  name  in  Wallingford.  Roger  Tyler  married 
Sarah  Humiston,  Jan.  10,  1698.  John  Tyler  married  Phebe 
Beach.  William  and  Mary  Tyler  were  the  first  of  the  name 
in  Wallingford. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  TYLER,  married  to  Abigail  Hall,  by  Rev.  Samuel 
Street,  Jan.  14,  1694.  She  died  Nov.  20,  1741. 

Children:  i  Esther,  b  Sept.  20,  1695,  m  Moses  Beach  of 
Wallingford;  2  John,\>  Jan.  29,  1697;  3  Abigail,  b  Jan. 
29,  1697,  m  Sam'l  Andrews,  of  Wallingford  ;  4  Nathan,  b  Apr. 

17,  1701,  m  Rachel ,    she   died   in    Cheshire,  Nov.    2, 

1749,  ae.  44  years  ;  5  Lois,  b  Nov.  7,  1706  ;  6  Thomas,  b  Nov. 

26,  1708,  m  Lydia ;  7  John,  b  Jan    14,  1710,  m  Phebe 

Beach,  April  7,  1731  ;  8  Isaac,  b  Jan.  17,  1713,  m  Susannah 
Miles,  Nov.  27,  1732  ;  9  Joseph,  b  March  21,  1716,  m  Mehita- 
ble ;  10  Experience;  u  Hannah,  m  Macock  Ward. 

WILLIAM. 

WILLIAM    TYLER    married    Mary .      She   died   in 

Wallingford,  March  u,  1754.  He,  in  company  with  Mr. 
Samuel  Stanley,  purchased  the  mills  at  Yalesville  in  1703. 
He  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  Stanley  in  1704.  From  this 


i  For  collateral  branches  see  Bradbury's  Hist.  Kennebunkport,  16,  581  ; 
Bridgeman's  King's  Chapel  Burial  Ground,  289-91  ;  Daggett's  Hist. 
Attleborough,  Mass.,  95  ;  Eaton's  Hist.  Thomaston,  Me.,  440 ;  Field's 
Hist.  Haddam,  Conn.,  46;  Heraldic  Journal,  in.  (1867)  184;  Holden's 
Gen.  Capron  Family,  part  I,  191  ;  Hudson's  Hist.  Lexington,  Mass.,  281 ; 
Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  iv.  354-6, 


924  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

elate,  they  remained  in  the  family  until  after  the  decease  of 
the  late  Mr.  Samuel  Tyler,  in  1822,  when  they  were  set  out  to 
his  daughter  Merab,  whose  guardian,  the  late  Nehemiah 
Rice,  sold  them  to  Charles  Yale  Esq. 

Children  :  111-2  Mary,  b  Sept.  7,  1695,  m  Francis  Seclg- 
wick,  Feb.  5,  1734;  12  Sarah,  b  Nov.  25,  1697  ;  13  Phebe,  b 
Oct.  5,  1700;  14  Samuel,  b  Aug.  n,  1702,  m  Jerusha  Sedg- 
wick  Feb.  15,  734;  15  Martha,  b  Oct.  4,  1706,  m  Jacob 
Francis,  Jan.  20,  1763;  16  Mehitable,  b  Nov.  14,  1707  ;  17 
Abiah,  b  Nov.  10,  1708;  18  Ephraim,  b  April  18,  1713,  m 
Elizabeth  De  Wolf,  Feb.  13,  1734;  19  Mehitable,  b  Nov.  17, 
1718,  m  Stephen  Merwin,  April  12,  1743  ;  20  Asa,  b  July  30, 
1722. 

NATHAN. 

NATHAN  TYLER  m  Rachel  -   .     She  died  at  Cheshire, 

Nov.  25,  1749,  ae.  44  years. 

Children:  21  Lois,  b  May  12,  1731  ;    22  Thankful,    b  April 

1 8,  1733  ;  23  Rachel,  b  Nov.  24,  1736 ;  24  Tirzah,  b  March  6, 
I73&j  25    Barnabas,    b  Aug.  30,  1739,  d    Sept.     20,  1749  ;  26 
Heber,  b  and  d  Sept.  30,    1749. 

6.  THOMAS. 

THOMAS  and  Lydia  Tyler  were  of  Wallingford. 
Children:   27    Elizabeth,    b    Nov.    18,  1736;   28   Reuben,  b 
Sept.  19,  1738  ;  29  Rispie,  b  Dec.  8,  1740  ;  30  Joseph,  b  Feb. 

19,  1743,  d  Feb.  25,  1752  ;    31    Experience,    b  Aug.    18,  1745  ; 
32  Obedience,  b  Nov.  24.  1747. 

7.  JOHN. 

JOHN  TYLER  married  Phebe  Beach,  April  7,  1731.  After 
her  decease  he  married  Mary  Doolittle,  Nov.  9,  1741. 

Children:  33  Benjamin,  b  Jan,  14,  1732,  d  Feb.  25,  1732; 
34  Benjamin,  b  Feb.  23,  1733;  35  Lydia,  b  June  28,  1735: 
36  Patience,  b  March  6,  1739.  By  2d  marriage:  37  John,  b 
Aug.  15,  1742  ;  38  Phebe,  b  Nov.  10,  1743. 

8.  ISAAC. 

ISAAC  TYLER  married  Susannah  Miles  ;  she   died  Jan.   25, 


GENEALOGIES.  925 

1760.  He  died  April  12,  1801,  ae.  89  years,  at  Cheshire. 
Children  :  39  Abraham,  b  June  9,  1735  ;  40  Enos,  m  Obe- 
dience Smith;  41  Abraham,  b  1738;  42  Miles  C. ;  43  Isaac, 
b  March  23,  1740;  44  Amos;  45  Jacob,  b  March  20,  1742-3  ; 
46  Susannah,  b  April  8,  1745  ;  47  Hannah,  b  July  20,  1747  ; 
48  Sarah,  b  March  2,  1749,  m  Jesse,  son  of  Stephen  Welton, 
of  Waterbury  ;  49  Nathaniel,  b  Oct.  9,  1753  ;  50  Eunice. 

9.  JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  TYLER  married  Mehitable .  She  died  Aug. 

28,  1757.  He  died  Oct.,  1741,  leaving  an  estate  of  .£548. 

Child  :  51  Sybil,  b  Dec.  31,  1740,  m  Benjamin  Cook,  Aug. 
28,  1757. 

14.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  TYLER  married  Jerusha,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Ruth  Sedgwick,  of  Hartford. 

Children:  52  Lathrop,  b  June  22,  1734,  he  built  the  ori- 
ginal mill  known  as  Humiston  Mill  ;  53  Samuel,  b  Dec.  14, 
1735,  m  Damaris  Atwater,  April  21,  1763;  54  Daniel,  b 
March  17,  1738,  he  built  the  mill  in  the  south-east  part  of  the 
town;  55  Moses,  b  March  15,  1740,  d  Jan.  15,  1743;  56 
Jerusha,  b  July  23,  1743,  d  May  3,  1744;  57  Jared,  b  Nov. 
5,  1744,  m  Keziah  Rice,  she  died  1817,  ae.  73  yrs. ;  58  Moses, 
b  Feb.  12,  1746,  d  Nov.  22,  1776,  in  Wallingford  ;  59  Jason, 
b  May  23,  1749  ;  60  Mary,  b  1751,  m  James  Rice,  he  d  in 
Wallingford  ;  61  Jerusha,  b  Jan.  4,  1754. 

40.    ENDS. 

ENDS  TYLER  married  Obedience  Smith,  who  died  July  28, 

1771,  ae.  38  years.  He  then  married  Lydia ,  and  she 

died  Oct.  27,  1744,  ae.  36  years. 

Children:  62  Reuben,  b  May  30,  1759;  63  Enos ;  64  JVa- 
thaniel,  bjan.  22,  1761  ;  65  Bede ;  66  Sarah  ;  67  Mary ;  68 
Lydia. 

53.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jerusha  Sedgwick  Tyler,  mar- 
ried Damaris,  daughter  of  Phineas  and  Mary  Atwater,  April 


926  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

21,  1763.  He  was  the  last  male  in  the  Tyler  line  that  owned 
the  mills  at  Yalesville,  and  was  himself  constantly  employed 
about  the  mills  during  a  long  life.  Bennet  Jeralds  Esq.  has 
recently  erected  a  new  house  on  the  site  of  the  old  one.  The 
new  Episcopal  church  at  Yalesville  occupies  the  ground  on 
which  formerly  stood  the  large  barn  of  Mr.  Tyler.  He  died 
March  13,  1823,  ae.  88  yrs.  She  died  April  24,  1810,  aged 
72  yrs. 

Children:  69  Merab,  b  1/63;  70  Selina,  m  Sherlock 
Andrews  of  Wallingford  ;  71  son,  d  young  ;  72  Julia,  m  Dr. 
James  Gilbert  of  New  Haven  ;  73  Lavinia,  b  March  14,  1781, 
m  Harry  Whittelsey  of  Catskill,  N.  Y. 

54.   DANIEL. 

DANIEL,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jerusha  Tyler.  He  built  the 
mills  at  the  south-east  part  of  the  township,  which  are  still  in 
the  possession  of  his  descendants.  He  was  killed  by  an 
insane  person  named  Coles,  for  the  crime  ( as  the  insane  man 
claimed  ),  of  being  a  tory  of  the  Revolution. 

Children  :   74  Royal  D. ;  75  Samuel,  d  at  the  south. 

57.    JARED. 

JARED,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jerusha  Tyler,  married  Keziah 
Royce,  July  15,  1772.  He  died  March  17,  1816.  She  died 
Feb.  8,  1819,  ae.  73.  He  owned  and  occupied  a  large  farm 
at  what  is  now  Yalesville.  Miles  Clark  is  the  present  owner 
of  the  house  in  which  Mr.  Tyler  lived. 

Children:  76  Jared  Royce,  b  Sept.  2,  1776,  m  Rhoda  -  — , 
went  to  Vermont,  where  he  died  ;  77  Kezia,  b  April  18,  1784, 
m  Ethelbert  Benham  of  Cheshire,  she  d  July  19,  1830 ;  78 
Joel,  b  about  1774,  m  ist,  Esther  Hough,  in  1798,  2d,  P. 
Blakeslee,  he  d  in  1831,  in  Lockport.  N.  Y.,  had  Jared, 
James,  Jane  and  Amanda,  all  deceased  ;  79  Elizabeth,  b  1794, 
m  Ebenezer  Allen  and  went  to  Ohio,  where  she  d  at  the  age 
of  74;  80  Amanda,  b  April  2,  1780,  m  Capt.  Wm.  Davidson 
of  Milford,  was  lost  at  sea ;  81  twins,  b  1796,  d  early. 


GENEALOGIES.  Q2/ 

58.    MOSES. 

MOSES,  son   of  Samuel   and  Jerusha  Tyler,  married   Lois 
— .     She  died   Aug.,  1809,  ae.  54  yrs.     He  died   Nov.  22, 


1776,  ae.  31  yrs.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  large  house  which 
was  occupied  as  a  hotel,  and  stood  on  the  ground  now  occu- 
pied by  Mr.  McKenzie's  house  at  Yalesville.  The  old  tavern 
was  burned  some  sixty  or  seventy  years  since,  with  all  its  con- 
tents. 

Children  :  82  Noble,  b  1802,  d  Mar.  22,  1844,  ae.  42  ;  83 
Lois,  m  Capt.  John  Nott  of  Wethersfield,  both  died  in  Wall- 
ingford ;  84  Mary,  m  ist,  Silas  Benham  of  Meriden,  and  had 
Jared  Nelson  Tyler  Benham,  an  only  son,  she  m  for  her  ad 
husband  John  Kirtland  Esq. 

78.    JOEL. 

JOEL  TYLER,  son  of  Jared  and  Keziah  Tyler,  was  born 
about  1774,  married  Esther  Hough  about  1798  ;  after  her  death 
he  married  Polly  Blakeslee.  He  died  in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  in 
Feb.  or  March,  1831. 

76.  JARED. 

JARED  ROYCE  TYLER,  son  of  Jared  and  Keziah  Tyler, 
was  born  Sept.  2,  1776.  He  died  Nov.  14,  1844,  ae.  68  yrs., 
in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  leaving  a  widow,  Rhoda,  but  had  no 
children  born  to  them. 

80.     AMANDA. 

AMANDA  TYLER,  daughter  of  Jared  and  Keziah  Tyler,  was 
born  April  2,  1780,  married  Capt.  William  Davidson,  of  Mil- 
ford,  in  the  year .  He  with  his  vessel  and  crew  were 

lost  while  returning  from  the  West  Indies.  The  last  heard 
from  him  was  that  he  left  the  Island  with  his  vessel  heavily 
laden  with  salt,  just  before  a  severe  gale.  She  married  2cl, 

Abijah  Carrington,  in  Milford,  in  the  year ,  and   died  in 

Milford,  in  the  year . 

77.  KEZIAH. 

KEZIAH  TYLER,  daughter  of  Jared  and  Keziah  Tyler,  was 
born  April  18,  1784,  married  Ethelbert  Benham,  of  Cheshire, 
Conn.,  Oct.,  1808,  died  July  19,  1830,  in  Cheshire,  Conn. 


928  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFOKD. 

79.    ELIZABETH. 

ELIZABETH  TYLER,  daughter  of  Jared  and  Keziah  Tyler, 
was  born  in  1794,  married  Ebenezer  Allen,  of  Bristol,  at  the 
age  of  25,  and  died  ae.  74  yrs.  and  n  months.  She  died  in 
Geneva,  Ohio. 


WHITTELSEY.' 

JOHN. 

JOHN  WHITTELSEY  is  believed  to  be  the  first  person  of  the 
name  who  emigrated  to  the  United  States,  and  the  ancestor 
of  all  the  Whittelseys  who  have  lived  here.  He  came  from 
England  about  1650,  and  became  a  tanner  and  shoemaker  at 
Saybrook,  Conn.  The  town  of  Saybrook,  by  authority  of  the 
General  Court,  gave  to  Mr.  Whittelsey  and  Wm.  Dudley  the 
right  to  establish  a  ferry  over  the  Connecticut  river,  near 
which  he  lived,  in  1663.  This  still  belongs  to  his  descendants. 
He  died  April  15,  1704;  his  wife  died  Sept.  29,  1714.  Their 
descendants  were : 

(  a )  John,  settled  in  Saybrook  ;  (  b  )  Stephen,  attorney  at 
Saybrook  ;  (  c  )  Joseph,  settled  at  Saybrook  ;  (  d  )  Eliphalet, 
settled  at  Wethersfield,  married  Mary  Pratt,  Dec.  i,  1702  ;  (  e  ) 
Ebenezer,  settled  at  Saybrook;  (f)  Jabez,  settled  at  Bethlem, 
deacon  ;  ( g )  Samuel,  settled  at  Wallingford,  minister  ;  (  h  ) 
Elizabeth ;  ( i )  Ruth. 

SAMUEL. 

REV.  SAMUEL  WHITTELSEY  was  the  youngest  son  and  child 
of  John  and  Ruth  Dudley  Whittelsey  of  Saybrook,  and  was 
born  there  in  1686,  was  graduated  at  Yale  college  in  1705, 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Rev.  Nathan  Chauncey,  son  of 
Rev.  Charles  Chauncey,  President  of  Harvard  College.  He 

i  For  collateral  branches,  see  Andrews'  Hist.  New  Britain,  Conn.,  235, 
31?,  355,  376;  Cothren's  Hist.  Woodbury,  Conn.,  756-65  ;  N.  E.  Hist, 
and  Gen.  Reg.,  xx.  321  ;  Scranton's  Gen.  of  Scranton  Family,  43  ; 
Savage's  Gen.  Diet,  iv.  537 ;  Whittelsey's  Memorial  of  Whittelsey 
Family. 


GENEALOGIES.  929 

was  ordained  at  Wallingford  as  colleague  to  Rev.  Mr.  Street, 
April  10,  1710,  after  having  preached  one  year  on  probation. 
He  died  April  15,  1752,  having  nearly  completed  the  426.  year 
of  his  ministry.1  His  widow  died  Oct.  23,  1767,  ae.  84  yrs. 
Children:  i  Samuel,  b  July  10,  1713,  m  Susanna  Newton 
of  Milford,  Sept.  21,  1743;  2  Lois,  b  Nov.  28,  1714,  m  Col. 
Elihu  Hall,  Jan.  2,  1734  ;  3  Chauncey,  b  Oct.  8,  1717,  m 
ist,  Elizabeth  Whiting.  Oct.  17,  1751,  2d,  Martha  Newton, 
Aug.  13,  1753  ;  4  Sarah,  b  Jah.  19,  1720,  d  Aug.  23,  1725  ; 
5  Elisha,  b  Oct.  19,  1721,  m  Susanna  Hall  of  New  Haven, 
Aprils,  1754;  6  Charles, b  Jan.  16,  1723,  m  Lucy  Hall  of 
Cheshire,  June  13,  1751  ;  7  Sarah,  b  Oct.  20,  1726,  d  Nov.  2, 
1746  ;  8  Katherine,  b  Dec.  26,  1728,  m  Rev.  James  Dana, 
May  8,  1759  ;  he  was  born  May  10,  1735,  and  d  Aug.  28, 
1793,  at  New  Haven  ;  she  d  Aug.  18,  1812. 

i.  SAMUEL.    . 

SAMUEL  WHITTELSEY  grad.  at  Yale  College  in  1729.  He 
was  a  tutor  in  that  college  from  1732  to  1738,  Master  of  Arts 
from  Yale  and  Harvard  colleges  ;  settled  in  the  ministry  at 
Milford,  where  his  virtues,  piety,  and  good  deeds  shone  with 
peculiar  brightness  and  beauty.  His  life  was  unceasingly 
devoted  to  faithful  labor  in  sacred  things,  and  the  advance- 
ment of  religion  among  his  people  in  Milford,  who  with  com- 
mendable zeal  honor  his  memory.  His  wife,  to  whom  he  was 
married  Sept.  21,  1743,  died  May  10,  1803,  ae.  87.  He  died 
Oct.  22,  1769. 

Children:  9  Samuel,  b  Aug.  3,  1745,  m  Mary  Hubbard, 
was  a  physician  in  Milford,  d  Oct.  22,  1776  ;  10  Susanna,  b 
Jan.  26,  1747,  m  Dr.  Edward  Carrington  of  Milford,  d  Jan.  i, 
1 80 1  ;  ii  Sarah,  b  Oct.  31,  1749,  m  John  Chandler,  who  grad. 
at  Yale,  1764,  and  was  sheriff  of  New  Haven  Co.,  she  d  July  i, 
1803  ;  12  Royal  Newton,  b  Feb.  24,  1754,  m  Ann  Woodruff  of 
South  Farms,  April  20,  1775. 

3.  CHAUNCEY. 

CHAUNCEY   WHITTELSEY  was   graduated  at  Yale   College, 
I  See  p  115,  ante. 


93O  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

1738,  ordained  March  i,  1758,  over  the  ist  church  in  New 
Haven;  preached  election  sermon,  May  14,  1778.  Presi- 
dent Stiles  says  of  him,  "  He  was  an  excellent  classical 
scholar,  well  acquainted  with  the  three  learned  languages, 
Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew,  also  with  Geography,  Mathemat- 
ics, Natural  Philosophy  and  Astronomy,  with  Moral  Philoso- 
phy and  History,  and  with  the  general  Cyclopaedia  of  an 
academic  life ;  and  amassed  by  laborious  reading,  a  great 
treasure  of  wisdom.  In  Literature,  he  was  in  his  day,  oracu- 
lar at  College,  for  he  taught  with  facility  and  success  in  every 
branch  of  knowledge."  One  of  his  most  distinguished  pupils 
said  of  him  at  his  funeral,  "  I  shall  never  forget  the  pathetic 
and  earnest  recommendations  of  early  piety  which  he  gave  to 
us  in  the  course  of  his  tutorship." 

It  was  this  man  of  whom  David  Brainard  said,  "  He  had 
no  more  grace  than  this  chair."  Peabody,  in  his  life  of 
Brainard  (p.  274)  said  in  reference  to  this  language,  that 
it  was  "a  phrase  which  that  individual  justified  by  his  sub- 
sequent proceedings."  Dr.  Bacon  in  his  historical  discourses 
( pp.  248,  249 )  refutes  this  charge,  and  shows  the  spirit 
which  dictated  the  utterance  of  such  language.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach,  Sept.  30,  1740.  "In  1745  he  resigned 
his  office  in  college,  and  for  reasons  which  do  not  appear, 
relinquished  the  design  of  entering  the  ministry,  and  settled 
in  New  Haven  as  a  merchant.  He  continued  in  business 
ten  years  ;  during  this  time  he  was  an  active  member  of  the 
first  Church  and  Society.  He  was  brought  forward  by 
his  fellow  citizens  into  public  life.  He  represented  this  town 
in  the  General  Assembly  of  the  colony,  and  in  a  variety  of 
public  trusts,  he  discharged  himself  with  fidelity  and  grow- 
ing influence.  He  was  subsequently  settled  as  colleague  with 
Mr.  Noyes."1  When  settled  in  the  ministry  he  applied  him- 
self to  theological  studies  and  the  duties  of  the  pastoral 
office  with  an  ardor,  zeal  and  assiduity  equaled  by  few.  His 

I  See  Bacon's  Historical  Discourses,  pp.  243,  266. 


GENEALOGIES.  93 1 

affability  and  dignity  of  manner,  philanthropy  and  integrity, 
joined  to  an  accurate  knowledge  of  men  and  the  affairs  of 
life,  commanded  esteem  and  veneration.1  He  married  ist, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col.  Whiting,  and  2d,  Martha  Newton, 
a  sister  of  .his  brother  Samuel's  wife. 

Children:  13  Chauncey,  b  Oct.  27,  1746,  m  Lucy  Wetmore, 
Feb.  12  1770  ;  14  Samuel  Joseph,  b  July  13,  1749,  d  Aug.  3, 
1751  ;  15  Elisha,  b  Oct.  14,  1751,  d  Oct.  23,  1751  ;  16  New- 
ton, b  June  i,  1754,  grad.  at  Yale,  1773,  m  Beulah  Fuller;  17 
Martha,  b  Sept.  i,  1756,  m  Capt.  Wm.  Van  Duerson,  he  d 
May  3,  1763  ;  18  Elizabeth,  b  July  i,  1758,  d  Aug.  i,  1758  ; 
19  Elizabeth,  b  May  2,  1760,  d  July,  1760  ;  20  John  Bryan,  b 
June  15,  1763,  d  Aug.  27,  1763  ;  21  Samuel,  b  Feb.  10,  1763, 
grad.  at  Yale  college  in  1779,  m  Sarah  Van  Duerson,  Dec. 
10,  1788;  22  Charles,  b  Oct.  18,  1764,  m  Anna  Cutler,  Oct. 
9,  1792  ;  23  Susannah,  b  Feb.  25,  1766,  m  Judge  Dyer  White  ; 
24  Bryan,  b  Aug.  6,  1768,  d  at  New  Haven,  Jan  9,  1835  >  25 
John,  b  Sept.  8,  1770,  grad.  at  Yale  college  in  1791,  m  Ann 
Kerwood  ;  26  Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  18,  1773. 
5.  ELISHA. 

ELISHA  WHITTELSEY  married  Susanna  Hall  of  New  Haven, 
April  8,  1754.  He  was  an  attorney  at  Wallingford,  and  died 
at  that  place  Feb.  25,  1808,  ae.  87  yrs.  She  d  Oct  19,  1768. 

Children:  27  Elisha,  b  Jan.  i,  1755,  m  Sarah  Jones;  28 
Susanna,  b  Sept.  2,  1756,  m  Caleb  Street;  29  Sarah,  b  Mar. 
15,  1759,  d  June  23,  1764,  in  Wallingford  ;  30  Mary,  b  April 
9,  1751,  m  Dr.  Wm.  Cook  ;  31  Elizabeth,  b  April  4,  1763,  m 
Dr.  Liberty  Kimberly,  in  1788,  she  d  in  Derby,  1827  ;  32 
Charles,  b  Nov.  12,  1764,  d  May  26,  1768  ;  33  Sarah,  b  Dec. 
6,  1766,  d  Nov.  8,  1774;  34  Charles,  b  Sept.  29,  1768,  d  Jan. 
9,  1769. 

12.    ROGER. 

ROGER  NEWTON  WHITTELSEY  married  Ann  Woodruff, 
April  20,  1775  '}  sh£  was  born  April  5,  1756,  and  died  March 

i  See  Dana's  sermon  on  the  Close  of  the  i8th  Century,  Note  B,  p.  60. 


932  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

7,  1825,  at  Litchfield,  South  Farms.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
died  March  15,  1835  ;  he  was  for  many  years  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  Litchfield  County. 

Children:  35  Samuel,  b  Dec.  18,  1775,  was  a  minister  in 
New  York,  in  Abigail  Goodrich  ;  36  Newton,  b  Oct.  31,  1777, 
m  Esther  Robbins  of  Claremont,  N.  H.  ;  37  an  infant  son,  b 
Dec.  29,  1779,  d  Jan.  7,  1780.;  38  Chauncey,\>  Dec.  13,  1781, 
m  Mary  Bacon  of  Roxbury,  Conn.,  Dec.  u,  1811  ;  39 
Susanna,  b  Feb.  12,  1784,  m  Capt.  Stephen  Cogswell  of  New 
Preston,  Conn.  ;  40  Jabez,  b  Feb.  8,  1786,  m  Nancy  Parker 
of  Terryville,  Conn.  ;  41  William,  b  July  28,  1788,  m  Abigail 
Mills  of  Boston,  Mass.  ;  42  Henry,  b  May  18,  1790,  in  Abby 
Ray  of  New  York  ;  43  Frederick,  b  Jan.  25,  1792,  m  Hannah 
Ray  of  South  Farms  ;  44  Charles,  b  Aug.  23,  1793,  m  Elizabeth 
Fuller  of  Avon,  Conn. ;  45  Anna,  b  May  28,  1795,  m  Dea. 
Chester  Stone  of  Franklin,  N.  H. ;  46  Lucy,  b  Oct.  10,  1797, 
m  Stephen  Cogswell  Jr.  of  New  Preston  ;  47  George  Washing- 
ton, b  Aug.  10,  1799,  in  ist,  Cornelia  Keeler,  2d,  Elizabeth  G. 
Boardman,  res.,  New  Milford. 

13.   CHAUNCEY. 

CHAUNCEY  WHITTELSEY  married  Lucy  Wetmore  of  Middle- 
town,  Conn.,  Feb.  12,  1770  ;  he  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
1764,  and  was  licensed  to  preach,  but  gave  it  up  on  account 
of  his  health,  after  two  years  ;  he  was  elected  deacon,  Sept. 
17,  1778,  and  served  twenty-three  years;  was  Alderman  and 
Collector  of  the  Port  at  Middletown ;  his  wife  was  an  only 
daughter  of  Seth  Wetmore,  and  her  mother  was  a  sister  of 
Pres.  Edwards. 

Children:  48  Lucy,  b  Oct.  4,  1773,  m  Capt.  Joe.  Alsop, 
of  Middletown,  Conn.,  Nov.  5,  1797  ;  49  Hannah,  b  May  10, 
Z775  j  5°  Betsey,  b  May  24,  1780,  m  Capt.  Joseph  Williams, 
May  25,  1817  :  51  Chauncey,  b  Jan.  18,  1783,  m  Seth  Lathrop 
Tracy,  April  14,  1818,  an  attorney. 

1 6.   NEWTON. 
NEWTON  WHITTELSEY,  married  Beulah  Fuller,  of  Middle- 


GENEALOGIES.  933 

town,   Conn.     He  graduated  at  Yale,  in  1773.     Was  a  mer- 
chant.    He  died  Dec.  4,  1785,  ae.  64  years. 

Child  :  52  Marlha,  b  Nov.  6,  1785,  m  Julius  Dunning,  Nov. 

20,  1808,  settled  in  Shelby  Center,  N.  Y. 

21.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  WHITTELSEY  married  Sarah  Van  Duerson,  of  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.,  Dec.  10,  1788.  She  was  born  May  30.  1763, 
and  died  Apr.,  1811,  ae.  65  yrs.,  at  Vincennes,  Ind.  He  grad. 
at  Yale,  in  1779.  He  was  an  attorney.  He  died  March  7, 
1838,  ae.  71  years. 

Children:  53  Catherine  Van  Duerson,  b  Sept.  9,  1790,  res. 
Carlisle,  Ind.  ;  54  Wm.  Chauncey,  M.  D.,  b  Dec.  26,  1792,  m 
Ann  Elizabeth  Rapine,  Nov.  20,  1822  ;  55  Samuel  Gilbert,  b 
in  1794,  d  ;  56  Samuel  Gilbert,  b  Dec.,  1796,  d  June,  1810  ; 
57  Isaac  Newton,  b  July  19,  1798,  m  A.  Elizabeth  Van  Buntin, 
April  12,  1831  ;  58  Eliza  Lefferts,  b  April  16,  1800,  m  Dr. 
James  K.  Ohaver,  Dec.  6,  1825  ;  50  Chas.  Egbert,  M.  D.,  b 
March  24,  1802,  d  Sept.  4,  1824. 

22.    CHARLES. 

CHARLES  WHITTELSEY  married  Ann  Cutler,  Oct.  9,  1792. 
She  was. born  in  New  Haven,  July  12,  1773,  and  died  Feb.  8, 
1850.  He  was  a  merchant  at  New  Haven,  and  died  March 
12,  1828,  ae  64  years. 

Children:  60  Mary  Cutler,  b  Aug.  12,  1793,  d  in  New 
Haven,  Dec.  5,  1853  ;  61  Chauncey,  b  Aug.  5,  1795,  d  Aug. 

21,  1795  ;  62   Susannah,  b  Dec.  5,  1796,  m  ist,  Rev.  Samuel 
B.    Ingersoll,    2d,    Wm.    T.    Eustice,  of    Boston ;    63    Charles 
Bryan,\>  Dec.  12,  1798,  m  Jane  B.  Wilford,  was  a  merchant  in 
New  Haven  ;  64  Chauncey,  b  Sept.   6,   1801,   was  a  minister, 
d  March    12,    1826  ;  65  John  Cutler,  b  Nov.  i,  1803,  m  Eliza 
Waller,  June  7,   1829,  she  was  b  in  1807  ;  66  Henry  Newton, 
b -Feb.  9,  1808,  m  Elizabeth  A.  Wilson,  of  New  Haven,  Nov. 
30,    1837;  67  Martha  Ann,  b  Oct.  13,  1811,  m  Rev.   George 
Oviatt,  Feb.  17,  1839,  d  April  5,  1811. 

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934  HISTORY    OF    \YALL1NGFORD. 

24.  BRYAN. 

BRYAN  WHITTELSEY  was  lame  from  his  birth.  He  died 
at  New  Haven,  Jan.  9,  1835. 

25.  JOHN. 

JOHN  married  Ann  Kerwood,  June  i,  1799.  He  grad. 
at  Yale,  1791,  was  U.  S.  Inspector  in  N.  Y.  city.  He  died 
May  12,  1849,  at  New  Haven. 

Children  :  68  Elizabeth  K.,  b  May  12,  1800,  d  ae.  3  years; 
69  Edward,  b  May  2,  1801,  a  merchant,  d  in  New  York,  July 
9,  1842  ;  70  John  Newton,  b  Feb.  n,  1803,  d  in  New  Orleans, 
La.,  July  9,  1803  ;  71  Mary  Elizabeth,  b  June  29,  1805,  din 
New  Haven  ;  72  Charles,  b  Nov.  3,  1807,  m  Maria  Tuthill, 
Nov.  3,  1837,  she  was  b  Dec.  28,  1816  ;  73  John  Russel,  b 
Oct.  lo.  1809.  m  Martha  Butler,  Jan.  12,  1835,  she  was  b 
March  29,  1809;  74  Win.  Kerwood,  b  Aug.  27,  1812,  d  at 
Tipton,  Iowa,  Sept.  15,  1849  >  75  Martha  Newton,  b  April  17, 
1815,  m  Moses  H.  Baldwin  April  23,  1839,  Pittsfield,  Mass.  ; 
76  Jane  Ann,  b  Feb.  2,  1818,  d  Sept.  20,  1825. 

27.     ELISHA. 

ELISHA  WHITTELSEY  married  Sarah  Jones  of  Wallingford, 
Sept,  8,  1777.  She  was  born  March  30,  1758,  and  died  Sept. 
15,  1836.  He  was  a  merchant  and  town  clerk  of  his  native 
town  for  many  years.  He  died  greatly  lamented,  Sept.  16, 
1822,  ae.  67  years. 

Children  :  77  John  Hall,  b  June  4,  1778,  m  ist,  Sally  Chit- 
tenden,  Dec.  14,  1798,  2d,  wid.  Clara  Bostwick,  Aug.  4, 
1824;  78  Nancy,  b  March  15,  1780,  m  ist,  Wolcott  Reynolds, 
2d,  John  Hunt  of  New  Haven  ;  79  Henry,  b  Feb.  2,  1782,  m 
ist,  Lavinia  Tyler  of  Wallingford,  May  2,  1811,  2d,  Merab 
Hull  of  Cheshire,  May  12,  1828 ;  80  Eunice,  b  Sept.  26,  1784, 
d  July  31,  1819,  in  Wallingford  ;  81  Jared  Potter,  b  March  8, 
1777,  m  Lydia  G.  Acker,  Oct.  22,  1814,  d  Jan.  25,  1869  ;  82 
Lucy,\>  Feb.  16,  1789,  m  Drake  Andrews  of  Wallingford;  83 
Sarah,  b  May  29,  1792,  d  Nov.  n,  1792  ;  84  Peter,  b  Feb.  8, 
1794,  m  Betsey  Hunt,  April  16,  1823. 


GENEALOGIES.  935 

35.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  married  Abigail  Goodrich.  He  graduated  at  Yale 
in  1803,  licensed  to  preach  in  June,  1804,  ordained  at  New 
Preston,  Dec.  30,  1807,  settled  nine  years,  during  which  time 
142  were  added  to  the  church,  April' 30,  1817,  took  charge  of 
the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum  at  Hartford,  became  Principal 
of  the  Ontario  Female  Seminary,  April,  1826,  afterwards 
removed  to  the  Seminary  at  Utica,  became  publisher  of  the 
Mother's  Magazine,  1833,  removed  to  New  York  city  in 

1833-' 

Children:  85  Samuel  Goodrich,  b  Nov.  8,  1809,  m  Anna 
Cook  Mills  ;  86  a  son,  b  March  26,  1811,  d  March  28,  1811  ; 
87  Charles  Chauncey,  b  Sept.  2,  1812,  d  April  29,  1818  ;  88 
Elizabeth,  b  Sept.  29,  1815,  d  Jan.  26,  1848;  89  Henry 
Martyn,  b  Aug.  12,  1821,  lawyer  in  N.  Y.  city;  90  Charles 
Augustus,  b  Oct.  20,  1823,  a  seaman  ;  91  Emily  Chauncey,  b 
Jan.  17,  1825,  m  Rev.  Lucius  Curtis,  of  Woodbury. 


WILCOX. 

The  family  of  Wilcox  is  of  Saxon  origin,  and  was  seated  at 
Bury  St.  Edmonds,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  England,  before 
the  Norman  Conquest.  Sir  John  Dugdale,  in  his  visitation  of 
the  county  of  Suffolk,  mentions  fifteen  generations  of  this 
family  previous  to  1600.  In  the  reign  of  King  Edward  III., 
Sir  John  Wilcox  was  entrusted  with  several  important  com- 
mands against  the  French,  and  had  command  of  the  cross- 
bowmen  from  Norfolk,  Suffolk  and  Essex.  Jno.  Wm.  Wilcox, 
of  Bury  Priory  in  Suffolk,  an  eminent  Queen's  counsel,  is  the 
representative  of  this  ancient  family.  Sir  George  Lawrence 
Willcocks,  of  Brookend,  County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  is  the 
eldest  son  of  the  late  George  Willcocks  Esq.  of  Coal  Island, 
County  Tyrone,  by  Isabella,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Charles 
Caulfield.  He  was  born  in  1820,  educated  at  Dungannon, 
and  is  a  magistrate  for  County  Tyrone.  This  family  is  a 

i  See  Cothren's  Hist,  of  Woodbury,  Conn.,  p.  270. 


936  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORI). 

branch  of  the  family  of  Willcockses  of  Tottenham  High  Cross, 
Middlesex,  but  has  been  settled  in  Ireland  for  about  two 
centuries.  They  have  been,  and  some  branches  are  still 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  On  the  old  records  the 
name  is  spelled  both  Wilcox  and  Wilcocks.  It  is  derived 
from  William.1 

William  Wilcox,  who  was  chosen  Lieut.  Governor  in  the 
early  times  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony,  was  the  first  of  the 
name  who  is  recorded  on  the  list  of  the  early  officers.  He 
was  an  officer  of  the  artillery  company,  and  died  at  Cam- 
bridge, November,  1653.  He  is  there  stated  to  have  come  to 
this  country  from  the  county  of  Suffolk.  Nine  of  his  descend- 
ants graduated  at  the  New  England  colleges  up  to  the  year 
1823. 

JOHN. 

JOHN  WILCOX  of  Hartford  was  an  original  proprietor  in 
1639.  He  had  a  son  John  who  accompanied  him  from 
England.  This  son  John  was  born  in  England,  and  married 
ist,  Sarah,  eldest  daughter  of  Wm.  Wadsworth,  Sept.  17, 
1646  ;  2d,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Thomas  Stoughton,  Jan.  18, 

1650;  3d  Mary ;-,  who  died  1671  ;  4th,   Esther,  daughter 

of  Wm.  Cornwall. 

Child  by  ist  marriage  :  i  Sarah,  b  Oct.  3,  1648.  By  2d 
marriage  :  2  John,  b  Oct.  29,  1650  ;  3  Thomas ;  4  Mary,  b  Nov. 
13,  1654  ;  5  Israel,  b  June  19,  1656  ;  6  Samuel,  b  Nov.  9,  1658. 
By  3d  marriage :  7  Ephraim,  b  July  9,  1672  ;  8  Esther,  b  Dec. 
9,  1673  ;  9  Mary,  b  March  24,  1676.  John  Wilcox  died 
May  24,  1676. 

5.  ISRAEL. 

ISRAEL  WILCOX  was    in  Middletown    in     1675  ;    he    mar- 


I  This  name  has  become  the  parent  of  a  greater  number  of  sirnames 
than  any  other  baptismal  appellation  ;  among  which  may  be  mentioned 
Wilcox,  Wilkes,  Wilkins,  Wilmot,  Willis,  Wilson  and  Williams.  Gillet, 
and  Gillot  are  also  from  the  same  source.  In  France  this  Christian  name 
has  produced  Guillot,  Guillemin,  Guillemette,  Villemain,  etc.  See  Mem. 
Soc,  Ant.  Normandie,  XIII. 


GENEALOGIES.  937 

ried   Sarah,   daughter  of  John   Savage,   March  28,  1678  ;  he 
died  Dec.  20,  1689.     She  died  Feb.  8,  1724. 

Children:  10  Israel,  b  Jan.  16,  1680;  n  John,  b  July  5, 
1682;  12  Samuel,  b  Sept.  26,  1685:  13  Thomas,  b  July  5, 
1687  ;  14  Sarah,  b  Nov.  30,  1689. 

6.  SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  WILCOX  of  Middletown,  born  Nov.  9,  1658,  mar- 
ried Abigail,  daughter  of  Francis  Whitmore,  May  9,  1683  ; 
he  died  March  16,  1714. 

Children  :  15  Samuel,  b  Feb.  20,  1684  ;  16,  17  Francis  and 
Abigail,  b  July  5,  1687,  Abigail  d  in  1688,  and  her  mother  a 
fortnight  after. 

7.    EPHRAIM. 

EPHRAIM  WILCOX  removed  to  Middletown,  and  married, 
Aug.  23,  1698. 

Children  :   18  Esther,  b  Jan.  4,  1707  ;  19  Ephraim,  b  June 

4,  1709  ;  20  John,  b  Aug.  8, . 

20.  JOHN. 

JOHN  WILCOX,  born  Aug.  8,  17 — ,  married  Hannah 
,  lived  in  Middletown. 


Children:  21  John,  b  Jan.  15,  1740,  d  April  25,  1823  ;  22 
Samuel,  b  May  8,  i742,,d  Sept.  4,  1807  ;  23  Hezekiah,  b  Mar. 
4,  1744,  d  Sept.  n,  1776  ;  24  Joseph,  b  March  29,  1746,  d 
Jan.  31,  1832  ;  25  Hannah,  b  Jan.  28,  1748,  d  Feb.  19,  1826  ; 
26  Giles,  \>  Jan.  2,  1750  ;  27  Simeon,  b  Feb.  25,  17 — ,  d  Oct.  13, 
1827  ;  28  Submit,  b  Dec.  5,  1754,  d  Aug.  16,  1803  ;  29  Com- 
fort, b  Feb.  17,  175 — ,  m  Patty  Doolittle,  Aug.  10,  1780;  30 
Sarah,  b  Feb.  7,  1760,  m  Abel  North,  Feb.  n,  1788,  and  had 
five  children. 

21.    JOHN. 

JOHN  WILCOX,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married 
Eunice  Norton,  Oct.  16,  1766. 

Children  :  31  Seth,  b  July  31,  1767,  m  Matty  Bacon,  Mar. 
21,  1736  ;  32  Jeduthan,  b  Nov.  18,  1768,  m  Sally  Fisk,  May, 
T7935  33  John,  b  Sept.  13,  1771,  m  Sybil  Giles,  1795;  34 


938  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

Eunice,  b   July    4,  1774  ;  35  Jedediah,  b  June  i,  1778,  cl  Oct. 
10,  1789. 

22.    SAMUEL. 

SAMUEL  WILCOX,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married  ist, 
Ruth  Roberts,  1784,  and  2d,  Ruth  Wood,  1796. 

Child:  36  Ruth,  b  Aug.  12,  1798.  After  his  death  his 
widow  married  Thomas  Scofel,  Feb.  17,  1779. 

23.   HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH  WILCOX,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married 
Rachel  Boardman,  Nov.  9,  1775. 

Child:  37  Hezekiah,  b  Oct.  n,  1776,  d  Jan.  18,  1792. 
24.    JOSEPH. 

JOSEPH  WILCOX,  son  of  John  and  Hannah,  married  Miriam, 
daughter  of  Josiah  and  Sybil  Bacon,  Nov.  30,  1785.  She 
was  born  Feb.  7,  1762.  d  March  19,  1825. 

Children:  38  Sarah,  b  Oct.  29,  1786,  d  Nov.  4,  1847  ;  39 
Jedediah,  b  Feb.  7,  1788,  d  1856  ;  40  Submit,  b  Nov.  n, 
1789  ;  41  Joseph,  b  Oct.  21,  1791,  d  Jan.,  1858  ;  42  Hezekiah, 
b  March  28,  1793;  43  Elisha  B.,  b  June  20,  1795  ;  44 
Lavinia,  b  Jan.  31,  1797,  d  Sept.  24,  1843  ;  45  Maria  (  or 
Miriam),  b  March  19,  1801,  d  March,  1847. 
26.  GILES. 

GILES,  son  of  John  and  Harfnah_  Wilcox,  married  Rachel 
Dove,  Nov.  9,  1775. 

Children:  46  Olive,  b  Nov.  i,  1776,  m  Amos  Churchill, 
April  21,  1796;  47  Giles,  b  Aug.  28,  1779;  48  Sylvester,  b 
Feb.  14,  1782;  49  Samuel,  b  Oct.  20,  1786;  50  Sarah,  b 
Nov.  30,  1788. 

42.    HEZEKIAH. 

HEZEKIAH,  son  of  Joseph  and  Miriam  Wilcox,  married 
Rama  Roberts,  Nov.  7,  1816.  She  was  born  Dec.  23,  1792, 
and  died  Jan.  10,  1869. 

Children  born  in  Westfield :  51  Joseph  Alston,  b  Oct.  15. 
1817,  m  Lucy  Ann  Bacon;  52  Ann,  b  Sept.  7,  1821,  d  March 
7,  1826  ;  53  Phebe  Miranda,  b  Dec.  4,  1822,  m  Hollister  Ris- 


GENEALOGIES.  939 

ley;  54  Lavinia,  b  July  29,  1825,  m  Wm.  Hall  of  Meriden  ; 
55  Hczekiah,  b  Dec.  23,  1827,  d  Nov.  16,  1833  ;  56  Henry,  b 
May  30,  1830,  m  Sarah  Dunham. 

43.  ELISHA. 

ELISHA  B.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Miriam  Wilcox,  married 
Hepsibah ,  Jan.  26,  1818. 

Children,  born  in  Westfield :  57  Frances  Sophia,  b  June  3, 
1819,  m  Edwin  Savage,  Nov.,  1837;  58  Lucy  Maria,  b  June 
15,  1820,  m  George  Miller,  Aug.  5,  1845  ;  59  Hannah  Jane, 
b  April  13,  1822  ;  60  Horace  Cornwall,  b  Jan.  26,  1824  ;  61 
Julia,  b  Jan.  7,  1826,  m  Newell  H.  Bowers,  Sept.  2,  1846  ; 
62  Jedediah,  b  March  4,  1827  ;  63  Dennis  Cornwall,  b  Dec. 
14,  1831  ;  64  Edson,  b  March  14,  1831,  d  Oct.  i,  1851  ;  65 
Hezekiah,  b  Oct.  12,  1832  ;  66  Edmund  North,  b  Aug,  7, 
1836  ;  67  Mary  Ellen,  b  Oct.,  1838  ;  68  Elisha  Watson,  b  July 
27,  1840. 

Israel  and  Jedediah  Wilcox  were  the  first  of  the  name  in 
Westfield,  Conn.  ;  both  came  from  Middletown,  Upper 
houses. 

The  arms  of  the  Wilcoxes  of  England  are,  per  fesse,  or 
and  az,  a  fesse,  gules,  over  all  a  lion  rampant,  counterchanged. 

Crest :  a  demi  lion  rampant,  az.  The  lion  rampant  indi- 
cates that  he  to  whom  the  arms  were  granted,  had  gained  a 
victory  whilst  in  command  of  the  army. 


YALE. 

THOMAS. 

THOMAS  YALE  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Capt.  Nathaniel 
Turner,  of  New  Haven,  in  1645.  Capt.  Turner  was  of  Lynn, 
Mass,  in  1630;  he  moved  to  New  Haven  in  1638.  He  was 
Captain  of  Mr.  Lamberton's  Phantom  ship,  which  sailed  from 
New  Haven  on  a  voyage  to  the  old  country,  and  was  lost 
with  all  on  board,  Jan.,  1666. 

Mr.  Yale  came  to  America  in  1637,  with  his  father-in-law 
Gov.  Eaton,  his  mother,  brother  David  and  sister  Ann,  who 


94°  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

became  the  wife  of  Gov.  Hopkins.  He  was  a  merchant  at 
New  Haven  ;  his  house  stood  on  the  ground  now  owned  and 
occupied  by  Yale  College,  in  that  city. 

Gov.  Theophilus  Eaton,  his  step-father,  having  deceased, 
Mrs.  Eaton  and  her  son  Thomas  Yale,  went  to  England, 
with  Elihu,  afterwards  Gov.  Yale,  the  distinguished  donor  of 
Yale  College,  accompanied  by  David  Yale  his  brother,  and 
Hannah  Eaton,  a  daughter  of  the  Governor.  Returning  to 
New  Haven  the  following  year,  he  purchased  land  in  North 
Haven  near  the  present  location  of  the  bridge  ( Mansfield 
bridge),  of  Gov.  Eaton's  estate,  and  settled  on  it  in  1660. 
He  was  evidently  a  man  of  energy  and  business  tact,  and  was 
frequently  called  to  fill  many  important  offices,  by  the  citi- 
zens of  New  Haven.  He  died  March  27,  1683,  ae.  67 
years.  His  wife,  Mary  Turner,  died  Oct.  15,  1704. 

Children :  i  John,  b  1646,  settled  in  North  Haven  ;  2 
Thomas,  b  1647,  settled  in  Wallingford  in  1670  ;  3  Elihu,  b 
April  5,  1648,  donor  of  the  College  at  New  Haven  ;  4  Mary, 
b  Oct.  26,  1650  m  Capt.  Joseph  Ives  ;  5  Nathaniel,  b  Jan.  3, 
1652  ;  6  Martha,  b  May  6,  1655,  d  Jan.  15.  1670  ;  7  Abigail, 
b  May  5,  1660  ;  8  Hannah,  b  July  6,  1662,  m  Enos  Talmage  ; 
9  Elizabeth,  b  Jan.  29,  1667,  m  Joseph  Pardee,  of  East  Haven. 
> 

2.    THOMAS. 

CAPT.  THOMAS  YALE,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Yale,  of 
New  Haven,  was  born  in  that  place  in  1647,  married  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  William  Gibbards,  Esq.,  Dec.  n,  1667.  She 

died, .    He  married  2d,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Nash. 

She  died  May  27,  1716.  He  married  3d,  Mary  Beach,  of 
Wallingford,  July  31,  1716.  He  was  one  of  the  first  and  most 
active  settlers  in  the  village  of  Wallingford  in  1670,  to  which 
place  he  removed  that  year.  In  1710  he  with  the  Rev.  Sam- 
uel Street  were  the  only  surviving  signers  of  the  Plantation 
Covenant  of  Wallingford.  He  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 
and  Captain  of  the  Train  band,  Surveyor  of  land  and  gen- 
erally moderator  of  the  business  meetings  of  the  town,  &c. 


GENEALOGIES.  941 

He  died  Jan.    26,  1736,   ae.   89  years.     Mrs.    Rebecca  Yale 
was  born  Feb.  26,  1650. 

Children  :  10  Hannah,  b  July  27,  1669  ;  n  Rebecca,  b  Oct. 
2,  1671  ;  12  Elizabeth,  b  July  25,  1673  ',  *3  Theophilus,  b  Nov. 
J3>  J675  ;  14  Thomas,  b  March  20,  1678  ;  15  Nathaniel,  b 
July  12,  1681  ;  16  Mary,  b  Aug.  27,  1684;  17  John,  b  Dec. 
8,  1687. 

NOTE      TO      BENHAM      FAMILY.1 

URI  BENHAM  was  born  December  26,  1739,  died  April  22, 
1832,  at  Cheshire.  Lois  his  wife  was  born  Oct.  16,  1747,  died 
Dec.  26,  1827,  at  Cheshire. 

Children:  Sarah,  b  Oct.  n,  1769  ;  Uri,  b  Oct.  23,  1771,  d 
Oct.  23,  1826;  Lois,  b  Sept.  25,  1773,  d  Nov.  27,  1774; 
Mary  Lois,  b  Oct.  27,  1775  '>  Lent,  b  March  25,  1778,  d  Oct. 
18,  1836;  Ethelbert,  b  July  14,  1780,  d  Jan.  26,  1849; 
Amanda,  b  Jan.  i,  1783  ;  Joseph,  b  Jan.  26,  1785,  d  Oct,  29, 
1853  ;  Martha,  b  March  2,  1788,  d  March  7,  1836. 

[This  work  has  increased  to  such  an  extent  that  it  has  been 
found  advisable  to  omit  the  Yale  genealogy,2  for  which  ma- 
terial had  been  gathered.  Mr.  Elihu  Yale,  of  New  Haven,  a 
few  years  ago  published  a  genealogy  of  the  family,  to  which 
the  reader  is  referred]. 


1  See  pp.  653-656,  ante. 

2  See  p.  546,  ante. 


APPENDIX. 


A. 

SUCCESSION  OF  TOWN  CLERKS  IN  WALLINGFORD, 

FROM    1670. 

NEW  HAVEN  COMMITTEE,  to  April  28,  1673,  3  years.  NA- 
THANIEL MERRIMAN,  from  April  28,  1673,  to  Dec.  15,  1682, 
9  years.  ELIASAPH  PRESTON,  from  Dec.  15,  1682,  to  April 
26,  1687,  5  years.  JOSEPH  HOULT,  from  April  26,  1687,  to 
April  28,  1696,  9  years.  JOSEPH  ROYCE,  from  April  28,  1696, 
to  Dec.  28,  1697,  i  year,  8  mos.  THOMAS  HALL,  from  Dec. 
28,  1697,  to  Dec.  25,  1711,  14  years.  SAMUEL  MUNSON,  from 
Dec.  25,  1711,  to  Dec.  23,  1740,  29  years.  THOMAS  MILES, 
from  Dec.  23,  1740,  to  Oct.  20,  1741,  10  mos.  JAMES  MILES, 
from  Oct.  20,  1741,  to  Feb.  6,  1766,  25  years.  CALEB  HALL, 
from  Feb.  6,  1766,  to  Dec.  20,  1774,  8  years.  CALEB  COOK, 
from  Dec.  20,  1774,10  Dec.  19,  1775,  i  year.  CALEB  HALL, 
from  Dec.  19,  1775,  to  Dec.  16,  1783,  8  years.  ELISHA 
WHITTELSEY,  from  Dec.  16,  1783,  to  Nov.  n,  1800,  17  years. 
GEO.  W.  STANLEY,  from  Nov.  n,  1800,  to  Nov.  8,  1803,  3 
years.  HUNN  MUNSON,  from  Nov.  8,  1803,  to  Oct.  6,  1834, 
31  years.  FRIEND  COOK,  from  Oct.  6,  1834,  to  Oct.  5,  1835, 
i  year.  JAMES  CARRINGTON,  from  Oct.  5,  1835,  to  Aug.  15, 
1836,  10  mos.  JAMES  W.  CARRINGTON,  from  Aug.  15,  1836, 
to  Oct.  3,  1836,  2  mos.  SAMUEL  COOK,  from  Oct.  3,  1836, 
to  Oct.  5,  1840,  4  years.  DELOS  FORD  COOK,  from  Oct.  5, 
1840,  to  Oct.  22,  1840,  less  than  one  month.  HENRY  A. 
COOK,  from  Oct.  22,  1840,  to  Oct.  4,  1841,  i  year.  LORENZO 
LEWIS,  from  Oct.  4,  1841,  to  Oct.  6,  1856,  5  years.  E.  S 


APPENDIX.  943 

IVES,  from  Oct.  6,  1.856,  to  Sept.  29,  1860,  4  years.  LORENZO 
LEWIS,  from  Oct.  8,  1860,  to  Oct.  7,  1861,  i  year.  E.  S 
IVES,  from  Oct.  7,  1861,  to  April  i,  1863,  2  years.  J.  B. 
POMEROY,  assistant  T.  C.,  from  April  i,  1863,  to  Sept.  7, 
1863,  4  mos.  AUGUSTUS  HALL,  from  Sept.  7,  1863,  to  Sept. 
27,  1864,  i  year.  E.  S.  IVES,  from  Sept.  27,  1864,  to  Jan., 
1868,  4  years.  GEORGE  W.  BARTHOLOMEW,  from  Jan  ,  1868, 
to  April  15,  1868,  3  mos.  EDWARD  F.  COOK,  from  April  15, 
1868,  to  Sept.  6,  1869,  i  year,  5  mos.  FRANKLIN  PLATT, 
elected  April  6,  1869. 


B. 

PHYSICIANS     IN     CHESHIRE. 

DR.  ELNATHAN  BEACH  was  located  in  the  center  of  the 
village.  He  built  the  house  known  as  the  Bronson  house. 
DR.  QOULD  NORTON  owned  and  occupied  the  house  since 
owned  by  the  late  Pliny  Hitchcock.  DR.  PIERRE  E.  BRAN- 
DON, a  Frenchman,  lived  and  died  in  Cheshire.  He  was  a 
skillful  physician  and  had  an  extensive  practice.  DR. 
THOMAS  TRYON  CORNWALL  had  a  large  practice.  DR.  LAM- 
BERT FOOTE  was  an  excellent  physician  for  many  years.  DR. 
CHARLES  SHELTON  was  eminent  in  his  profession.  He  died 
in  1832,  ae.  50  years.  DR.  ASA  J.  DRIGGS  is  still  practising 
(  1870 )  in  Cheshire,  where  he  has  been  for  many  years.  DRS. 
CHAMBERLAIN  and  UPSON  recently  removed  to  Cheshire. 
DR.  WILLIAMS,  a  homoeopathic  physician,  is  practising  in 
Cheshire. 


C. 

On  page  233,  in  speaking  of  the  division  of  the  society, 
we  said  that  the  ist  Congregational  society  claimed  and 
retained  the  church  records.  In  order  that  we  may  not  be 
misconstrued,  we  annex  the  following  note: 


944  HISTORY    OF    WALLINGFORD. 

"  Meriden,  Dec.  31,  1847. 

"  The  Church  met  after  preparatory  lecture.  A  communi- 
cation was  read  from  the  Congregational  society  connected 
with  this  Church,  stating  that  the  new  house  of  worship  was 
nearly  completed,  and  inviting  the  Church  to  occupy  it 
for  the  service  of  the  sabbath,  whereupon  resolved  : 

'•That  the  invitation  from  the  society  to  remove  our  place 
of  worship  be  accepted,  and  our  Pastor  requested  to  appoint 
all  meetings  on  the  Sabbath  in  the  new  Church  immediately 
after  it  shall  have  been  completed. 

"  Resolved  further,  that  so  many  of  the  members  of  the 
Church  as  choose  to  remain  in  the  old  house  of  worship,  be 
affectionately  recognized  as  a  Church  of  Christ  whenever 
duly  organized,  and  that  our  Pastor  be  authorized  to  ter- 
minate their  connection  with  this  Church  on  their  intimating 
to  him  their  wishes  to  that  effect,  and  that  they  thus  reserve 
one-half  of  the  Church  property. 

"  Resolved  further,  that  the  brethren  thus  leaving  us  for 
the  purpose  of  forming  another  Church,  be  allowed  to  take 
a  copy  of  the  Church  records.  Meeting  adjourned. 

"G.  W.  PERKINS,  Moderator." 
A  true  copy.     B.  H.  Catlin,  Moderator. 
Meri.ien,  Aug.  2,  1870. 


D. 

REVOLUTIONARY  SOLDIERS, 

In  addition  to  those  found  on  pp.  368-70.  Lieut.  Ephraim 
Chamberlain,  Lieut.  Dan  Johnson,  Benajah  Rice.  Daniel 
Atwater  was  killed  in  a  skirmish  with  British  troops  at  Camp's 
Hill,  April  28,  1777.  Asaph  Cook  was  at  the  battle  of  Lex- 
ington. Capt.  Joel  Cook  served  with  his  father  Capt.  Isaac, 
through  the  war.  In  1812,  he  was  an  officer  under  Gen.  Har- 
rison, in  many  hard  fought  battles  with  the  Indians.  Lieut. 
Samuel  Hart  was  wounded  at  Saratoga.  Charles  Merriman 


APPENDIX.  945 

was  a  drummer;  in  1776  he  was  drum  major,  and  served 
through  the  war.  Capt.  Lucian  Tuttle  was  under  Gen.  Wash- 
ington at  Boston  and  Long  Island,  and  had  command  of  a 
company  of  his  townsmen  at  the  battle  which  resulted  in  the 
surrender  of  Gen.  Burgoyne  and  his  army  in  1777. 


E. 

OFFICERS  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

It  was  found  that  the  second  group  of  officers  intended 
for  this  work  could  not  be  finished  in  time  ;  it  is  therefore 
omitted.  It  will  probably  be  published  in  the  Soldiers'  Me- 
morial. CHARLES  L.  UPHAM  was  born  in  Townshend,  Vt., 
May  24,  1839,  enlisted  as  Orderly  Sergt.  in  Rifle  Co.  B,  3d 
Reg.  Conn.  Vols.,  May  14,  1861,  mustered  into  the  U.  S. 
Vol.  service  as  Captain  Co.  K,  8th  Reg.  Conn.  Vol.  Inf., 
Sept,  23,  1861,  promoted  to  Major,  same  Reg.,  Dec.  23, 

1862,  to  Lieut.    Col.  Apr.   2,    1867,  to  Col.  i5th  Reg.  Apr.  6, 

1863,  mustered  out  of  service  at  the  close  of  the  war,  June 
27,    1865,    was    in   the     following    engagements:  Bull    Run, 
Roanoke  Island,  Newbern,    severely  wounded,  South  Moun- 
tain, Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Com.   the    i6th   Conn.   Reg., 
Siege  of  Suffolk,    Edenton  Road,   Providence   Church   Road, 
Kinston. 

WM.  McLAiN  PRATT  was  born  in  Mericlen,  December 
12,  1837,  enlisted  and  mustered  in  8th  Conn.  Vol.  Infantry, 
May  14,  1862,  as  private,  wounded  and  taken  prisoner  at 
the  battle  of  Antietam,  September  17,  1862,  promoted  to 
2cl  Lieutenant,  November  17,  1862,  ist  Lieut,  and  Adj. 
May  29,  1863,  Major,  November  i,  1864.  Lieut.  Col. 
April  25,  1863,  resigned  Oct.  30,  1865,  and  was  on  detached 
service  in  North  Carolina  as  A.  D.  C.  to  Brig.  Gen.  Edward 
Harland  from  Feb.,  1864,  to  Feb.,  1865,  served  with  the  8th 
Regiment  the  rest  of  the  time  from  date  of  enlistment  to 
resignation,  commanded  the  regiment  from  Feb.,  1865, 
through  the  final  struggle,  was  at  the  capture  of  Richmond 
April  3,  1865. 


946  HISTORY    OF    WALL1NGFORD. 

THEODORE  BYXBEE  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Nov.  29, 
1834.  enlisted  April  16,  1861,  and  was  mustered  in  at  New 
Haven,  April  21,  r86i,  as  captain  of  Co.  F,  ist  Reg.  Conn. 
Vols.,  promoted  to  Major,  June  i,  1861,  engaged  in  the  first 
battle  of  Bull  Run,  July  21,  1861,  re-enlisted  Sept.  3,  1862, 
as  captain  of  Co.  G,  27th  Reg.  Conn.  Vols.,  promoted  to 
Major,  Oct.  2,  1862,  mustered  in  U.  S.  service,  Oct.  21, 
1862,  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  17, 
1862. 

ROGER  M.  FORD  was  born  in  New  Marlborough,  Mass. 
Dec.  28,  1834,  enlisted  April  17,  1861,  for  three  months,  as 
private  in  Co.  F,  ist  Reg.  Conn.  Vols.,  mustered  in  April 
23,  1861,  promoted  to  Corporal,  July  6,  1861,  at  Falls 
Church,  Va.,  was  at  the  battle  of  Bull  Run,  discharged 
July  31,  1 86 1,  enlisted  Sept.  21,  1861,  for  three  years,  in 
Co.  K,  8th  Reg.  Conn.  Vols.,  Inf.,  mustered  in  as  2d  Lieut., 
Sept.  22,  1861,  promoted  to  ist  Lieut.  March  18,  at  New- 
bern,  and  to  Captain  of  Co.  G,  March  7,  1863,  at  Newport 
News,  Va.,  discharged  Sept.  2,  1864,  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  on 
account  of  wounds  received  at  Petersburg,  Va.,  June  25, 

1864,  enlisted  at  New  Haven,  Jan.  3,  1865,  as  private  in  the 
8th   Reg.   Conn.   Vols.,   Inf.,  promoted  to   ist  Sergt.  Co.  E, 
Feb.  6,   1865,  at  Chapin's  farm,  Va.,  mustered   out  Dec.   12, 

1865,  was    in   the  following  battles  :  Roanoke   Island,  New- 
bern,  Fort  Macon,  South  Mountain,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg, 
Wallthal  Junction,  Swift  Creek,  Dairy's  Bluff,    Cold    Harbor, 
Petersburg,  and  at  the  taking  of  Richmond,  April  3,  1865. 

JARED  R.  COOK  was  captain  of  Rifle  Co.  B,  3d  Reg.  Conn. 
Vols.,  and  was  mustered  into  service,  May  14,  1861.  May  23, 
the  Regiment  arrived  at  Washington,  and  on  the  24th  of  June 
went  to  Virginia,  where  it  was  placed  in  the  extreme  front  of 
the  Union  center.  Capt.  Cook  was  at  the  battle  of  Bull  Run, 
and  was  honorably  discharged  Aug.  12,  1861. 


INDEX. 


A. 

ABERNATHY,  243,  430. 
Abby,  370,  371.  Abbot,  442. 
Abelle,  464.  Ackerman,  376. 
Adams,  25,  264.  288,  289.  Allen, 
Allyn  48,  88  353,  391,  430,  467, 
469,  497,  509,  558.  Andrews, 
Andrus,  49,  50,  74,  78,  81,  86,  98, 
124,  127,  128.  138,  139.  142,  144, 
147,  213,  234,  240,  248,  249,  260, 
261,  264,  314,  329,  346,  361,  368, 
381,  410  426  430,  442,  458,  459, 
466,  508,  509,  573,  609.  Andrus, 
376,  381.  Appleton,  167.  Archer, 
468  544.  Arms,  233.  Arnold, 

427,  431.      Aspinwall,  127,   397. 
Atkins,  376,  426,  428.     Atwater, 
85, 130, 141, 142,  191, 194, 196, 226, 
260,  261,  269,  371,  416,  430.  441, 
459  462    463,  509,  510,  512,  531, 
533     539.       Atwell,     290,     285. 
Angus,  376.     Austin,  86. 191, 371, 

428.  Averill,  470.     Avery,  376. 
Averitt,  371. 

B. 

BACON,  130.  Bailey,  376,  419. 
Baker  376  Baldwin,  78,  86, 
98,  133,  139,  147,  185,  213,  222, 
258,  264,  269,  370,  371.  389,  426, 
428  445.  464,  469.  Ballard,  451. 
Bangs.  391.  Banks,  464.  Barker, 
191,  341.  Barlow,  234,  376,  466, 
469.  Barnes,  234,  397,  466,  469, 
610.  Barelle,  288,  290.  Bartlett, 
130.  Barton.  5:51.  Barr,  376. 
Bario,  427,  431.  Bates,  245,  312, 
313  340  376.  Barber,  258,  261. 
Batchelor,  288.  Baulcot,  512. 
Bassett,  147  29(5,  376.  Bartholo- 
mew, 462.  Beach,  314,  361,  371, 


381  410  426  429,  430,  513,  514, 
515,  542  594.  Beadle,  167,  209. 
Beardsley,  264,  443,  451,  458. 
Bell,  51.  Beard,  426.  Belcher, 
17,  18,  19,  20  46,  124,  148,  159, 
160,  161,  409.  Benham,  78,  81, 
86  138,  139  191,  360,  371,  412, 
430,  495,  539.  Benedict,  229. 
Bestow,  191.  Beckwith,  219, 
424.  Beckley,  21,  234,  503,  504. 
Bentley  285.  Berry.  219,  222, 
226,  368,  371,  372,  384,  424,  552. 
Bellamy  46  48,  243,  269,  303, 
314,  368,  371,  429,  440.  445,  519. 
Belts,  518.  Belden,  376,  427,  576. 
Beecher,  147,  410,  468.  Bennett, 
426.  Bevins,  234.  Birdsey,  290, 
426,  430,  431,  495,  610.  Bishop, 
73,  126,  147,  219,  381,  3P3,  407, 
427, 440.  Billings,  514.  Blakes- 
!  ley,  243,  257,  495.  Bliss,  398. 
i  Blake  376.397,428,610.  Booth, 
1  231,  234,  236,  426,  430,  436,  467, 
I  547.  Bottsford,  162,  258.  Boies, 
i  565.  Boardman.  340,  418  Bot- 
i  torn  391.  Borden,  400.  Bowden, 
'  445,  446,  448,  449.  Bi-wdilch 
391.  Boylston,  345.  Boyden, 
394.  Bodyfield,  470.  Bohrman, 
609.  Brewster,  150,  259,  263. 
Breckenridge,  234.  489,  547. 
Brace,  466.  Bray,  141.  Bnfin- 
artl,  606.  Bradley,  77  147,  276, 
281,  282  346.  370,  398,  498,  520, 
554,  601.  Briscol,  602.  Bristol, 
498.  Brooks,  83  155  314,  362, 
376,  390,  394,  417,  430,  431,  436, 
440,  441,  591.  Brown.  78,  81. 
119,  139,  173,  240,  292,  391,  397, 
456,  467.  Brockett,  26,  27,  70, 
73,  76  81,  85,  98,  128,  133,  i:!5, 
138,  139,  147,  191,  247,  276,  280, 


948 


INDEX. 


341,  424,  425  429,  430,  520,  534. 
Bronson,  257,  289,  443,  450,  530. 
Bruce,  262.  Bryant,  259,  443, 
451.  Bruen,  88.  Buck,  559. 
Buckingham,  517.  Bull,  458,  596. 
Bulkley,  391,  456,  457.  Buel, 
408.  Bunnell,  441.  Burr,  428. 
Burch,  391.  Burrows,  376.  Bur- 
roughs, 601.  Button,  593.  Bush, 
162',  426  503  504,  548,  581. 
Butler,  26,  234,  260,  290,  376,  417, 
427,  431,  466,  467,  551,  552.  553, 
554,  555,  565.  Burgess,  234. 
Byxbee,  376,  427. 

C. 

CAMP  144,  149,  213,  219, 
222,  236  245  361,  378,  424,  426, 
442.  Catlin,  236,  376,  466,  470, 
548,  556,  568,  570.  Carlin,  376. 
Cassidy,  376.  Callahan,  378. 
Carrington,  409,  520,  521.  Can- 
fielcl,  88,  490.  Castelow,  493. 
Carter,  537,  610.  Cannon,  539. 
Carrol  378.  Chapman,  259. 
Chappel,  139,430.  Chamberlain, 
264,  391,  453.  Chauncey,  112, 
115.  Churchill,  469.  Church,  26, 
427.  Chester,  39.  Cheesbrough, 
235.  Clapp,  232,  441.  Clark,  15, 
17,*86,  88,  128,  139,  158,  159,  171, 
183,  191,  234,  236,  290,  294,  314, 
341,  368,  376,  378,  390,  412,  442, 
448,  449,  493,  495,  551,  592,  593, 
608.  Coe,  234,  395,  397,  399,  410, 
427,  428,430,431,495.  Cogswell, 
15,  220.  Collins,  124,  141,  147, 
213,  219,  234,  368,  369,  371,  384, 
390,  4.23  424,  427,-  466,  485,  587. 
Cobbet,  227.  Cords,  287,  290. 
Condon,  378.  Cole,  461.  Colton, 
441,  442.  Cone.  495.  Cook,  48, 
78,  81,  138,  139,  147, 149,  191, 193, 
195,  247,  248,  315  340  341,  357, 
358,  361,  368,  371,  372,  376,  409, 
410,  427,  429,  430,  434,  436,  461, 
510,  511,  522,  528,  531,  539,  545, 
574,  575,  597,  605.  Comstock, 
340,  376.  Cooper,  74,  128,  144. 
Cornwall,  429,  435,  443,  459,  602. 
Couch,  141,  357,  368,  370,  430. 
Cowles,  126,  139,  144,  150,  162, 
213,  236,  361,  381,  384,  415,  417, 
503,  553,  573,  591.  Crane,  369. 


Creevy,  391.  Cragin,  498.  Crock- 
er, 489,  495,  595,  610.  Crowley, 
376.  Crusius,  376.  Cruse,  443, 
451.  Culver,  85,  102,  131,  139, 
147,  191,  311,  429.  Curtis,  78,  81, 
84,  85,  86, 114  118,  130.  133,  134, 
138,  143,  147,  149,  191,  213,  234, 
236,  237,  259,  263,  277,  315,  329, 
343,  353,  381,  410,  425,  426,  427, 
428,  430  431  435,  459,  466,  467, 
484,  494,  574,  592,  603,  610.  Gush- 
ing, 263.  Cutler,  144,  240,  610. 

D. 

DA  OLE,  376.  Dana,  167, 
366.  Darling,  186.  Davis,  376, 
464,  469  470,  557.  Davenport,  7 
10,  12,  13,  27,  101,  103,  129,  303. 
Day,  517.  Dayton,  395,  397. 
D'Augelist,  375.  Delevau,  421. 
Deming,  88,  371.  Denslow,  351. 
Denisou,  288,  289.  Deshon,  263, 
264.  Devotion,  219.  Dewey,  516. 
De  Wolfe,  580,  605.  Dickerman, 
74  77,  290.  Dickinson,  458. 
Dodd,  29.3.  Dodge,  394.  Doran, 
376.  Dorman,  421.  Doolittle,  26, 
27,  70,  73,  76,  78,  81,  86,  98,  99, 
110,  122,  133,  138,  139,  149,  165, 
166,  167,  190,  191,  193,  243,  314, 
330,  332,  333,  334,  376,  388,  424, 
425,  429,  430,  523,  524,  610. 
Douglass  ,260,  371.  Dowd,  130. 
Driggs,  256,  429.  Dudley,  191, 
264.  Dutton,  231,  296,  316,  378, 
497,  529.  Dunham,  376,  469. 
Dunbar,  424.  Dunby,  545. 

E. 

EATON,  10,  12,  13,  27,  81, 
236,  376,  399,  421,  561.  Eddy,  234. 
Edgerton  376.  Edwards,  134, 
408.  Eells,  186,  187.  Elliot,  240, 
534.  Ely,  376.  Elmore,  351. 
Elton,  604.  Ellsworth,  559.  El- 
kins,  391.  Ensign,  469.  Everest, 
263.  Ewer,  288. 

F. 

FA RNS WORTH,  400,401. 
Farringtou,  Fay,  610.  Fenn, 
139  191  229  230,  524.  Ferris, 
602.  Fields,  467,  605.  Finking, 
376.  Fisher  243,  399.  Fitch,  191, 


INDEX. 


949 


470.  Fletcher,  391.  Ford,  191, 
2-32,  370,  376,  436.  Ford  ham,  517. 
Foot,  83,  229,  429,  440,  442,  525: 
Folsom  233.  Foster,  124,  125, 
126,  127,  144,  147,  213,  234,  237, 
276,  284,  298,  400,  410,  428,  491, 
494,  495  551,  555,  560.  Fowler, 
173,  180,  328,  329,  330,  331. 
French,  462.  Franklin,  360.  Free- 
nvin,  3(59.  Friry,  495,  575,  593, 
591,  603.  Frost.  280.  Francis, 
190,  370,  871,  435,  583. 

G. 

GALLAGER,  397,  398.  Gard- 
ner, 248,  398,  399.  Gangloff,  376. 
Garrelt  376.  Garvey,  427.  Gay, 
209.  Gay  lord,  48,  461,  492.  Gee'r, 
428.  Gemini,  127.  Gibbons,  421, 
547.  Giescke,  377.  Gilbert,  17, 
18,  20,  22,  74,  77,  158,  159.  199, 
231,  293,  296,  436.  Gillette,  526. 
Glazier,  288.  Gladwin,  398,  427. 
Glover,  391.  Golden,  397.  Goffe, 
125,  Gold,  88.  Goodyear,  27. 
Goodrich,  49,  50,  229,  264,  290, 
350,  370,  407,  489,  495,  594.  Gran- 
ger, 231,  503,  507.  Graham,  473. 
Grant,  209,  288.  Greenland,  376. 
Griffin,  376.  Grisvvokl,  49,  50, 
391,  428,  430,  495,  593.  Griggs, 
231,  507.  Green,  280, 376, 417  610. 
Grigson,27.  Guernsey,  185.  Gulli- 
ver 233.  Gushee,  259,  264.  Guion, 
262.  Guy,  427,  563.  Groeber,  609. 

H. 

HALT,,  48  50,  78,  81,85,  86, 
91,  98,  101,  113,  114, 117,  118,  119, 
120,  121,  122,  126,  130,  131,  133, 
134,  138,  141,  142,  143,  144,  155, 
162,  165,  166,  167,  171,  173,  177, 
183,  184,  186,  190,  191,  192,  193, 
195,  209,  213,  219,  220,  223,  234, 
237,  276,  290,  305,  329,  337,  340, 
341,  345,  346,  353,  354,361,362, 
369,  370,  871,  376,381,382,  384, 
387  394,  409,  410,  416  424,  425, 
426,  427,  428,  429,  430,  431,  434, 
486,  440,  458  465,  468,  491,  513, 
520,  525,  527,  533,  537,  53S,  5:ii), 
.',.->:;  564,  567,  575,  587.  604,  607, 
610.  Hijckley,  191.  Harris,  213, 
561.  tlallam,  262,  264.  Harvey, 


376.  Harwoocl,  376.  Harrison, 
436,  461,  462,  585.  Hatch,  453 
467,  469,  560.  565.  Hamlin,  18 
48,  470.  Hale.  495  Hamilton, 
498.  Harpins,  534.  Hanlon,  609. 
Hart  18,  20,  118,  187  191,  195 
240,  257,  ?9(),  426,  526,  556  610! 
Hayden,  233.  Hawley,  288,  384, 
45:-',  i;>9  Hawks,  390  Hawes, 
231.  Hirriman,  77,  78,  81  93 
108.  Hawkins,  88  Hecock,  213. 
Hemingway,  270.  Hervey,  285, 
290.  Beaton  79.  Heath,  398. 
Hendrick,  429.  Henderson,  49. 
Hewitt.  602.  Hill,  125,  351. 
Hinsdale,  231,  306.  Hinman,  419 
429  Higby,  22,  23,  49,  50,  129, 
280,  29J,  424.  Hitchcock,  83  85, 
139,  147,  376,  429,  441,  521. 
Hicks,  398,  399.  427  610.  Hill- 
house,  407.  Hobart,  188,  261. 
Hpdurkins,  314.  Hoadley,  453. 
Hoppin,  539.  Holley,  436"  Hor- 
ton,  451.  Hopkins  185  407,  53(5. 
Holmes,  165,  209.  Hopper,  81, 
131.  Hopson,  191.  Hotchkiss, 
234,  314,  369.  370,  428,  436,  440, 
442,504,555.  Hooker,  353.  How- 
ell,  384,  430,  489.  Hodge,  78. 
Hodgdon,  398,  399,  400.  Hoi- 
comb,  518.  Houseman,  610. 
Hovey,  427.  Hoisina-ton,  125. 
Howard,  286,  290,  581.  Hoyt, 
262.  Howe,  78,  81,  85,  86,  130 
133,  139,  147,  188,  191,  429,  430. 
Hough,  50,  66,  86,  144  155,  213, 
215,  234,  236,  237,  276,  290,  315, 
346,  361,  371,  378,  381,  384  417 
465,  470,  566.  Holt,  74,  78  80, 
130,  138,  139,  237,  371,  430,  598. 
Hosford,  421,  527.  Hollister, 
596.  Ilowland,  390.  Hubbard, 
129,  136,  150,  165,  216,  229  234 
2:!(i  260,  383,  415,  427  466,  590. 
Hull,  110,  119,  131,  134,  138,  147, 
259,  276,  369,  376,  384,  429,  430, 
45S.  525,  527,  606,  610.  Hubbell, 
390,  391.  Hudson,  126.  Humis- 
lon,  77,  148,  155,  526,  528. 

I. 

IWJLKSTON,  371.  Ingersoll,  194, 
262,  408.  Ingham,  243  Isaacs, 
350.  Isbell,  504.  Ives,  78*  81, 


950 


I  NDEX. 


83  113,  138  149,  190,  195.  213, 
219,  222,  229,  237,  243,  255,  260, 
261,  276  286,  290,  342,  369,  371, 
378,  381,  384,  397,  423  424,  426, 
427  428,  429,  430,  431,  436.  442, 
443,  446,  459,  489,  491,  495,  527, 
530,  571,  594,  605,  610. 

J- 

JAMESON,  376.  Jeralcls,  594 
Jennings,  285,  290.  Jerome,  213, 
342,  381.  Jewell,  234.  Jonas, 
377.  Jones,  73,  77  126,  129,  130, 
191,  377.  Johnson,  52,  78,  81,  84, 
138,  139,  165,  166,  167,  171,  183, 
190,  191,  192,  193,  194,  219,  240, 
245  314,  371,  376,  381,  382,  384, 
409,  429,  430,  436.  446,  513,  538, 
540,  587,  610.  Judd,  234,  610. 

K. 

KRA.CII,  376.  Keyser,  288. 
Keeler,  258,  262.  Kehney.  376. 
Kelsey,  391.  Kendrick,  429.  430. 
Kellogs:  441.  King,  541.  Kiiby, 
351.  Kirlland,  346,  429,  458,  459, 
521,  528,  530,  550.  Kimball.  288. 
Knapp,  15.  Knight,  530.  Knowl- 
ton,  288.  Kursled,  517. 

L. 

LAMPIIEAK,  376.  Lankton, 
350  Lapham,  467.  Lalhrop,  86. 
133  137, 139,  376,  430,  610.  Leon- 
ard 398.  Lester,  270,  376.  Leeds 
234.  Lee,  215,  390,  409.  Leavitt, 
144,  213,  384.  428.  Leavenworth, 
185.  Levi,  376.  Lewis,  78,  81, 
98  137,  138,  149,  229,  328,  329, 
376  387,  397,  398,  420,  427,  429, 
430  431  458,  464,  466,  484,  495, 
532,  533,  539,  573,  592,  597,  603. 
Lindsley,  428,  461,  551.  Lit  tie- 
John  263.  Little,  453.  Lord,  88, 
455,  456,  473.  Lounsbury,  610. 
Lockwood,  234.  Love,  143. 
Ludlow,  231,  503.  Lyon,  244, 
427.  Lyraan,  143,  381,'  384,  430, 
432,  495,  575,  592,  593,  594,  603. 
Lynch,  378. 

M. 

MARCH,  229,  441,  442.  Mark- 
ham,  427.  Martin,  436,  464,  604. 
Marks,  426.  Marshall,  256. 


Marsh,  264  Marvin,  398.  Mans- 
field, 74.  470.  Matthews,  429, 
497.  Maxham.  399.  Mallory 
264,  376.  Mason.  264,  287,  290, 
443.  Matooi i,276,  534.  Mauley, 
399  Massey,  345.  Maschmeyer 
376  Mairee,  376.  May,  144. 
Mallon,  609.  Mather  48.  Mrr- 
rick,  179,  185.  Merchant,  288 
371.  Meky,  243.  Menhaur  384. 
Merriam,  74,  98,  124,  125  126 
127,  144,  210,  213,  215,  260,  261 
342,  368,  371,  376,  381,  427,  429, 
493,  494,  495,  538,  587.  Meade 
391  Merriman,  26,  27,  74,  78, 
81.  85,  86,  114,  127,  128,  138,  139, 
162  165,  166,  167,  171,  173.  177 
183.  190,  191,  192,  237,  269,  328, 
34i).  :l.->0,  352,  353,  354,  369.  371, 
384,  409,  416,  417,  424  425,  429, 
430,  487,  553,  555,  575,  595,  610. 
M'Cook,  264.  McCorney,  376. 
McAllister,  391.  MeLain,  231, 
-306,  582.  McCarty,  533.  McMa- 
hon,  470.  McWhinnie,  376. 
McOannon,  607.  Meyer,  376. 
Miles,  78,  81,  165,  191,'  234,  384, 
436,  521.  542,  599,  610.  Mitchell, 
133,  144,  222,  236,  276,  424.  Mi- 
ner, 229,  376,  560.  Miller,  233, 
283,  286,  287,  288,  290,  334,  375, 
376,  390,  395,  427,  431,  443,  485, 
489,  492.  Mills,  303,  428,  429. 
Mix,  85,  130,  131,  144,  147,  222. 
276,  342,  371,  381,  416,  423,  430, 
436,  494.  Morse,  Moss,  26,  27, 
74,  78,  81,  85,  86,  114,  127,  128, 
l:-'8,  139,  167,  171,  191,  193,  195, 
289,  311,  313,  328,  332,  378,  410, 
412,  424,  425,  426,  430,  4(5o.  53JJ. 
Mountain,  209.  Morgan,  222, 
245,  424,  443,  451,  494^  Morris, 
243,  244,  245,  467.  Moen,  487. 
Morton,  555.  Mulbree,  191.  Mur- 
ray, 234.  Murdock,  237.  Mun- 
son,  78,  81,  85,  98,  102,  139,  147, 
149,  155,  263,  369,  378,  429,  430, 
478,  519,  603. 

N. 

NASH,  129,  390,  544.  Negus, 
191.  Newhall,  391.  Newport, 
470.  Niles,  264  North,  150, 
350.  Norton  139,  290,  423.  Nor- 


INDEX. 


951 


wood,  39(5,  399,  400.  Noyes,  173, 
186,  197,  231,  290-6,  459,  497,  500, 
509.  North,  442.  Nichols,  443. 
Nickerson,  470. 

o. 

OLIVER,  397.  Osboru,  77,  377. 
Osgood,  495.  Ogden,  88. 

P. 

PADDOCK,  346,  427,  428,  451. 
596.  Parsons,  52,  127,  130,  144, 
560.  Partridge,  46.  Parker,  85, 
114,118,133,  138,  147,299,  311, 
314,  369,  375,  376,  378,  410,  427, 
428,  430,  431,  435,  442,  467,  468, 
481,  486,  491,  494,  537,  553,  564, 
575,  597,  fiOO,  003, 610.  Panmilee, 
162,  234,  295,  436,  458,  495.  Page, 
191,  234.  Payne,  489,  587,  588, 
595,  610  Peck,  70,  78,  81,  85,  86, 
91,  102,  120,  131,  133,  138,  139, 
144,  149,  167,  183,  191,  276,  311, 
391,  429,  430,  443,  513.  Penfield, 
219,  222,  381, 423,  424,  610.  Pegg, 
391.  Perkins,  17,  219,  232,  260, 
290,  424  428,  489.  Perry,  257. 
Peterson,  376.  Pelton,  398. 
Peters,  429,  436.  Perrine,  441. 
Phillips,  343,  430.  Phelps,  378, 
419,  584,  610.  Pierce,  49,  50. 
Pitkins,  232,  353.  Pierrepont, 

302,  353.   Plant,  591.     Plum,  191, 
257,  376    Plntt,  375,  410,  419,  420, 
4-3 1 .  431,  596, 610.     Plunkett,  609. 
Huymert,  143.   Pond,  458.    Post, 
234.     Potter,  78,  81,  91,  431,  457, 
527,  530,   533,  539.     Porter,  350, 
458,  458,   526.     Pomeroy,  30.   34, 

303,  305,  378,  394.  395,  397,  398, 
399,  427    428,  429,  464,  492,  495, 
577,   594,   610.      Pratt,   162,  290, 
376,427,428,  473,487,  494,  495, 
503,  550,  563,  580.     Preston,  78, 
86,  98,  138,  234,  311,  346,  424,  425, 
430.     Price,   193,   195.      Prindle, 
144,  213,  219.     Prout,  126.     Pun- 
derson,    245,   246.     Putnam,  259. 
Pynchon,  228. 

Q- 

QUINN,  376,  608,  609. 

R. 

RANCORN,  376.     Ranney,  610. 


Record,  399.  Redfield,  430,  610. 
Reed,  474,  581.  Regan,  378.  Rex- 
ford,  49,  50,  51,  222,  368,  371. 
Reynolds,  351,  426,  429.  Rich, 
127,  213, 231,  306, 546.  Richards, 
376,  537.  Richardson,  376,  430, 
537.  Richmond,  376.  Riggs,  421. 
Riley,  376,  557,  608.  Ripley,  230, 
306/  Rice,  (Roice),  48,  49,50,51, 
83,86,98,  101,122,  124,126,130, 
131,  132,  133,  134,  137,  138,  139, 
141,  142,  144,  147,  149,  155,  165, 
166,  167,  186,  193,  213,  215,  234, 
235,  236,247,  288,290,  329,331, 
338,  369,  370,  371,  381,  382,  384, 
395,  396,  406,  410,  412,  425,  427, 
428,  429,  430,  465,  521,  540,  610. 
Robinson,  124,127,  144,  191,  213, 
229,  371,  381,  382,  545.  Rogers, 
228,  257,  420, 493,  581.  Root,"234, 
376,  438,  442.  Robbins,  269,  270, 
j  271,  272,  273,  274,  275,  304,  534. 


Rockwell,  351.  Rodman,  441. 
Ropes,  487,  494.  Rossetter,  23. 
Rourke,  378.  Ruggles,  173,  180, 
186,  537.  Russell,  119,  155,  182, 
185,  226,  538,  539.  Rutty,  489, 
495,  594,  610. 

S. 

SACKET,  180    Sage,  234.  Salter, 

219.     Saltonstall,   610.     Sanford, 

162,  234,  236,  495.     Sawyer,  234, 

557.     Saxton,287.     Scoville,  127, 

144,  219,  222,  423,  424.     Scudder, 

391.     Schmidt,  609.     Scott,  376. 

Screen,  417.     Seabury,  254,  257. 

Searles,    390,  391.      Seagor,  243. 

I  Sears,  597.    Sellow,  376.  Seward, 

!  442.     Seymour,  21,  234,  340,  389, 

•  504,  610.     Shaler,   223.     Shailer, 

286,  288,  289,  368.  Shepherd,  231, 

|  398,  565.     Sheridan,   609.     Sher- 

!  man,    78,     81,    230,     376,     519. 

Shipman,    408        Silliman,  530. 

Simonds,  376.    Simpson,  477,  538, 

589.     Smiley,   397.      Smith,   136, 

243,  341,   343,  395,  410,  448,  449, 

450,  461,  524,  530,  539,  603,  610. 

Snow,     494.        S'.mersides,  390. 

Spci-ry,  190.      Spencer,  220,  234, 

581.     Stanley,  18,  19,  20,  142,  167, 

196,    337,  429,  434,  605.     Starkey, 

581.     Stedman.  4;:0,  495.     Steere, 


952 


INDEX. 


401,  559.  Steelf,  850.  Steinwehr, 
541.  Stevens,  228,  234,  897,  55;',, 
(JOS.  Stickney,  896,  400.  Sfill- 
man,  49,  50,  521.  Stiles,  166,  178, 
186,  229,  270,  427,  495.  Stoddard, 
400.  Stratton,  467.  Street,  26, 
27,  76,  80,  81,  85,  98,  108,  112, 129, 
138,  139,  191,  275,  349,  361,  887, 

429,  539,  544.     Strong,  164,  219. 
Stuart,  203.     Studley,   122.     Sut- 
liff,  491.     Squires,  555. 

T. 

TAIT  467,  4(59.  Talcott,  23,  24, 
25,  26,  88,  270,  353.  Talmadge, 
376,  395.  Taylor.  204  306,  376. 
Tapping,  88.  Tennant,  234. 
303.  Terrell,  280.  Thayer,  397, 
Thomas,  49,  50,  397.  398.  Thom- 
son, 86,  139,  191,  247,  311,  376, 

430.  Thorp,  81,  85,  139,  191,  334, 
429,  513.     Thrall,  376,  610.    Tib- 
bals,  417.     Todd,  186,  376,  540, 
595.  Tower,  3,91,392.  Townsend, 
259,   264,   548.      Treat,    88.   495. 
Tracy,  430.     Trumbull,  185,  229. 
Tryon,  473.   Tuthill,  442.   Tuttle, 
78,  81,  139,  147,  191,  234,  230,  237, 
243,  340,  399,  429,  430,  435,  480, 
442,  540.     Turhand,  315.     Twiss, 
868,  396,  436,  504,  582,  605.     Ty- 
ler, 85,  133,  139,  191,337,338,340, 
399,  480,  461,  540. 

U. 

UPHAM,  427,  431.  Upson,  229, 
427,  461. 

V. 

VAN  DuzER,419.  Venters,  340, 
W. 

WADHAM,  840.  Wadsworth, 
40,  606.  Wallace,  479,  481.  Wal- 
dron,  376.  Walker,  376.  Walls- 
worth,  48.  Wainwright,  243. 
Ward,  140,  245,  264,  443,  543. 
Waterman,  193,  197,  397,  495. 


W;iters,  267.  Walsh,  009.  War- 
ner, 180,  371,  376,  556.  Way,  :  i. 
144,  213,  234,  381,  428.  Warren, 
575.  Webb,  342,  :,78,  420,  4,4, 
494,520,581.  Webster,  424.  Wei- 
ton,  397,  524.  Wells,  88,  21!  I,  220, 
281,  340,  574.  West,  220.  West- 
wood,  102,  182,  139,  430.  West- 
erhood,  376.  Wetmore,  180,  564. 
Whetmore,  231,  240.  White,  74, 

238,  235,  431,  434,  598,  600,  602, 
610.     Whipple,  491.     Whitehead, 
;:!,  ;s.  Whiting,  48,  142,  144,  213, 
235,   426,   441,    442.     Whitelield, 
800.       Whittemore,      400,      427 
Whittelsey,  79,  85,  113,  117,  122, 
165,    166,  167,   173,  186,    192,  209, 

239,  240,  270,  304,  416.     Whitney, 
884,  521.     Wilford,  74.     Willard, 
227-30.     Wildman,  290.    Wilson, 
288,  375,  419,  469.     Wilmot,  493. 
Wilder,   560.     Wilcox,  370,   371, 
427, 484, 485, 495, 602.     Willshine, 
314.  Winton,  420,  421.  Williams, 
178,   179,  186,   229,  243,  204,  414, 
431,  474,  477,   495,  581.     Wither- 
ton,   204.      Winslow,     251,    253. 
Wisner,517.  Winthrop,  88.  Win- 
ston, 74,  119.    Wolf,  260.    Wood, 
234,  236,  480,  441.     Woodbridge, 
1*5,  1!;0,  227,  240.  Woodruff,  141, 
466,  470,  555,  556.    Woolley,  285, 
601.     Wolcott,  88.     Wright,  375. 
468,  583,   609,   610.     Wylie,  469, 
Wvllis,  88,  434. 

Y. 

YALE,  78,  81,  85,  98,  114,  126, 

j   128,    130,  133,  134,   137,  138,  148, 

144,  147,  .149,  159,213,   219,   222, 

280,  284,  280,   200,  270,   328,  338, 

844,  352,   353,  354,  368,  369,  371, 

876,  384,  388,   423,  424,  425,  426, 

427,  428,  429,  480,  440,  473,   475, 

i  477,  495,  503,   515,  526,  538,  544, 

!  545,  573,  587,  590,  594,  597,  004, 

;  605,  610.     Yeatman,   436.     Yeo- 

mans,  42S. 


This  index  does  not  contain  the  names  to  be  found  in  the 
genealogies. 


INDEX. 


953 


INDEX  TO  GENEALOGIES. 


A. 

ABERNATHY,  613,  Allen,  614. 
Andrews,  614-626.  Atwater,  626- 
635. 

B. 

UEAUMONT,  635.  Barker,  635. 
Beach,  636-650.  Bartholomew,  650. 
Beadles,  651.  Bellamy,  652,  653. 
Benham,  653-656.  Blakeslee,  656, 
657.  Bristol,  657,  658.  Brockett, 
658-661.  Brown,  662.  Bunnell, 
662-665. 

C 

CANNON,  665.  Carter,  665,  666. 
(Harrington,  666-669.  Clark,  669- 
671.  Cook,  671-718.  Cowles  or 
Coles,  719,  720.  Culver,  720-722. 
Curtis,  722-725. 

D. 

DAVIDSON,  726.  Doolittle,  726- 
741.  Dudley,  741.  Dutton,  741- 
743- 

F. 

FENN,  743,  744.     Foot,  744. 

G. 

GAYLORD,  747-750. 

H. 

HALL,  750-787-.  Harriman,  787. 
Hart,  787-789.  How,  789-792. 
Hitchcock,  792-798.  Hotchkiss, 
798-801.  Hough,  802-806.  Hull, 
806-821.  Humiston,  821-823. 

I. 

IVES,    823-830. 


J- 

JOHNSON,  830-836.  Jones,  836- 
838. 

K. 

KlRTLAND,   838-841. 

L. 

LEWIS,  841-845. 

M. 

MARTIN,  845-847.  Mansfield, 
847.  Mattoon,  847,  848.  Merri- 
man,  848-851.  Miles,  852,  853. 
Mix,  853-857.  Moss,  857-862. 
Munson,  862-867. 

N. 

NOYES,    868-871. 
P. 

PARKER,  871-884.  Parmalee, 
884.  Preston.  885-888. 

R. 


REYNOLDS, 
90-900. 


90.       Royce, 


s. 


STANLEY,  900-902.  Scarritt, 
903.  Street,  903-905. 

T.   . 

THOMPSON,  905-907.  Thorp, 
907-908.  Tuttle,  908-923.  Ty- 
ler, 923-928. 

W. 

WHITTELSEY,  928-935.  \Vil- 
cox,  93S-939- 

Y. 
YALE,  939"94i- 


ERRATA. 


In  the  year  1561  a  book  was  printed  called  the  "  Anatomy  of  the  Mass." 
It  had  only  one  hundred  and  seventy-two  pages  in  it,  but  the  author  was 
obliged  to  add  sixteen  pages  to  correct  the  blunders.  Type  setting  in  early 
times  was  not  remarkable  for  accuracy  or  exactness,  and  the  same  may  be 
said  at  the  present  day  in  regard  to  local  histories.  The  proof-sheets  of 
this  work  were  carefully  read  three  times  before  the  work  went  to  press, 
yet  a  multitude  of  errors  have  been  discovered  since  the  book  was  printed. 
The  following  are  the  more  important  ones  : 

Page  75,  line  15  from  bottom,  for  1782,  read  1682  ;  p.  81, 
line  4  from  hot,  for  James  Andrews,  read  Jo.  Andrews  ;  p.  85, 
line  10  from  hot.,  for  Edward  Peck,  read  Eleazar  ;  p.  108, 
line  8  from  top,  for  time,  read  town  ;  p.  119,  line  i  at  hot., 
for  Hull,  read  Hall  ;  p.  122,  line  9  from  hot,  for  Studley,  read 
Standley  ;  p.  122,  line  7  from  hot.,  for  1831,  read  1721;  p. 
138,  line  9  from  hot.,  for  Hull,  read  Sam'l  Hall  ;  p.  147,  line  9 
from  hot,  for  Mix,  read  Ives ;  p.  147,  line  5  from  hot,  for 
South,  read  North  ;  p.  149,  line  9  from  hot.,  for  pains,  read 
point ;  p.  154,  line  5  from  hot,  for  Hoppen's,  read  Hopper's; 
p.  225,  line  17  from  hot,  for  1742,  read  1726;  p.  247,  line  9 
from  top,  for  How,  read  Now  ;  p.  256,  line  4  from  hot,  for  Asa 
I.,  read  Asa  J.  Driggs  ;  p.  259,  line  10  from  hot.,  for  north- 
ern, read  southern  ;  p.  270,  line  4  from  hot.,  for  Thomas,  read 
Theophilus  Yale  ;  p.  306,  line  10  from  hot,  for  McLean,  read 
McLain  ;  p,  314,  line  9  from  top,  for  Willshine,  read  Thomas 
Willshire  ;  p.  368,  line  16  from  top,  for  Joseph  Twin,  read 
Joseph  Twiss  ;  p.  369,  line  14  from  bot,  for  Hull,  read  Isaac 


ERRATA.  955 

Hall,  Jr. ;  p.  371,  line  18  from  hot.,  for  Justin  read  Justice 
Rice  ;  p  376,  line  12  from  hot.,  for  Norton,  read  Newton  ;  p. 
412,  lines  3  and  n  from  hot,  for  Denham,  read  Benham  ;  p. 
417,  line  ii  from  top,  for  Screen,  read  Green  ;  p  430,  line  n 
from  hot,  for  Curtin,  read  Curtiss  ;  p.  440,  line  5  from  top,  for 
Homer,  read  Thomas  Brooks  ;  p.  474,  line  10  from  hot.,  for 
Reed,  read  Read  ;  p.  478,  line  14  from  hot.,  for  1833,  read 
1853  ;  p.  513,  line  9  from  hot,  for  west,  read  east;  p.  517,  line 
ii  from  hot.,  for  labors,  read  losses ;  p.  533,  line  18  from  hot., 
for  Hall,  read  Hull ;  p.  533,  line  19  from  bottom,  for  Dacia 
Hall,  read  Docia  Hull ;  p.  534,  line  10  from  bot.,  for  is,  read 
was  a  son  of  the  Judge  ;  p.  537,  line  4,  for  Joel  Hall,  read 
Hull ;  p.  538,  line  2  from  top,  for  Charles  Hall,  read  Hull ; 
p.  538,  line  4  from  top,  for  Mr.  Hall,  read  Hull  ;  p.  538,  lines 
2  and  5  from  bot,  for  Hall,  read  Hull  ;  p.  539,  line  17  from 
top,  for  Carmon,  read  Cannon ;  p.  540,  line  3  from  top,  for 
Johnson,  read  Doolittle  ;  p.  544,  line  12  from  bot.,  for  Gibbons, 
read  Gibbards  ;  p.  545,  line  6  from  bot.,  for  Elisha,  read  Elihu  ; 
p.  546,  line  n  from  bot.,  for  1750,  read  1850  ;  p.  546,  line  10 
from  top,  for  1850-7,  read  1850-1  2  years;  p.  559,  line  3  from 
bot,  for  I  read  J  ;  p.  559,  line  7  from  bot,  for  24,  read  23  ; 
p.  573,  line  i  from  bot.,  for  Evans  read  Lewis  ;  p,  585,  bottom 
line,  for  national,  read  natural  ;  p.  610,  line  5  from  top,  for 
Hall,  read  Hull  ;  p.  625,  line  2  from  bot,  for  Julia  Hall,  read 
Hull,  dau.  of  Jeremiah  ;  p.  626,  lines  9  and  12  from  top,  for 
Daniel,  read  David  Atwater  ;  p.  635,  line  6  from  top,  for  Free- 
man, read  Truman  ;  p.  647,  line  8  from  top,  for  Grange,  read 
Geauga  ;  p.  668,  line  4  from  bot.,  for  McLean,  read  McCleve  ; 
p.  669,  line  8  from  top,  for  Hall,  read  McCleve  ;  p.  675,  line 
15  from  top,  add,  Ephraim  Cook  m  Elizabeth  Hull ;  p.  675, 
line  3  from  bot,  for  Boone,  read  Boorge ;  p.  676,  line  19  from 
bot,  for  survey,  read  society ;  p.  693,  line  6  from  top,  for  Per- 
lina,  read  Pauline  ;  p.  709,  line  19  from  bot.,  omit  Horace  ; 
p.  743,  line  6  from  top,  for  Daniel,  read  David  ;  p.  750,  top 
line,  for  Bradley,  read  Moss  ;  p.  780,  line  8  from  bot,  for  1802, 
read  1809  ;  p.  781,  line  n  from  top,  for  Ann  Bull,  read  Ann 
Buel  ;  p.  785,  line  13  from  top,  read,  m  2d,  Aimer  Hall  ;  p. 


956  ERRATA. 

796,  line  15  from  top,  for  Hall,  read  Hull  ;  p.  802, .line  14  from 
hot,  read  Mehitable ;  p.  812,  line  13  from  top,  for  Brothers, 
read  Bray  ;  p  817,  line  9  from  top,  for  Sam'l  J.,  read  Sam'l  G. ; 
p.  8 1 8,  line  12  from  top,  for  Jonathan,  read  Jothain  ;  p.  819, 
line  12  from  bot.,  for  Lawrence,  read  Lauren  ;  p.  822,  line  10 
from  top,  for  1761,  read  1781  ;  p.  841,  line  12  from  bot.,  for 
Cookstown,  read  Coolstown  ;  p.  842,  line  14  from  top,  for 
Selekey,  read  Selebes  ;  p.  886,  line  2 1  from  bot.,  for  let,  read 
set  ;  p.  888,  line  6  from  bot.,  for  Elizabeth,  read  Eliasaph  ; 
p.  900,  line  17  from  bot.,  for  1753,  read  1653  ;  p.  904,  line  9 
from  bot,  for  Hall,  read  Hull. 


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